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[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey guys, just a little heads up on my plans for Minimal Reader Pro, would like your opinion on it.

I have an idea on how to pre parse the full articles to cache offline for truncated RSS Feeds. I want to implement it, but there is one issue : it takes quite some time / data to preparse and store a lot of articles.

So I got this idea, how about if i make it so you can select which sources to preparse (typically the feeds that you know are truncated) and setup a little UI to schedule the preparsing at a certain time every day (typically just before leaving work, like 8am for me). That way it would do all the hard work while on wifi, saving data, and you have all the news ready to go for the day.

There would also be a manual button to preparse all articles from the selected sources.

What do you guys think? Any suggestions on the UI ? I was thinking long press a source on the browse tab, and an entry in the general settings to manage the schedule and the list of selected sources.
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
Sounds good, though I do not exaxtly know, what truncated RSS Feeds are. I assume, it are normal feeds, not Google Reader? If so, maybe you could add an option to not load images for that feed, if one is not on WIFI. That way, it would consume much less data. Also an option to load only images that are lower than ...MB might be helpful, so preparsing could be done without WIFI, when I am not at home.

BTW: Still having the issue that the app closes/crashes when I am pressing an article from the ''all'' tab.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
By truncated feeds, I mean google reader feeds that only show the first line a few lines of the article, forcing you to go to the browser to read the full story. That's what I'm trying to avoid.

as for the crash, could you send me a log ? I haven't had any crashes in ages and been using it every day.
[Android Apps and Games] grievous2004:
1/ what do you like about the app

Look is gorgeous and usage is fluid and painless

2/ what do you miss (compared to other news app maybe)

- read/unread toggle (it would be useful both in the article and in the list view)

- refresh on startup (I don't sync my list periodically: I just need it to sync when I open the app)

- search feature

3/ how would you improve it

Adding the features above would improve the reader IMO. And perhaps, talking about truncated RSS, it would be nice to set a default view

(full article or mobilized) instead of the classic article one in the subscriptions that have truncated articles.

Anyway you did a great work and can't wait to see improvements :)
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
Logs are in attachment. Hope, they are helpful.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Never seen this stacktrace in my life lol

09-27 17:24:36.407 E/JavaBinder(2116): !!! FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION !!!

09-27 17:24:36.407 W/ActivityManager(2116): Exception when starting activity com.jv.minimalreader/.app.item.FeedItemActivity

09-27 17:24:36.407 W/ActivityManager(2116): android.os.TransactionTooLargeException

Have you reinstalled the app lately ? maybe a clear data uninstall / reinstall will help, you might have an article that's extremely long and crashes the fragment transaction.
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
I have already tried this, but I could try this again.

Edit: Did not work. But as I said, error only occurs on the all tab.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
How many feeds / labels do you import ? so I try to reproduce it with the same amount of data?
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
I had 6 different feeds and a total of 120 articles loaded, when I tried it after the reinstall.

Edit: After playing around a bit, I figured out, that the error occurs after adding more than 4 feeds. It is interesting, that it is still working, when I am selecting an article from the widget.
[Android Apps and Games] ingenious247:
Only if there's an option to opt out of our turn off that feature. Unnecessary, at least for me
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
hmmm ok I'll look into it. Thanks for the report.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
will definetly be an option
[Android Apps and Games] ingenious247:
Sweet, then great idea!
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
Any way you can add an option to use the old smaller thumbnails in the reader instead of the new larger thumbnails?

Not only do I think the thumbnails are not that important with RSS feeds to warrant their largeness, but the new larger thumbnails replace the first couple sample lines of an article which I enjoyed previously. Plus, the new larger thumbnails pushes the feed list longer thus requiring more scrolling.

Please allow us to use the old style! Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
No problem, thank you for looking into it :good:
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey guys ! just published a new update on Google Play.

** NEW in v3.3 **

- *NEW FEATURE* -

Pre-download full articles - this is useful for feeds that only show a preview of the story. The complete article gets pre-downloaded and is available offiline. Simply click the download button next to the feed name in the browser tab.

