News mobile application. Best News App for Android
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It's easy to stay up to date with the latest news - you can watch television programs, maybe listen to special radio stations or read local newspapers, but it’s even easier to know about what’s happening not only in your city, but also in the world with the help of convenient mobile news applications that are available in large quantities. Today we decided to cover this topic and present to you TOP best apps to view operating room news iOS systems.
As is known, in App store le App Store very careful checking and moderation of all applications for iPhone and iPad. We took this factor into account, so this time presented in our corporate TOP applications selected based on ratings and metrics generally based on user reviews of the apps. I think you will appreciate our work and the work of the developers. Let's begin!
In our today's top:
- Rambler.News;
- NewsRepublic;
- News and weather Mail.Ru;
- Google News and weather;
- Anews: news and blogs;
- Yandex.News.
Rambler.News
Surprisingly, the famous media company Rambler introduced a branded news application for iOS quite recently. What's surprising here is what's in the App Store service Rambler.News is already in first place in the rating - almost half a thousand users gave this application 5 stars and left positive reviews. That's why we start TOP with him.
Traditionally for all news applications, when launched, the service from Rambler will ask you for access to current location. Upon consent, it instantly opens to you home page service with the latest main local news. News feed quite convenient: the cover of the news, its title, information about latest update, as well as a button for bookmarking a specific news item. On my 4 inch screen iPod Touch the main page of Rambler.Novosti does not look very compact - news cards take up almost half the area, but for latest iPhone I don't think this will be a problem.
There is also a page in the menu with all the news. On this screen, the user is obviously provided with news from various headings and topic categories. This way you can read all the news on one page: news in Moscow, articles, celebrity news, incidents, world news or news on the business market. By the way, the interface here is more compact: 4 news cards fit on the page. Well, suddenly someone is interested in this.
There are a variety of topics on the menu if you are interested in any specific news. You can select news:
- In the world;
- In Moscow;
- Policy;
- Business;
- Incidents;
- Technologies;
- Celebrities;
- Sport;
- Auto;
- Life style;
- Articles.
For those users who consider themselves lazy, there is a section with video reports and photo reports. These sections in Rambler.News will be convenient for those who do not want to read sheets of texts, but want to quickly receive information about a specific event.
Of course, there is also such functionality in the news application from Rambler for iOS, such as reposting content to the most popular social networks. They include: Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter, Odnoklassniki and Livejournal. You can also use the built-in iOS capabilities and convey the news via iMessage or as email through standard application"Mail". There, if you leave news as notes or just want to read something later, you can send the selected material to reminders or notes.
Also Rambler.News is available in the version for smart watch Apple Watch. The application is free.
News Republic
News aggregator News Republic ranks in the App Store good position with a rating of 4 and a half stars. Most users agree that this service is excellent in quality mobile source information for every day. This is true, which is why News Republic is included in our branded TOP.
As in the case of Anews, News Republic initial setup ask the user to select topics that are most interesting to him in terms of news materials. In News Republic, among its colleagues, the number of headings is maximum and exceeds 40 topics - covering both general (cinema, science, music) and personal (Apple, Dmitry Medvedev, Exchange rates). IN general list as follows:
Similar to the Yandex.News service, News Republic has this useful feature, like “My News” - a section in which you can find the latest news in the categories that interest you. In the case of News Republic, there are tiles displaying their section, which were selected by the user when the application was first launched. If you want to read news related to Apple, go to this category. There is also a sorting option - you can select materials by date, opinions or the presence of video content.
Another quite convenient function is “Digest” - on this screen the News Republic service selects the most important news on your topics. These include urgent news, the main news of the day, as well as the main news of user-selected sections. This function will be especially convenient for those who want to always stay up to date with events, but in a limited amount of time - the digest collects the most important materials for the day.
News Republic has Apple Watch support, so you can read the news even on your wrist.
News and weather Mail.Ru
The News and Weather service from the popular company Mail.Ru in the “News” category in the App Store comes right after a similar application from Rambler. The Russian technology giant did a 4-star job. Despite the average rating, the application turned out to be enjoyable.
