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[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Published in YAAM

Many people have asked for an alternative place to buy the app, either because of country restrictions, credit card usages or any other reason. I have now published the app in YAAM for your convenience. FYI, paypal is accepted as a method of payment at YAAM.

App link @ YAAM

I will to update this version along with the Android market updates.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
I took the update of Androids design guidelines (http://developer.android.com/design/) as an opportunity for another attempt at creating a new icon.

It's quite close to the current one but follows the ICS guidelines and takes some input from my previous proposals.
[Android Apps and Games] rob22202:
Hi there.

It's there a way to make swiping between articles a bit more responsive? It takes a full screen swipe right now and a flick gesture would make it much more usable. Sometimes, I can't seem to get swipe to work at all. I'm on galaxy nexus, btw. Could it be a phone specific thing?

Thanks for the great app.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Looks good, thanks for your effort. I'm currently concentrating on the features of the app and will return to the graphics part later.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
I will tweak the swipe sensitivity in the next update. Thanks for your support!
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
Here's the (zipped) .psd for that logo. I also customized the toolbar backgrounds and icons according to the ICS design guidelines, if you want them I can provide them to you.

Feature work is nice as well of course ;-)
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Thanks, will have a look at it. :)

I do have to make the app conform to ICS design guidelines, trying to find some time from real life/work.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
some feedback on my icon: after some time of using it I find it too bright. should probably tone down the blue a bit (it's on the brighter side of the colors allowed and resembles those used in People icon) and make the highlight at the top smaller
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
D7 Google Reader / D7 Reader Pro 1.9.3

Ok, time for an update; This version brings the full ICS support along with other nice enhancements. Some of them (e.g.: configurable start up screen) are user requested features. Hope you will enjoy; please let me know your feedback as usual.

** YOUR EXISTING HOME SCREEN SHORTCUT WILL NO LONGER WORK. You need to create a new shortcut.

Change log 1.9.3

Startup screen can be configured to Home, Subscriptions or Reading list (PRO version only)

Full ICS compatibility

Interface enhancements

Mobilize button in article view, indicates the current mobilizer (G or IP)

Fixed progress indicator bug in article view

Subscriptions - label/tag or feed with unread articles are shown in bold text

Changes to default settings for show Nav bar and Share bar in article view

Other minor fixes
[Android Apps and Games] spyrale:
with latest update can't launch d7 anymore, keeps telling me that application is not installed on my device. SGS 2 with custom rom based on gb 2.3.6. I'll try to reboot, see what happens.

edit: reboot fixed the problem.

From the technological mouth of Azatoth
[Android Apps and Games] crimper:
Hi, similar problem on the Galaxy Nexus 4.0.1 - doesn't get launched via app shortcuts or from launcher. I only managed to open it from the Open button in Market. Otherwise, logcat doesn't even show any activity, except for UPDATECOUNTERS REQUEST. Reboot or wiping data doesn't help.

Also, I enabled going to the articles list after launching and I can't go back to the main view, it just exits on the Back button.

However, I liked the redesigned look - its very nice.
[Android Apps and Games] maxwintrobe:
Love the app, in particular the sync speed, d7 Pro.

Latest update today missing menu button for me on HP Touchpad running CM9 ICS. Update working fine on Epic 4G Touch gingerbread, though, like the option to go straight to Subscription List at launch.

Thanks for the great app.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Old short cut will not work anymore, you will need to create a new one in the home screen.

As I mentioned above, old short cut will not work.

You can use the top left button to return to home from your startup screen.

Thanks for the feedback about the tablet. I will look into it.
[Android Apps and Games] crimper:
Well, its not just home screen shortcut, it cannot be launched from ADW LauncherEX App Drawer either, even after reboot. However, creating a new home screen shortcut from it works. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Looks like the launchers cache the default activity of an app and the cache is not updated even when a new version of the app is installed.

I received a similar report from a Go Launcher user. I installed Go Launcher (I don't use it in my phone) to reproduce the issue but the cache issue wasn't present and the error didn't occur.

I think the work around could be to re-install the app (drawback: settings would be lost).
[Android Apps and Games] markpud:
Hi there,

Some quick feedback on the new update:

Homescreen widget disappeared and I had to re-add it. After re-adding it no longer has the text label under the icon.. not sure if that's intentional?

little flash of a loading message when I click on the widget icon, seems a little unnecessary?

Not a fan of the new colour scheme!? Light blue text on the article headings/hyperlinks looks odd to me, I'd prefer the standard darker blue colour that's traditionally used for hyperlinks

Podcast player looks odd too, black box with grey faded box inside it, I preferred it how it was before!