- New option to set the list layout (4 options)

- Infinite scrolling lists

- New settings layout

- General bugfixes and improvements

The app should be smoother and more stable as well. Give me some feedback :)

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
Thank you for fixing the bug that I was experiencing. Only bugs are that the rate app option does only open the Play Store and not the app's page on Google Play, which would be more helpful and that the icon on the top left corner of the settings is not leading back to the main view, when pressed.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Glad the bug is fixed, thanks for pointing it out.

The rate button goes straight to the app's page for me. Are you sure it takes you to the Home of Google play every time ?

As for the up button on the settings, you're right, I'll fix it asap.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
Tested it again and now it works. I don't know why, but when I tested it before, it led me to the starting page of the Play Store every time, but I was not able to reproduce it when I tested it now.
[Android Apps and Games] andryyyy:
Will test it now! :) But too bad you only get 10 minutes for cash-back by google ;(

oh, i see there is a free version, too :P anyway
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Free version is quite old :( need to work on it.
[Android Apps and Games] Aurielle:
Would it be possible to add option to cache to SD card instead of phone's internal storage? My phone's memory is quite small and although I use link2sd for every app, data from Minimal Reader still take up more than 10 MB with couple of feeds and everyday refreshing.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
The probblem is that widgets can't work with their data moved to the SD card. You can use the main app (Pro version) with all data moved to SD though.
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
I guess that is, why he asked to add an option that allows to store the cache on the SD card, while the app is still on the phone.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Right. It would be good to have on option to move only images to the SD card indeed. I'll work on it.
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
Great, hope that solves Aurielles problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Aurielle:
Thanks for clarification, I meant image cache :)
[Android Apps and Games] Isomir:
Hi; I'm having a problem, and I haven't found a solution on here; I have MRP loaded onto my nexus 7, and up until yesterday it was loading the RSS feeds just fine; I open my nexus this morning, and it tells me that there's no news - I synched, but that failed, cleared the cache, and that failed to after I reinstalled the app.
[Android Apps and Games] jbaruch76:
after reading an article on minimal reader pro, it is not marked as read in google reader. is there any way to fix this? very annoying to figure out which articles i have or haven't read yet.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
That is strange. My first intuition would be that your google reader token has expired, but I made it so the token gets renewed automatically (sometimes the first refresh fails but renews the token, then the second refresh works fine).

Do you still have the issue? does it happen with all your feeds/labels ?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
When you hit refresh in the app, all read articles in the app are marked as read on google reader. The other way is not implemented yet, I'm working on it.
[Android Apps and Games] jbaruch76:
yeah, i have no problem having minimal reader look nice and neat, but google reader has become a mess due to how many articles i read on the app.
[Android Apps and Games] kjjjjshab:
New user today - looking for a refresh over the stale NewsRob...

One thing that has bothered me quite a bit so far is the "Tap to Show Old News"... I dislike this very much as I accidentally register taps when trying to slide scroll. Very annoying to have the old articles load. Would rather have the tap be a refresh or nothing.

Could do without having to OK marking all as read.

But, really, nice work! These comments are not meant to be taken as complaints - just observations after 15 minutes of use... Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] paleozord:
In the market description for the free version of Minimal Reader, it says that you have merged the pro and free versions together. However, they seem to be un-merged at the moment. Is that description text out of date and no longer accurate?
[Android Apps and Games] Fr33L4nc3r:
Hello,

Just discovered this app following the French Android Bundle and I have to say it didn't took more than 30 seconds to uninstall Google Reader's App :D

However, few feedback :

When you switch to landscape mode, you get twice the buttons in the top bar (show and mark), see screenshot.

When I read an article inside this App, Google Reader content is refreshed (article is marked as read).

But the contrary is not true. If I have unread items in the App, and I read them all in Google Reader, they will still appear as unread into the App, even if I hit refresh several times.

This is a major issue for people like me constantly switching between laptop and device :(

Otherwise, good job :good:
[Android Apps and Games] paleozord:
In the free version it seems like you are FORCED to integrate with Google reader even if you don't want to. Although you can add RSS feeds independently without linking to Google, it is impossible to refresh/update such feeds as you're always presented with an "refresh failed (sync lost)" error message. I have no interest in routing my rss feeds through Google's service and prefer to retrieve them separately from the source hosts. Is the paid 3.3 version any more accommodating of this desire than the free edition?
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
Maybe it is only a bug.
[Android Apps and Games] CarlosBattousai:
Hope to see this us the lockscreen widgets in 4.2 soon!
[Android Apps and Games] TEdit:
Nice, testing...
[Android Apps and Games] malih16:
I like it

I like that:

I can choose different layout for news list.

