Online News App
A mobility solution that allows users to organize, read and share everything happening around them. It is a cross-platform native application that enables readers to follow the news and also lets them respond in agreement or disagreement.
The app pulls news from a variety of sites and allows users to create a custom feed with favorite news sources.
Country
United States of America
Service
News App Development
Industry
Media & Entertainment
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About
The Project
Our client from the USA wanted a modern mobility solution that could replace traditional news formats and engage digital readers with quick, customizable, and interactive news. The challenge was to deliver an app that not only aggregated news from multiple sources but also allowed readers to create personalized feeds and express agreement or disagreement with articles. At QSS, we approached this by conducting user research, competitor analysis, and a product discovery workshop with the client to align on critical features and vision. The result was a cross-platform, responsive news application built on a robust JS stack with seamless AWS hosting, offering intuitive UI, social login, rating systems, and powerful admin controls—delivering a dynamic, user-first news experience.
Process We Followed
After lining up salient details related to the project, our team outlined a course of action that would be followed to develop a comprehensive solution. The process comprised of identification of problems, considering the relevant factors of the solution, taking note of common challenges faced, technology stack to be used and coming up with the outcome in the end.
1. Problem Identification
Modern readers lack time for long-form news. They seek quick, personalized updates from trusted sources with interactive features. QSS aimed to build an app delivering crisp news, custom feeds, and user responses in real time.
3. Solution Implementation
We conducted real-time user research, a detailed product discovery workshop with the client, and competitor analysis to define critical features, align app vision, and build a unique, user-focused online news application.
2. Feasibility Study
QSS designed an interactive news app where readers access right or left-leaning articles, rate content, and respond with agreement or disagreement. A robust backend empowers admins and authors to manage news and users seamlessly.
4. Challenges Faced by QSS
Our Team faced challenges like enabling one-step sign-in, delivering a rich swipe-based UI/UX, organizing diverse news sources, linking industry trends, and summarizing articles into short, crisp formats for seamless user experience.
5. Final Outcome Achieved
Our Team delivered a React Native news app hosted on AWS with CI/CD for Android & iOS. Features include simple author interfaces, social logins, web view for readers, right/left slant articles, and robust admin control for smooth operations.
Problem Identification
Newspapers and Television broadcasts have gone the way of dinosaurs, people nowadays do not have time to read monotonous long-form articles. They want it all to be short and crisp. We at QSS, aim to build an application that keeps folks connected with trends and allows them to select their favorite news source with the feature to respond to news articles.
- Faster access to lots of different sources of news.
- Allows keeping up with the important industry trends.
- Create feed from favorite sources and topics.
- Enables readers to respond on news either in agreement or disagreement.
Feasibility Study
A large number of people passionately follow the trend in the industry and always seem curious to know the current world affairs. News is always associated either with right or left-wing. The idea of this online news application is to let readers decide if they agree with the news or not by responding with either in agreement or disagreement through their mobile.
- A backend for authors and admin.
- Admin can control articles content as well as manage users.
- Readers can look through the news with right and left slant articles as opinions.
- Respond to the news either in accord or discord.
- Allows rating the news articles.
Solution Implementation
To build a user-focused news app, QSS followed a structured solution implementation process. Our approach combined user research, product discovery workshops, and competitor analysis to define features that deliver value and differentiate the app in the market.
User research
The pain points of users are overlooked many times. Even their ratings and reviews are not hurled back with satisfactory answers. Connecting to the users in the real world is one of the most certain and essential moves. This is why the QSS team initiated research to know about user experience of using online news apps in real-time.
Product discovery workshop
Product discovery workshopWe kicked off the project with a Product Discovery Workshop. Discovery Workshop is our trusted format for problem-solving. Our cross-functional team spent the first day understanding the client’s vision of the product and the intent behind the application. We established the core values of the product and created User Personas.
Competitor Analysis
After rendering the user research and product discovery workshop, it was important for us to discover similar solutions available in the market. It was because to make our news app different from our adversary.
The Challenges
The mobile app industry is quite competitive and this is why it is not an easy task for developers to create an app. Developers may come across a couple of challenges while developing the solution, however, rising to the same will help you win success. Common challenges faced are -
- One step registration or sign-in process.
- Rich UI/ UX experience with swipe actions for right and left slants.
- Organize the news easily and in one place.
- Provide readers with an easy to read format.
- Linking a variety of topics and industry trends.
- Summarise news to present in fewer words making it short and crisp.
Final Outcome
We used a complete JS-based technology stack and brought a web responsive mobile application to fruition. The server-side hosting used was on AWS while the app built in React Native. Prominent features of the app are -
- Simple user interfaces for authors to write and publish articles.
- Social media login to access Auth Services.
- Enabled web view for readers.
- Right and Left slant article details.
- CI/ CD setup for Android and iOS.
- Effective administration and control over the system.
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Sample Interview Questions
The client was aimed to build an application that keeps folks connected with trends and allows them to select their favorite news source with the feature to respond to news articles.
- Faster access to lots of different sources of news
- Allows keeping up with the important industry trends
- Create feed from favorite sources and topics
- Enables readers to respond on news either in agreement or disagreement
- Simple user interfaces for authors to write and publish articles
- Social media login to access Auth Services
- Enabled web view for readers
- Right and Left slant article details
- CI/ CD setup for Android and iOS
- Effective administration and control over the system
Key stakeholders associated with the app are- customers, one of the architect from QSS.
A large number of people passionately follow the trend in the industry and always seem curious to know the current world affairs. The primary purpose of the online news application is to let readers decide if they agree with the news or not by responding with either in agreement or disagreement through their mobile.
The App allows users to organize, read and share everything happening around them. It is a cross-platform native application that enables readers to follow the news and also lets them respond in agreement or disagreement. The app pulls news from a variety of sites and allows users to create a custom feed with favorite news sources.
Yes, the application runs offline too.
Setting clear goals and working around client expectations is an essential part of delivering a fruitful product. When the client proposed an idea of an online news app that will carry a unique right and left slant feature, it was our goal to meet their needs and develop the application as exactly as they want it. Our renowned team of developers at QSS worked thoroughly with the designing team to create a native mobile responsive application that was cherished by the audience.
Technology Stack We Used
Node.js
React Native
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