Still getting random closures of the podcast player without any reason. Sometimes with a force close, sometimes just stops playing and [edit] it leaves the message "No podcast is being played now" where the podcast used to be

Sorry for being a bit negative, I presume these changes will look better for ICS users, but it looks out of place amongst Gingerbread/Sense IMO

Thanks again for all your work on this great app :)
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Thanks markpud for the feedback. Negative doesn't matter as long as they are constructive. :)

Yes, I removed the text below. It didn't go well with the other app shortcuts so I tried to make it look like a widget instead.

This is needed to have different startup screen in new (pro) version. I will remove this when I find an alternative way of doing this.

Yes, I agree with you; realized this after publishing the app. lol. I will change it to look better in the light theme in the next version.

I will look into the podcast player look and feel. My phone has ICS so I tried to make it look nicer on it. The emulators for other versions don't really show a nice separation of colours.

I will have a look at the podcast player issues. What version of Android your device is running on?
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
re ICS compatibility: shouldn't the article view have the same gradient background as list?

I like the new light blue link color btw (dark theme)
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
D7 Google Reader / D7 Reader Pro 1.9.3.1

I had to rush this bug fix release as some of the bug are critical in some devices.

This release includes fixes for no menu option in honeycomb, some minor UI changes and other minor bug fixes. I recommend to update to this version.

Change log:

* Bug fixes
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Yes, it should; couldn't make this to the last version but I will do this in the next.

I changed the link color only for light theme as it didn't go well visually. Dark theme remains the same.
[Android Apps and Games] Kaibosh:
Just wanted to say that I love the new pro feature of opening directly into subscriptions, as it's the only way I read my feeds..

Great job, and it's good knowing that new features keep being added..
[Android Apps and Games] Issie5:
Hi, I just want to say that I love this app. It runs very fast on my HTC Legend with CM7. The synchronise speed is also nice especially if you are just on GPRS speed.

Thank you for this awesome app
[Android Apps and Games] dbaybay:
Best reader EVER. I've used it for months now. Better than currents, gReader, Google Reader and all the like. Displays gorgeously on tabs and phones.

One suggestion? When I read my articles and mark them read on my tab, if I go to my phone to start reading, they are not marked as read. So I always have "unread" stuff I've already read when switching between devices.

Other than that minor bug, it's AMAZING :D ty ty!
[Android Apps and Games] markpud:
Hi....

This one wasn't actually a negative point, I was just checking it was intentional! The text never matched up to the app shortcuts as you say, so it looks better without :)

No worries, I'm getting used to it already!

This is already fixed in this morning's update, thanks!

Thanks for looking at this. Not a huge deal really but I think it could look nicer :)

Thanks, I'm running Gingerbread 2.3.3 with Sense 3.0, HTC Sensation (rooted but still stock ROM from Vodafone, if that makes any difference?)
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Happy to read your posts. Thanks for the feedback.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Thanks for the feedback.

The changes should be synced unless there is any internet connectivity issues with the tab. However, if you use both tab and phone at the same time, with the same google account things may go wrong (same when you use google reader web in 2 devices at the same time).
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
feature request: Add an option to not exit app after marking all as read but instead reload the reading list (to load new items that arrived in the meantime).
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
D7 Google Reader / D7 Reader Pro 1.9.3.2

This is another bug fix release and the change log is below.

Fixed "Add subscription" dialog hiding full screen bug

Fix for some Force Close errors

UI tweaks in Subscriptions screen

Fixed menu button for ICS tablet (Motorola Xoom)

Fixed text color in search box

Fixed widget update issue

Other minor fixes
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
I will consider this for the next update. cheers.
[Android Apps and Games] dbaybay:
The latest update broke d7 on my tablet. It's a honeycomb tablet and everytime I try to load an article my white background goes black and the text loads on top of each other several times making it completely unreadable. It happens in both RSS and the web view and only happens on my tab (not on my phone).

I tried clearing data/cache and reloading. Tried force stopping. I can't think of anything else. Do you have an apk for the previous version? Thanks

Nevermind, I used a backup from my phone and sideloaded it to the tablet. The older version is working just fine, so I can definitely say the new version has a bug in it for HC tablets.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Can you let me know which version works in your tablet?
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
It's fixed in the latest release (1.9.3.3). I didn't publish a change log here as it has just a couple of bug fixes.
[Android Apps and Games] dbaybay:
Yay :D

Just updated to the January 31st update and it's working perfectly again. For some reason the January 30th one didn't like HC, but I'm back to reading perfectly on my tab again, thanks so much!

EDIT: Just wanted to let you know I wrote an app review now that it's working again for my niche tablet group :D Awesome app man, I've used it forever now!
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Glad it works again for you.

Thanks for spreading the word to others. Really appreciate it!
[Android Apps and Games] scarmon25:
As always this is the best reader client. I've used it for what seems like forever and occasionally I check the competition to see what's new. Every time this app comes out on top. Keep up the great work man.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
You give me the boost to make the app even better. Thanks for the support!
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
D7 Google Reader / D7 Reader Pro 1.9.4

Next update is available in the market with new features and fixes for existing ones. Hope you will enjoy this release and provide the feedback as usual.

