Kris Carlon
Putting down roots in Berlin after six years of traveling is a major step for Kris Carlon, who has spent more time living out of a tent lately than sitting at a desk. Kris comes to the AndroidPIT Editorial Team via a lengthy period spent writing on art and culture in Australia and other places he has lived. He joined the Android community while resurfacing in civilization back in 2010 and has never looked back, using technology to replace his actual presence in other people's lives ever since.Pocket, the offline reading app for Android has just been updated which takes advantage of KitKat's immersive mode, which pushes system bars off screen and floats your navigation buttons above whatever it is you're doing. The update also brings additional language support and some other reading optimization goodies.
The best just got better: Pocket is now optimized for immersive mode on KitKat. / © PocketThe update to version 5.4 should appear automatically on your device in the very near future, and you'll get a splash screen announcing the update along with a changelog if you want more information. For the lazy, you'll get immersive mode on KitKat devices (and hidden status bars on Android 4.1+), providing you with a much nicer reading experience, and a ''refined layout and typography'' and ''automatic adjustments to layout and formatting when adjusting text size to deliver the most readable view''.
Pocket is an indispensable app for anyone that likes to read on their Android. / © AndroidPIT/Read It LaterPocket now also supports Chinese, Dutch, Korean, Polish and Portuguese languages. If you're the kind of on-the-go person that always intends on coming back to an article later on and then completely forgets about it, Pocket is the perfect reminder. Simply share anything you come across to Pocket and have it ready for offline reading at your leisure.
You'll get the familiar reading view (left) when you open a Pocket article, but as soon as you scroll you'll enter immersive mode (right). / © AndroidPIT/Read It LaterCheck out my list of three apps to improve your web browsing experience on Android as well as other awesome offline apps for Android.
Are you using Pocket? What other offline apps do you recommend?
View the Original article