The main page, to put it briefly, is almost the same as in the first application I reviewed today. There is only one difference - at the top of the screen the picture of the day is shown - the most important news, as well as the weather, which is displayed minimalistically only in degrees. It is noteworthy that as you scroll through the feed, more information becomes available - current exchange rates (euro, dollar, British pound), news on available topics, photo reports and videos appear. Thus, if in Rambler.News such a feed is located in a separate tab in the menu and, accordingly, on separate page, then in Mail.Ru News and Weather it is installed by default.
The news categories in the application from the Mail.Ru company are also slightly different:
- Policy;
- Economy;
- Society;
- Events;
- Sport;
- Hi-Tech;
- Auto;
- Real estate;
- Poster;
- Games;
- Lady;
- Health;
- Children.
As in the case of the news application from Rambler, the Mail.Ru development can also save your selected news, photos and videos to your favorites (and even download them for offline reading without the Internet) and share them with friends on social networks. True, here the choice of the latter is very small: Moy Mir, Odnoklassniki, VKontakte and Facebook. Reminders and notes, as well as iMessages and letters are sent in the same way.
The weather news service from Mail.Ru is completely free. Apple Watch support is available.
Google News and Weather
The popular News and Weather application from Google is probably familiar to many of our users, because after major update and the redesign of the entire service, a large number of people, including me, paid attention to it, and the number of installations increased sharply. Like Android, the iOS version has a user interface Material Design- Mainly thanks to this design, the application is very simple and functional.
home Google page News and weather are different from those that we can observe in the previous two applications. Half iPod screen in my case it takes a detailed weather forecast for current time and the next four days, while the rest of the space is top news and news specifically based on the user's location. There are no default news categories, but the most convenient function service is that you can add them yourself - for example, read news only about Microsoft or only those related to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. It's definitely very convenient system. As for the format for displaying news in Google's service, you are presented with a small picture, a large headline, the source of the material, the time of its publication and a button to open the first paragraph for quick reading. There you will also find links to similar news from other portals and a small button for sharing the news. In terms of sharing capabilities, the application adapts to you - the choice depends on the applications installed on the device itself. Standard Features iOS is there too.
Present in Google service News and weather and some interface personalization settings. The user can choose a design theme - light or dark, and also hide news pictures. It is worth noting that dark theme the application will not strain your eyes if you read the news in the evening in a dimly lit room.
The main menu contains only sections such as “Headlines”, “Location” (news specifically within your city) and sections you added. The latter can cover absolutely any news topic - it could be a football team, a famous person, a brand, or an electronics manufacturer. In this regard, News and weather from Google are very personalized, so they will suit literally everyone, because everyone will be able to read only the news that they are interested in.
The Google News and Weather app in the App Store has mainly positive ratings and reviews. As a result, the service received a solid 4 stars and does not occupy the very last positions in its category. Includes Apple Watch app.
Anews: news and blogs
News aggregator Anews - quite popular application, which one good rating(4 stars). The developers tried to include everything you need into the service, and indeed, if you customize Anews to your taste, it will become an excellent companion to the world of news.
When first opened, Anews will ask the user to select his region (Russia, United States of America, Ukraine, France, Sweden, Brazil), and then - topics that interest him. Anews, as it turns out, has even more dissimilar topics, even in comparison with Mail.Ru News and Weather. There are also significantly more of them than in all of today's news apps.
- News;
- Business;
- Technologies;
- Sport;
- Auto;
- Blogs;
- Entertainment;
- For women;
- For men;
- Health;
- Design;
- Games;
- Internet business;
- Trips;
- Gastronomy and hobbies;
- Science and Technology;
- Cinema, music, stars;
- Events;
- Regional news.
The page for reading the news is normal: cover, source, time, text and a comments section at the very bottom. Anews's plus in this case I can name a single panel at the bottom of the screen with various functions- there you can like it, write a comment, and bookmark it. No need to click here, here, go to some additional windows and that's all.
When it comes to news aggregation, the Anews app offers a large number of news sources in the categories described above. For example, in some technologies I found the most popular mobile portals- 4PDA, Droider, iPhones, AppleInsider, AndroidInsider, iGuides, 3DNews, Keddr and so on. They are all our colleagues and you can read every news from these publications without leaving the application. The choice is really great, and this is a definite plus of this service. In case you need it, you can block the source. This might be how you decide to clear out your favorites feed.
In the App Store Store app Anews has a 4 star rating. Users respond well to the service. Unfortunately, support for iOS 9, as well as smart apple watch Anews doesn't have Watch yet.
