Headline Widget

About Headline Widget Android App

Headline Widget enable you to read daily news on home screen. Never miss any breaking news.


What is Headline Widget?
This app is not just a news reader app, but it also let you create widget on home screen, to read update breaking news without open the app.

Find out whats happened around your local region, and stay up-to-date on global headline news. Also catch up on latest news in finance, technology, business, healthcare, sports, entertainment and more.


Why choosing Headline Widget over other news reader?
With Headline Widget, user can add and re-arrange news channels. Choose the news channel you care about by region and category. Any latest headline news from US, UK, China, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, etc, could be read all-in-one in Headline Widget. Easy to subscribe what you wanted. Discover what trending news around global or your city nearby.


Features:
- Personalize by add and subscribe to global *RSS news and / or local news channels of your choice.
- Auto or manual news update on home screen widget is supported. Able to change channel and refresh news summary without open the app. Know more than others. Know faster than others.
- Auto news update on widget can be custom with every 30mins, 1 hour , 2 hours, 4 hours or no auto update. To reduce mobile data charge, user can also custom with update on WiFi only.
- Channel url too long to input? Headline Widget support built-in QR code scanner to add channel url, if QR code on website is available.
- From news summary, 1-click to open original source with in-depth story.
- Share news link with email is supported. Keep yourself alert.
- Want to read different news summary channels at the same time? No problem. Headline Widget support multiple instances of the same widget. That is, put 2 Headline Widgets on the home screen, each with different channel. Both channels can be auto update.


How to use Headline Widget to add more news channel?
User can add any RSS feed link to retrieve news. Look for the RSS link url of the website. Then open the "Channel" page in the app. Click "Add" to add the name and url. Re-order the channel sequence if necessary. Press "Save" to save the changes. The first channel would be the default channel when open the RSS page.


Who should use this app?
- Any person who concern what's happened around the world
- journalist, editor
- stock trader, currency trader, investor, finance related people
- tech people
- small business owner, startup founder
- university or college students


Want to provide your own news?
Are you a news information provider? Or, do you have an online shop website? Yes, you can provide useful news or info to your clients too. By using Headline Widget as the RSS reader, you can provide RSS news to your subscribed clients, through your WordPress or Wix web server. Please find out more about RSS on developer support website.

When you have just 1 spare minute, you can read through all global breaking news summary. Best for coffee break, office lunch time, traffic jam, football half time break, etc.

* RSS is Really Simple Syndication, which is a simple, standard xml feed that allow web based content deliver to the reader. Many news websites provide RSS news for their clients since 2000s.