Description
Download the POLITICO for Android app today to get your politics fix. The clean, easy-to-navigate layout is ideal for staying up to date when you’re on the go. POLITICO serves as the one-stop shop for the fastest, most in-depth coverage of the president, Congress, and election races. POLITICO’s journalists break news and drive conversation about the White House, Capitol Hill and Washington lobbying, plus the intersection of politics with Wall Street, media and personalities. POLITICO launched in January 2007 with the mission of covering politics with enterprise, style and impact.KEY FEATURES:
★ Use the “Sections” button to navigate between several different POLITICO News, Blogs, Policy, Morning Tipsheets, and Videos categories, as well as Opinion, Photos, and user-Saved Articles.
★ Use the familiar swipe gestures to move between different articles within the same section.
★ Article videos are played in full-screen mode, with familiar overlay controls.
★ Article photo galleries are played in full-screen mode, with overlaid captions and credits. Use swipe gestures to move to the next or previous image in the gallery. Use the tap gesture to toggle between showing and hiding the caption and credit. This view also supports rotation.
★ You can view Article text in one of three different sizes, so it’s at your optimal reading size. To change the text size while viewing an Article, use your phone’s Menu button to access the “Font Size” option. Your desired setting is always remembered.
★ Article links to the source content on politico.com may be copied or shared with anyone via email, Twitter, or Facebook. You can also open them in the external browser app of your choice.
★ Current support for 4 types of push notifications. Users can enable/disable each type individually by accessing the Preferences via the phone’s Menu button in the Sections list. The complete text of the last (unexpired) pushed notification is always downloaded for in-app viewing. When enabled, access the current notification by tapping the “Alert” button in the Sections list.
★ POLITICO will dynamically deliver additional News, Blogs, or other feeds in the future, without requiring an app update. Make sure you have the “New App Features” notifications preference switch turned ON, to get notified when significant changes occur.
★ POLITICO Article, Video, and Photos content changes several times, every day. The app will automatically check for changes several times every hour, and intelligently download only those changes that are different from the last downloaded content. If you want an immediate update, you can always use the pull-to-refresh mechanism built into every section front.
★ All downloaded non-video Article content is intelligently cached for offline reading when a network connection is not convenient. You can use the “AUTO UPDATE” flags in the Sections list to control what and how much content we automatically download. Selecting a section that is not flagged for auto updating will only download that section upon demand when a network connection is available, otherwise we present the last downloaded version of that content, for offline reading.
★ Feedback is welcome and appreciated. You can email us directly from within the app by going to any article and using the “Sharing” button and tapping on the “Email POLITICO Feedback” item.
☛ Follow us on Twitter: @POLITICO
Michael
May 30, 2012 3:20:59 PM
Mike Great app. Keep things honest.
Wendy
May 11, 2012 5:23:58 PM
Awesome app I save so much time not having to dig through multiple sites for political news, and it doesn't take up massive amounts of memory. Thanks :)
Jack
Apr 28, 2012 2:57:50 PM
Loads better Load time much-improved since update; crashes every time I return after exit. Droid Global 2
Gary
Apr 21, 2012 10:20:25 PM
Google+? Great app. But where is ability to share on google+? Better yet, why not use phone's native share function?
Michael
Apr 19, 2012 5:26:55 PM
Love the site Very well done. Keeps me informed on what's going on in the world of politics.
Tim
Apr 19, 2012 1:35:51 AM
Awesome
Jeffrey
Apr 17, 2012 7:45:53 AM
Great Romney is down 10 points. Hahaha Obama2012
Michael
Apr 13, 2012 6:50:48 PM
Best political news And best political app. HuffPo has sadly taken a turn into a gossipy, tabloid-esque, highly opinionated and sensationalized blog. I'm very thankful for the excellent reporting team at Politico.
Benton
Apr 4, 2012 11:25:53 PM
dont download unless you value your data plan! Would give zero star! I just got hit with 2gb usage from this app for no reason. Somehowlast night between 1am and 5am this app was running in the background and chewed up 2gb of data. I get a text from att saying I am getting real close to my limit this month. Well checked and already went over! What's funny is I looked at this app once in last 3weeks. I don't use it. But here is a good question how is it possible to rack up that much from reading text articles? If they did videos then I didn't know about it and even then do they have a video that long to watch? DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!! So now I am wondering if I have a claim to take to small claims court against the developers of this app and the management that over see the running of it. are they searching my phone? They are abusing my data plan which is for me to decide how its used when I click on the app and not when its just sitting there. Also take att to small claims court for setting a 5gb limit on a unlimited plan. I got text to prove it. You used xxxx(mb) of unlimited for this bill cycle. Lol if you have the right to limit my plan in so to uphold the network then why can't you seem to change that text saying unlimited?
josh
Mar 25, 2012 6:13:33 AM
Not updated Gets a one star just for not being updated for almost a year. That is completely unacceptable!