Feed Viewer
Feed Viewer is a news aggregator application for PCs and mobile devices running Windows. It presents online sources for the user in unified layout. Feed Viewer was first released in 2006.
Developer(s) | Vaclav Dajbych |
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Initial release | April 2006 |
Stable release | 31
/ September 12, 2014 |
Written in | C# |
Operating system | Windows |
Platform | Windows 8, Windows Phone |
Type | News aggregator |
Website | feedviewer |
History
The app Feed Viewer was initially launched in April, 2006, designed as a Windows Vista gadget. It was written in C# for .NET runtime allowing running on Windows XP.[1] In February, 2012, the Windows Phone version was released. It was primarily designed for mobile devices without mobile internet access.[2] In 2010 started development of the online indexing service allowing feed aggregation in the cloud. In January, 2013, the version for Windows 8 was released followed by a new Windows Phone version 4 months later. Both of them were connected to the cloud-based RSS aggregation service.[3][4]
User interface
The application’s user interface is designed for visual overview of the news, allowing browsing a large amount of content quickly. It strictly follows guidelines for Windows Runtime apps.
See also
References
- "Introducing Feed Viewer". 15 Apr 2006.
- "Introducing Feed Viewer for Windows Phone". 15 Feb 2012.
- "Introducing Feed Viewer for Windows 8". 23 Jan 2013.
- "Windows Phone client redesigned from the ground up". 30 May 2013.