Yandex.News
Yandex, along with Mail.Ru, is very famous among Russian users. Yandex services are developed in our country and optimized for Russian infrastructure. The news service was no exception, so Yandex.News is presented for mobile devices - a minimalist and very simple application that will help you stay in touch with outside world anytime and anywhere.
Despite the simple and light interface, which has nothing superfluous and is comfortable to use, Yandex.News for iOS users It's a stretch to rate it 3 stars. Here and iOS support There are 9, but even that is not enough. In the reviews you can find a predominant number of angry and negative comments - they complain about the design, fonts, operation of the application and its functionality. Nevertheless, it deserves, albeit last, a place in our today’s top and is worthy of attention.
News service from Yandex user interface is the most minimalistic and simple among today's representatives of the category. The main news feed is compact and displays the most basic information, as is the case with other applications - picture, headline, bookmarking. If this option does not suit you, then Yandex has provided a solution for this case - in top panel service there is a button that turns on old design service with larger elements and more detailed data. So, instead of one headline, a large picture, a large headline, the source of the news, the time of publication, and the first paragraph of the material appear. This is an option for those to whom “return the old Trashbox.” If you know what I mean...
The developers didn’t bother with the design, so they simplified the application as much as possible. This decision greatly influenced the user's interaction with the content, so instead of its own interface for displaying the material, the news or article opens in the browser implementation through the built-in viewing tool. By the way, for greater convenience, you can open the news in a browser, but in reading mode - this way you will lose advertisements And unnecessary elements that interfere with reading. Functions for editing the font, or rather its size, are also available there.
The menu of news sections cannot be called voluminous, but there are enough topics for the average person. The main headings are present.
- Moscow;
- Policy;
- Society;
- Economy;
- In the world;
- Sport;
- Incidents;
- Culture;
- The science;
- Technologies;
- Auto.
Otherwise, the news service from the domestic manufacturer is similar to its counterparts: there are both bookmarks and reposting of news to the most various platforms.
Apple Support Yandex.News does not have Watch. The application is, of course, free.
Write in the comments what service you use to read and track latest news you use on your iOS device. Also don't forget to participate in the traditional survey!
The site's laboratory continues to review applications on Android devices. Previously, we have already studied Mail.Ru News, Vesti and BBC Russia, Anews, Rambler-News and MSN News.
For dessert, we left one of the best news aggregators – Flipboard. It's been downloaded over 100 million times, but is it really that good? And the second participant will be a very modest service called Meduza. He fell in love a large number users and is interesting because its core consists of former employees information resource"Lenta.ru". The “Other” category will include RIA Novosti, Lenta.ru, SMI2, “Google News and Weather”, as well as “Chronicle of the Day”.
Well, then we will summarize all the considered applications on this topic.
Acquaintance
We simply could not ignore the most famous news aggregator, deliberately leaving it for “dessert”. I don't think anyone needs to introduce Flipboard. After all, this is the most beautiful program for reading news and entertainment information.
Distinctive features of the application:
- Collect the articles you love in your own magazine. Click on the "+" button on any article, select "create magazine" and collect your favorite articles, images or videos.
- Manage all your logs in convenient panel controls on the page “https://editor.flipboard.com/”.
- Head over to your Flipboard to see what's happening now. Use the Home button on your phone (or Top Stories on tablets) to see the highlights of everything you're reading.
- Enjoy Flipboard in 24 localized editions - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey , USA, UK, USA (Latin).
- On tablets, you can find hundreds of editorially handpicked stories in the Content Guide (click the red ribbon at the top), including must-read magazines and blogs, stunning photography, and special curated sections on the day's news and more.
- Add content from the web to your Flipboard magazines via the bookmarklet at share.flipboard.com.
Beginning of work
Immediately after launching Flipboard, we are asked to select the categories of news that we want to see in the application feed. The list is limited to 18 topics, which are quite diverse.
Then you need to register. You can suffer the old fashioned way email address and password, or you can register immediately using Google, Facebook or Twitter account. This was done in order to store all our settings and data that will be used in the program on servers.
Then we will be taken to the application itself - to its main menu. It is presented in the form of a kind of magazine that flips through very beautifully. Each page contains news. We scroll through and choose what to read.
