Android OTT app, published under your brand
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Why Android matters for your streaming business
Reaching viewers on smartphones and tablets with platform-certified architecture and zero-maintenance compliance updates.
Mobile Audience & Daily Reach
Android reaches Android phone and tablet users on Google Play. A service that is only on the web leaves that audience to the platforms that are already in the pocket.
Touch-First Mobile Experience
Mobile is where most viewers first sign up. The Android app carries sign-up, payments and casting to the TV, and it is the app your marketing links open when a viewer taps an ad or a social post on a phone.
Zero-Maintenance Store Updates
Flicknexs keeps the app current with those requirements as part of the plan, so a policy change on the store side does not become your engineering problem. When Google Play changes a submission rule, a player requirement or a billing policy, the change lands in the next Flicknexs build for every customer at once, which is the practical difference between renting an app from a vendor and owning a product line you cannot staff.
Official Android Documentation
The platform owner publishes verified review requirements and technical policies.
What the Flicknexs Android app includes
Every capability below ships in the white-label app under your brand and your developer account.
Branding
Your logo, colors, splash screen, icon and store listing
Catalog
On-demand titles, series and seasons, categories, continue watching, search
Live and linear
Live events plus M3U8 linear channels and cloud playout schedules
Monetization
SVOD subscriptions, TVOD rentals and purchases, AVOD with pre, mid and post-roll ads
Playback
Adaptive bitrate up to the quality your plan allows, caption files you upload, resume across devices
DRM
Widevine through the Flicknexs DRM add-on
Input model
Touch, portrait and landscape, Chromecast casting from the app
Analytics
Plays, watch time, revenue and device breakdown in the Flicknexs admin
What Google Play requires for store approval
Google Play publishes its own submission and technical requirements, and they change. The list below is what Flicknexs prepares for on your behalf when it builds the Android app; the current wording of each rule is on the platform owner's page linked above.
A Google Play developer account in your name
Google Play requires the publishing account to belong to the organization that owns the app. Flicknexs is added to your Play Console as a team member with upload rights; it never publishes your app from a Flicknexs account.
Target API level and Play policy compliance
Google Play sets a minimum target API level for new apps and updates and raises it on a schedule it publishes. The Flicknexs Android build tracks that schedule, so your app is not blocked from updating when the level moves.
Data safety and privacy disclosures
Play requires a data safety form describing what the app collects and why. Flicknexs supplies the answers for the platform components (sign-in, playback analytics, purchases) and you add anything specific to your own marketing tools.
Billing policy for digital content
Google Play's payments policy governs when subscriptions and purchases inside the app must go through Google Play Billing. Flicknexs configures the app to that policy for your region and business model; the current text is on the linked Play page.
Store listing assets
Icon, feature graphic, phone and tablet screenshots, a short and a full description, a privacy policy URL and a content rating questionnaire. Flicknexs supplies the templates and sizes; the copy is yours.
Widevine for protected content
If your catalog carries studio or licensed titles that require DRM, Android playback uses Widevine through the Flicknexs DRM add-on. Content without that requirement plays without DRM and without the add-on.
Engineered specifically for touch screens
A phone app is operated one-handed, often on a moving train, with the thumb doing all the work. The Flicknexs Android app is designed around that hand rather than shrunk down from the web player.
Bottom tabs and thumb reach
Home, Search, Live, Library and Account sit in a bottom tab bar where a thumb can reach them. Category rows scroll horizontally, and the poster size is chosen so that three to four titles are visible per row on a standard phone width.
Portrait browsing, landscape playback
The catalog is browsed in portrait. Playback rotates to landscape and locks there until the viewer rotates back, which avoids the accidental rotation that interrupts viewing on a moving vehicle.
Chromecast in the player
The cast button sits in the player controls. Casting hands playback to a Chromecast or Google TV device and turns the phone into the remote, with the resume position shared, so a viewer who started on the phone continues on the television without searching again.
