Discover Feed (RSS Aggregator)

Key Launcher includes a custom-built Discover Feed — a private, ad-free news feed that looks and feels like Google Discover but fetches articles directly from RSS/Atom sources with no tracking.

Accessing the Feed

Swipe from the edge where Discover Feed is assigned (see Position Config).

First launch: The first time you open the feed, a source picker appears. Choose your preferred language and select initial sources by topic. You can skip this step — a default set of sources is pre-selected so the feed loads content immediately.

Reading the Feed

• Article cards: Each card shows a hero image (when available), title, source name, and publish time. Cards without a hero image use a compact text-only layout.
• Topic chips: A row of topic chips at the top (or bottom, configurable) lets you filter the feed by category — tap a chip to show only articles from that topic. Tap again to clear the filter.
• Open an article: Tap any card to open it in Chrome Custom Tabs (falls back to your default browser).
• Refresh: Pull down anywhere in the feed to manually refresh, or tap the Refresh (refresh) button in the header. The header also shows when the feed was last updated.

Saving, Sharing & Hiding Content

Each card carries a row of quick actions:

• Save (bookmark): Bookmark an article to read later. Tap again to unsave.
• Share (share): Send the article link to any app via the Android share sheet.
• Hide (more_vert → Hide this content): Remove an article you don't want to see from the feed.

Your collections live in the Feed Config screen (tune icon in the feed header):

• Saved Content — all bookmarked articles, with a counter. Tap any entry to open it, or remove it from the list.
• Hidden Content — everything you've hidden. You can unhide individual articles, and also manage sources or whole topics you've hidden from here.

Managing Sources

Tap the Settings (tune) icon in the feed header to open Feed Config. From there, tap Manage Sources to:

• Add a custom RSS or Atom URL.
• Toggle existing sources on or off.
• Reorder topics — drag the handle (drag_handle) on a topic header to change its position. This order also drives the topic chip row in the feed.
• Import or export your subscriptions as a standard OPML file.

Topics

Sources are organized into ten topics:

News · Technology · Entertainment · Politics · Business · Lifestyle · Finance · Sports · Science · Health

The topic chip row only shows topics that have at least one article in the current feed.

Privacy & Technical Details

• Privacy-first: Key Launcher fetches RSS/Atom feeds directly — no proprietary APIs, no ad networks, no tracking. Articles open in your browser; Key Launcher never proxies or logs your reading activity.
• Hero image extraction: The parser looks for media:content, media:thumbnail, enclosure, or an <img> tag in the article description to find a cover image.
• Offline cache: Articles are cached locally. Opening the feed loads cached content instantly while a background refresh runs.
• Background refresh: A WorkManager job refreshes the feed every 3 hours when connected to a network. The job is skipped automatically when Discover Feed is not assigned to any edge, so it never runs if the feature is unused.

Free Plan Limits

💎 Free plan — the feed shows up to 30 articles, and up to 3 sources (including custom URLs) can be enabled at the same time. Key Launcher Pro unlocks unlimited articles and sources (included in the 30-day free trial).