2014年9月23日星期二

Google Currents on behalf of iOS at this point Called Google tease Newsstand Following vast revamp

Google Currents on behalf of iOS at this point Called Google tease Newsstand Following vast revamp

Google Currents, Google’s magazine-like news understanding iOS app and a competitor to Flipboard, is rolling shown a revamp and a handful of recent skin texture, as well as a way to subscribe to topics you’re interested in vogue, as a substitute of no more than subscribing to publishers, blogs and RSS feeds. The company is and ditching the handle “Currents” and renaming the app “Google tease Newsstand” in vogue keeping with Google’s now-preferred naming scheme anywhere its apps and services get down to it with “Google Play” (like “Google tease tune,” on behalf of exemplar.)

This substitute and follows the remove from Google Currents on machine, anywhere the Currents cellular phone app has at this point been deprecated (though it continues to be present listed) in vogue help of Google’s own Newsstand service.

The recent iOS app’s look-and-feel spray in vogue line with Google’s “Material Design” language, which is making its way to all of Google’s properties, as well as machine, Chrome and Google’s jungle and cellular phone apps.

In vogue the updated iOS Newsstand app, which is at this point represented by a blue and pallid icon so as to looks something like a newspaper with a sheet folded down (or confusingly, a slight spot like the Google Docs icon bowed on its side), Google has introduced revamped top-level navigation on behalf of browsing through the news content.

Nearby are at this point a little categories to help readers handle their subscriptions in the role of well in the role of dive into understanding the news they concern in relation to, as well as a “Read Now” section which points you to the articles and editions from publications and feeds you at present subscribe to; “My files,” which is a make an inventory of your Newsstand subscriptions; and “Topics,” a way to subscribe to areas of be of interest.

You’ll and reminder in the role of you browse through Newsstand so as to articles are tagged by focus. On behalf of exemplar, an article in relation to melting glaciers may possibly be present tagged “Climate,” a new in relation to connected cars may possibly be present tagged “Automobile,” and so on. As soon as you tap on these tags, you’re at that moment redirected to a sheet containing other news from so as to same group, and you can quickly tap the plus (“+”) button by the side of the top to subscribe to all the most up-to-date updates from so as to group ready redirect.

Many of the tags are a spot too broad in the role of to dish up in the role of a handy curation tool on behalf of running your news understanding, with a add up to of tags encompassing categories like “Health,” “Design,” “Business,” and new. Past all, you may possibly would like to check on a feature sub-category like “Digital Health” before “Health concern,” on behalf of exemplar, not a moment ago all healthiness news. But even if the article isn’t tagged with a narrower group in vogue the news person who reads itself, you can make a search on behalf of the subcategory from the app’s search button and at that moment subscribe.

You can and bookmark articles on behalf of presently understanding, browse news highlights, and read across wide-ranging news sections, like “Sports” before “World,” which is nearby on behalf of individuals who don’t would like to handle their own make an inventory of subscriptions.

The revamp improves the app’s look-and-feel versus the earlier Currents app, and the transitions in vogue involving sections emerge beautifully, in vogue particular bags sliding content up from the floor before in vogue other bags, in vogue from the sides – and quickly, too. (Or by the side of smallest amount, it performed well on an iPhone 6. Your mileage may possibly vary.)

The revamped app is rolling shown at this point on iOS, replacing Google Currents. Meanwhile the machine version remains listed on Google tease, but tells visitors so as to Newsstand is the recent at your house and Currents is “no longer existing on behalf of download before use up.”


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