We open the publication we like and see beautifully designed pages, everything is convenient and good. But not all sources support full integration into the application; some media simply load their website, and by no means mobile version. These are uncomfortable to read.
There are quite a lot of sources (remember that Flipboard is a news aggregator). But unlike all other applications, there is an emphasis on a certain entertainment content and secular articles. You will see almost no information about global disasters and crimes. For some it’s a plus, but for others it’s a big minus.
Then in the main menu we go to next tab. There are all our categories, people whose news we can read, and our accounts.
The next tab is search. In addition to specific questions, you can search for certain topics by saying in simple words– search by tags in titles. A similar feature was in the MSN News application from the previous review.
Prev last tab is responsible for notifications. It is expected that people you know will share the news with you. A person marks the news that he wants to notify about, and you instantly receive such a notification. This way, you won't have to send that article link anywhere, everything will come straight to Flipboard.
But the last tab is our profile. It will display all our activities: articles, magazines, our readers and tagged materials.
Flipboard has a widget. He shows various information and when clicked, it opens the article. You can scroll through the news directly from it.
Settings
The Flipboard app doesn't have a lot of options. We may send tagged news to further reading in Instapaper, Pocket and Readability. You can select a country, then we will see news sources from the region of residence.
The next item is the text size. I was glad that I could change the font size in the built-in “browser”, but no. Only for menu. Additionally, you can enable Push notifications, widget updates, hide news sources, and also protect the application from use mobile network to save traffic and clear the cache.
In advanced settings you can add status to your profile, support GIF animations, enable tooltips and full screen support.
Testing
The application is made very high quality, not the slightest bugs, freezes or slowdowns were found, even the animation moves smoothly.
Conclusions on Flipboard
Flipboard is a very beautiful and high-quality news aggregator. But its trouble is that the news that is of interest is about disasters, accidents and similar situations, very little - practically none. One of the reasons for this is that there are few Russian media, and those that exist are of an entertainment nature.
Our selection: News apps for Android
News. They surround us everywhere we go. Any person encounters news at least once a day, unless, of course, he leads an ascetic lifestyle. Newspapers, radio, television, the Internet (via computers), signs on the streets, and even rumors, and more recently mobile applications - all this is already a familiar element for us information age. And it goes without saying that the news is different, just as the people who read this news are different: some like politics, while others are interested in reading about high-tech achievements in science.
The point of all of the above is that modern man can no longer imagine his life without constant access to this or that information, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s the director of a large corporation or an ordinary office employee. Nowadays, news has, for the most part, moved to the Internet, and for simple search information about the situation in the world, many news portals have released native applications for tablets and smartphones. We will look at some of them in this short review article.
News from Rambler
Application Rambler. News meets us in a simple and intuitive way clear interface. No overload, everything is clear and to the point. The main page displays the most actual news, so you don’t have to go further than the first page if you are only interested in short description situation in the world.
As for the menu, it contains news subsections, as well as several sub-items, such as:
- Readers' choice. This section contains the most read news.
- Best articles. No comments needed.
- Photo reports. Here you will find, rather, not news, but visual reports from various events.
- Video. This section contains not only news, but also advertising videos, as well as useful videos.
- Bookmarks. News you've read can be bookmarked so you can return to it later.
Regarding animation: everything is at the proper level. Nothing slows down, the animation is smooth and without any frills. Screen rotation is automatic (with support for screen auto-rotation available). We think this is what a modern news app should look like.
News from RG (Russian Newspaper)
Many may think that the functionality of news applications is the same, and there is no point in describing them. In fact, this is not the case, and an example is the news application from Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Unlike Rambler news, the news application of Rossiyskaya Gazeta is structured somewhat differently. Firstly, news subsections are switched not in a pop-up menu, but by switching tabs. In addition to news and photos, the application from Rossiyskaya Gazeta contains several unique sub-items
- Editions. This includes the WG itself, as well as the WG - Business and WG - Week.
- Documentation. A unique and important component of the application from Rossiyskaya Gazeta. This category includes not only Comments, but also published documents, as well as changes that come into force.
The second point will be very useful for government officials and entrepreneurs.
Separately, we note that the news application from Rossiyskaya Gazeta has settings. You can customize the font size, and, more importantly, enable or disable image loading. The image automatically rotates to fit the screen position.