Change log 1.9.4

Open youtube videos (article view), in youtube app or browser

Disable downloading of images in Article to save internet data.

Article view has the same holo background as the other screens (ICS only)

Internal mobilizer speed improvements when navigating between articles.

Indicator for mobilised view within the article header.

When reading list is the startup screen, mark all as read action will not exit the app.
[Android Apps and Games] dbaybay:
Will the Pro Version also be getting this update? Just checked to see if I could update yet and the free version is new but not the Pro version.

Either way awesome job man, I use this app every single day and love it. It's been on three devices now and has replaced my newspaper and blog to blog searches for articles. Simply love it :D
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Yes, both versions have been updated. Android market may take sometime to show the new updates.

Thanks and Glad that you are a happy user of the app.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
Could you use different colors to indicate which mobilizer is used? Differentiating the G from IP isn't that easy. Or different position of the text. Just something to make it easier without requireing closer looks :)
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Do you mean using different colors for the article heading depending on the mobilizer? Can you be more specific about the colors suggestion?
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
The icon in upper right (RSS view/web view toggle) is showing a blue "G" or "IP", depending on the mobilizer selected. That icon could either use different colors or different text positions to help differentiating (there may of course be other ideas to improve it i'm not having right now).

Attached some quick drafts. Liking color best, but maybe other users want to give some feedback?
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
btw, any plans to add other mobilizers like RIL? http://readitlaterlist.com/api/docs/#text
[Android Apps and Games] markpud:
Hi,

I noticed I was running out of space on my SD card, and after checking the files I realised D7 is using over 20GB of space... looking into it further I found what looks to be files for every podcast I've downloaded, ever! 930 items in there!!!

Just want to see if this is just something weird on my phone, or anyone else noticed this?

the path on the SD card is \Android\data\com.droidlab7.reader.pro\files\[username]

The files here are .pcast format that my PC associates with iTunes...

I'm going to delete this lot, but wondering how I can tell which ones relate to the 18 podcasts I have currently in "saved items"??

Edit: I can rename each file to .mp3 to access it and see what they are. Which leads to a PS, can the album art be displayed in the D7 podcast player? :)
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Firstly, I'm amazed by the size of all the podcasts you have downloaded and you are not alone, everyone should have the same issue. Here is how it happens.

Orphan podcast files could be a result of uninstalling and re-installing the app. When uninstalling, the internal database gets deleted while the podcasts files remain and become orphans. Sadly there is no direct way of finding the orphan files from a application users view. You may try using the downloaded dates of the files to find the ones you want to delete.

I will add an option to delete the orphan podcats from the saved items view in the next release. Sorry for the inconvenience.
[Android Apps and Games] markpud:
Yep, I listen to podcasts all day while working, but pre-download them at home on WiFi due to data capping :(

Thanks for the details, I'll look forward to the next update.. have deleted some of them manually to clear a few GB of space, but left some more so I can test your "orphan killer" :D

Thanks again for all your hard work :)
[Android Apps and Games] no_one_can:
Could I sort my subscriptioin lists in the same order as the web version?

thanks for your great app :)
[Android Apps and Games] jdstrydom:
Liked it, bought it. Works very well. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Currently this is not supported. This was suggested before and still in my todo list. I may do it one day :).

Thanks for your support!
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Using the logos to indicate the mobilizer seems like a good option but I'm still thinking whether it will make a big difference. I will try something to make this better.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Have you tried/seen this? Is it any better than GWT or IP?

EDIT: Just tried it, it's not as good as GWT or IP and it's not consistent as well. Looks like it can only mobilize simple pages.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
the RIL mobilizer is the same used by the RIL app and I've found it returns results far better than GWT, not sure about how it compares to IP. Only site I ever had that didn't mobilize properly was one I then reported to them and that then got fixed.

Personally I find the favicons too noisy. My vote still goes to the different color ones after having used them for a day. Very easy to recognize and completly unobstrusive.

ICS actually deletes the data in /sdcard/Android/data/ on uninstall.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
Some slight improvements to the logo I published before:

- made the blue more blue, less cyan

- reduced the glow at the top

- made the "7" shine through rss icon

- fixed shadow
[Android Apps and Games] Falipene:
Dark theme, not so dark

I've using your app since it came out, and bought it. I love reading at night on the SAMOLED screen, pure black background.

Since I updated to ICS, your app change the black color (until GB), for the new "grey look" of ICS.

Looks cool on LCDs, but I really loved old black for reading.

Thanks for your app!
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
looks nice, but still not ready to change my mind. Thanks for your effort.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Thanks for your continued support!

