Football News Mobile App Development
Summary
A worldwide football organization wanted to give fans on-the-go access to live games, breaking news, and the latest on teams and players, both to retain its current followers and to win new audience. INNERLUXES designed and launched a multi-feature Android app that brings games, teams, and players together in one place — live and on-demand streaming, real-time scoring and statistics, news, best-moment collections, and team following — uniting fans in a single interactive digital space.
About the Client
The Client is a worldwide organization serving the interests of football fans, teams, and players. The Client organizes games and championships, gathers detailed statistics on players and teams, and regularly posts game-related content on its YouTube channel and across social media.
Fans Needed One Place for Live Games and News on the Go
The Client needed a multi-functional mobile app that would give football fans on-the-go access to live game videos, breaking news, and the most relevant information about games and players. The app was expected to help retain current followers and win a new audience.
A Multi-Feature Android App for Games, Teams, and Players
Guided by the Client's vision, preferences, and values, INNERLUXES's mobile development team built and launched a multi-feature Android app that gives football fans the broad picture of games, teams, and players. Its most significant features are:
- Live game streaming — live video and audio streams of regular-season and play-off games, with on-demand and preseason games available on subscription.
- Up-to-date information on players, teams, and games.
- Real-time scoring, statistics, and charts for every game.
- Game announcements for upcoming matches.
Beyond the core features, the app offers collections of the best game moments with links to the games, and the video quality adapts to the user's internet connection. Users also reach trending topics, articles, and videos drawn from breaking news and the latest stories from players and teams, with content that is easy to navigate and share. Using targets, fans can follow favorite teams and track league and team leaders. The Client continually updates the app to keep fans informed and engaged through the seasons and the off-season alike.
A United, Engaged Fan Community
- The solution helped the Client embrace new information channels and become more fan-connected.
- Users get quick, easy access to the provided content.
- The app unites football fans in one interactive digital space with plenty to watch, read, share, analyze, and discuss.
Technologies and Tools
Android SDK, Robolectric, Retrofit, Dagger, Retrolambda, Mockito, RxAndroid, XML/JSON, LoganSquare.