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How To create a newspaper app?

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Akshay Nanjunda

It has probably been a few years before you learned that it is certainly more convenient to scroll on your mobile than to ruffle through the clumsy folds of a newspaper. Moreover, it's quick and as soon as it happens, the real time updates get you the news, no more waiting for the morning article. Therefore, you are also well aware of the tremendous upsides of a newspaper app.

 

Lets start discussing few things about the app

 

How could the Newspaper apps raise the revenue 

For better or for worse, our planet is far too newsworthy right now. Every minute, something happens. Breaking news is, all too frequently, flickering on all sorts of screens. Even so, with every new development around the world, the curiosity of people in keeping up to date is an unquenchable thirst. And therein lies a newspaper app's enormous market potential. In a matter of minutes, one viral piece of news will carry millions of users to your app. In fact, as per Pew Research data, 85 percent of US adults accessed news on a mobile device in 2017, up from 72 percent in 2016. News consumption is growing, even on social media, as 57 percent of Facebook users use it for news.

 

Now, with this form of interaction, the app's monetization potential is incredibly high. The subscription model and premium membership plans are also a way to generate huge, recurring revenue, in addition to app purchases and ad revenue. InShorts, the popular news aggregator app, recently announced a doubling of its annual revenue to nearly $90 million. With its new subscription model, the behemoth Apple News has been brave enough to claim a 50 percent revenue share from its advertisers and publishers. They clearly see merit, even in this costly bargain.

 

What are the features of Newspaper App?

So let's talk about how to create one and do it well now that you have a sense of the business of a newspaper app. A successful newspaper app requires some functionality from the UX point of view, as well as interest, retention and, eventually, revenue. App consumers demand a great deal from a decent app amid a deluge of events happening and news being made. Here are some of the features that you need to include in your newspaper app, from personalised news curation to filtering and sharing, to make it a widely read app by users.

 

Personalization

I don't care for movies and celebrity news, but I want to know if there's a new Nolan film coming out. I am super into sports and business news, but I don't want my feed inundated with updates from the Vivo IPL. Only one roundup a day of that is enough.

 

People seem to have fairly firm preferences when it comes to news. There are some things that they need to know more about, other things that they never want to see. There's a third type of news that they want to hear about when something important happens, but not too much, just the basics.

 

To make a good newspaper app, you need to provide your readers with this kind of personalization. To curate news and show only those that the user would like to hear about, you must use user preference feedback as well as advanced AI and machine learning. You would need features like User Login and Profiles as a sub-set of this to make this possible.

 

Sorting and filtering

Your news app must give users the option to sort and filter the news as per their needs and preferences. Even apart from setting up a general overview of the topics a user likes, on a certain day they might want to search for a certain form of news and your software must make it incredibly easy to do that. In order to help users see what they want, political, business, sports, foreign, film, science and technology, and many other sub-topics and sub-topics within these topics must be predefined and separated.

 

Sharing feature

When we hear something big, the first thing we want to do is to tell our friends about it. Sharing on social media has become second nature and therefore, you app must have social sharing buttons. Doing so is a technique that is doubly rewarding. Users connect extensively with your app by posting your content on their social pages. In addition, as soon as they see an interesting piece of news, they even invite other users to come visit the site.

 

Search
As you can see, the app needs to allow users to search for a particular form of news. With prominent front, auto complete and other advanced mechanisms, the search box must be rich and usable.

 

Always updated with the news

Nobody will wait for an app to refresh the next morning, unlike the newspaper. The app needs to report news when and when it arises. New content must continue to be updated and shown every minute in real time.

 

Cost

It's a tricky job to put a figure on software development costs for a newspaper app. The total cost of creating the app along with UX design, aggregation, and basic features will cost anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000, based on collected estimates. However, if you incorporate features such as video, animations and others, the cost can rise as much as $30,000 and even more.

 

Conclusion 

 

We have listed down the top features that can a newspaper app have we brillmindz one of the best mobile app development companies in dubai are capable of building on such app

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