As I mentioned in a previous post, a new version of ABC News Local was in the works. So much work has occurred, I feel the app will qualify for a major version number upgrade. But that’s not the only upgrade happening.

ABC News Local is becoming ABC News. Not only will you still be able to get the top stories from ABC owned and operated stations, but you will also be able to get national news directly from ABC News. Also, as noted in the previous post, you will also be able to narrow down local (and now national) news to specific sections.

The only thing that will not be available still is the streaming of live video. I really want to get to that, but for the time being, it will have to wait. All of this is a major change in itself.

I am still trying to get the hang of a lot of the new programming items I’m having to do as this project has become pretty massive now, so please bare with me. I already have the city navigation work (thanks to the grouplist control), but still a lot to do as each individual feed has to be manually added since Group Lists don’t quite work with feeding RSS feeds to it.

I’m very proud of this work so far and really look forward to releasing this in the future. As always, if anyone has any ideas, suggestions, advice, or programming tips, feel free to send that info this way!