Nextcloud News

David Luhmer

About this app

The Nextcloud News Reader App makes it possible to synchronize feeds between Android and the Nextcloud News App.

- Dark/Light Theme
- podcast support
- support for Android Auto
- Offline reading
- Cache images offline
- Background synchronization
- Customizable Listview
- Customizable font
- Mark as read while scrolling
- Widget
- and many more!

In order to use the newest beta version, please click on the following link:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/de.luhmer.owncloudnewsreader


The App is under AGPLv3 license terms. It is free and the source code is available under:
https://github.com/nextcloud/news-android

Please note that in order to use this app you will need to have a nextcloud instance running with the news app installed.

Ratings and reviews

The base app is great, and is able to view news hosted from nextcloud server without issue. My problem lies in use of the widget, when clicking any any item takes me to the same news item. I would expect the item to correspond to the one I clicked on. The issue with the widget is confirmed fixed in the version published in the github repo 0.9.9.90

Good! Mimics the browser app nicely! Not sure if I'm experiencing a bug or a feature though: I can't view read articles at all. All of my news sources are rss feeds, and after I've read them, they are gone forever, it seems. Edit: I was expecting an experience closer to the browser app (where read articles stay for as long as they are in the rss feed), but that was an incorrect assumtion. I'll get into the habit of starring items I want to read (or re-read) later. Thanks for clearing that up!

It's GREAT with one tiny (non)problem. Read articles disappear (by design per response below from 2020). I sent an email to the developer to follow up on this with some hopefully useful suggestions. Hopefully this can be overcome so that it will keep read articles for a week, or maybe with a limit of 10, 25, or 50 read articles per feed. Well designed app otherwise and performs very well (assuming your Nextcloud server is performing well of course)

What’s new

Added Google News Policy / Contact Us page