Google Play Newsstand comes to iPhone to replace the Currents app
The company Google does not want to ignore users who access its services even from a platform of the competition That is why it has released a new update for its application Currents, a newsreader that now radically changes its look and name to welcome Kiosco, its new service for reading and buying digital magazines.And, as happened on the Android platform, Currents has given way toGoogle Play Newsstand, opening a wide range of possibilities beyond collecting the user's favorite media publications.
This is version 3.0 of what was previously the application Currents , and which is now called Google Play Kiosco A change that is not only nominal, mainly affecting the design and aspect of the application In this way, it now adheres to the lines marked by the style Material Design presented in the last edition of the event Google I/O A more dynamic and simple style, which is based on volume of different elements on the screen that move and dock with animations when going from one menu to another. All this always looking for simplicity and plain colorsSomething that in this new version has even been seen in the icon of the application.
In this way, browsing the different sections of the application is something simple and very comfortable. All you have to do is slide from left to right in a very fluid way to switch between cover topics, news according to categories, subscriptions or publications Whereas, if you scroll vertically, you access the entire collection of publications referring to that category. All this by reducing the number of elements to the minimum possible, improving the user experience and readability.
Apart from the design, this renewed application Google Play Kiosco brings with it other substantial changes that are worth commenting on. One of the most noteworthy is that, in addition to offering subscribe to the user's favorite publications and media, it is now also possible to subscribe to topicsIn this way, not only is one up to date with the news proposed by the media, but also has different publications about of the same topic Simply use thetags or search for specific topics to find everything related to them.
Visual changes that affect the user experience thanks to animations and transitions. And it is that everything now seems to work more smoothly and comfortably. Of course, without losing sight of classic functions such as being able to store articles to read later even offline, or share any contentconveniently through other applications or social networks.
We cannot forget that the media Tuexperto.com is more than present through this application. And it is that both Yourexperto and YourexpertoAPPS and YourexpertoMovil can be followed through Google Play Kiosco to keep up to date with all the technology, applications and mobile information in a comfortable way and to all kinds of readers. Just subscribe to these channels to receive the latest publications conveniently and effortlessly.
In short, a change that suits this tool very well and prepares it for the new design and operation of Google Play That yes, no word yet on whether iOS users will be able to log in, the same as Android , to the digital magazine market. At the moment the renewed application Google Play Kiosco is already available through App Store of free form