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 is currently in beta and we’ve been lucky enough to have had access for about a …
Read More »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 cool guys. One of the other big drivers is that its not a static app, they’ve …
Read More »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 and Motorola. A big thank-you to Shifty Jelly’s Philip Simpson for joining us this episode. …
Read More »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 the apps list, the previous update to Pocket Casts gave us an option to look …
Read More »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 quality video of the team, which consists of Russell and Philip on the development side, Chris …
Read More »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 slew of Material Design apps to choose from, and they look brilliant. On the second day …
Read More »Pocket Casts version 5 hits Google Play with new Material Design update
Shifty Jelly has today updated Pocket Casts to version 5.0, bringing with it a Material Design overhaul and a few new tweaks and features. The headline feature which a lot of people have been waiting for is the Material Design update and it’s been worth waiting for. The update has …
Read More »Android Auto APIs Now Available For Developers
Earlier this year at Google IO, Google not only announced, but showed a preview of Android Auto. Since then we’ve seen very little on what it is and how it will work. Today Google have introduced the first APIs for building “Auto-enabled” apps for audio and messaging. It seems, from …
Read More »Pocket Casts takes to the web – no app required, register now
If you’re a Podcast fan and you’re using Pocket Casts (and why wouldn’t you?) then you’ll be just as excited as we are about the potential for this latest announcement. Shifty Jelly has begun taking sign-ups for something that looks absolutely awesome. In a tweet this morning Shifty Jelly has …
Read More »Pocket casts hits version 4.7 as Shifty Jelly prepare an L of a lot of changes ;)
Our buddies over at Shifty Jelly haven’t been just lounging around in their mansions living off of their millions of dollars in revenue from Pocket casts and Pocket Weather, they’re working hard at upgrading the hugely popular Podcast app and have released version 4.7 to the Play Store. Version 4.7 …
Read More »Pocket Casts 4.5 headed to Google Play – Chromecasting included
Our very favourite podcasting app, Pocket Casts is being updated to version 4.5 in Google Play as we speak. The new version brings about a number of improvements but it’s the Chromecast feature that we’ve all been anticipating ever since they first announced it. Chromecasting from Pocket Casts is delightfully …
Read More »Shifty Jelly looking at implementing Chromecast capability in Pocket Casts
Everyones favourite Android podcasting App – Pocket Casts – could soon have Chromecast capability built-in at least according to a tweet sent out from their twitter feed this morning. Thanks to @patrickneville we should have a Chromecast soonish, then we can look at what’s involved in supporting it in Pocket …
Read More »Pocket Casts 4 to be released on February 27th
The news is out, Shifty Jelly has advised via Twitter that the new version of Pocket Casts will be released in a weeks time, launching at 11am Adelaide time on the 27th of February. If you need a constant reminder of the release then you can favourite the link to …
Read More »Pocket Casts 4 coming this month -Android version coming before iOS
Pocket Casts is one of our favourite apps of all time here at Ausdroid and today Shifty Jelly announced that they are about to release Version 4 of their awesome Pod Casting application this month. The Android version is due to be released first before the iOS application and one …
Read More »Android 4.2 Lock Screen Widgets
When Android 4.2 was announced one of the features listed which drew a great deal of attention was the Lock Screen widgets. A number of apps have added shortcuts, controls and even widgets to the lock screen in the past but this was Googles implementation and should therefore be a …
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