Flipboard For Android Leaked, Available For All Devices
Once the official Instagram Android app finally hit the Google Play Store last moth, most users (including me) set their sights on another popular iOS-exclusive app, Flipboard – an elegant, customizable magazine-style news and social feed reader. Just last week, along with the announcement of the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III, came the news that Flipboard will be debuting on Android as an SGS III-exclusive app. Now, unless you’re one of the lucky few to-be owners of said device, chances are bleak that you’ll be getting a taste of Flipboard on your Android any time soon. That said, XDA member, Valcho, seems to have completely different plans, as he has managed to pull the APK of the much sought-after news reader from his Galaxy S III (a test unit, presumably). So, albeit not officially, Flipboard for Android is now available for download, and is ready to give Google Currents a good run for its money in the race of the best news reading Android apps. Download link, further details & screenshots past the break.
If you’ve ever had the chance to witness the beauty of Flipboard running on an iOS device (especially the iPad), you’ll appreciate the elegant flipping of pages. For many, it is easily the best medium of news reading on a mobile device. Apart from presenting you with heaps of content gleaned from several preloaded news sources, Flipboard also supports fetching latest news stories from a wide array of online news service providers of choice. You can associate your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Reader and other accounts with the app to sift through the latest news and your social media updates from under the same roof.
You have complete control over the app’s cover page and subsequent pages, and once you log in to the app using your Flipboard account, you can use the same configuration across all devices.
Using the app is quite simple. All you need to do is swipe from bottom to top on the app’s main (Cover) page to sift through added news and social media sources. Using the same gestures while within a news source switches between news item. While reading an article, you can swipe from left to right to head back to your Flipboard cover page.
To manage all the news content and your social accounts, just hit the search tab at the top. From this screen, you can also search for a news item/source of interest, and navigate to a desired news category to add the relevant source to your personalized Flipboard edition. All the tiles visible on the app’s main interface can be maneuvered, meaning that you can reposition them anywhere on the magazine as you wish. For this, long press a tile, and using the drag-and-drop gesture, place them anywhere you like.
You can favorite/like a news story that has flown in from one of your social media. Plus, you can also post status updates to your Facebook Wall and Twitter Timeline straight from within the app, and reply/retweet to, and comment on various content shared by your Twitter friends. In addition, you can natively share the link of a news story, bookmark it to read later, view it on its original web source, and share it via mail.
Last but not the least, the only additional feature in the app’s Android variant, the homescreen widget. The widget is pretty simple as of this writing. It comes in two sizes (4×2 and 4×1) displays the latest story and lets you sift through stories by pressing a small refresh button in the bottom-right corner.
The delight of experiencing Flipboard on a Galaxy Nexus apart, in complete honesty, I must admit that the app does suffer a slight lag, especially while flipping through pages. Though, what was more alarming than that, was that it seemed to be leeching battery at quite a pace.
Though, that doesn’t change the fact that it is a peach of an app, regardless of whatever minor issues it might currently have, we would suggest you head over to the XDA forums (link provided below) to grab your copy of the APK. We would love to know your first experience with Flipboard on Android, and your opinion on how it will fare in the Play Store once it is officially released.
[via XDA-Developers]
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Download APK Of Google Play Store (The Rebranded Android Market) Now!
Just a couple of hours ago, Google announced Google Play Store – the rebranded version of your beloved (now previously) Android Market. More than anything else, the move can be cited as an attempt to provide Android users with a unified platform to explore all the apps, games, books, movies and music featured by Google under one roof. The new-look interface of the web variant of the new Google app store looks pretty impressive. However, from the mobile client’s perspective, nothing much has changed apart from the icon and, of course, the name of the app: Google Play (that has already created quite a hullabaloo among Android users and critics alike). Although Google has already started rolling out Google Play Store to Android devices (running Froyo and higher) over-the-air, there are quite a few users who might not have received the update yet. If you’re among such users, you don’t have to wait any longer as we bring you the APK of the brand new Android Market aka Google Play Store. Grab your copy of the new app store after the break.
Installing Google Play Store is quite simple, and won’t take more than a couple of minutes. Here’s what you need to do:
1. From the link provided below, download the APK file of Google Play Store.
2. Transfer the downloaded file to your Android device.
3. Using an Android file manager (ES File Explorer, ASTRO File Manager, File Expert, Total Commander, FileSlick etc.), navigate to the directory containing the imported APK file, and install it on your device.
Note: In order to successfully install APKs on your Android device, make sure that you’ve enabled the Unknown sources option from within the device’s system settings menu. Said option can be found under Settings > Security > Device Administration menu on devices running Android 4.0 ice Cream Sandwich. Users running other version of Android can find the same option on the Settings > Applications > Development Settings screen.
4. That’s it! You may now start searching and downloading your favorite apps from the brand new Play Store.
In case you run into some trouble installing the new app, try cleaning the cache of your old Android Market app from the Settings > Apps > Android Market screen.
The APK of Google Play Store can be downloaded via the Mediafire link provided below, but before that, don’t forget to check out the official introductory video of Google Play.
Download Google Play (Mediafire Link)
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