In addition, there is a function for saving materials, so you can read the news when you are not connected to the Internet.
News from RIA
The news application from RIA Novosti pleasantly surprised us with its functionality. In terms of navigation, news from RIA is similar to the Rambler application (i.e., selecting sub-items of interest in the pop-up menu).
- Customization for yourself. In the application from RIA Novosti, you can customize not only the font, as well as turning images on and off, but also much more. Setting the language, the presence of selected sub-items in the main menu, setting the quality of video and images, as well as useful point « Black theme", which allows you to comfortably use the application in the dark.
- Multimedia functionality. This paragraph also contains photos and videos present in other news applications, but there are also unique features. First of all, this is iconography, which is available only in the application from RIA Novosti. In addition, there are such items as cartoons and quizzes.
The news application from RIA, just like the application from Rambler, allows you to add the news you have read to your favorites. In addition, you can comment on the news through your account in social networks!
The application from RIA Novosti is clear example what's in one small program You can fit in some good functionality!
Application from [email protected]
The difference between the Mail.ru news program and others is immediately striking similar applications in the pop-up menu, namely, displaying the weather. By clicking on the widget, you can view the weather in detail for several days ahead. This is very the right approach, given the fact that fast access For many people, the weather forecast is as important as the availability of news. Like the applications described above, the news program from Mail.ru has several categories of news, as well as photos and videos.
Like the RIA application, the Mail.ru program allows you to comment on news from your account on social networks.
The news application from Mail.ru has its own unique functionality:
- Search. You can search for news by keywords, and by phrases.
- Adjusting the font size and screen brightness on the news reading page.
- Additional programs. At the bottom of the main menu you can see a list of applications from Mail.ru, which are easy to download and install with just one click on the program icon.
- Write to the developer. You can send your requests and suggestions regarding the functions and performance of the news program to the application developers. Perhaps they will add the desired functionality in the future.
- The news application from Mail.ru has settings, and some of them are very useful. For example, you can change the language, enable or disable photo uploading, customize the items displayed in the main menu, customize the widget for yourself, and disable advertising. In addition, you can log in through your Mail.ru account and comment on news without logging in through social networks.
conclusions
Each application matches the style news portal, on which it was created, and offers its own functionality. Some applications are similar to each other, some have unique functions, and yet, with the task at hand, namely, providing news, they cope one hundred percent.
We all read the news, follow events in one area or another. WITH mobile devices(whether it’s a smartphone or a tablet) it’s easier and simpler than ever. However, this requires individual applications, providing access to all sites and aggregating their news flows in an easy-to-view and read form.
Today we will look at the five best and perhaps most popular applications for reading news.
Anews application
The largest Russian news aggregator - more than 400 (the largest catalog!) Russian-language media, blogs and social groups in one application (you can add your own). The desired article opens with one touch, navigation is extremely simple, and the editors always delight with a fresh selection of the most interesting materials. Available on iOS, Android and the web, and everything is synchronized.
Flipboard app
The world's best application for reading news - tens of millions of users, hundreds of thousands of magazines, unique design, the best "publishing houses" (Esquire, Rolling Stones, National Geographic), Russian section. Unfortunately, there are still a very limited number of Russian sources in it, so it is more suitable for monitoring foreign sites. On the other hand, you can actually watch the pages turn in it for hours.
Applifto app
A unique, narrowly focused news aggregator dedicated to mobile applications, devices and technologies (Apps4All is also represented there) from the company of the same name. All news is collected into a convenient feed, which, however, cannot be expanded on your own - all sites are “tightly” registered in the application. I am very pleased with the enthusiasm of the application developers, who are constantly updating and improving the application, making it even better.
Feedly app
Feedly is a news aggregator that once replaced Google Reader. "Feed is what are you needly" uses RSS to aggregate the content of sites and blogs, offering you materials in the area of interest to you.
1board app
Social network aggregator from MobiGear. In the application you can read news from everyone at once Facebook accounts, Twitter, Foursquare and VKontakte in one common feed, as well as make entries from one application to all networks at once or to each one separately. In addition, 1board allows you to comment on posts from any social network and like the posts you like. With 1board, users can share messages with friends from one network to another - for example, from Facebook to Twitter, VKontakte and vice versa. 
Source-text: apps4all.ru
