Feedly, the Google Reader replacement for many, provides a backend for third party apps to connect to it, but most users prefer to use its official app. The application, however, has quite a few issues including jerky scrolling, slow start-up time and poorly designed widgets.
Today, the team behind Feedly aims to fix all those issues by releasing a major update (v17) to their app. The new update brings a re-designed UI, updated icons, widget support, smoother scrolling and more. The full change-log of the update is as follows -:
- New version of the android widget
- 300% faster start time
- More fluid scrolling experience
- Better fonts and visual design
- Search in my feedly (pro)
- New discover section
- Enhanced feed search
- No auto-refresh on restart
- New Facebook SDK integration
- Support for Samsung Gear
The interesting part is that when Feedly rolled out the update, they mentioned “Support for Android KitKat” in their change-log which was later on removed by them. No one really knows what the Feedly team meant by adding support for KitKat since the SDK is not yet released or if the team is just trolling all excited Android lovers out there.
Head over to the Play Store to download the latest update to Feedly, or to try out the app, if you have not already.
