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gillyallan
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Is there anything good that pushes major headlines as notifications on android?
Ive now installed 'breaking news' but wondering if anything better out there?
want it to really only alert in truly major news. Ie. Boston explosions yesterday. Dont want it to alert on smaller sort of trivial news.
Ive now installed 'breaking news' but wondering if anything better out there?
want it to really only alert in truly major news. Ie. Boston explosions yesterday. Dont want it to alert on smaller sort of trivial news.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilesrepublic.appy
the other option is to subscribe to twitter 'breaking news' feeds and have them come up as notifications, but if you're only after major updates I don't think that'll be right for you.
Surprised that sky dont have something like this
I'm interested myself in these notifications and am disappointed in the Guardian by the lack of a notification on this story. What app did tell you about it?
The sky news app on ios does push breaking news so hopefully it will come to android soon.
Hopefully gavo
My ideal would be one where you could select tiers of alerts. Ie. 1 for major world events. 2. Adds in category 2 news but still top stories. 3. Every headline. Etc etc
it doesn't alert though.
sure it does. Just select 'notifications' for the ones you want alerts for
Disappointed that both breaking news and guardian thought china earthquake wasnt news worthy. Breaking news is good but only really if its US. Guardian is a bit quiet. Not sure if Republic notified about earthquake as only just installed
Having now had Guardian installed for nearly two weeks, I'm inclined to agree. It does seem very random about what it considers to be breaking news.
Im interested in how efficient the sky one is on ios?? in the hope they include it in the android one sometime
I've been using news republic since it was mentioned on this thread and its not as good as I was hoping. It can be hours late notifying me about a story. Hopefully sky will improve the android app but they only seem to care about iOS for all there apps.
The final straw with the breaking news app was it alerting me this morning to some guy being picked in first draft of American football. I thought really. ...breaking headline news.
It does give the odd force close but checking it anyway