GoodNews (Google Reader | RSS) was a news & magazines app developed by Sven Wiegand. It was removed from Google Play Jun 29, 2013 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
GoodNews (Google Reader | RSS) had been downloaded 220 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
GoodNews (Google Reader | RSS) was rated 4.33 out of 5 stars, based on 2.2 thousand ratings.
App Information
GoodNews (Google Reader | RSS) was free to download. The APK download size was 1.86 MB. The last available version was 4.8.1. The last update was on June 26, 2013.
Technical Requirements
GoodNews (Google Reader | RSS) required Android 2.1+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play February 2011.
Description
Google announce to shutdown Google Reader on July 1. On this date GoodNews will also be discontinued. Read my full announcement and about the podcast successor at http://www.goodnews-mobile.com/release/descision-regarding-google-reader-shutdown
If you are a developer you may want to help to bring GoodNews to a new backend. I've released GoodNews as open source for this: http://www.goodnews-mobile.com/release/goodnews-goes-open-source
GoodNews is a news reader (RSS/Atom) and audio podcast player which fully synchronizes with the famous Google Reader. GoodNews has a modern user interface which provides a lot of professional and unique news reader features including offline support (incl. images), the automatic push of local changes, read list, subscription grouping in the article list, mark read on scroll over, automatically closing views, volume button navigation and a lot more. More than 50 options allow you to tailor GoodNews exactly to your needs.
If you are a podcast listener you will also love GoodNews due to it's comfortable podcast features including a play list, downloads for offline listening, live streaming, headset controls and — of course — individually stored playback positions for all of your episodes.
And to give you the choice, GoodNews is available as a free version or as a professional version which omits the ad banners and adds some enhanced features (e.g. dark theme).
Basic Features ★ fully Android 4 (ICS) compatible ★ dark theme (pro license) ★ synchronization with Google Reader ★ innovative immediate push synchronization ★ Locale and Tasker integration ★ 50+ settings for perfect customization ★ introduction tips for quick start ★ supports Android 1.6 and higher ★ supports all screen sizes ★ English and German language ★ available for free with ads ★ payed add-on to remove ads ★ ... and a lot more
News Reading ★ offline reading including images ★ read list for later reading ★ group articles by feed ★ edit article tags ★ quick tag buttons in article list ★ auto close read lists ★ volume key navigation ★ mark read on scroll over ★ ... and a lot more
Audio Podcast ★ easy migration from Google Listen ★ play list ★ extended headset controls ★ lock screen controls on ICS ★ stop and resume downloads ★ download complete play list ★ adaptive live streaming ★ ... and a lot more
You can find the full list of features and a comparison with the pro edition at http://www.goodnews-mobile.com/features/
You should also check out the GoodNews Pro License: It removes the advertisements and adds some features for the power user.
STAY TUNED: Subscribe to the GoodNews blog (see website) or follow me (@GettingMobile) on twitter.
IMPORTANT: You need a Google Reader account to use GoodNews.
Recent changes: Information regarding Google Reader shutdown
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Comments on GoodNews (Google Reader | RSS) for Android
★★★★★
LOVE this! By far the best reader I've tried. I used the google app and gReader and this is fast and clean and also incorporates podcasts. Absolutely love it for my LG Ally.
★★★★★
Goodnews Really good app for podcasts and reading news feeds
★★★★★
Perfect Good with rss feeds, good with podcast, good with video podcasts. Only problem! there is neither simultaneous download capability nor queing for pods
★★☆☆☆
PAINFULLY SLOW SYNC Used to be a nice application, but syncing is now painfully slow.. Even through wifi
★★☆☆☆
Bafflingly complex It was easy enough to get it to download my list of podcast subscriptions from Google Reader. But I could never figure out how to get it to download the actual podcasts, so that I could listen later while offline.
★★☆☆☆
can't delete a partial download can't delete a partial download, have to download all the episode to have the delete episode appear on the menu items!!!
★★☆☆☆
Freezes every time I open it. :( Uninstalled. Motorola Cliq xt.
★★☆☆☆
Sluggish download Offline syncing took ages to complete and was incomplete. burned though twenty percent of my battery just to download fifty offline feeds. N
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