RaiPlay Sound: radio e podcast

Great app…love it. Always fun to listen….exciting music

The last version release now stops playing when in background on an iPhone, which makes it less than usable. Very insufficient user experience, unfortunately not unexpected for a Rai app: having used Rai apps since the original iPhone (initially their apps were designed an implemented as native iOS apps without relying on third-party cross platform APIs), Rai's major releases of their app are continuing to get worse and worse every year. The last few years of Rai apps for iOS are built using a cross-platform API that provide non-native user interface to iOS, which makes the user experience sub-par at best. Does Rai not have the resources to hire a single iOS developer capable of writing a native app with standard audio controls? In the current version of this app, none of the standard iOS shortcuts work for playing audio (e.g. headset controls when listening to a so-called podcast in this app). The CarPlay version likewise doesn't follow iOS User Input standards. Some of the content is unavailable from any other source, so it is unavoidable to use if one wants to listen to Rai radio content from abroad. The app however should be re-written from scratch using native APIs such as UIKit or SwiftUI, to have a decent user experience native to iOS. If any of my app development course students were to turn in such an app for their final project, they would fail the class - not kidding.

No in app indicator to tell when stream is paused due to buffering. Works well enough. Like the podcasting sections. Hope they improve on it.