NPR App Available for Download

If you have been wanting some NPR on your Android Smartphone, the time has come. NPR has released their official Android App and its available in the Android Market. The NPR App is a free download and can be found by searching “NPR” in the market.

NPR APP Now Live in the Android Marketplace:

This makes NPR the first U.S. radio station to launch an app for Android.

Features of the NPR Android APP:

• Backgrounding. The NPR News app for Android allows backgrounding, so that users can click to listen to audio and then toggle between applications as the audio is playing.
• Listen and Read. Allows users to listen to programs and read news at the same time.
• Extensive Topics Section. News section showcases NPR’s top 10-20 topics of the day ranging from Science to Books to World News.
• NPR Station Listening Choices. Easy to find and bookmark more than 600 favorite NPR stations and hundreds of station on-demand streams. Live station streaming to launch in Spring 2010.
• Playlist. Bookmark favorite programs to play later.