Google revamps Play Newsstand app, introduces web version

Google’s own news aggregator gets a new look and a web version to go along with it. The new version of Play Newsstand now features four different tabs: For You, Library, Explore, and Read Later. For You shows AI-powered recommendation stream and shows breaking news, top stories, and suggested articles based on your interests. Library shows you sites and subjects you picked out. Explore shows more stories to read through, and Read Later shows articles you’ve saved in the past. Version 4.0 of Newsstand also now has full-bleed images, autoplaying videos, and built-in playback controls for podcasts. And now if you want to use Play Newsstand on your browser, you can. Just head to this link.

Source: The Verge

Google finally swaps Currents for Google Play Newsstand on iOS

It’s been available on Android devices since November 2013 and now Google is making the newsreader switch from Currents to Play Newsstand on iOS. You will be able to see Material Design influences on the app with cleaner design, cards layout, animations, typefaces, and color-coded tabs. It shows news under different sections such as Highlights, News, Business, Technology, Sports, etc. You can also handpick specific publications you want to follow. Those you visit a lot will show up in your Highlights tab more. The app also greys out the articles you have read and warns you about paywalled sites.

Source: The Next Web | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

Google updates Play Newsstand to add new navigation tabs, ‘My Library’ section

Google Play Newsstand users will notice a few new things with the latest update. The “Read Now” section features an easier way to access content sections—such as news, highlights, sports, etc. You can tap on each or swipe through them. They even come with their own colors to make sure you’ve noticed that you’ve switched sections.

The “My News” and “My Magazines” have been combined into “My Library” section.  The manual setting for pre-downloading “Read Now” content has been taken out though. Perhaps it now just downloads everything for you by default. But we have to check that first.

Source: Android Central