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CBC News: Breaking & Local delivers fast, reliable local, national, and world news with live coverage and regional reporting. It ranks highly in Canada (#4 NEWS_MAGAZINES) and offers breaking alerts, in-depth journalism, and shareable stories for on‑the‑go reading. Rating: 4.64 based on 75,012 reviews.
Pros & Cons
- Broad local, national, and world coverage for a well-rounded news experience
- Live coverage and streaming of major broadcasts
- Push notifications keep you updated on breaking stories
- Offline reading and easy sharing of stories
- Competitive apps may offer more video content or podcasts (as seen in other apps) and broader topics
- Some regions and topics may require more localization or features to match global outlets
About CBC News: Breaking & Local
CBC News: Breaking & Local is a news & magazines app developed by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Download Statistics
CBC News: Breaking & Local has been downloaded 4.4 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 9.5 thousand times. It is ranked #4 in news & magazines.
User Ratings
CBC News: Breaking & Local is rated 4.63 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 75 thousand ratings.
App Information
CBC News: Breaking & Local is FREE to download. The APK download size is 43.43 MB. The latest version available is 7.8.0. The last update was on June 19, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play February 2011.
More data about CBC News: Breaking & Local
| Price | Free to download |
| Total downloads | 4.4 million |
| Recent downloads | 9.5 thousand |
| Rating | 4.63 based on 75 thousand ratings |
| Ranking | Top ranked |
| Version | 7.8.0 |
| APK size | 43.4 MB |
| Number of libraries | 89 |
| Maturity | Medium Maturity |
| Ads | Contains ads |
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Google Play Rating history and histogram
Downloads over time
CBC News: Breaking & Local has been downloaded 4.4 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 320 downloads per day.
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Top rankings
| Rank | Country | Category | List |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Canada | News & Magazines | Top Free |
| 196 | United States | News & Magazines | Top Free |
Ranking history in Canada
Technologies used by CBC News: Breaking & Local
CBC News: Breaking & Local is requesting 20 permissions and is using 89 libraries.Permissions
Ad network libraries
Social libraries
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Android Jetpack core
Android Architecture Components
Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable
Android Jetpack Annotations
Firebase
Android Jetpack Widgets
Android Jetpack AppCompat
AndroidX Activity
Android Activity Saved State
AndroidX Loader
Android Jetpack Media
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)
Android Transition Support Library
Kotlin
Android Support Library collections
Android Support VectorDrawable
AndroidX Legacy: Support Library core utils
AndroidX Cursor Adapter
AndroidX Local Broadcast Manager
AndroidX App Startup
Android Support Library Print
Google gson
Android Support Library Document File
AndroidX Legacy: Support Library core UI
Android WorkManager
AndroidX Widget ViewPager2
Android Support Library Async Layout Inflater
Okio
AndroidX Concurrent Futures
AndroidX Emoji / Emoji2
JetBrains Annotations
IntelliJ IDEA
AndroidX Tracing
Glide
AndroidX SQLite
AndroidX ExifInterface
AndroidX ProfileInstaller
Chromium
AndroidX DynamicAnimation
Google ZXing
Google Guava
AndroidX Inspection
Retrofit
AndroidX WebKit
Picasso
AndroidX Resource Inspection
ReactiveX
AndroidX Preference
Jetpack DataStore
Jetpack WindowManager
Android View Binding
Dagger
Jetpack Navigation
AndroidX Privacy Sandbox
Kotlinx Serialization
Reactive Streams
greenrobot EventBus
Jetpack Compose
Kotlin Parcelize
Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J)
AndroidX Autofill
FasterXML Jackson
Coil
Crashlytics
okHttp
AndroidX Graphics
AndroidX Palette
AndroidX Media3 (ExoPlayer)
Moshi
Sentry
AndroidX MediaRouter
Koin
AndroidX Test
Ktor
kotlinx-datetime
AndroidSlidingUpPanel
JSON.simple
Zendesk
Comscore Analytics
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IAB TCF
Brotli
Touchlab (Kermit)
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