Deep links from campaigns
Android App Links open a specific title, series or live event directly inside the app from an ad, an email or a social post. A viewer without the app installed lands on the Play listing and then on the title after install.
Sign-up and payment in three screens
Email or phone sign-up, plan choice, payment. The flow is kept to three screens because every extra screen on a phone loses a share of viewers who were ready to pay.
Touch & Mobile UX Principles Included by Default
How subscriptions & billing work on Android
Every store sets its own rules for how a subscription or a rental may be sold inside an app, and the rules differ enough that Flicknexs configures billing per platform instead of one way everywhere. On Android:
Store In-App Billing Compliance
Where Google Play's payments policy requires it, subscriptions and purchases of digital content inside the app go through Google Play Billing, and Google's published service fee applies to those transactions.
Web Sign-In & Zero-Fee Checkout
Where the policy allows an alternative, or for regions and business models it exempts, Flicknexs can route payment through your own gateway from the Flicknexs admin, with the same plans and prices as on the web.
AVOD & Dynamic Server-Side Ad Insertion
Ad-supported viewing (AVOD) does not involve store billing at all; ad tags are served through the Flicknexs ad module and revenue is reported in the admin.
Universal Cross-Screen Entitlements
Subscriptions bought on the web are honored in the Android app after sign-in. A viewer never pays twice for the same plan across screens.
Step-by-step path to store launch
Flicknexs builds the app; you own the developer account it ships from. That keeps the listing, reviews and install base yours if you ever change vendors.
Open your Google Play developer account
According to Google Play's registration guide, there is a US$25 one-time registration fee. The account is in your company name. Flicknexs is added as a team member with the permissions needed to upload builds.
Supply brand assets
Logo, icon, splash screen, store screenshots and the listing copy. Flicknexs supplies the sizes and templates for the platform.
Build and internal test
Flicknexs builds the app against your live catalog, tests playback, sign-in, purchases and touch navigation, then shares a test build.
Submit to Google Play
The build is submitted from your account. Flicknexs handles review questions and resubmissions until the app is approved.
Release and maintain
The app goes live. Platform updates, new features and store policy changes are handled by Flicknexs as part of the plan.
Real-hardware QA checklist before handoff
Before a Android build is handed to you for internal testing, Flicknexs runs it against this checklist on real devices. You are welcome to repeat every item yourself; the list is the same one the reviewer will, in effect, be working from.
Install from an internal testing track, not from a sideloaded file, so the test matches what Play will deliver.
Sign up with a new email, confirm the plan choice screen, complete a purchase on a test card, and confirm the receipt appears in the Flicknexs admin.
Play a title on Wi-Fi, switch to mobile data mid-stream, and confirm adaptive bitrate steps down without a stall.
Rotate to landscape during playback, lock, rotate back, and confirm the position is kept.
Cast to a Chromecast, pause from the phone, resume from the TV remote, and confirm the position is shared.
Open a title from an App Link in an email on a phone with the app installed, then on a phone without it.
Background the app during a live event and return after a minute; the stream should rejoin live, not replay.
Turn on captions from an uploaded caption file and confirm they render in both orientations.
Run the app on the oldest Android version you intend to support and on a tablet in landscape.
Zero-defect policy: Every build is tested on real consumer hardware, remote controls, and store tracks before customer acceptance.
Transparent plan bundling for Android
Clear monthly platform packaging, zero surprise engineering fees, and direct developer account ownership.
Included Plans & Packaging
A Worked Monthly Cost
A worked example for a service that already runs the Flicknexs web platform and wants Android and iOS. According to our pricing page, you get both mobile apps starting from the F2 Super plan; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details.
The only outside cost specific to Android is the Google Play developer account, which, according to Google Play's registration guide, carries a US$25 one-time registration fee.
There is no separate build fee for the Android app on F2 and above, according to our pricing page; the app is part of the plan, and store review, updates and policy changes are handled inside it.
