SmartNews: Local Breaking News APK 22.5.20

4 stars: Please add a dark theme for the articles, I like to read at night and it's just terrible to my eyes even with the brightness at low, and I think you NEED to be able to save articles so you can come back to read them later. The app is great, it runs smoothly and is very easy to navigate and over all feels very polished. Add that dark theme and you've sold me completely.
4 stars: The information provided offers pertinent and interesting news. The two things that are annoying are how the screen resets occasionally after an add losing the place you were and if you send an interesting link to a friend it forces that person to have the app installed to view it. Of course if a link to the source document is provided, the link can be sent from there.
3 stars: This has been my main news app for a while now, but I am downgrading the rating due to the increasingly invasive ads. I accept the ads as they were, but this new type of ad, Gaurdio is one of them, that opens an ad, when you close it a new one opens, and another, and another. with the close button in a different place every time until you close the whole app has rendered it sometimes useless. I am currently hunting for a new news app.
3 stars: Since updating, I've had loading issues with many of the articles/stories that I tap Doesn't matter if my wifi signal is as strong as Bruce Lee's fists, it will still have that \
5 stars: This is the way that I remember Google News used to be and the way back in th