I’m delighted to announce that today we’re finally ready to extend the Pandora experience to Android. As of today Pandora is available directly from Pandora at www.pandora.com/android as well as in the Android Market.
I’m really excited about how Pandora for Android turned out – listen to all the same Pandora stations that you’ve been listening to on the web. The application is also deeply integrated with many of the core Android features: control playback from a home screen widget, “deep tap” any artist or song in the standard Android music player and jump into Pandora to discover other similar artists, make a smart folder to get quick access to your stations from the home screen, buy tracks you discover from the Amazon MP3 application, use your Android address book to share stations with your friends, and of course listen in the background while you’re doing other things on the phone.
I know this has been a really long time coming and I’d like to thank all of you for your patience. Hope you enjoy the app.
And yes, for those that have been following the story since the beginning, I do in fact need a “hole in the head” 
September 10, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Geez! I thought it would take longer. I went with the iphone.
Only thing android needs now is Audible.com support and I’d switch at the end of my contract. An jailbroken iphone is great… but I think I’d love to try a Android phone after it supports everything I use.
October 19, 2009 at 8:37 am
Thank-You for supporting this. It is a feature that is truly needed and to be able to listen to it in the background without having to be rooted or jail broken is a major plus. It does seem to have a few stability issue (at least on the Sprint HTC Hero). Several of them are listed in the Market comments. It seems if I skip/thumbs down two or three songs in a row it will almost always lock up. And, once it is locked up the only way to get it going again seems to be to reboot the whole phone.
The Widget is a GREAT bonus and to be honest the above issue seems to happen less from the widget than from the main application. I’m not sure that seems logical but it does seem true in practice.
October 21, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Great! I’m looking at Android to be the OS of my next smartphone. However, in the meantime, I bide my time on my Windows Mobile smartphone using a hacked version of Pandora that works with it, because the official Pandora application doesn’t support it.
Any chance that maybe, someday, ALL Windows Mobile users (including people with SQUARE SCREENS >:/ ) will be supported — for free?
December 17, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Since Android users hijacked the WebOS thread
Is there an update for the Palm devices coming that will fix some of the bugs that were introduced in 1.3? (Like the notification bar controls etc…)
Thanks!
January 14, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Anything new since Sept 2009? What has been happening new in 2010!
January 29, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Thanks for letting me know. Yippie Pandora for Android…:-)
May 3, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Why Android but not Wii? I love Pandora and would subscribe if I could listen to it on my wii. I’d even pay to download the Pandora program from the Wii Store. There is already an internet browser with flash for the Wii, and my understanding is that the only reason my browser crashes when I try to load the Pandora page is that it doesn’t have enough memory. But surely a low memory version of Pandora could be created… why not when there is a bigger market for that than a lot of the cellphones that it has been created for?
June 3, 2010 at 10:46 pm
My contract is up on my iPhone and I am jumping ship from AT&T. The bandwidth- or lack thereof has driven me to Android. Icing on the cake is finding my favorite music site will be supported!! I know I am a few months late in weighing in, but it wasn’t exactly something I looked into due to being locked into my contract. See you on the other side:)
June 13, 2010 at 7:36 am
I am trying to download the Pandora apps to a nexus one through an internet connection in China, but i get 404 error from pandora.com and android market doesn’t show it either. Is the app only available in certain countries?
July 2, 2010 at 11:52 am
Hi Tom
I was wondering if javascript interaction with Pandora player is possible (login, log out, play, pause, skip, like, dislike, list stations, listen to station, create station, and so on). If so, is it documented anywhere? Thanks 
August 10, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Hi Tom. I wanted to contact you about a new startup we are working on for your advice and guidance. It is going to be the Pandora of food. I apologize this is the only way I could find to contact you. Would you be interested to chat with us? Would love to hear back from you.
September 1, 2010 at 1:16 am
Android seems to be really gaining some ground now and Pandora is great but I think there are a lot of people still not fully aware of what this can do yet, are there any plans to expand for uk use?
November 22, 2010 at 4:48 am
I have the Google N1 and frequently switch between spotify and pandora on my pc..
My question is, if I get pandora for my android will I be able to reroute the traffic through a kind of tor proxy network so I can still listen from here in the UK ?
November 24, 2010 at 8:19 pm
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February 25, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Tom,
Last time I checked, Symbian installed base was estimated between 100M and 150M. Do you guys have any plans to port your client to Symbian?
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July 12, 2011 at 10:03 am
If you really want to increase your revenue I’d suggest you have a more aggressive marketing and campaign to raise awareness of the service and product you offer — including over the air radio and TV commercials. Relying on word of mouth is great, up to a point, but there is a huge demographic that you are not reaching with that approach. Who is aware of your comedy genre stations, for example? Or the new html5 roll out? Take a leaf out of Apple’s playbook: Make a TV commercial that showcases your product — showing the many different devices in which it can be played — and how it reaches across all age groups. You could put together a kick-ass commercial if you wanted to. How about showing people in different situations listening to context-appropriate music? A girl or guy on a train flirting with someone (smart phone Pandora) — a family on a road trip (in car Pandora). An office working number crunching (html 5 Pandora on the computer). Coffee shop Pandora on an iPad — sipping a cappuccino at a street side cafe while a summer storm rages outside… The possibilities are endless. Think about it
PS. You also need to keep expanding your catalog — it’s too limited!
July 12, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Hi Tom,
Great product and a an awesome UI now! Would you be interested in talking to a HTML5 Meetup group in the bay area about your design philosophy and new html5 implementations?
July 26, 2011 at 7:32 pm
I love it for the Android.
Anyway, I was wondering, I know a band that is really talented and great, and I was hoping that I could suggest them to you. Maybe put them on Pandora if you like their music?