A Android launch, week by week
What a Android launch looks like week by week when the account and the assets are ready. Dates for store review are deliberately absent because the platform, not Flicknexs, sets them.
Week zero: accounts and assets
You open the Google Play developer account in your company name and add Flicknexs as a team member. In the same week you hand over the logo, icon, splash screen and store screenshots in the sizes Flicknexs supplies for Android. Nothing on the engineering side can start before the account exists, so this is the step that most often sets the real launch date.
Build against your live catalog
Flicknexs points the Android build at your Flicknexs admin, so the app shows your real titles, your real subscription plans and your real ad tags from the first internal build. There is no staging catalog to migrate later. Touch layouts, sign-up, payment and casting are checked on physical phones and tablets, not only in a simulator.
Internal test build
You receive a test build to install on your own phone or tablet. Flicknexs walks through playback, sign-in, purchase, resume and touch navigation with you on a call. Fixes from this round are usually cosmetic: a color, a row order, a wording change in the store listing.
Submission to Google Play
The build is submitted from your account, not from a Flicknexs account. Flicknexs answers reviewer questions and resubmits if the store asks for changes. Review time is set by the platform and varies by store and by season, which is why the pages on this site never promise a fixed approval date.
Release and the first thirty days
The app goes live under your listing. In the first month the Flicknexs admin device report shows plays, watch time and revenue from Android separately from web and from the other apps, so you can see whether the new screen is bringing new subscribers or moving existing ones. Platform updates and store policy changes after release are handled by Flicknexs as part of the plan.
Android next to companion platforms
How the Android app compares with the two Flicknexs apps most services ship next to it. Each row is the same capability; the differences are the store's rules and the input model, not the content or the subscriber base, which are shared.
| Platform Capability | AndroidCurrent | iOS | Android TV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Store | Google Play | App Store | Google Play for TV |
| Input | Touch | Touch | D-pad remote |
| DRM | Widevine | FairPlay | Widevine |
| Store billing | Google Play Billing where required | Apple in-app purchase where required | Google Play Billing where required |
| Casting or handoff | Chromecast from the player | AirPlay from the player | Receives casts from Android and Chrome |
| Plan | F2 and above | F2 and above | F3 and above |
| Typical role | Sign-ups and daily viewing | Sign-ups and daily viewing | Long sessions and linear channels |
Your apps on the web, phones and TVs.
Launch your OTT apps now→What the admin reveals once Android is live
What the Flicknexs admin tells you about the Android app once it is live.
Screen Performance & Real-Time Keep
Plays, watch time, completion and revenue for Android are reported in the Flicknexs admin as their own device line, next to web, mobile and the other TV apps. The point is to answer one question a month: is this screen earning its keep?
Ten-Foot vs Mobile Viewing Behavior
Mobile sessions are shorter and more frequent than television sessions, and sign-ups and payments happen on the phone far more often than on a TV remote. The device report separates those sign-ups from web sign-ups so you can see what the app is actually adding.
Device-Level Transaction Attribution
Subscription, rental and ad revenue is attributed to the device where the transaction happened, after the store's own reporting where the store processed the payment. Where your own gateway is used, the Flicknexs admin is the system of record.
Deduplicated Multi-Screen Audiences
Continue-watching and resume positions are shared across every Flicknexs app, so a viewer who starts on Android and finishes on the web is counted once as a viewer and twice as a session, which is how the device report avoids inflating your audience.
Ready to launch on Android?
Choose your pathway below to initiate store submission and mobile deployment.
Upgrade to Mobile App Plans
If your service is already on the web with Flicknexs, adding Android is a plan change and an account: move to F2 or above, open the Google Play developer account, and the build starts.
Launch Your Android App Free
If you are choosing a platform now, start for free, load a sample library, and ask on the demo call to see the Android app running against that library. Bring a phone; the sign-up and purchase flow is easier to judge in your hand than in a slide deck.
Simple, Transparent Pricing
Choose the perfect plan for your streaming business. No hidden fees.
