To coincide with the US launch of Windows 10 mobile, we’re excited to announce that the Guardian app is now available across phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops running Microsoft’s latest operating system.
World-class design
Like our other award-winning apps, the Guardian on Windows 10 inherits our unique design and layouts. These quickly convey the news agenda, and make our articles, comment pieces, and features easy to browse and discover. They also communicate the tone and type of content you’ll find. In addition, story, live-blog, video, gallery, and interactive pages are all designed to work gracefully no matter what size of screen you choose to read us on. This includes, for the first time for our apps, new templates for screens larger than 10 inches.
Read anywhere
Because we know that people use mobiles in all kinds of places where network coverage is poor, the app is built to download every article on the homepage as soon as you open it. So all you need is a few seconds of good coverage on your way to the underground in the morning to get a good hour’s worth of journalism to read and enjoy.
Windows 10 exclusives
In addition, the new Guardian app takes advantage of exclusive Windows 10 features. So you can see the latest headlines directly from your homescreen using our live tile, and even ask Cortana to open the app directly to your favourite section or topic.
Much more to come
The team here, and at our Windows 10 development partners Sonic Trio, have worked tirelessly to bring the best possible reading experience to Windows 10, but we’re not stopping there. Over the next few months we’ll introduce features that enhance and deepen your enjoyment of the app. These include breaking news alerts, reading and contributing comments, personalising your homepage, following favourite blogs, football (soccer) teams, and contributors, and crosswords. So make sure you’re regularly updating your apps, and watch this space.
You can download the Guardian from the Windows Store now.
As ever, if you have any questions please use the comments section below, or tweet us at @guardianmobile
