News Reader Apps for Android

Mornings are incomplete without a cup of coffee and your daily morning news fix. While your Android phone may not replace your morning cuppa soon, you can get the latest news on your smart phone with one of these amazing newsreader apps.

Feedly is one of the most popular news feed reader apps on Android. The default configuration has a set of RSS feeds covering a wide range of topics, which can be replaced with your Google Reader feeds.  Feedly follows a clean, minimalistic layout and gives a choice of dark or light theme. The feeds are organized into pages, four feeds in one page, with the article heading displayed prominently. You can easily search and add new feeds. Feedly also supports photo and video streams. A very useful feature in Feedly is the Instapaper and Read It Later integration. Both these services allow you to bookmark an article so that you can pick it up later, even from another device or computer. You can recommend an article on Feedly, or share it via Twitter or Facebook. Feedly is a free app, without ads.

Pulse News app stands out among news feed reader apps with its unique and attractive interface - a mosaic of card sized thumbnails. The items from a single source are arranged in a row and you can scroll up and down the page to see all the sources. The navigation is intuitive, with smooth and appealing animations. You can choose from the featured feeds, search and add feeds, import feeds from your Google Reader or integrate with Facebook to create a feed from status updates or links shared by your friends. The feeds are arranged in five pages and users are restricted to 60 feeds. You can share articles on social networks or via email.

Google Currents, which was initially dubbed as the Flipboard for Android, has turned out to be more of a RSS feed reader than a social network aggregation app. They have tied up with more than 150 partners ranging from TechCrunch to PBS to provide full-length articles in a beautiful magazine style format.  You can select from the content partners on the app, add your Google Reader feeds or search and add any public RSS feed. Google Currents is also strongly focusing on pulling in more dedicated content partners. They have created Google Currents Producer, where even bloggers and small news publishers can customize their feeds for Google Currents with customized branding, feeds and CSS. The Trending feature makes use of Google search to show the top trending stories across the world in different categories.