Simple RSS Widget was a news & magazines app developed by MYCOLORSCREEN. It was removed from Google Play Apr 21, 2024 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Simple RSS Widget had been downloaded 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 to download. 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 August 2012.
Description
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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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.
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