Bug fixing
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Have you ever been looking for an app that delivers news right away to your mobile device in a short and effective way so that you get the latest news without wasting a lot of time searching for them ? Perth & WA News is your source of Perth and State of Western Australia local news, it collects WA news from different news agencies and twitter accounts and delivers it directly to your mobile. The application delivers news headlines only and you can always click to read the whole news.
News are classified into categories so that it is easy for you to reach your favourite news directly, categories of news the app collects are :
- General
- Sports
- Business
- Life & Entertainment
- Alerts & Announcements
- Weather News
Never miss a news any more.
Currently the application aggregates news from below sources :
- ABC Perth News
- ABC WA News
- The West Australian
- 9News Perth
- 7News Perth
- Ten News Perth
- ABC Sports
- The West Australian sport news
- West Coast Eagles News
- Fremantle Dockers News
- ABC Business
- The West Australian Business News
- Perth Upcoming Events
- City of Perth
- The Perth life
- Enjoy Perth
- Main Roads WA
- DFES Alerts & Warnings
- DFES News
- Perth & WA Fire Info
-ABC WA Weather
- WeatherZone WA Weather
- ABC WA Community & Society
- ABC WA Disasters & Accidents
The application pulls news every half an hour, you can always force refresh the news by pressing on "sync now"
You can enable/disable notifications for news, you can even set your mobile to vibrate or plays a ring tone when news arrive.
The app allows you to share the news on Facebook, twitter, send it as email and much more.
The app allows you to mark some news with a star so that you can easily find them later
Using settings you can control how often news are refreshed, and for how often old news should get removed.
In addition to that, the app allows you to add your own source of news to the existing ones
