Mobile Solution for Samsung Smart TV Distribution System

The client is a multinational corporation that produces electronic devices and components for consumer and business use. The company needed to develop a mobile app allowing users to watch movies on its Samsung Galaxy family of phones and tablets.

Problem

Samsung wanted to port its existing movie platform over to its mobile devices. The client needed a service provider with strong front-end and back-end development skills.

The front-end design had to meet Samsung's strict graphic guidelines. The back-end solution had to provide timely content updates.

Solution

Softeq created a fully functional prototype of the app for Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and Samsung Galaxy Note II, thus targeting the multimillion army of the Samsung fans

The application supports subscription-based access to the movies delivered by a media distribution network in a variety of formats driven by Android and provides for the following capabilities:

Browsing through the video library, ranging from movies to series to cartoons
Viewing details on a movie of choice
Watching trailers or movies
Searching across the library by movie title, actor or director name
Adding/removing an item to/from the favorites
Profile and subscription management

Some of the app features called for extra brainwork and skills. Thus the team realized asynchronous data streaming fed from a server, which brings timely updates to the user’s display without blank screen interruptions thanks to caching.

On the visual side, the standard player skin was changed to strictly comply with the graphic style elaborated by Samsung for the given project.