News & E-Paper App for iOS & Android - 15 Indian Languages
A Flutter news app and companion website for Azad Sandesh, a Rajkot based Gujarati daily, taking breaking news, live weather and the printed e-paper edition from the newsroom to a reader's pocket.
01 / The Challenge
A daily newsroom outgrowing a browser tab
Azad Sandesh runs a Gujarati news desk covering Rajkot and the wider Saurashtra Kutch region alongside state, national and international stories, sport, business and entertainment. That coverage already lived on a website and in a printed daily edition, but readers checking the news from their phone on patchy mobile data needed something faster and lighter than a full web page reload, with the day's print edition and live cricket scores sitting next to the headlines rather than scattered across separate pages.
Breaking news on politics, business and cricket needed a channel faster than reloading a mobile web page on patchy data
The printed daily edition only existed as print or a generic web page, with no reader friendly way to browse it exactly as published
A single national feed made it hard for a Rajkot or Saurashtra Kutch reader to find the stories closest to home
Live cricket scores, weather and the day's headlines lived in separate places instead of one screen
One fixed light theme did not suit a reader checking the news at night as well as during the day
02 / Here is What We Did
One Flutter app, light enough for everyday mobile data
We built the Azad Sandesh News app in Flutter for Android, backed by the same news desk that runs azadsandesh.com, so a story published on the website reaches the app without a separate workflow. The app was scoped around the parts of the reading habit a website could not serve well on a phone: instant breaking news, a searchable archive, and the daily edition rendered as a proper e-paper rather than a reflowed article.
Dark, light and system theming were treated as a core reading feature, not a settings afterthought, since a regional daily is read at every hour.
Home, Categories & Breaking News
Built a home feed with a breaking news band and a category rail spanning Politics, Business, Cricket, Sports, Food, Entertainment, Opinions, Bollywood and Health, so a reader reaches their usual section in one tap.
Search, Weather & Cricket
Added full text search across the news archive, current weather for the reader's city, and live cricket scorecards surfaced alongside the day's top stories.
E-paper & Reading Modes
Shipped an e-paper reader that presents the printed daily edition page by page as published, plus dark, light and system theme switching for comfortable reading at any hour.
03 / Features
Everything a daily reader checks, in one app
Breaking news band and a category rail covering Politics, Business, Cricket, Sports, Food, Entertainment, Opinions, Bollywood and Health.
Live cricket scorecards surfaced next to the day's headlines rather than in a separate section.
Current weather for the reader's own city, shown right on the home screen.
Full text search across the news archive, so a story is a query away instead of a scroll.
An e-paper reader that presents the printed daily edition exactly as published, page by page.
Dark, light and system theme switching for reading comfortably morning or night.
A companion website at azadsandesh.com carrying the same coverage of Rajkot, Saurashtra Kutch, Gujarat, national and international news.
Lifestyle, religion and horoscope sections alongside the news, matching what a daily's print readers already expect.
04 / Technologies
A lightweight Flutter build behind a Gujarati newsroom
05 / Results & Impact
A Rajkot daily now in every reader's pocket
“Azad Sandesh is for the reader who wants Rajkot and Saurashtra Kutch news, the day's print edition and live cricket scores in one place, in Gujarati.”
Azad Sandesh
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