POLITICO for iPad 2.3.2
Device: iOS iPad Only
Category: News
Price: Free, Version: 2.3.1 -> 2.3.2 (iTunes)
Description:Download the POLITICO for iPad app today to get your politics fix. The clean, easy-to-navigate layout is ideal for staying up to date when you’re on the go. POLITICO serves as the one-stop shop for the fastest, most in-depth coverage of the president, Congress and the 2012 presidential race. POLITICO’s journalists break news and drive conversation about the White House, Capitol Hill and Washington lobbying, plus the intersection of politics with Wall Street, media and personalities. POLITICO launched in January 2007 with the mission of covering politics with enterprise, style and impact.KEY FEATURES: ★ Use the “Sections” button to navigate between several different POLITICO News, Blogs, Policy, Morning Tipsheets, and Videos categories, as well as Opinion, LIVE online, and up to 100 user-Saved Articles. Nearly 40 sections in all! You can now control what section content is downloaded and when (either automatically for the best offline experience, on demand, or never).★ Article images with caption and credits can be viewed in full-screen mode, including up to 4x zooming, image sharing actions, and several supported gestures.★ Article videos can also be viewed in full-screen mode. Video playback supports Apple's AirPlay technology.★ Blogs, Tipsheets, and Video sections use a Table-of-Contents list for quickly scanning or finding what interests you most.★ Fully dynamic layout support in any view for any device orientation.★ You can dynamically resize Article text so it's at your optimal reading size. Your desired setting is always remembered. To reset the size back to the original default value, use the user Settings app.★ Article links to the source content on politico.com may be copied or shared with anyone via email, Twitter, or Facebook. You can also open them in Safari on your iPad.★ Current support for 4 types of push notifications. Users can enable/disable each type individually in the user Settings app. The complete text of the last (unexpired) pushed notification is always downloaded for in-app viewing. When enabled, access the current notification by tapping the “Alert” button in the Sections menu.★ POLITICO can dynamically deliver additional News, Blogs, or other feeds in the future, without requiring an app update. To get notified, make sure you have the “New App Features” notifications switch turned ON in the user Settings app for POLITICO.★ POLITICO Article, Video, and Polls content changes several times, every day. The app will automatically check for changes several times every hour, and intelligently download only those changes that are different from the last downloaded content. If you want an immediate update, you can always use the pull-to-refresh mechanism built into every section list.★ All downloaded non-video Article content is intelligently cached for offline reading when a network is not convenient. You can use the “AUTO UPDATE” flags in the Sections menu to control what and how much content we automatically download. Selecting a section that is not flagged for auto updating will download that section upon demand when a network connection is available, or view the last downloaded version of that content when offline.★ Use the user Settings app to: ▪ Enable/disable different types of pushed (or pulled) alerts▪ Clear any saved Twitter or Facebook login credentials▪ Reset the default Article font size setting▪ Remove all user-Saved Articles at once▪ Empty the cache of Article images, freeing up device memory usage▪ In the unlikely case of an app failure, reset all downloaded application files★ Feedback is welcome and appreciated. You can email feedback directly to POLITICO from within the app, anywhere you see the “Sharing” button.☛ Follow us on Twitter: @POLITICO
What's New
NEW in version 2.3.2: ✔ Improved multi-column news Article detail layout for both orientations, with a much larger media slot size, and moved the Related Items to page 2✔ Added support for new section front layout changes✔ Bug fixes from previous version NEW in version 2.3.1: ✔ Added support for Related Items for articles on both section fronts and inside Article detail views ✔ Fully optimized for iOS 6 NEW in version 2.3.0: ✔ Added improved support LIVE event content✔ Added enhanced full-screen Article image view – which allows you to pinch-zoom, double-tap, and shows the caption and credit in a nice way. Single tap to hide/show the caption, credit, and navigation bar✔ Added Article slideshow support – using full-screen image view. You can accelerate forward or backwards through the images using either direction arrows or by swiping gestures. Pinch-zooming, double-tapping, will pause slideshow on that image, until you manually restart it. Single tap does not pause the slideshow. You'll notice a new camera-badge on the Articles with attached slideshows✔ Added ability to share individual Article or slideshow images with others directly from the full-screen image view – options are email, Twitter, or Facebook✔ Added better images support in blog sections – should now see caption and credit consistent with other sections and can tap on images to view in full-screen✔ Added Article sharing option to directly send POLITICO feedback for that Article – Article details are pre-populated into the email✔ Added rich email sharing templates for Articles and images – including a link for easily following @politico on Twitter✔ Added better formatted tweets when various things are shared via Twitter✔ Visually improved rendering of some interface text on retina iPads✔ Stability and performance improvements
POLITICO for iPad