How to use Google AMP Stories on Android

Google has recently launched AMP Stories, that lets the website publishers create content similar to Stories on Instagram and Facebook. Named as Accelerated Mobile Page, it helps in loading the content extremely fast and can be shared like any other news article.

AMP stories aim to make the production of stories as easy as possible from a technical perspective. The format comes with preset but flexible layout templates, standardized UI controls, and components for sharing and adding follow-on content. During March last year, Google has told that there were more than 2 billion AMP pages on some 900,000 domains. You can find the AMP stories on Android by a couple of methods.

Locating AMP Stories

In order to locate the AMP Stories, you need to go to g.co/ampstories through Chrome application on your mobile device. After that, choose from any one of the following publications currently working on the project like CNN, Mic, SBNation, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Wired, People, or Mashable.

Now type any one of those publications and you will see the ordinary looking search result page. Now scroll down until you see the "Visual Stories" section. You can tap on any stories to see or read the stories.

Navigating AMP Stories

If you are in the AMP page, navigating inside is the story is pretty much the same as the Instagram and Snapchat. Tapping on the left of the screen while inside the Story will move you back. Also, there are some AMP stories that have sounds. In case, if you want to mute it, there is a small music icon in the top right corner of the interface.

When you are done reading the story, just swipe down from the top portion of the screen, and you will be taken back to the Google search page. Malte Ubl, engineering lead at the Google AMP Project, said in a blog post that AMP Stories can be easily shared or linked because they live on the web and are hosted on the publisher's site.

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