First Look Over Google Currents : A Touch-Friendly Flipboard Style Magazine Reader For Android & iOS

Google Currents is a spanking new and innovative method of exploring your favorite news and RSS feed subscriptions on your Android & iOS...

First Look Over Google Currents  A Touch-Friendly Flipboard Style Magazine Reader For Android & iOS -  (6)Google Currents is a spanking new and innovative method of exploring your favorite news and RSS feed subscriptions on your Android & iOS smartphones and tablets in an exceedingly magazine-like interface. Or you can say, Google Currents is like a digital magazine which displays full content from 180+ partner publishers. Being a news aggregator, Google Currents allows you to add and examine your favorite news sources and custom editions created with Google Currents Producer, additionally to display top-5 trending stories of the hour from a large source of classes together with business, technology, entertainment, sports, health and science. The app let you be synced along with your Google account, allows you to explore all the content in offline mode, customize sync settings and also share articles with your friends directly.

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Just to make sure that you just get a much better grip of all the options, the app takes you thru a short tutorial on the very first time you launched it. What follows could be a neat, clean and uncluttered interface that reflects the new look that the newest versions of Google’s mobile operating system (Android 4.0 AKA Ice Cream Sandwich). The app displays only a couple of tabs on its homescreen, specifically Library and Trending. These carry the majority of the app’s content.

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The Library tab is devoted to your added/favorite feeds and news sources whereas the Trending tab, because the name implies, displays all the hot-running news stories from classes of your selection. you'll favor to read the online version every|of every} article (and each link embedded within the article) among the app, or visit the supply via the browser.

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Under each said tabs, you've got a tile with a and (+) icon on it that may be tapped to feature custom content. Be it your Google Reader RSS feed subscriptions, featured/popular or trending stories from a large array of sources, all you would like to try to to is faucet the Add button to possess it listed underneath the relevant tab on the app’s homescreen.

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Although the app is pretty swift in downloading simply the text a part of every story, it will take it slow syncing multimedia content, of course. Once syncing is finished, you'll explore entire blogs/webpages even whereas offline. Exploring content from among the app could be a pleasing expertise because the interface allows you to swipe quite faucet. Barring the flip-style animations, Google Currents is that the closest that a news reading app for smartphones/tablets has return to match iOS’s famous Flipboard app.

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From the app’s configuration purpose of read, there’s not a lot of to tinker with. the sole noticeable factor among the settings menu (tap Menu) is that the choice to associate your Google Account(s) with Currents, alter Text size and numerous Sync settings. you'll select separate association sorts (Wi-Fi and/or 3G/4G) for syncing articles and their pictures, specify a sync frequency (in hours) and select to not sync pictures for articles underneath the Library and/or Trending tabs.

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Currents’ interface has been designed to adapt perfectly to each your smartphone & tablet’s screen orientation – one amongst the few things that holds the app except for iPhone variant of Flipboard.

Currents could be a nice app, however with heavyweight news readers the likes of FLUD, Pulse, Feedly, ChannelCaster, and in fact, Flipboard within the market, it has to add a couple of a lot of goodies to remain ahead within the race; the primary of which might be a nifty homescreen widget – a feature thought of to be synonymous with apps from said genre. The  inclusion of day and night reading modes and therefore the choice to bookmark favorite articles too would do the app a world of fine.

Check out the video below to have a complete look.

Google Current works on Android devices running Android OS v2.2 or higher and iOS 4.0 or above. Although Google Currents is now available only in USA Android Market and iTunes App Store, you can try Google Currents on Android even if you live outside USA using MarketEnabler.

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1 comment :

  1. Great article! Personally, I'm really impressed! I'm a huge fan of Google!!!

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