Feedly for Android Review
Introduction
RSS feeds are meant to be simple,efficient, and easy to consume. Pair them up with a great RSS readerand you get a really convenient way of informing yourself on thematters that interest you. But which one among the many should youpick? Well, here is one that you should definitely give a try –Feedly.
Feedly is anice-looking RSS reader available for a variety of platforms, andtoday, we will take a closer look at its Android version. Youcan grab it for free from the Android Market, and the fact that itdoes not come with annoying advertising popping upmakes using it a pleasure.
First thing that we noticed about Feedly is how it keeps all feeds neatly organized for easy viewing. Instead of having a boring list of headlines, the app takes a different approach and arranges feeds in pages with each page hosting four of them, kind of like browsing through a magazine's index. Feedly comes with a great amount of preconfigured RSS feed sources covering a variety of themes from cooking and lifestyle to crafts and electronics. However, if you do not need any of these and prefer using the ones you have in your Google Reader list, the built-in sources can be easily disabled.
Feedly comes with preconfigured RSS feed sources
Even though we were impressed by Feedly's pleasant-looking interface and its ease of use, there were several things that bothered us. For some reason, we never got its widget to work on our smartphone's home screen, but we hope that the issue will be resolved in a future update. We also noticed minor glitches here and there, but none of them made the app less functional. Another imperfection of Feedly is that it would not store content on your device, so if you happen to go offline, there is no way of using the app to view items that you have already read.
Conclusion
Feedly [Android Market link]
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