Version 1.0 - Released 4/17/2012

Release Notes

The new PG Reader for Android will keep you up to date with the latest news, stories, and videos from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette just as you've seen them on our web site. View them, email them, or save them permanently to your device for future reference.
This version of PG Reader should run well with Android Version 2.1 and higher on devices with "touch" screens.
This version does not expand or provide additional content for large screen devices but will function fine on them, filling the screen as necessary.
When an "Article List" view, described below, loads with data from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the data is stored on the device in a database. The data for the section displayed will only refresh from the Post Gazette after at least 15 minutes have passed.
PG Reader requires "ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE", "INTERNET", and "CLEAR_APP_USER_DATA" privileges to access news from the Post Gazette and to save and remove it from your device.

Splash Screen

This is the initial view that appears when the application begins running.

During this phase, the application checks for network availability and begins loading key section information from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

Article List View - Local News

This is the initial article list view. It appears immediately after the splash screen. In version 1.0, "Local News" is the default section that always appears first. Note that all sections shown in the "Sections List View" below will use this same basic article list view.

Buttons Defined:

"Articles" - Pressing this button will navigate the application to the "Sections List View" described below.
"Videos" - Pressing this button will navigate the application to the "Video List View" described below.

Article View

When an article is "touched" on the article list view, this view will appear with the text content and, where applicable, an accompanying photo. This sample view is shown with the menu options available when the Android menu button is pressed.

Menu Defined:

"Local News" - Touch this menu item to navigate to the "Article List" for "Local News" as shown above.
"Sections" - Touch this menu item to navigate to the "Sections List" described in the "Sections List View" below.
"Shop" - Touch this menu item to navigate to an on-line shopping tool.
"Saved" - Touch this menu item to navigate to an article list view of stories that you have saved for future reference.
"Email Article" - Touch this menu item to email the article in view to someone in the contacts list on your device.
"Save Article" - Touch this menu item to save the article in view to the database on your device. When viewing an article from the article view of saved articles, this menu item will be replaced by a "Delete Saved" menu entry which will enable deleting of saved articles no longer of interest.

Note that many of these menu entries will appear on all views in this application as appropriate.

Sections List View

The section list view is presented when the "Articles" button at the top of any "Article List" view, is "touched" This view will also appear when the "Sections" menu entry, as shown on the "Article View" sample above, is "touched".

Video List View

The video list view is presented when the "Videos" button at the top of any "Article List" view, is "touched". It contains a list of the latest news videos produced by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.