I like the Dark theme, Google Reader is all white.

I don't have to launch the browser/another app when I want to see the full article (a big plus)

Things I'm missing from Google Reader:

When I turn off sync, it always auto-loads new feeds when I open the app, but with Minimal Reader if set to manual refresh, I have to press refresh button first. (I have the option 'Show unread news on startup' checked/enabled)

I like that I can create shortcut to a label in homescreen with Google Reader, so I can jump right to that label without swiping to it first.

Going back to Google Reader for now, I just hate to have to press button to refresh.
[Android Apps and Games] MrBusiness:
+ Design

+ Smoothness

- Auto Sync on start/close as any other Google Reader App

- can't sync back to google wich articles are read (seams like a bug, not a feature)
[Android Apps and Games] jadmanx:
hey i love your app and i buy the app.

i whant to know

-how can i make that no text comes when no new unreadet news are there. i downt whant to see "No unread items to display Refresh might be needed"

-i can not save image whan i "klick" on it in the news reader ... (whan i klick it open the page) ...

-Is there a way to integrate a readability optin like greader have it ?

-There a way to optimise the youtube rss feed? i can not see a preview image of the video and the video downt start immediately whan i klick on it.

-there a way to integrate text-to-speach ? must wow!!!

i love to pay for every option of this!!!!

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Batfan:
Love the app but, it's really missing some key features for me:

The ability to remove the limit on the number of articles displayed

The ability to easily access older, read items.

When I go to the 'Favourites' tab, I want to be able to access ALL of my favorited (starred) articles.

The synching does not seem to be working reliably. Often times I'll have read articles and when I log onto Google Reader (desktop) the next day, those articles

Because of these flaws, I'm still having to use the Google Reader app as my main reader.
[Android Apps and Games] dreadflopp:
Tried the app and I really liked it but it showed only 50 unread posts in a feed Google reader showed 230 unread in. Maybe you have a limit to how many posts can be displayed or how old they can be? Refund for now but I will buy it if this gets fixed. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] :
I like this app, but the sync (32 feeds) is so slow. Reader HD syncs in 10 seconds, Minimal Reader in more than 30 seconds. Please fix that. Thanks!

And one feature request: When i click on a button, it will jump back to "All".

Example: when i slide to my last feed (32 feeds), i must slide back to "All" (32 slids). With the button i can jump to "All" direktly.
[Android Apps and Games] CyberStorm98:
I'd love a way to quickly jump to my feed list or favorites. The interface is great, but if I'm far into my feeds and want to quickly jump to another feed that isn't next door its really annoying. I'd love a button with quick access to my feed list.
[Android Apps and Games] azrash:
Thanks for an amazing app. The only feature that I miss is mark as unread option. Sometimes I want to read the post again.

Sent from my Desire Z
[Android Apps and Games] enilkcals:
Not all feeds appear in the reading list

Really like the nice clean presentation of Minimal Reader Pro.

Unfortunately I find it only lists 25 of the 110 RSS feeds I follow via Google Reader. I've tried refreshing the list several times (start Minimal Reader, goto Browse then hit the 'Refresh' button) but it doesn't change at all. Those with new posts unread are bold white text, those with nothing new to read are normal text and grey. I'd expect to see all 110 RSS feeds listed even if there isn't anything new on them.

Feel like I'm missing something obvious, so any pointers appreciated.

Cheers,

enil
[Android Apps and Games] andryyyy:
Hi,

I really like this app! I just have a small bug which appears from time to time when scrolling left and right. The title then does not scroll to its final position.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] charliekay74:
Crolling News Feeds

Hi, can you integrate random news feed scrolling? Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
:good:
[Android Apps and Games] ilangoadigal:
I'm having problems with multiple widgets. It seems that articles from one widget "bleeds" onto another for some inexplicable reason. Is there a fix for this?

