BBC News is an app by NowThis Media, Inc. in the News & Magazines category. It has no native code, so it runs on any Android processor.
It asks for 14 permissions, 2 of them sensitive: approximate location and find accounts on the device.
Ratings
4.5out of 58 ratings
5 ★63%
4 ★25%
3 ★13%
2 ★0%
1 ★0%
Ratings from users of the source store — not collected or verified by AAPKs.
What's new in v4.7.1.13 UK
We release regular updates to the BBC News app. In this version we have made some improvements to article content links as well as some fixes and performance enhancements.
Description
From the listing uploaded by “duane83”.
Get the latest breaking news from the BBC and our global network of journalists.
The app also offers the BBC News Channel streamed live, social features and personalisation so you can re-order the news categories to suit your interests.
Key features:
Top Stories brings you the latest, breaking news from our trusted global network of journalists.
My News is a feature allowing you to personalise your news offering.
Add topics wherever you see the + icon for a quick route straight to the stories you care about.
Stories from topics you add will appear in your personalised My News feed. Here you can order stories by topic or time, and use the Manage Topics screen to stay on top of the news of the day.
Find content fast
The app can suggest topics based on your location, stories you’ve recently viewed and what’s in the news now.
And you can quickly find content and topics that interest you using the Search. Choose from the familiar list of BBC News indexes such as Politics, Business, Entertainment and Health or search for your own subjects of interest whether they’re people, places, things or themes
More of the news you care about
We now offer a fuller selection of stories from the newsroom, including:
- Most Read and Most Watched. Keep on top of popular stories across the BBC, regularly updated throughout the day
- Live BBC News channel, up-to-the-minute reports available 24-hours a day
- Read the best journalism from BBC correspondents
- Access to our full range of video and audio
- Photo galleries and full-screen images
Other features:
- Push notifications for breaking news stories
- Video over 3G and wifi
- Improved offline experience. Download the latest stories when you have a signal and then read them at your leisure
- Settings to allow the app to automatically update in the background
- Share stories to your social networks, or email/SMS to a friend
- Home screen widgets. Configurable to reflect your choice of topics, resizable to suit your screen layout and stylable to view as a headline or list widget
- Font controls to increase or decrease the story text size to suit you
- Related stories, related topics. Go deeper into a storyline with suggestions for further reading and viewing and a range of topics related to each story
If you choose to receive push notifications, a unique identifier relating to your device will be stored by ProcessOne on behalf of the BBC to provide you with the service.
No other personal data relating to you (such as a username or email address) is processed. The BBC will keep your information secure and not share it with anyone else in accordance with the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy, available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy/
You can choose to unsubscribe from push notifications in the app’s settings screen.
Permissions
- INTERNET: Used to get the latest news content from the BBC
- ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: Used to determine whether you are on 3G or Wifi to deliver the best quality content
- WAKE_LOCK: Used if you enable background updates in settings
- GET_ACCOUNTS: Used to determine if your device is capable of receiving Push messages
- C2D_RECEIVE/C2D_MESSAGE: Used to receive Push messages if you opt in
- ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION: Allows the app to suggest news based on your location (Android 4.0 and above)
- READ_SYNC_SETTINGS/WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS/AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS: Used for managing background updates to get the latest news content from the BBC (Android 4.0 and above)
Security & authenticity
Security rating: Trusted
Signing certificate
Certificate issued to “Media Applications Technologies”Not the developer's name (“NowThis Media, Inc.”). Names in certificates can't be verified, so this alone proves nothing.
Store checks and file details
Developer signature under reviewMay 6, 2025
Antivirus scan passedNov 29, 2020
Signed byCN=Unknown, OU=Unknown, O=Media Applications Technologies, L=London, ST=Unknown, C=GB
Uploaded by “duane83”16 followers · uploading since 2017
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Permissions (14)
BBC News requests 14 permissions, 2 of them sensitive.
Can I install this APK over the version I already have?
Only if it is signed with the same certificate as the copy on your phone and isn't an older version. If Android says “App not installed”, the certificates differ; uninstalling your copy first works but deletes its data unless it is backed up.
Is the BBC News APK safe?
No one can promise that a file is safe, but some things can be checked. The source store rates this file Trusted. After downloading, check that the file's MD5 is ba084756ec4b059a187230f6c2c20ad0.