I really like the holo theme (on my SAMOLED sgs1) and the dark gradient of ICS and I thought the others would do the same. Some users here also wanted to have the holo theme as well.

I will consider making this as an option if this is requested by more users.
[Android Apps and Games] Falipene:
Thanks,

There's people out there how loves black apps. See inverted apps, and saves battery. Talk inverted looks amazing :D

About the holo theme, I liked it too, however reading at pure darkness, low brightness and grey typo.

Thanks again for your app!
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
Well that’s the nice thing about android: you can easily change stuff. I just put my icon in the apk and have it the way I like :-) Only annoying for updates but well, gotta make some sacrifices ;-)

I really like the fanciness of the ICS gradient, but battery use is a valid concern I guess. If making it an option isn’t much work I’d vote for it, but no hard feelings about it.
[Android Apps and Games] nanny07:
Really an amazing app! Thanks you so much
[Android Apps and Games] markpud:
Hi, sorry for chasing you up, but do you think you'll be able to release the update for this soon? Just ran out of space on my SD card again :D
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
That's alright. I had been busy with my work and family matters and didn't enough time to spend on this. However, this feature was already done though.

I can send you a test version in a day or two if you want to try it. Let me know if it's ok with you.
[Android Apps and Games] markpud:
No problem mate, happy to test it for you whenever you can :)
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Thanks mate!

Please check your PM.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
v1.9.5 change log

A new version of the app has been released to the Google Play.

Here is the change log.

Fixed: app links within articles opens in Google Play

Fixed: adding subscription will now refresh the subscriptions list

Fixed: InstaPaper (IP) mobilizer background in dark theme

New menu action to remove the un-used files (saved files/podcasts without a reference) in saved items

Recommended items now returns the same results as in google reader

Other bugs and stability fixes

Please provide your feedback as usual.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
Any plans for Readability support? Or a custom URL field so one could send an article to any url they like?
[Android Apps and Games] evilspoons:
This program is great. I just stumbled on to it while flipping through these forums. You've got exactly the same criteria for Reader on a mobile device as I do!

You can probably expect another Pro version purchase in the near future :D
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
I've been looking at Readability API. I may add it in the next version if all is well.
[Android Apps and Games] droidlab7:
Good to know that you like my app.

Thanks for your support!
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
spend some more time on the UI:

- Replaced all toolbar icon with proper standardized ICS icons

- also the homescreen icons though I guess I'd prefer slightly colored icons there (like in Google+) but as I hardly ever look at that screen I didn't feel like spending too much time on it

- ICS style notification icon

- tweaked icon a bit more

what's missing:

- proper action bar / title bar backgrounds (light grey in light theme, transparent with hwa-background in dark theme)

- some icons that have only one icon for both themes need both dark and light versions

- make homescreen label text always have the same color (black) as the background is always light

For some reason the share bar is broken when I recompile the apk though so I couldn't fix those (without breaking share bar).

Would be appreciated if you could incorporate these changed to make it a properly ICS-styled app :)

Edit 31.03.:

- had forgotten the active star icon

- replaced the 2-icon toggles for rss/mobilizer with 1-icon buttons to remove clutter

Edit 1.4.:

- better quality share app icons

- star/rss icons for lists

- todo: label/rss icons for lists. there's only 1 icon for both themes, needs different ones as well, so not theming those for now.
[Android Apps and Games] markpud:
Migration to a new device

Hi there,

I've just upgraded to the HTC One X, and was wondering about transferring my saved podcasts across to the new device.

I've tried copying from the podcast save location on my Sensation's SD card to the corresponding location on the One X (copied 2 files with the same ID in the filename, one without extension and one .pcast). Unfortunately it doesn't seem to pick this up..

Is there a way to do this, without having to figure out the feed items I downloaded them from and re-downloading (a couple are old ones I've saved from months ago!)?

Any tips appreciated.

PS One X highly recommended after 1 day :D
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
you'll probably have to copy d7s directory from /datadata/ as well. Titanium Backup or adb, both require root though.
[Android Apps and Games] markpud:
Thanks I suspected it would be easiest with Titanium.. my old phone is rooted but not the new one yet tho!
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
Readitlater just fuglified their app :-( Are you working on Readability/"send to custom url"(so it can be used with any of these services) support?
[Android Apps and Games] Koying:
.pcast files

Hi,

Any reason the podcast files are saved with a .pcast extension?

I assume they really are mp3 and would like to be able able to read them with my music player...
[Android Apps and Games] azunino:
WOW! this is the best news reader I have tried. love the swipe gestures.
[Android Apps and Games] markpud:
Yeah they are mp3 files and you can rename them.. I presume they have been named .pcast so they don't get randomly picked up by the music player??

I would prefer it myself if they were saved as mp3s as I have a few issues with the podcast player stopping mid podcast which I've reported before... :)