Our Android app is now available in the marketplace! It costs $2.99 and is called Baseball Trade Rumors. The app's features:
- Select only the players or teams you want, and receive a notification for every related new rumor
- Be the first to know about any official trade or free agent signing with our Transaction notifications
- Filter the main news page to show rumors for one specific team, or only the transactions
- View the 40 latest stories from MLBTradeRumors.com, easily refreshed
- Leave comments on MLBTradeRumors.com
- Android 2.1 and up required
I’m digging this. Thanks.
Hey wow, commenting too!
Purchased. At the least it’s fair game considering how much I use the site.
Just to head this off at the pass…I understand that many people wish this were free. We decided not to go on that direction. I think it is worth the money, but I respect those who do not. Please use this post to discuss the app itself, and not free vs. $2.99.
Looks great so far. I’m a fan of the notifications so now I don’t have to wait until ESPN sends a text 2 days later.
Free or not, I read MLBTR daily, if not hourly so $2.99 is well worth it. Thank you to Tim and the rest of your staff.
I will say that I love this site and have no problem supporting it but I think $1 or $1.50 would make it more attractive vs just going your phone/ tablets built in browser.
Just read a real interesting article about Android vs iOS when it comes to the app store. Right now only 1% of apps in the Android Marketplace are paid. That’s staggering. Then you have the two companies – Apple and Google. Apple is associated with paying a premium for products/services. With Google the mantra is always free.
This is certainly true in my experience. I have hundreds of Android apps between my phone and two tablets (one for me – one for the wife). I have yet to pay for a single app. The paid apps I have are all from Amazon’s Free Paid App A Day. The rest are just the free versions (advertisement supported). Inherently it just feels different to pay for apps on Android that I might otherwise consider paying for on iOS.
In any event I hope that it works out for Tim and crew. No doubt the app will be a big win for those on the go that need to check this information. For long-time viewers of the site we can all definitely appreciate the progress Tim has made on the technology front. These are all steps in the right direction to grow the MLBTradeRumors brand.
Agree. I was excited to read the headline, but have a strict policy against paying for apps. Let me know when the free version is out!
^This. Why on earth would anyone pay for an android app when every other app for android is free. Not to mention, the stock android browser will visit this site with no hiccups.
Android developers that need to make money do so through add revenue, not directly from the consumer. People buy androids because they’re not willing to rack up the monthly costs. This app is so FAIL.
Thank you for providing this. I won’t be buying it because I don’t really need up-to-the-second news.
As far as the cost…I’d rather just donate to the site anyway.
yay!
…and my phone is somehow not compatible
Do you have Android 2.1 or greater?
yep
If you don’t mind, please hit me up at mlbtrandroid@gmail.com and hopefully we can figure it out.
can do
Yay! More (null)’s!
Definitely something we plan on attacking for the next version of the iPhone app.
will landscape view or ability to enlarge text be availablle?
Is that what (null) is? I never understood it.
Yeah, I think its an error that occurs when you comment with the iphone App.
I thought it was just what people put as an edit when they posted something incorrectly
I’ve seen people do that on occasion. It’s a cover-up I tell you!
Love the notifications but I wish there were options to change the notification sounds. That’s the only thing on my wish list! Great app!
I set the Cubs as my team, but I’m not sure if I will only receive alerts for Cubs rumors and transactions, or if I’ll receive alerts for all transactions? Already got the notification for Mets Re-Sign Miguel Batista
If you want only Cubs stuff and not all transactions, you’d have to uncheck all transactions under settings.
already a lot better than viewing on my phone’s web browser.
Do you offer senior citizens discount?
So, in what round were you taken by Uncle Sam?
Lol! My dentures almost fell out!!
Enjoying the app as it is much easier to read than using the browser on my phone and much faster too. Having said that I am having a few issues. The app does not seem to support rotation and that makes it impossible for me to see what I am typing until it has been typed out and then I can’t get the cursor to the correct place to correct any typos. Also, it doesn’t allow me to back out of the app which is a bit annoying as I have to go into the settings to close it out so it isn’t constantly running in the background.
agreed
It also appears to double-post.
As with iPhone I will poll users of this after a month or so and work on fixing bugs and look into added features.
Is there an app in the works for Windows Phone 7?
I’d like to second this request! The app sounds awesome and hope to be able to support MLBTR by purchasing it one day soon.
Ditto.
Love the app. For as much as I read MLBTR, I am happy to support it and be one of the first to download it.
The icon is already on my phone home screen. Navigating around the app is SO much easier than using the phone’s browser. Thanks Tim. Keep up the great work.
I’ll rate it on Android Market later when I get home.
Thanks again Tim!
right there with you, I love I can keep up with everything without sitting at my desk…
Is there a delay between content on the website and content on the app? On the website, I click Refresh and see a new post. Then on the app I press Update News (set to All News) but don’t see the new post.
It’s there on the app now. So a couple minutes’ delay?
There’s no kind of established delay, but a few minutes is possible.
does this have a widget too? Currently i have a RSS widget that works great for this site, but i would replace it w/ a MLBTR widget in a heart beat!!
