now player is an Android app developed by PCCW Media Limited (41/F, TaiKoo Place, PCCW Tower, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong). Others apps created by PCCW Media Limited are: now 新聞, yp1083.

now player first became available on 24 May 2012. It is estimated that now player has been downloaded between 1000000 and 5000000 times from the Play Store.

now player 7.33.2 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.

Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.

Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows an application to record audio.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.