Developer Steve Troughton-Smith’s new universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, called Broadcasts, is out this week. The app is a new version of his app HCC Radio, which allows users to listen to radio stations on the go now across all three platforms.
Troughton-Smith offered some detail on the development process in a blog post. Broadcasts was built from the ground up using Apple’s Catalyst platform — but unlike most Catalyst apps, it was designed first for the Mac, then brought to the iPad and iPhone.
If I was going to bring this to iOS, and expand the app with new features, I needed a better product name: and so Broadcasts was born!
In terms of functionality, Broadcasts is different from the HCC Radio app it replaces in one key way. HCC Radio allowed users to listen to a collection of preset Irish Radio stations, but Broadcasts allows users to add their own stations and collections:
Broadcasts is free for the preset Irish Radio stations, with a $5 in-app purchase for editing features. But as you would expect for an app from Troughton-Smith, it’s fully universal: Buy it on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and you unlock it on all platforms.
You can download Broadcasts on the App Store and learn more about the development process on Steve Troughton-Smith’s blog.
Some configuration required to get it right for me like removing the pre-configured stations, then adding these sources (def pay to unlock this feature)
Back to Work https://t.co/Jxi5ds5Lgg
Relay FM https://t.co/NervN16q50
Wonder if I’m missing any
— Zac Hall (@apollozac) May 19, 2020
