Netflix updated its streaming app for Android devices, making...
Netflix updated its streaming app for Android devices, making the user experience “much more immersive” than before, Chris Jaffe, director-product innovation, said Monday at the Netflix blog (http://xrl.us/bnq84e). The new version of the app provides an experience that is “much…
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closer to the Netflix experience on tablets, which got a major upgrade late last year,” he said. For example, he said, the top of the new browse screen on Android phones is a row that lets users continue watching shows or movies that they previously started watching from the point where they left off. Also, a “simple tap on any title” now presents all of the information for that title and a double tap starts instant playback, he said. Search is also now available everywhere in the application, so users “can always find” what they're looking for, he said. The new version of the app is available for Android devices using Gingerbread and newer operating systems and can be downloaded from the Google Play service, he said. He said at the blog last week that a similarly enhanced Netflix app was made available for iPhones and iPod touch devices. Netflix didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment after published reports said the company lost its access to content from A&E and History Channel after deals ended with them last week.