That’s what endears it to me: I don’t think I’d use RealPlayer myself, but the fact that they’re taken feedback into account and not just shoveled something out the door both gives this app a pass. The interface looks slick and doesn’t have the familiar pitfalls like jagged edges on buttons or a general lack of polish.
The app, while still in beta, looks like they’ve actually cranked some money into it. Strangely, as evidenced by my screenshots above, the scanning animation never seems to stop. However, it offers a little bit more than the stock apps in the sense that you can use the folder browser to determine which folders to keep scanned: again, seems like a no-brainer, but it’s much less of a hassle to fine-tune what media you want showing up. Within it, you’ve got a music and video player along with an added photo viewer all are very basic and rudimentary. However, its simplicity does have an appeal: as a guy who doesn’t use his Android phone as a media player that often, RealPlayer seems to be a bit of step up from the default apps. I would even go so far to say it is good: not amazing, and not likely to unseat Winamp as the media player du jour. While they’ve made some stinkers in the past, I’m going to give them credit where credit is due: their app is not horrible. I mean, if enough people say something’s crap, maybe it will get fixed, right?Īt this point in the review I’m going to stop cracking jokes at RealPlayer. I was sent a nice e-mail proclaiming that the beta of the app “received more than one thousand pieces of feedback from users, both positive and constructive,” and that the newest update would be “based entirely on user feedback.”
So, ironically, 2011 rolls around and RealNetworks Inc., RealAudio (Now Real Player) have released an Android app that is looking to make its mark in the media player market. Many a fond memory were spent trying to delete it from my system because I would rather use Winamp which didn’t have pop-ups. The original program came out in 1995, with a later version bundled with Microsoft’s Windows 98 operating system. If you’ve been using computers awhile, you can probably remember RealAudio Player, an early audio player that had the capability to stream over the Internet.
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