Google Play Newsstand Now Supports App Shortcuts
App Shortcuts, the ability to tap-and-hold to get to specific parts of an app in Android Nougat 7.1, continues to grow and Google is catching up too. The latest update to Google Play Newsstand now supports the shortcuts, allowing you to quickly get to your curated news, digest of news, Magazines and items you have marked for reading later. Newsstand undergone a lot of changes in the past six months, most of which have been pretty good. The big knock I had on the app was that in the redesign, getting to your magazine subscriptions became confusing and not-so-easy to figure out at first. It’s still that way but with the shortcut now available, it makes it easier to get to them.
As readers probably know, in order for app shortcuts to work, you must be running Android Nougat 7.1 or higher. That means it is almost completely for Pixel and Nexus devices as very few other devices from other manufactures have 7.1 as of yet.