F1 Standard
Perfect for startups and small businesses
- 20 TB Bandwidth per year
- 300 GB Storage
- Video on Demand Website
- Video APIs
- Content Delivery Network
- Pre, Mid & Post Roll Ads
- upto 50 channels*. via m3u8
- Multiple Monetization Options
- Third Party Integration
F2 Super
Most popular for growing businesses
- 20 TB Bandwidth per year
- 300 GB Storage
- Video on Demand Website
- Video APIs
- Content Delivery Network
- Pre, Mid & Post Roll Ads
- upto 50 channels*. via m3u8
- Multiple Monetization Options
- Third Party Integration
- Mobile Apps (Android, iOS)
F3 Premium
For established streaming platforms
- 10 TB Bandwidth per month
- 1 TB Storage
- Video on Demand Website
- Video APIs
- Content Delivery Network
- Pre, Mid & Post Roll Ads
- upto 100 channels*. via m3u8
- 5 Youtube Channels Streaming
- upto 5 RTMP Channels using Flicknexs RTMP
- DVR
- Multiple Monetization Options
- Third Party Integration
- Mobile Apps (Android, iOS)
- Android TV & Fire TV
F4 Enterprise
Enterprise-grade streaming solution
- 20 TB Bandwidth per month
- 2 TB Storage
- Video on Demand Website
- Video APIs
- Content Delivery Network
- Pre, Mid & Post Roll Ads
- upto 100 channels*. via m3u8
- 5 Youtube Channels Streaming
- upto 5 RTMP Channels using Flicknexs RTMP
- DVR
- Multiple Monetization Options
- Third Party Integration
- Mobile Apps (Android, iOS)
- Android TV & Fire TV
- Custom Features & Priority Support
Every plan includes
- SSL certificate
- 99.5% uptime
- 24/7 support
More TV screens
Samsung, LG, Roku and Apple TV apps, each added to your plan.
24×7 TV channels
Cloud playout for always-on channels, priced by the number of channels you run.
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Metehan D.
"I would like to thank Rajeev for his effort and collaboration from our initial meeting to the platform development stage. We were in search of a white label OTT platform for our brand, and Flicknexs provided us with everything we needed to know right from the beginning of the process. They mentioned that they are open to all kinds of customization and integration when we want to integrate different partners into the OTT Platform. Everything went smoothly for us in all stages. Their collaboration and platform methods are very consistent. What I like best about Flicknexs is that they provide very quick and accurate responses to every question. Their response times for taking action are very fast. They seek solutions to all kinds of real industry problems and provide our company’s needs to the platform in the most accurate way. The software interface is quite easy to use and multifunctional. So far, we haven’t encountered any drawbacks. Our platform was quickly soft-launched, and once we go live with the apps, our process will be complete. We wanted to transfer our bootcamp videos, which currently operate on a pay-per-view model on our existing website, to the OTT platform. This way, we aim to provide our customers with a better experience through multi-functional memberships and purchasing models than other platforms."
Inna Segal T
"We've been working with FLICKNEXS, and I've got to say, they're really good. Their platform has heaps of features (150 or so, they reckon), and it's awesome for streaming – works a treat on any gadget you've got. Big shoutout to Rajeev from their end. Top bloke. He's given us some solid advice and even sorted us out with a coder to help in the first month. Champion effort. Early days yet, but I reckon we're on to a winner with FLICKNEXS. If you're looking to stream your stuff and want the real deal, give 'em a bell. Top-notch."
Robert G
"Phase 1 of our release has been seamless. From initial enquiry with Rajeev through to hand-holding all the way from Manoj and his support team. In less than two months we have developed and published on Android , Ios and Amazon Fire , with Android TV publishing imminent. We are now moving onto Phase 2, adding Samsung, Roku and LG into the mix. We already run a successful OTT platform on another service; and FLICKNEXS has so far proved to be a good alternative"
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about publishing and maintaining your Android app.