Android users to get Sky News app
Android users will now have the same app as the awesomely popular Sky News app for the iPhone which, recently, hit its one millionth download mark in iTunes. The app, which will offer the exact same interface – with text images and video, in seven categories as well as the options of breaking news alerts delivered to the phone’s homescreen, will be free to all Android users and should fastly become the most popular news app for Android.
Sky’s Android News app launch comes as the BBC’s plans for its own dedicated iPhone and Android news and sports apps, which have been met with determined opposition from the UK newspaper industry which labelled the corporation’s proposals ‘anti-competitive’.
Below are screenshots of what the Sky News app looks like;
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[...] Android Users To Get Sky News App – this is a very good sign for the Android platform as far as I’m concerned. Being someone who wants to get an Android mobile phone at some point this year, the more big name iPhone apps (such as the Sky News iPhone app) that makes their way over to Google’s mobile operating system the better. I’m sure this number will only continue to grow as more people get more of the newer Android-based phones during the course of 2010. [...]