ISSUE 50 • ANDROID ADVISOR 45GOOGLE I/O 2018It’s a little like Twitter Moments, but from a wide
variety of sources all over the web, not just tweets.
Newscasts is all about giving you a broad view of
a popular news topic, so you can quickly understand
the gist of what’s going on and decide how you
want to get more information.
Full Coverage
Some Newscasts will have a button below that says
View Full Coverage. This is Google’s attempt to give
you a cohesive and broad view of any particular
story, and the company claims it is “by far the most
powerful feature of the app”.
Full Coverage is assembled from a variety of
sources and formats using something Google calls
“temporal co-locality.” It maps relationships between
people, places, and things in a story in real time,
organizing it into story lines. It even assembles a set
Newscasts bring
together a variety
of stories, videos,
and social media
posts around a
single topic