biddyweb / bbc-news-reader

A BBC News reader for Android, NO LONGER UPDATED

BBC News Reader

Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, Digital Lizard (Oscar Key, Thomas Boby)

Licensed under the BSD License. See LICENSE.

BBC News Reader does just that, it reads the BBC rss feeds and retrieves the associated articles and images and places them in a nice gui for browsing on Android based phones.

It is currently tested on Android versions:

• 2.3
• 4.0
• 4.2

However, it should work on any version > 2.2. Old versions of the app will support down to 1.6.

It supports all sizes of phone screens. There is a tablet view, but this has more limited functionality (at the moment).

References

We use several other projects to help us:

• android-rss - a lightweight rss library - https://github.com/ahorn/android-rss
• ActionBarSherlock (v4.1.0) - ui compatibility for <4.0 devices - http://actionbarsherlock.com
• ViewPagerIndicator (v2.4.1) - page indicator in the category view - http://android.hlidskialf.com/blog/code/android-seekbar-preference
• drag-sort-listview (v0.4.1) - allows sorting of categories when choosing - https://github.com/bauerca/drag-sort-listview/
• Eula - displays the "eula" at first run - http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/source/browse/trunk/DivideAndConquer/src/com/google/android/divideandconquer/Eula.java

We are very grateful for the hard work put into these projects which make things so much easier for us.

Disclaimer

We are in no way affiliated with the BBC, and all the news content belongs to them.

This app dates before the release of the official new app and was designed to try and improve the news reading experience on Android phones.

License

Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, Digital Lizard (Oscar Key, Thomas Boby)

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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