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Melbourne & Victoria News on Windows Pc

Developed By: Informaticsware

License: Free

Rating: 3,9/5 - 16 votes

Last Updated: December 24, 2023

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version 1.1
Size 16.5 MB
Release Date April 26, 20
Category News & Magazines Apps

App Permissions:
Allows applications to open network sockets. [see more (8)]

What's New:
Bug fixing [see more]

Description from Developer:
THIS APP IS NO LONGER UPDATED, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE NEW APP : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.informaticsware.melbournenews2

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About this app

On this page you can download Melbourne & Victoria News and install on Windows PC. Melbourne & Victoria News is free News & Magazines app, developed by Informaticsware. Latest version of Melbourne & Victoria News is 1.1, was released on 2020-04-26 (updated on 2023-12-24). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 5,000. Overall rating of Melbourne & Victoria News is 3,9. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 16 users, 2 users had rated it 5*, 10 users had rated it 1*.

How to install Melbourne & Victoria News on Windows?

Instruction on how to install Melbourne & Victoria News on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Melbourne & Victoria News on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Step By Step Guide To Install Melbourne & Victoria News using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "Melbourne & Victoria News" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install Melbourne & Victoria News on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Melbourne & Victoria News" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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THIS APP IS NO LONGER UPDATED, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE NEW APP : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.informaticsware.melbournenews2

Have you ever been looking for an app that delivers news right away to your mobile device in a short and effective way so that you get the latest news without wasting a lot of time searching for them ? Melbourne & Victoria News is your source of Melbourne and state of Victoria local news, it collects news from different news agencies and twitter accounts and delivers it directly to your mobile. The application delivers news headlines only and you can always click to read the whole news.
News are classified into categories so that it is easy for you to reach your favourite news directly, categories of news the app collects are :

- General
- Sports
- Business
- Life & Entertainment
- Alerts & Announcements
- Weather News

Never miss a news any more.

Currently the application aggregates news from below sources :

- The Age
- ABC Melbourne News
- ABC Victoria News
- 9News Melbourne
- 7News Melbourne
- Ten News Melbourne

- ABC Sports
- AFL Melbourne
- AFL Saint Kilda
- AFL Geelong

- ABC Business
- Parliament of Victoria
- ABC Melbourne Events
- Thats Melbourne
- Weather zone
- ABC Melbourne Weather
- What’s On Melbourne today
- Events Victoria
- Pieces of Victoria
- City of Melbourne
- Queen Victoria Market
- Victoria Police News
- VLine
- CFA Fire warnings
- Metropolitan Fire and Emergency service

The application pulls news every half an hour, you can always force refresh the news by pressing on "sync now"
You can enable/disable notifications for news, you can even set your mobile to vibrate or plays a ring tone when news arrive.
The app allows you to share the news on Facebook, twitter, send it as email and much more.
The app allows you to mark some news with a star so that you can easily find them later
Using settings you can control how often news are refreshed, and for how often old news should get removed.
In addition to that, the app allows you to add your own source of news to the existing ones
Bug fixing
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to read from external storage.