Building a Comprehensive Arabic News Platform

• You are able to search for news by keyword right from within the app. Just type in keywords to view search results. You can press from the results to show news from that topic.
• You can then choose one of the news where it will redirect you to a new page showing that news, then you can also swipe up to view more results from that news. (View image and texts from that news, images are viewable on their one and able to zoom in).
• Can press on links to be redirected to a web page or software reader with more details of the news.

• Users get multiple options to share any news you want to share, including “message,” “mail”, “notes”, airdrop, and others. They can also can copy the news link. This is achieved by integration of native easy share feature on both iOS and android platform.

• Notifications are an important feature incorporated into the app. They help users stay updated with news happenings without constantly opening the app. If you choose to receive notifications, they will appear in a notification bubble at the top of the phone’s screen. Users can press the notification bubble and it will show an image, the title of the news article, and the text of the news article. You can select it to view the full details of the news on the app.

• Users can access the Navigation Menu at the top right corner, OR they can get there by swiping from home page. These menu options let users choose which categories of news they want to see.
• Each menu option is clickable to show you content and the particulars (image, title, text) of the content. Just like the front page of a physical newspaper, it offers users the important news first, followed by other topics of news.
• If user scroll to the bottom of the page of news, it will continue to load more feeds. To return to the top of this page, just press the app logo at the top of the screen and it will scroll the screen back to the top of the news page.

• The news is categorized under various topics for ease of navigation. These include Political, Science, Technology, Culture and Society, Miscellaneous, and others.
• Each of these categories will bring up list of news articles that user can browse through or tap to view in detail. News articles will navigate the user to the mobile browser to the source of the news article.

User will get option to activate/disable notifications from settings section in the app which will also have options such as: About Us, Contact Us, Rate the App on the App Store, App Version Details, and an option to share the app with friends.