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Pocket Weather is in its dying days, here’s some alternatives to try
While I understand the business side of shutting down Pocket Weather, I also really like the app. So it's with some resentment that I have finally started looking for an alternative. The...
Pocket Weather is ready to ride into the sunset on December 31
Way back in September 2018, we found out that Pocket Weather was living on borrowed time. Being an app from the team at Shifty Jelly, we were pretty fond of it but now...
Pocket Casts gives entitled users free “Pocket Casts Plus” tier for life
It's a little over 24 hours after the team at Pocket Casts took the wraps of their completely free offering of Pocket Casts and new subscription based Plus plan. The combo brings some new...
Pocket Casts 7.0.2 hits the Google Play Store with some much requested updates
For many of us podcasts have become an essential part of our weekly entertainment / education routines, and as such our podcast players are almost sacrosanct. As a result when there's a major change...
Pocket Cast 7 for Android hits Google Play store
Pocket Casts has to be both one of the best and one of the most used podcast players around, even Google's Podcasts app can't hold a candle to its design, features and usability.
Not being...
Android Studio 3 brings Kotlin to mainstream Android development
Android Studio is the developers interface into the world of code for Android and back at Google I/O this year, Kotlin was announced as an officially supported 'first-class' language in Android development moving forward....
An early look: Pocket Casts Web Beta
The team at Shifty Jelly have been hard at work (well at least they tell us they have) working on a number of projects including an update to the Pocket Casts web interface which...
Pocket Casts updated, new Nougat features and sharing options
Pocket Casts, from our favourite Australian developers Shifty Jelly, has received a nifty little update which brings a handful of new features, and as they like to point out, they like to share what...
Pocket Casts update adds improved voice control, Marshmallow Backup & Permissions and new filters
Pocket Casts is a favourite app of the Ausdroid team for a variety of reasons but in short - it's pretty awesome, has cool features, doesn't cost the earth and the developers are really...
Pocket Weather 5 brings Material Design
We're quite lucky at Ausdroid, often being privy to information before public release and treated to an early look at apps and for the last couple of months we've been doing just that on...
Ausdroid Podcast 142 – We’re All Nearby
Welcome to episode 142 of the Ausdroid podcast!
The next evolution of Android is almost upon us, with the revelation that Android 6.0 will adopt the "Marshmallow" moniker, and new Australian phone launches from Samsung...
Shifty Jelly adds Android Wear browsing to Pocket Casts in the latest update
In the latest update, our favourite podcast app, Pocket Casts, has added Android Wear browsing to their feature list.
The Android Wear 5.1.1 update gave us the ability to launch the Android Wear mini-app from...
Watch this excellent video on local developers Shifty Jelly on making Pocket Casts
At Google I/O last month, Adelaide based developers Shifty Jelly won the inaugural Material Design award for Seamless Browsing for their awesome app: Pocket Casts. The Android Developers team has produced a pretty high...
Material Design Award for Australian software house Shifty Jelly
When Google launched the Material Design language for Android last year, they had a number of examples of what they thought it should look like in real world examples. In 2015, we have a...
No more pocket billiards: Shifty Jelly brings Pocket Casts from your pocket to the...
Shifty Jelly, makers of superior podcast app Pocket Casts, have taken the wraps off a web-based version of their service. For those who signed up to gain early access to the beta, invites are...