Finance

What “Finance” really means is “financial news.” When you open it, you arrive at what looks like a glorious, beautifully designed financial magazine. Swipe horizontally to see stock-market graphs; tiles for the day’s winners and losers; article blurbs and headlines; videos; and stats for bonds, rates, currencies, and commodities (Figure 4-8).

This book would have to be 32 feet wide to show you all the financial goodies that appear in this massively complete, horizontally scrolling financial app. You can tap or click just about anything to drill down for more information.

Figure 4-8. This book would have to be 32 feet wide to show you all the financial goodies that appear in this massively complete, horizontally scrolling financial app. You can tap or click just about anything to drill down for more information.

Read this chapter’s writeup about the News app for a complete understanding of how these apps work. But for now, don’t miss the App bar, shown at top in Figure 4-8. (Swipe inward from the top or bottom of the screen, right-click any blank spot, or press +Z.) It offers tiles like these:

A button next to an App bar tile means “Click or tap here to open a second row of buttons, providing quicker access to the categories within.”