Simple RSS Widget

by MYCOLORSCREEN · News & Magazines · Free

No longer on Google Play

Simple RSS Widget is made and published by MYCOLORSCREEN. AppBrain is an independent app data site and isn't affiliated with MYCOLORSCREEN. The app name, icon, screenshots and description belong to MYCOLORSCREEN and are shown as published on Google Play.

AppBrain's verdict

Removed

Total installs: 480 thousand
Rating on Google Play: 3.46; 3,030 ratings
Last updated: September 20, 2013

Simple RSS Widget is no longer on Google Play. It was there for 12 years, until April 2024. It had 480 thousand installs. Users were divided: 3.5 stars from 3,030 ratings.

Installs

Tracked by AppBrain

Play install range: 100+ thousand
Launched: August 2012

Installs over time

The year before it was removed from Google Play, up to April 2024

Simple RSS Widget was installed 480 thousand times before it was removed.

Releases

Updates seen on Google Play

Launched: August 2012

Apr 21, 2024Unpublished
Sep 20, 2013UpdateVersion 2.4.4
Sep 12, 2013UpdateVersion 2.4.3
Aug 10, 2013UpdateVersion 2.4.1
Aug 1, 2013Installs100,000+ installs

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User feedback

Ratings and reviews on Google Play

Google Play Rating history and histogram

The year before it was removed from Google Play, up to April 2024

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Comments on Simple RSS Widget for Android

★★★★★ I'm not sure what is not like about what this app does. You can use "in app" rss feeds or create your own, and create many specific combinations. The tremendous feature this app has is that you have a user-friendly widget with all kinds of text and background customizable abilities. Every other rss feed has terrible widgets with absolutely no control over the text, background and colors. This app/widget gets 10 stars in my book and this is from much experience trying and customizing dozens of similar apps. My advice is to spend some time with this app. Understand how the app works and give it a chance before migrating it.

★★★★★ Still my favorite RSS newsreader. With recent Android versions it has some quirks, but it still works and looks great even on Android 11. Hope the developer might update it in the future...

★★☆☆☆ Occasionally when I press the refresh button it got stucked and not showing updated news. Can this be resolved? Some news from certain sources cannot see, but others can like RSS widget wonder why. Overall is OK.

★★☆☆☆ Getting widget to show was clunky, feed settings kept resetting, thankful saved custom config. By time, it displayed, settings button showed FIVE options for setups, and couldn't see a way to remove any extras. After seeing CNN articles all over feed, removed CNN and the default feeds listed, keeping only my custom ones, refreshed, still seeing floods of CNN, and few of my custom feeds. Pro-tip: Upon adding widget to desktop, hit back arrow, let it display and set, then launch app for config.

★★☆☆☆ I used this app for years and liked it a lot. Now it stopped showing the selected feeds, sometimes showing news from june 2018. Please fix! The mail adress of the developer is not valid anymore.

Technology

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Ads: No ads
Price: Free
Libraries: 2
App size: N/A
Needs Android: 3.0+
Content rating: Everyone

Technologies used by Simple RSS Widget

2 libraries

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About the app and developer

About Simple RSS Widget

Simple RSS Widget was a news & magazines app developed by MYCOLORSCREEN. It was removed from Google Play Apr 21, 2024.

Install Statistics

Simple RSS Widget had been installed 480 thousand times before it became unavailable.

User Ratings

Simple RSS Widget was rated 3.46 out of 5 stars, based on 3 thousand ratings.

App Information

Simple RSS Widget was free. The last update was on September 20, 2013.

Technical Requirements

Simple RSS Widget required Android 3.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play since August 2012.

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Store listing

By MYCOLORSCREEN, from Google Play

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“Fully customizable & scrollable RSS widget!”

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Description by MYCOLORSCREEN Written by the developer, not by AppBrain. Click to read.

Have all your important news directly on your home screen!
This app is just a customizable, simple widget which displays RSS feeds on your home screen.

Features:
- Scrollable
- Resizable (only Android 3.1 and newer)
- lockscreen widget (Android 4.2+)
- multiple feeds in one widget
- text style, size & color changeable
- background color changeable
- icons for reloading & configurating the widget can be hidden
- user defined update interval
- multiple widgets with different configurations
- free & without ads!

If the widget doesn't show up in your launchers widget category, try rebooting your device!

Note: Google Reader will no longer exist after July 1st. Import functionality will be affected

Permissions:
- INTERNET: to receive feed content
- ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: to test if internet connection is available before trying to update
- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: to cache feeds and display them even when offline
- GET_ACCOUNTS & USE_CREDENTIALS: to request access for importing Google Reader feeds

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