Answers About Android

Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC's technology correspondent, asks the BBC's head of iPlayer development - Daniel Danker - all about Android and why it is Apple's devices that have the better versions of iPlayer when there are more Android users. Here's one snippet to a question about why Android doesn't even yet have the radio app at all: 

Believe it or not, we started work on the iPlayer radio app for Android on the same day as the one for the iPhone, but we're still resolving a number of issues. Background audio, for example. When you leave the app you want the Today programme to keep on running. That worked out of the box on Apple, but not on Android, and we're just getting there now

 The whole piece is an interesting read.