Couple things from my limited use
1. Be nice to have the “pull down” style refresh similar to what facebook or other apps have. If not then maybe a more convenient to access refresh button instead of having to go to the menu -> refresh
2. Hitting the back button seems to just send me into an endless loop of screens but does not allow me to back out of the app, i have to hit the home button to exit.
Awesome job though, i have been waiting for this for a long time!!
Finally!!! Thank’s Tim. Hopefully it works well with 4.0.
Where is the app for my PDA?
As soon as my phone gets fixed, I’ll give it a look.
Would pay $10 to support this great site!
One question, though – on the Android version, do comments also multiply like rabbits?
First of all I would like to say I am very happy you finally released an Android app Tim, love your site and have no problem paying $2.99 to support it for how much I use it. Much easier to view on an app then the browser on my phone. That said, just a couple of things….it would be nice to have an option to post to Facebook and Twitter from the app. Any chance that option is added in an update soon?
Comments are also buggy, when trying to type this post the app locked up and I had to open the site on my desktop to type this. Also, when I use the back and forward buttons they don’t work, just send me to the same post.
Love the notification system, seems very fast and posts to the app almost as fast as the actual site. All in all I like the app, needs a little work but still worth it. Thanks again Tim!
Notifications aren’t coming in very well on my Droid 2 w/ Android 2.3.3. I think I’ve gotten two since installing it around noon, and they were both old by the time I got them. Found out on Facebook that Madson was signing with the Reds, but no notification from the app
hi
Tim, thank you, thank you, thank you. I’m in. We’ll work out the bugs later. The MLBTR newsfeed is PRECIOUS. Very happy to have it without using the Web interface.
When is the app for my good old Nokia go phone coming out?
Why the hell does it cost 3 dollars? I only have 2 in my bank account
I like to just use the MLBTR Twitter page on my phone. It’s basically a mobile version of the website.
i know this is for Android phones but MLBTR ya got to send out an update for the iPhone, I’m tired of the triple post you see (glitch) when the person only posted once. Hope over on Android ya fixed that
something for the next update:
anyway to have the articles (at least the newest ones) saved on my tablet’s memory? i use wi-fi at home but lose connection when i leave. would love to be able to read on the bus/at work. the one notification article is saved, but i can’t go to “previous”…
either way it’s a great app…well worth the cost…
Not to take away from this app (its a great thing to have), but here’s a workaround for those who don’t want to spend (or don’t have) $2.99 for an app.
1. Sign up for a google reader account if you don’t already have one (if you have a google account of any kind you already do without knowing it). Its free.
2. On the MLBTR site, click on the “feeds by team” and then on the RSS symbol for your favorite team. Follow the RSS feed on google reader.
3. Download the free “gReader” app for Android. It automatically syncs with your google reader account and will automatically deliver every story posted on MLBTR about your favorite team to the app .
4. Go itno the app settings and set it to allow notifications and viola – you will get an alert as soon as a story is posted about your team.
It takes more time and steps to set up, but its *free* and you doesn’t require much maintanance once you have it all set up.
does not do the “feed by team”. “Home”-level only.
I like it! Worth the $3 to be able to have it on my phone home screen for one touch updates.
Tim, two questions: First, will the Kindle app be available for the Kindle Fire any time soon? Second, and I am sorry if this is elementary, but I am struggling to understand what the little circle and dot deal is at the top left of the screen. The stories have a similar deal … some with the dot in the circle and some without. Any info would be great. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Jason
The dots signify read/unread stories. Have to look into the Kindle Fire question, is the regular Kindle one not compatible?
Thanks for the reply, Tim! I looked on the Amazon store and it gives you a pull down menu for “compatible devices”. It lists four or five other Kindles but not the Fire. I just got a Fire for Christmas and would love to have the app on it. Let us know what you find out.
Thanks, again!
Jason
Is the iPhone app being worked on? Kind of sucks having to read comments 30 times over on a post
Tim….I have a simple question (I hope),
If you buy the app, can you use it on multiple devices? I have an android phone and an android tablet and would like to have it on both if possible.
bought it and couldn’t figure out a way to disable texting, is that possible? I would love to have it on my home screen, i just don’t need a text every time there is a transaction.
FINALLY
$2.99 for information that you send to me via text or readily available on the internet? Not for me I’ll save my money!
It sounds well, please give us path for this your application.
My phone is not receiving notifications from the app. It did originally, but for some reason has stopped. Is anyone else having this problem?
Two questions:
1. Is there any way to link the app to my Disqus profile so that the comments will actually be from my account?
2. More importantly, specifically if the former is impossible, is there any way to save my commenting settings? Having to retype my info every time I want to comment on the go would be a pain.
Unfortunately we have not been able to tackle linking to the Disqus API in either app, yet. I do think that just saving previously-entered info for future comments would be more do-able in the short-term.
That’d be nice. Admittedly, it’s a feature I probably wouldn’t utilize frequently (I tend to be verbose when commenting), but having the option for making a quick comment would be nice.
Slightly buggy commenting …
I agree.
hahaha
Yeah almost the price of a cup of coffee.