Media Sync

Media Sync - Podcast and RSS news reader

Podcast & News Reader

- RSS and Atom Support

- Plays Audio / Video podcast

- Stream or download podcasts

- Audio Podcast .mp3, .3gp, .ogg and .flac support

- Video Podcast .mp4, .swf, .m4v, .3gp and .webm support

- Support for Google Reader/Listen via OAuth

- Offline support / Automatic update & download

- Add new RSS / Atom Feeds

- Edit Feeds / Delete all feeds

- Supports news cache on sdcard

- Automatically delete of old articles

- Sensor Tilt automatic scroll

- Multi-threaded update processes

- Playing now notification status

- Configuration for font size

- View unread only

- Import / Export list of feeds

- Support for Honeycomb tablets

Permissions asked for and why they are needed:

INTERNET / ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE (Network communication)

- full Internet access, view network state

- to access the internet, downloading audio, video etc.

- to check what kind of connection the phone is currently on; 3G, wifi, etc.

WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (Storage - modify/delete SD card contents)

- to save mediafiles on the external storage.

READ_PHONE_STATE (Phone calls - read phone state and identity)

- To be able to detect when there is an incoming phone call so that playback can be paused.

MANAGE_ACCOUNTS / GET_ACCOUNTS / USE_CREDENTIALS (Your accounts)

- This is used for requesting authtokens from the account manager to authenticate with google reader, note your password is not required / exposed).

RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED (System tools)

- This is used to start the download process automatically start at boot, there is a configuration setting to disable

- prevent phone from sleeping when playing video