Official NBC Android Apps

Overview

The official NBC Android apps bring NBC’s entertainment, news, sports, and live-event programming to viewers across the Android ecosystem — Android phones and tablets, Android TV, Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, and Fire Tablets. The product gives audiences a unified way to stream NBC shows, watch live national and local news, catch up on recent episodes, and access content across devices through an NBCUniversal Profile.

Designed for both on-the-go viewing and lean-back living-room experiences, the apps support the full range of consumer streaming use cases: free episodes and clips, day-after-air access, live streams in participating markets, TV-provider authentication, saved shows and favorites, cross-device continue-watching, Chromecast casting from mobile, and closed captioning.

What sets it apart

My role

As Principal Android Engineer at NBCUniversal, I contribute to the Android applications behind NBC’s flagship streaming experiences. The work spans technical leadership across mobile and connected-TV apps, platform-level migrations, analytics accuracy, and live-event readiness for global tentpole moments — Milan Cortina, the FIFA World Cup, and live audience-voting events like America’s Got Talent.

• Led Milan Cortina 2026 Olympics readiness across NBC’s Android apps
• Led NBC’s Android migration to Adobe Pass REST API V2
• Designed and built the Dynamic Lead Slides module using Jetpack Compose
• Led migration of Favorites onto a GraphQL-based Journal API
• Led migration from Gradle Groovy to Kotlin DSL across the Android codebases
• Improved analytics accuracy across mParticle, Nielsen, Conviva, and Moat

Featured · Milan Cortina 2026

Leading Android readiness for NBC’s coverage of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics — the moment the Android codebase ships under the heaviest concurrent live-streaming load of the year.

Across NBCUniversal’s brands

The same Android codebase ships under nine NBCUniversal brands — driven by a single product flavor with per-brand resources at build time. I’ve contributed across the entire brand portfolio.

Capabilities

• On-demand episodes
• Live TV streaming
• Connected TV
• Chromecast & continue watching
• Local & national news
• Sports & live events
• TV-provider authentication
• Analytics & attribution
• Multi-audio tracks
• Closed captioning
• Saved shows & favorites
• Picture-in-picture

Distributed across

Built on

Languages

KotlinJavaGroovy

UI

Jetpack ComposeMaterial 3Compose for TVAndroidX LeanbackCoilLottieCompose Shimmer

Architecture & async

Dagger 2Kotlin CoroutinesFlowRxJava 2WorkManagerDataStoreNavigationViewModel

Networking

RetrofitOkHttpMoshikotlinx.serializationProtobufKtor

Video & casting

ExoPlayer (Media3)CVSDK Helio PlayerBrightLineMediaRouterGoogle Cast

Auth & identity

Adobe Pass REST v2AndroidX Credential ManagerGoogle IdentityJJWTSecurity-Crypto

Analytics & monitoring

mParticleAdobe AnalyticsConvivaNielsenMoatFirebase CrashlyticsDatadog RUMFirebase Performance

Personalization & engagement

LaunchDarklyAlgoliaBranchIterableOneTrustFirebase Messaging

APIs

GraphQL Journal APIAdobe Pass REST v2

Platforms

AndroidAndroid TVAmazon Fire TVFire TabletChromecast

Build & tooling

Gradle Kotlin DSLKSPktlintSonarQubeProtobuf

“A national broadcast network’s streaming experience — engineered for Android phones, tablets, and the biggest screens in the room.”