The Editors: iPhone and iPad app replace – Melissas Meals Freedom

On Tuesday we’re releasing an replace to the BBC Information iPhone and iPad app within the UK designed to make the app quicker and extra secure, with greater, higher high quality photos on the house display screen.

We’re busy performing some analysis and considering in the mean time about what individuals are in search of in our Information apps in the long term, however we thought that within the meantime, it was necessary to repair one or two bugs affecting some customers of the prevailing app and to make it a greater, slicker expertise general.

We wish to be sure that the present app stays a good way to get a fast overview of the highest tales throughout a variety of topics, easy-to-scan on a cell and, as soon as the tales have loaded, useful to learn offline too.

So, it is going to now be faster to start out up the app and to replace it, and it ought to really feel smoother and quicker as you scroll and swipe via the screens and tales.

The bigger homescreen photos we have launched serve two functions:

• first, you possibly can see what’s in them extra clearly and there is extra room for the headline
• second, their positioning makes it clearer that you could scroll horizontally in every information class to disclose extra tales (we observed that in consumer testing some individuals assumed there have been solely three tales a piece).

There’s a new format on iPad once you view the house display screen in portrait mode – designed to indicate extra headlines and make it simpler to search out the tales you are concerned with.

Among the many bugs that we have fastened is a matter that typically induced the app to get caught when updating, and one other the place you typically noticed duplicate tales inside a single information class.

For our product crew, these enhancements required a reasonably main transforming of the app’s code. The excellent news is that they’re now working from a extra secure base which will be constructed on with new options and performance. This revising of our code is one thing we have already executed with our Android app, so we’ll now be capable to launch upgrades concurrently on each iOS and Android, that are by far the biggest cell platforms for us when it comes to customers. This newest replace is already accessible internationally.

When you’re a consumer of the app, or determine to strive it out, we hope you may just like the enhancements we have made. And as we take into consideration our apps typically and plan our subsequent steps, we might like to listen to about what you’d most prefer to see in future.

Steve Herrmann is editor of the BBC Information web site.