Quick Thai News

A minimal news reader iOS app:

Problem

Most news reader apps are cluttered, so I set out to build one as simple as possible. On the detail page, the app strips away all the decoration and shows only the news content, by extracting the relevant HTML tag and including a link to the original URL. Users can also easily increase the font size directly in the app.

This app never went past its first version, since I didn't have permission to use content from news agencies and it never passed Apple's review.

Even so, it attracted a lot of people!

*The recent increase in crashes you see here is because I could no longer publish fixes. The iOS SDK has also changed dramatically since then, resulting in many deprecated function calls.

Technical details

• Implemented in Objective-C.
• News sources are pulled from RSS feeds.
• It loads an HTML page and strips out everything except the main content. I did this by manually inspecting each news site to find patterns and identify key HTML elements (e.g., a div with id="news_content").