First look at the next version of Weave and details on how you can join the beta

First look at the side by side version of Weave and details on how y'all can join the beta

Here's our first await at the adjacent version of Weave for Windows Phone 8 users, along with details on how you can join the open beta.

Weave for Windows Phone

Weave recently made the jump to your Surface and Windows eight. It's one of our favorite news readers on Windows Phone, so nosotros were very happy to see it on our tablets, laptops, and desktops. Don't worry though, Weave on Windows Telephone is however getting lots of support and new features. Here's your start look at the latest version of Weave and details on how you can join the beta. Bonus, if you lot join the beta you lot're going to get a trivial care for from the developer. Read on for all the details.

Weave for Windows Telephone hasn't seen a big update for quite some time. It hit version 4.0 belatedly last twelvemonth and picked upwards a few small updates in early 2022. Version iv.0 was notable for a new design, faster performance, Instapaper back up, and much more.

Check the ratings for both the gratuitous and paid version of Weave in the Windows Phone Store and you'll come across users praising both apps highly. Huge download numbers and loftier ratings exist for both apps, so what could Seles games, the programmer, practise to improve Weave for Windows Telephone? Here's all that'south new with the latest version of Weave:

New Deject API

Weave for WP8 now uses the "Weave News Reader cloud API" - a ready of web services similar to Google Reader/Feedly/Newsblur
The cloud services are powered by Windows Azure, and salve a user's feeds, categories, article country, and favorite articles "in the cloud" and synced across whatever number of devices
Users can login via Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, or Google accounts
Sync your account and have your news available on Weave for Windows viii

Visual Changes

New streamlined Panoramic homescreen layout.
New article list layout: "Cards". Brings a cute new style to scan the news. All the one-time layouts are still available besides!
"All sources" listing. Now you can come across how many new articles are bachelor for each category/feed y'all subscribe to.

Weave

The biggest change to Weave for Windows Phone is the addition of the Weave News Reader Deject API. These spider web services make Weave human activity like other pop services like the Feedly, Newsblur, and the at present defunct Google Reader. Nosotros're big fans of Phonly for Windows Phone, merely since information technology'due south a Feedly app information technology requires a Google account – something a lot of y'all aren't fans of having. This makes Weave the app for you if you're happy living in a Microsoft merely ecosystem.

Weave Sync
Syncing between Weave for Windows 8 (left) and Windows Phone (right)

Weave will now sync and salve your feeds, categories, article country, and favorite articles in the Weave Deject across a variety of devices. This is helpful if you've got multiple Windows Phone devices. Simply more than importantly, this allows you lot to finally sync Weave on both your phone and Windows viii. You can sing up and sync Weave with your Microsoft, Facebook, Google or Twitter accounts. Once again, the option is yours.

Weave Screenshots 2

Start impressions of the syncing between Weave for Windows Phone and Windows 8? Information technology freaking rocks. Nosotros added a category on Windows Phone and merely refreshed the app on Windows 8. The category, forth with the feeds for that category, instantly announced on our Surface. Favorites, article country, and more all sync equally well. Non only is syncing working with ataraxy, but the apps performance is solid for beingness in beta.

We're besides excavation some of the new design changes to Weave on Windows Telephone. Tell u.s. what y'all think of the redesign and operation later on you get into the beta. Speaking of which, how do you join?

Weave Screenshot 3

Join the beta for Weave and get a bonus prize for participating

You want to join the beta of Weave. Trust us. By joining and helping out Seles Games find any bugs you're getting a sweet prize. Not simply practice you go to be i of the first to effort out the new Weave on Windows Phone, but anyone who participates will become an ad-free re-create of the release version of Weave later the trounce. Winning.

Hither'south what you need to do to join the open up beta of Weave for Windows Phone.

Accept a developer-unlocked phone and exist able to deploy a XAP file to it (Windows Phone 8 devices but)
Signup for an account at Trello (https://trello.com)
Ship Seles Games your Trello.com username so they tin can add together you to the Trello beta board. Either e-mail them at info@selesgames.com with "Weave WP8 beta" in the subject field line, or tweet them at @SelesGames.

Blast. That's it. Trello is a pretty cool service that I've seen a few developers use for betas. It's a project management application that is really good at giving developers an easy avenue of feedback, problems logging, etc for betas like this. Don't have an account? Just create one and follow the rest of the instructions in a higher place.

Good luck to everyone and be sure to help make Weave a success.

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