Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera Network

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About this app

Al Jazeera English for Android brings you curated top stories, live and on-demand video and personalisation from Al Jazeera English, free of charge. Follow our global coverage of the topics and programmes that interest you and share your favorite stories and videos on popular social networks.

Features of this app:

- Breaking news alerts and special coverage notifications
- A curated home screen that brings you the top stories and original reporting from our global news network
- 24-hour access to our live video and audio stream
- Watch the latest episodes from your favorite programmes and news on-demand
- All the latest news, features, opinions and blogs from Al Jazeera English
- Browse and follow Topics, Programmes and News Categories
- Share stories on Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and more


Ratings and reviews

I find Al Jazeera's content to be quite good, however the app gets docked points when attempting to use it on a NVidia Shield Android TV. There is no way to use the remote control to navigate the bottom bar (Top Stories|My Feed|Watch|Browse|More ), or for that matter it's not even possible to scroll down to select a story. Using the remote from my smartphone, I can switch it to a "touchpad" style control in order to click on one of the items on the bottom bar. Please fix this!

Great news source, widest breadth of reporting of any international news organization, often a bit MB-aligned but generally neutral. App however has several problems. News stories interface is clunky & doesn't scroll from one story to the next (The BBC app is a good example of how this should work), & the "Watch" function for live broadcasts is terrible, does not seamlessly change from split screen to full screen, is endlessly buffering and just stops after 15 mins & not moving to next segment.

I'd happily pay monthly for an ad-free, better functioning app. Al Jazeera is one of my favorite news sources. Unfortunately, the reading experience in app is marred with bad functionality, intrusive ads, and clunky text. This frustration is what keeps me from being a daily reader. On the positive side, the ability to tune in to live video is awesome.

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.