Police Scanner App

Key Challenges

An application/tool for the Android, which can locate police dispatch frequencies of various countries along with cities, counties, and channels, was something that one of our clients wanted to develop. Their objective was to help people (users of the app) stay informed about any major disaster (happened/forthcoming) by listening to emergency broadcast streams in real time.

Their requirement revealed that they wanted the app to stream the media buffer of a radio channel over internet and play it with native media player. He also required that all users of the app would be automatically updated to the new list whenever there is a new entry to the database that contained the list of countries, cities or station. Their requirements were stringent and needed someone who can understand their vision and meet their expectations.

When they hired ValueCoders, we had to address to the following tasks:

• An application/tool for the Android, which can locate police dispatch frequencies.
• It should be able to catch from various countries along with cities and channels.
• To stream the media buffer of a radio channel over internet and play it with native media player.

While developing, we faced various challenges including the following ones:

• Streaming media buffer of radio channel over internet and then playing it with a native player.
• Listening to the audio stream by the users while accessing various other applications.
• Getting all the data about the frequencies from various cities.

Our mobile app developers at ValueCoders had overcome these challenges with their innovative ideas and technical expertise.