The Economist launches Android app
An Android app has been launched by The Economist, after its iPhone and iPad apps amassed 2.4 million downloads.
The new app will be free to download to the Android platform and includes free access to the editor’s weekly selection of six ‘must-read’ articles.
Each weekly issue of the publication will also be available for download through the app on a Thursday, and will be stored on the user’s device, allowing it to be read offline.
Oscar Grut, managing director, digital editions said:"Since they were launched in November 2010, our iPhone and iPad apps have been downloaded over 2.4m times worldwide and we now have almost 700k unique devices accessing the apps each month. We are delighted with these numbers and also with the feedback from our readers. Our Android app provides the same exceptional reading experience.”
“As I’ve said before, we want our readers to be able to read us wherever and however they want, and we will continue to develop for platforms and mobile devices capable of delivering the unique Economist weekly reading experience, free from distractions.”
An audio edition read by professional newscasters will also be made available each week.