Digg, the Betaworks-incubated social information service and brand-new home to Google Reader replacement Digg Reader, has simply arrived on Android, the company revealed today. Included in this release are all the stories you’d discover on the Digg.com homepage, Digg Reader, as well as integrations with over a half dozen other services consisting of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+ and more.
According to a post on the Digg blog site, an Android app had been users’ most usual demand over the previous two months, following the release of Digg Reader. The company has been working at breakneck speeds to press out its own RSS reader option to the now-shuttered Google Reader, which began with a launch of a rather unfinished item to the internet this June, and a number of days later, an arrival on iOS.
As on iOS, the Digg Android app bundles Digg’s tales and the RSS reader under one roof, as two complementary parts to the Digg item experience. According to a post on the Digg blog site, the new Android app includes a number of notable functions, like the below:
- Quickly swipe backward and forward with Digg’s Top Stories, in addition to through any feed or folder in Digg Reader. Select from either the web view or the parsed text view.
- Digg or conserve any story, send it to Instapaper, Pocket or Readability (immediately upon conserve, if you pick), and share to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Tumblr, WordPress, Buffer, Dropbox, Google Drive, email, text or any other sharable app on your gadget.
- Search Digg Top Stories.
- Sort your Digg Reader items by appeal to swiftly see which of your items are the most talked-about on the social internet.
- Log in to Digg Reader with your Google, Twitter or facebook account.
- Search for and include brand-new feeds. Create, arrange and delete folders.
- If you so select, publish your diggs automatically to your Facebook timeline.
However, the app is doing not have a couple of alternative like a still-in-testing ‘Show Only Unread Items’ view, text size and display mode options, and background updating, all of which are being worked on now for future releases. Digg states updates will present gradually over the next couple of months.
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Digg Android users have actually been fairly happy until now to use the business’s HTML5 website, which continues to be a good means to browse the site on other non-iOS or Android devices.
The business had actually previously explained that it sees Digg as a part of a more comprehensive suite of products, where Digg Reader and Digg.com’s collection of popular links are 2 ends of a spectrum. Reader, an RSS feed reading service clearly developed for power users, is indicated to function as ground absolutely no for starting the news discovery procedure, while Digg.com’s last link collection is the outcome of crowd-sourcing ballot and other filtering algorithms. In the middle, are things like Betaworks’ also newly refreshed Instapaper, a read it later on utility, that saw its very first major update this month, which was pushed to the public just yesterday.
The new Digg Android app is below on Google Play.