Engineering Quality Solutions
Industry
Music & Media
Platform
Mobile App, CMS Admin Panel
Project length
05 months
Services
UX/UI Design, Flutter Development, Web, Backend, Cloud Deployment
The client wanted to build an engaging podcast application that streamlines uninterrupted podcasts for their listeners. Our Flutter app development team brainstormed some fantastic ideas and suggestions to give life to Mindstream Podcast App. The final product we built is one of the most fruitful apps for our clients in the music and media segment.
Of course, content aggregation and management were among the most challenging things for the team while developing a podcast app. Managing an extensive and constantly challenging database is quite tricky for any development team, but our developers made it happen easily with the help of a robust Content Management System (CMS). Other challenges along the development cycle were UI/UX design, streamlining and downloading the podcasts, and offline playback.
For managing the extensive database of the podcasts of various artists and leaders, we took the help of a robust CMS along with Backend APIs offered by the podcast directories. To deliver a friendly and easy UI/UX, we gave much time to the designing part and conducted usability tests before proceeding with the further process. We devised a download manager for offline playback to streamline the episodes even when the user is out of the connectivity zone.
Here is how our mobile app development team emphasized on the UI/UX and the development phase of the podcast app.
Design is the core of any mobile application. Our mobile app development team spent a good time researching and implementing a friendly podcast app design. Also, conducted usability testing to ensure smooth functioning and navigation of the app. We finally developed an exciting app design format that proves highly affirmative and engaging for podcast listeners.
Post-design, our full-stack development team was busy developing the podcast application by streamlining a large number of podcast databases. We wanted to deliver clean, efficient, and scalable code that can be easily edited in the future for app improvements and upgrades. Finally, we developed a worthwhile product for the online music and media industry and made it LIVE.
We at SolGuruz follow a detailed software development process to deliver excellence. Let’s dive deep into the process.
Here, we understand the client’s initial and long-term job requirements to give a valid yet reliable quotation mentioning cost and timeline.
Our development team starts settling for the application's core by defining a user-perspective UI/UX interface to attract maximum engagement.
We follow the agile development process for building a thoughtful and reliable app, followed by rigorous app testing practices to launch a fully-functional app.
We optimize the software with 100% configuration to launch it in the LIVE market by setting up servers, data management, and other infrastructure components.
We designed an intuitive and engaging home screen that displays personalized content to each user. Get daily highlights and news from the subscribed podcasts or artists with a quick episode link. Our home screen design helps users explore diverse content and their play history.
We designed a fantastic podcast screen for our users that depicts the selected podcast show along with its album cover, featured artist information, episode list, and release schedule. It helps the user learn more about the chosen podcast and related content.
Everything associated with the podcast is displayed on the Podcast Player screen mentioning the episode's title, duration, playback controls, progress bar, and download button. We also allow users to switch the podcasts as per their preferences.
The selected podcast information includes the release date, genre, artist, episode length, details, and ratings. It helps with the profile or social media links to help users read more about the chosen podcast or artist.
There are various aspects of security taken care of. They include Network security, Data security, Cloud Security, Application Security, and Endpoint security.
Encrypted the data both in transit and at rest by using methods like full disk encryption and Encrypted web connection(HTTP protocol with SSL certificate.
oAUTH2.0 helps prevent maliious attacks orchestrated by unauthorized users and makes sure that system is accessed by only authorized and authenticated users.
Configured Firewalls on AWS instances and databases to allow limited access.
Implemented Source code obfuscation practices to make the source-code in unreadable format, and so it would be difficult to temper or reverse engineer the released app’s executable file.
Configured cloud instances to take backup at regular intervals and so a particular version can be rolled back when required automatically.
Aditi Fozdar
COO, Jalso Music
The product developed by SolGuruz is very appreciated by end customers, and the client is very pleased with their work overall. The team is very communicative and knowledgeable, and they deliver on time and within budget. Additionally, they’re very flexible to constantly changing requirements.
We used the following technologies for designing and developing the MindSteam Podcast App.
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