To give you an understanding of our requirements, below are the key features that we would
like to have:
- Android application, with 4inch to 7inch screen compatibility including tablets
- Functional on Android versions 4.0 (Gingerbread) to all the further and latest versions
of Android
- Login
o Facebook
o Twitter
o Email
- User Tour
o 1st time users of the application should get a quick tour of the application
- Canvas (A customized reading page for each user)
o Name for the canvas
o A caption for the same
o Tiles of various categories selected by the user
Tile of each selected category with title of the of the article being
flipped
One Tile for each category
Privacy setting for each categories (viz. Public, Private)
Resizable tiles according to users choice
o Social Lane
Facebook Tile: Section where feeds from Facebook will be shown
Twitter tile: Section where feeds from Twitter will be shown
Wordpress: Integration of Wordpress account
Blogger: Integration of Blogger account
Sensex: Tile where Sensex, Nifty, Gold Rate, currency rate will be
shown on each flip
Weather: Current weather of the City and forecast
- Connectivity
o Auto connect with Facebook friends (if logged-in via Facebook)
User’s Facebook friends should automatically be connected who are
using our application
Option to unfollow a user
Option to set privacy for the users profile
If user logs in to Twitter inside our app, the Twitter friends should get
auto connected
o Auto connect with Twitter friends (if logged-in via Twitter)
User’s Twitter friends should automatically be connected who are
using our application
Option to unfollow a user
Option to set privacy for the users profile
If user logs in to FB inside our app, the FB friends should get auto
connected
o Auto connect with Email contacts (if logged-in via Email)
User’s Email contacts should automatically be connected who are
using our application
Option to unfollow a user
Option to set privacy for the users profile
If user logs in to Fb and/or Twitter inside our app, the friends should
get auto connected
o Once the user unfollows a friend, user should be able to re-follow the same
friend
- Article
o Article should open in our application only and not navigate to the source site
in the browser
o Complete content of the article should be shown in the application,
irrespective of the content is provided in the RSS feed or not.
o Multi lingual articles (English, Hindi, Marathi, etc.)
o Like, comment, Favourite and use Thesaurus on an article itself inside the
application
o In a category, only one/two [max] news article should be shown and no other
article on the same topic should be shown in the category.
o Share an article on Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp
Click on the shared article should navigate to the application and to the
article, if the application is installed on the phone.
Click on the shared article should be navigated to the Play Store to
download our application; if the app is not installed on the phone
o Offline reading of one articles from each category
o Thesaurus
o Suggested article
3 articles suggested to the user on each article; Logic of the suggested
article like, Trending Article, Next article in the same category, some
article from other category
o Article should have the option to change the font size, spacing etc.
- Publishing an Article
o Details to be provided by the user to post an article
Title
Photo
Description (Atleast 200 words)
o User published articles should be collected in a separated category on the
canvas.
- Activities Tab
o User will be able to view the activities of users friends. (Activities: Like an
article, favourite an article, comment on an article
o User should be able to navigate and view the Canvas of his connected friends.
o The canvas should be visible according to the privacy settings selected on the
categories.
o Recommend an article
User can recommend an article to any of its connected friend from his
friend list
Option to search a friend (Via the Canvas name or username)
- Keyword search
o Each article has a keyword associated with it, user should have the ability to
search for articles according to the keyword searched
o A common database should be created for all the key words
o Each Key word search, should create a different title on the canvas as a
category.
- Push Notification
o Manual notification from the Admin
o Like, share, comment on the self-posted article
o Recommended articles
- Themes
o Change of background colour
o Font size and style
o Resizing of tiles
- Admin Panel and Reporting [will be detailed]
- Settings
o Article
o Profile
o Privacy on account and category
o Connectivity and friend list
o Categories and sources
