Android Magazine 58 - 2015 UK

Tu torials

App used»BuzzFeed NewsWorks with»Android 4.0 and up

Get the BuzzFeeds

you actually want to read

As you have almost certainly seen over

the last few years, BuzzFeed is a hub for

viral content, list articles and quizzes.

However, the site is also gaining rapid

respect in the industr y for its good news

gathering and impressive reporting. Its

global network of offi ces writes news and

also conducts very high-level interviews,

such as a sit-down inter v iew with

President Obama in Februar y 2015.

This burgeoning reputation as a

legitimate news outlet has prompted

BuzzFeed to launch an app specifi cally for

its news section. It regularly updates

throughout the day and reports on a wide

range of important issues.

This annotated tutorial will show you

how the app works and what steps you

need to take to receive the news updates

that are important to you, while ignoring

stories you are less interested in.

The viral content website has

launched its own news app

for personalised updates

Set up your alerts

How to set up the BuzzFeed News app to only alert

you to stories that you want to see

Initial setup

Major Breaking News will

be automatically ticked

before you begin the

process. Press the tick

boxes next to each area

of news you are

interested in to start

receiving those particular

alerts. Tap again to

remove the tick and stop

those notifi cations.

Receive alert

notifi cations

Hitting the white tick

inside the red circle on

the set up screen will give

you the option of adding

notifi cations every time

an important news story

drops onto the app. This

can be reversed in the

Notifi cations menu in

your phone’s settings.

Receive push

notifi cations

Tap the white cog inside

the blue circle. This will

open up a Settings menu

that contains two sliders.

The fi rst slider will set up

push notifi cations for key

stories, while the second

one enables notifi cations

to come through, though

they remain muted.

Seemissednews

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top left-hand corner of the

screenwillshowyoualistof

the biggest stories, while the

AlertStreamwillsimplylist

the headlines of stories in

your interest areas from a

varietyofsites

Receive alerts

If you tap the white cog in the

blue circle in the bottom

right-hand corner of the

screen,itwillbringupthe

option to have alerts sent to

youwheneveranewstoryis

addedinacategorythatyou

have registered an interest in

Change interest areas

Onceyouhavesetyour

interest areas, you are able to

alterthembytappingthe

white cog and ticking the

boxesnexttothesubjects

you are interested in and

untickingthoseyounolonger

wanttoseealertsfrom

In-app opening

News articles that have been

taken from BuzzFeed’s

website open up in the

BuzzFeed News app, while

thearticlesfromoutside

BuzzFeed open up in a

mobile-friendly version of that

website.Thisisimportantfor

keeping the house style of the

respective websites intact

Simple layout

Just like its parent site,

BuzzFeed News is very

simplylaidout.Itissetupina

straight list of topics, making

it easy to scroll through the

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whatyouwanttoread,rather

than having to dig through

differently-sized tiles