Public - Indian Local Videos APK

Pros

• Updates videos constantly
• Provides support for multiple languages
• Serves up both video and written material

Cons

• Tends to be video heavy
• Often only includes content from one area of the world

Public is a news aggregator that has a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. It takes videos as well as news articles from a variety of major international newspapers and serves them to users based on how recent they are. This gives users an at-a-glance look at the current political situation in that region.

While most of the publications are from the Republic of India and some surrounding countries, it's also possible to find news from around the globe. Since the reporting usually comes from the standpoint of the aforementioned subcontinent, that gives international users the opportunity to get a very different viewpoint than they might otherwise receive when looking into domestic stories.

Social content has a tendency to factor into Public's listings, though some users will probably prefer to restrict themselves to only reading editorial materials. The app allows users to search for content based both on story type as well as the source, which may give a better overview than one might otherwise receive from simply reading whatever stories came up first in a general web search.

Though Public does allow commenting, those who just want to read comments or watch videos without having to socially engage themselves are free to do so. At times, it almost seems like the video content isn't organized into any particular pattern. Part of this stems from the fact that the app is constantly attempting to look through a fire hose of information that comes in through every potential direction on the web. Rather than look at this as a drawback, however, it's actually an advantage for users.

Mobile device users who would normally only ever look through the news via a traditional web search will often only see the kind of content they want to see. Anything that comes up they don't necessarily want to look at can be easily dismissed as irrelevant. Public makes users scroll through everything that's currently available, thus giving them a far different view of the news than they might otherwise get.

Videos predominate, but there are several types of media to pick from. Those who find that the app streams too slowly, or takes up more bandwidth than they're comfortable with, can always drop the bitrate in order to enjoy better performance. In most cases, though, the default settings are going to be just fine. Each video is coded in a specific language, though it shouldn't be too hard to figure out which language a video is designed for merely by looking at the headline.

As well as English, you'll find content in Marathi, Tamil, Hindi and Kannada. Other languages are sometimes offered, especially when dealing with news stories that happen in Sikkim and other border regions of the Indian Republic.

Pros

• Updates videos constantly
• Provides support for multiple languages
• Serves up both video and written material

Cons

• Tends to be video heavy
• Often only includes content from one area of the world