We've been working hard to make the app even better. This update includes:
- Build your listening queue: Audiophiles rejoice! You can now create a queue of audio articles to listen to later.
- Smoother scrolling: We've made it easier to see which section you're in while scrolling through the weekly edition.
- Fixes for new subscribers: We've resolved an issue that affected some users when creating a new account.
This release includes general improvements and bug fixes.
You can now listen to the latest podcast episodes directly from the Home tab. We’ve also made some general improvements and fixed some bugs.
We fixed an issue affecting audio tracks that continued playing after the miniplayer had already been closed.
We have resolved an issue with accessing downloaded weekly editions when offline plus some bug fixes.
This update resolves a problem that caused the app to crash in a small number of cases when visiting the Home tab
We have made improvements to the way we display immersive articles to ensure all content can be consumed as intended. Plus, we have resolved some defects and made performance enhancements.
This release incorporates improvements to the weekly edition download process, interactive articles, along with bug fixes and performance enhancements
We’ve made further improvements to Weekly Edition Downloads, and made it clearer which different content types you’re navigating to from the Home tab and section pages, such as The World Ahead.
- We’ve rewritten Edition downloads functionality, to make it faster and more stable.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
- We’ve made it easier to differentiate and navigate between different content types from the home and hub screens
- Improved performance of article swiping behaviour
- Improvements to text selection functionality
You can now access all of The Economist podcasts in one place. Tap on the “Podcasts” tab in your bottom navigation bar to explore and start listening.
You can now access all of The Economist podcasts in one place. Tap on the “Podcasts” tab in your bottom navigation bar to explore and start listening.
• In this release we’ve made it easier to spot when content is from our 1843 magazine section
- We’ve introduced a new navigation method to make it easier to find your way around the sections in the weekly editions.
- We’ve also been working on some performance improvements - tabs will now load faster when you are switching between them.
- We’ve fixed an intermittent issue where an edition did not fully complete.
Fixed an issue that caused Buy a subscription as a gift link redirection to web view.
- Fix for a crash issue in the previous release
- Fixed an issue whereby Editions were shown as partially downloaded after tracks were downloaded for offline listening
- Resolved a memory leak issue affecting a small number of users
- Improvements to App start up times
Bug fixes and improvements
General improvements and bug fixes
• The world in brief, our daily podcast for catching up quickly on the global stories that matter, is now available in the app. Find it at the top of the Home tab and start listening by tapping the speaker icon.
• A new Podcasts section in the Explore tab makes it easier to find your favourite shows and discover past episodes.
• General improvements and bug fixes.
• The world in brief, our daily podcast for catching up quickly on the global stories that matter, is now available in the app. Find it at the top of the Home tab and start listening by tapping the speaker icon.
• A new Podcasts section in the Explore tab makes it easier to find your favourite shows and discover past episodes.
• General improvements and bug fixes.
General improvements and bug fixes
• Improved support for video playback in web based articles.
General improvements and bug fixes
General improvements and bug fixes.
General improvements and bug fixes
General improvements and bug fixes
What have we been working on?
This update allows you to build a tracklist for narrated audio articles, adding tracks to the end of the existing list or the existing article.
You can build the queue from the ‘Weekly’ tab for individual articles, whole sections or the entire edition.
We’ve also fixed bugs and made small improvements.
• Fixed a bug in the search sorting function
• Various bug fixes and improvements
Bug fixes and improvements
This update fixes an issue some users were experiencing with viewing articles
• Improvements to the home page
• Improvements to Light/Dark mode, you can now synchronise with device settings
• General improvements and bug fixes
This version contains a fix that addresses a crash some users may have been experiencing
In this release we have made some general improvements and bug fixes including:
• Fixed issue with wired and wireless audio controls not working properly
• Fixed audio reloads after losing network connectivity
• We now automatically clear up old editions from your device, saving device storage space and improving app performance
• Introduced new "The World in Brief" carousel, which replaces the morning briefing
• Fixed an issue with Android performance on start up
• Fixed an issue with access to searched articles when offline
• Fixed a crash when using the section shortcut button on weekly
New: "Explore" section with editorially-curated features and content from 1843 magazine
Improvements: performance enhancements for audio and downloads, visual bugfixes.
• Improvements and bug fixes for edition download mechanism
• Audio performance and stability improvements
• Improved stability and performance
• Updated weekly to show download progress
• Improved stability and performance
• Added download status to tracklist on audio player to show when a track has been downloaded
• Fixed issue where previous editions list couldn't be accessed offline
- General app performance improvements
- Audio performance and stability improvements
- Fixed an issue with audio progress being lost
- Fixed an issue with edition audio downloads
* Performance and stability improvements on Home and Weekly
* Fix for users getting logged out
* Improvement to audio stability when app is in background
Improvement:
• Fixed a bug with login
• Fixed some memory leaks
• More bug fixes coming iteratively
• Fixed a memory leak
• Fixed issues with audio and downloads
• Made some visual layout improvements
Improvements:
• Reinstated the Espresso morning briefing for some users
• Fixed an issue with ads displaying
• Fixed some minor display issues
- Background performance improvements.
Bug fixes and minor improvements.
Bug fixes and minor improvements.
Bug fixes and minor improvements.
Bug fixes and minor improvements.
Bug fixes and improvements. Now you can filter and sort your search results.
Bug fixes and improvements. Now you can filter and sort your search results.
Bug fixes and minor improvements.
Bug fixes and minor improvements.