[APP] Official BBC Olympics App - Updated to 1.1.0
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/worldwide/130712olympics.html - Information about the personalization by country but not much about the "international" app.
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Yeah, it was kinda strange for me too. On the market (via Chrome) it said that my device isn't compatible, when I scanned a QR code it said that I can't download it outside the UK, but Market Enabler did the trick.
It's such a good app!
Thx for the link. It's kind of a cool feature, but unfortunately not so handy if you are an expatriate.. I live in Sweden but I'm Italian.. so "unfortunately" I'll get all the news about the Swedish team and not about the fabulous Italian athletes
BBC usually limit their streaming video to UK IP addresses, so I don't think streaming will work on non-UK IPs. Just a guess though...
Anyone got the app to play movies on jelly bean ? I have manually installed teh flash apk but get the little plugin icon when i try to play movies
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Sigh - I guess I should have remembered to reboot
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Sigh - I guess I should have remembered to reboot
Was just looking for a good Olympics app and this one seems great!!!
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I can play some videos live which go to full screen but the video stops and replays again , does anyone have a fix
Thanks for the .apks guys! I was bummed when I tried to install from the playstore and being in the US it wouldn't let me. Of course, XDA and you people come to the rescue. Works great on my OG Evo.
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1002Thread closed as this app is only for the UK who have payed for a BBC TV license....
And...
Link for UK users.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.bbc.sos2012uk2No smart comments from my side, I fully understand your point of view and I just deleted all the information about how to stream, should be ok, innit?
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app2This really ****s me off
I've just seen this posted on the portal and although it does have some valid uses (see miui guy) it's piracy and is going to be abused. Now, I do hear the cries of "M3PH, beloved recognised developer, friend, buddy o' mine, how is this piracy? the app, it be free!" well actually, it's not free. Here's why.
In the UK every household has to pay, by law, something called a TV license. The TV license is then given to the BBC by the government so the BBC can continue to provide an advertless service over 7 (or was it 8) TV and channels and somewhere in the region of 20-30 radio channels. Now some of this money, in the modern age, is also used to provide free online and mobile services (things like the website and iPlayer) one of those things is the free Olympics app.
Now the rate you have to pay depends on if you have a colour tv or not and if your a buisness or a private household but most families will have to pay £145 this year and if you fail to pay it you go to prison for 6 months (this is a harsher penality then any pirate gets).
So I really do very much resent non british nationals being able to use this process to get around the geolocking of the app/play store because I paid to have the privilege and you lot didn't. Moreover if i wanted to use the app this way and not pay my TV license i get to be the prison ***** for 6 months and you americans, swedes or whatever can get away with it with no fear of an ass raping.
OP, please consider editing the first post so that is doesn't actually include complete instructions. I will be discussing this with the forum moderators as the original post is promotion of piracy and is a breach of the XDA Terms of service
