Now includes A Watch Face designed to let you easily get the latest headline at any time and get to the article fast. With 4 customizable complication slots.
How it works:
Add your desired RSS feed URLs once in Wear News on your Android phone/tablet, then tap the start button. A background service will get any new post as they come in from each URL that you've entered. The headlines will be displayed in A visually minimalist list on your Samsung Galaxy Watch 4/5, Google Pixel Watch, Fossil Gen5/6, etc. using the corresponding 'Wear News' app for Wear OS. You can then tap on any headline title on the watch side to open the full article page in your phone/tablets' browser for easy readability of the full story.
What kind of news can you get on your watch?
News, Technology, and Lifestyle:
https://news.google.com/rss,
http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss,
https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml,
http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml,
https://www.theverge.com/google/rss/index.xml
https://lifehacker.com/rss
Social:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/.rss
Educational:
https://stackoverflow.com/feeds,
https://www.wired.com/category/science/feed,
https://blogs.oracle.com/rss,
https://www.science.org/rss/news_current.xml
Plus much more! The more feeds you add, the more content you get. *Only supports XML Document Tree based URLs.
More features:
- Watch Face and App that work together to keep you updated fast.
- Tap the news headline text to send the currently shown news story to your main device or to open the app to see earlier stories.
- Show more or less lines of news text based on your system font size and screen resolution.
- Try using Always-On-Display with the watch app, if available, for A battery-friendly view.
- Glanceable clock built in to the watch app along with your news.
- Your customized feed URLs will be saved during your normal Android/Google data backup.
- Rename obscure feed titles to get A better idea of who posted.
- Adjust the delay at which new posts are sent to your watch for comfortable reading.
- Save phone battery by adjusting how often the main app connects to the internet to check for new posts.
- Cool light and dark themes.
- Shows A posts category information(Subreddit, StackOverflow programming language) for some sites.
- Detects when your watch or main device don't have Wear News installed, to help you install it easily. You'll even get an alert if your devices have lost connection to each other.
- Additional help right in the main app.
* At least A Wear OS 2.0 watch device, and an Android Phone/Tablet with internet access and Android 6.0 Marshmallow are required to use this app. You must download this app on both devices to use its functionality. This is to preserve watch battery as most processing is done on your main device.
* Default app language is English, and it uses machine translation to also render the app in German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Thai, and Chinese.
* Wear News, itself, does not publish any content that you may see within the app. It functions as an aggregator of public news and social sources. Relevant contact information for the individual publishers that you access within this app are generally available upon viewing their articles, via A tap at the article headline on your Wear OS device.
Questions or bugs? Find my contact address in the 'Developer contact' section on this page, or in the app.
Thank you for downloading and supporting the developer!