BBC World Service has launched a BBC Hindi app for android phone, reports Exchange4Media. Speaking to the publication, BBC Hindi Editor, Nidheesh Tyagi claimed that mobile has been contributing to one-third of the total direct traffic to the bbchindi.com. Design: The homescreen of the app displays the headlines for the day and photo news. To access more categories of news, readers can press the more icon on top-right hand side corner of the app which may go unnoticed on first look. This opens up four more icons for news, most popular, other categories and settings. The most popular category displays the most read news and most viewed videos. Users can choose to display the menu bar by default from the settings. The app displays news in categories such as India news, international news, entertainment, sports, science, videos, audios and photo news. The category name on top of any news story takes the reader back to the category. The same button can be used to navigate back to the home page. On the single page, users can also increase and decrease the font size. The app also allows users to share the news to other apps installed on their Android handsets. Multimedia: For photo stories, users can scroll through the photos and the app displays caption describing the photo. Surprisingly, there's no way to share the photo once you open the gallery. Apart from that, there's audio and video section populated with audio and video content from BBC, however, there's no way to filter…
