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Feed Viewer
Developer(s)Vaclav Dajbych
Initial releaseApril 2006 (April 2006)
Stable release
31 / September 12, 2014; 10 years ago (September 12, 2014)
Written inC#
Operating systemWindows
PlatformWindows 8, Windows Phone
TypeNews aggregator
Websitefeedviewer.net

Feed Viewer is a news aggregator application for PCs and mobile devices running Windows. It presents online sources for the user in unified layout. Feed Viewer was first released in 2006.

History

The app Feed Viewer was initially launched in April, 2006, designed as a Windows Vista gadget. It was written in C# for .NET runtime allowing running on Windows XP.[1] In February, 2012, the Windows Phone version was released. It was primarily designed for mobile devices without mobile internet access.[2] In 2010 started development of the online indexing service allowing feed aggregation in the cloud. In January, 2013, the version for Windows 8 was released followed by a new Windows Phone version 4 months later. Both of them were connected to the cloud-based RSS aggregation service.[3][4]

User interface

The application’s user interface is designed for visual overview of the news, allowing browsing a large amount of content quickly. It strictly follows guidelines for Windows Runtime apps.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Introducing Feed Viewer". 15 Apr 2006.
  2. ^ "Introducing Feed Viewer for Windows Phone". 15 Feb 2012.
  3. ^ "Introducing Feed Viewer for Windows 8". 23 Jan 2013.
  4. ^ "Windows Phone client redesigned from the ground up". 30 May 2013.