BBC+ is a new iOS and Android app that delivers personalized BBC content

Over the years, the BBC has created a huge number of apps and websites to showcase the various services it offers. If you're interested in a range of BBC content, you've probably found that you have to jump from app to app and website to website. BBC+ aims to change all that.

BBC+ is a new app from the corporation that’s available for iOS and Android. This is one of the first apps built using the newly-developed Mobile Application Framework (MAF) and it gives BBC fans the opportunity to create a personalized collection of the content most relevant and interesting to them -- news, weather, TV and more.

It's a simple idea at heart, but it's one that has been well-executed. The MAF design language is something we're likely to see a great deal more of -- it's almost like the BBC version of Google's material design. But while BBC+ is interesting from a development point of view, for most people it is the content that will be of greater interest.

You can customize the app -- providing you have a free BBC ID -- so you only see the news you want to see. This could be headlines from your region, or personalized so you don’t see news about any of the sport you hate. As this is a multimedia app, highlights from BBC iPlayers are also pulled in so you can keep up to date with your favorite shows.

You can then swipe through the content at your leisure, soaking up BBC goodness. There's also the 'At a glance' welcome screen that shows you headlines and highlights to get you up to speed straight away.

Importantly, this is just the beginning. The BBC promises that there is much more to come in the way of extensibility:

We will also use the Mobile Application Framework to develop new shared components in the future. MAF gives us a way to quickly spin up test apps to prove the functionality of new components and should result in more common integration points and patterns. This, in turn, should make it easier for different teams across the BBC to work on and extend the various components.

You can grab a copy of BBC+ for Android or iOS from the appropriate store.