Video Streaming App Development: A Complete Guide of The Features

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Ask why? The answer lies in the surfacing of videos streaming apps followed by the evolution of internet and smartphones. Very clearly, mobile app development is the future of entertainment and sports. This is why a big majority of the industry players and marketers are investing heavily on the Android and iOS app development to brings intuitive apps for the audience.

The increasing rage of mobile views of television series, movies, live shows, sports matches and news is due to the round-o-clock accessibility and the comfort to see whatever they want from anywhere (with just need of an active internet connection).

If you are part of the vast entertainment and media industry, this is the time to move your channel or shows to mobile platforms. Our expert app developers in Australia can make one for you. However, to ensure that revenue keeps flowing in with your video streaming app, these features must not be missed out.

Registration and user profile creation

It’s a prime feature that is required to ensure every user has their own individual space and freedom to view what they want. Registration should hence ask for preferences for languages, genre, artists, music and movie categories from the users apart from their name, age, location and other demographic details. Multiple user logins have to be provided too to let users access from more than one device.

Adaptive streaming capacity

This is the most crucial feature for your video streaming app if you want your viewers to have smooth and obstruction-free experience. Adaptive streaming capacity will enable videos to cope with network bandwidth availability. For instance, the app will show 144p videos (i.e. low-quality streaming) when bandwidth is down and 1080p HD videos (high-quality streaming) for good bandwidth.

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Personal account management

Apart from logging into the app with personal credentials, the users should also be able to maintain their own individual account. They should have the privilege to manage subscriptions, watchlist, saved videos, downloaded videos and the history (of searched and viewed items). This will also help you know more about the inclinations of your app’s users, like genres most liked, videos most watched or most shared.

Extensive search option

Let users directly search and find videos they want to watch. Do not confine their viewing preferences with the categories, genres, artists, and shows provided by you in the home screen. Instead, allow them to search according to the type of show, topic, release year, show name, artist name, country and trend.

Push notifications

The users should get notifications about the new shows lined up, most trending shows or the score of live matches, news and snippets of the shows they watch. Alerts on subscription packs expiry and new recharges should also be provided to the users. Push notifications are great ways to keep the users’ interest glued to the app and instigate them to keep coming back.

Other than these quintessential features, be sure to integrate your video streaming app with secondary essentials like strict privacy settings, social media sharing, local storage access, ratings and reviews, resume watching option and real-time analytics.

If you have made up your mind to build one intuitive app to let your target audience watch their favourite channels, shows or sports in their ultimate comfort zone, get app development services from GetAProgrammer, one of the top-ranked development companies for both Android and iOS app solutions in Australia.