Our iPhone app has been one of our great successes. It has now been downloaded more than half a million times, and hundreds of thousands of our customers use it to manage their rental lists on the move.
But not everyone has an iPhone, and over the last year the big story in smartphones has been the spectacular growth of Android.
Until now, LOVEFiLM customers with Android phones have been able to choose from a number of unofficial applications such as Alf for LOVEFiLM, Eye on LOVEFiLM and Lovedroid. All of these are great, but we felt it was only right that we offered an official application that we could commit to supporting.
So, today we’re delighted to introduce our official LOVEFiLM App for Android.
The App lets you browse and search your way through the full, 70,000 strong catalogue of DVDs, Blu-Rays and Games with trailers, reviews and ratings. You can manage all of your rental lists through the ‘My Lists’ section, adding, deleting, changing priority or swapping titles between lists.
We’ve also made some improvements from the iPhone app – the search results, for example, are much cleaner (you’ll only find one result if you search for a particular movie, rather than different results for DVD and Blu Ray.)
It works best with versions of Android 2.2 onwards, and is available in the UK, Sweden, Norway and Denmark (Germany’s to follow soon).
If you’re one of the growing army of Android users, you’ll find it in the Android Market now. We hope you like it.
Rose Tighe, Mobile Manager
Brilliant! I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.
Works great too.
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Any chance of seeing an app for BlackBerry?
Works perfectly for me too, it’s great to be able to (easily) add titles when they pop into your mind while you’re out and about… The only minor complaint is that a lot of titles in the “my list” section show the incorrect cover art (PS3 game shown for a 360 title etc).
I’ve reported this via the app and provided a screenshot, so I’m sure you’re already on the case
A BlackBerry App would be great !
Unfortunately it doesn’t work on Ice Cream Sandwich on the new Galaxy Nexus – Hope this gets supported soon.
When will an andriod app be available to watch movies on a tablet?
I have a samsumng galaxay tab 10.1, i see all ipad users are able to watch movies, why not the andriod users?
When will Android users be able to watch moves online? Dumping Flash for Silverlight is a nightmare for smart phones, tablets and Linux based devices. Lovefilm is setting a low standard for customer satisfaction!
When are lovefilm planning an android app where you can watch films online? As it soon will be in possible to watch them on an android tablet once you switch of flash.
Are you going to allow watching films on our Android devices or do we have to go to Netflix?