Also is there a reason why MRP is not syncing read items on Google Reader? I want it to sync ALL items, not just unread items. Right now it leaves huge gaps in my feeds and I don't know how to fix it. Compare the following between APW and MRP-
[Android Apps and Games] TheLexus:
Falcon for Twitter Design

Is there any plan to add the widget design of Falcon for Twitter as option to Minimal Reader Pro Widgets?
[Android Apps and Games] pardu:
I've had minimal reader pro for a while, and the images on the widget seem to load randomly, for most of the unread news they do not load at all.

Any idea why?

Nic.
[Android Apps and Games] andy_rose:
nm
[Android Apps and Games] JSiNeM:
What's the plan now that Google Reader is shutting down???
[Android Apps and Games] Obscurax:
^ 2nd, Loved the simplicity of Google Reader, it's a shame it' shutting down. I hope this won't be the end of Minimal Reader.

EDIT:

Maybe the dev could have a look at Normandy?

Seems like a clone of the Google Reader API.

http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
[Android Apps and Games] SayWhat10:
Wheres the option to download the full article as said was a new feature? I dont see it

STill getting 5 lines,then have to load up website
[Android Apps and Games] ingenious247:
I think the only thing that matters right now is what is going to happen after they shut down Google Reader, effectively destroying Minimal Reader which has been a staple of all my android devices for what seems like forever

Joe??! Please tell us you have a plan!
[Android Apps and Games] metalwraith:
That'll be interesting to see what happens when google reader goes bye bye for alot of apps that use it.
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
I was floored when they shut down Google Reader in general but tack on to the fact that Minimal Reader may go as well, Google has killed the way I use my tech and how I access information.

Hopefully MRP can be saved somehow.
[Android Apps and Games] kjjjjshab:
Deleted.
[Android Apps and Games] talhamid:
All I want is:

Make a widget option like FeedR. In that one the headings from a single feed appear on the widget, while other feeds are available via arrows. I haven't seen this functionality in ANY other feed reader, and the FeedR widget is ugly. Make it vertically scrollable, and horizontally movable thru arrows, and take my money.
[Android Apps and Games] schakusa:
when I use 2 or more widgets freezes my phone (just one works great), anyway to fix it?
[Android Apps and Games] jbaruch76:
so i guess it's dead?
[Android Apps and Games] ingenious247:
Kinda looking that way, unfortunately.
[Android Apps and Games] Y.G.:
When I try to add a new feed to Reader account, it doesn't show up in my Reading List. Anyone had this problem?
[Android Apps and Games] Brivs Mekis:
tasker action intent

hi there

i am trying to figure out how to use tasker to update the widget.

does anyone know what the action intent would be to do this using tasker?

thanks in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
Development

I hope this app is still in development, since I want to continue to use it after google discontinues its reader service.
[Android Apps and Games] aspitzer:
I wrote him a couple times (no response though) on a feature request of allowing arbitrary RSS feeds. I have moved on to tt-rss now that google reader is in intensive care. tt-rss allow exporting a whole group of feeds as a single feed. So it would be possible to read all my "news" feeds in a single feed.

There are already a bunch of RSS widgets that allow specifying the rss feed manually, but none of them are as nice as MRP.
[Android Apps and Games] ekjl:
Anyone able to get in touch with the developer to see what his intentions are with this app after July 1st?

He seems to be MIA on this matter.
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
He seems to be MIA in general. Would hate to have to stop using this app. One of my top ones.
[Android Apps and Games] ingenious247:
He used to be very responsive, so I would assume he has decided to abandon the app.

Shame too because he is an excellent dev
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
But he never said anything, but now he has a successful twitter client...
[Android Apps and Games] NoXion1:
Well, it looks like I came to this thread a bit late. I was hoping to get some answers from the dev on when to expect a fix for the many bugs in the pro ver. (widget refresh on MRP 4x4 not working, random incorrect articles appearing in widgets upon article open, thumbnail refresh inconsistent or not at all, etc.)

From reading earlier posts, it looks like the dev abandoned this project.

I'm pretty surprised because just 2 days ago he updated his new twitter app, Falcon Pro. MRP hasn't had an update in 5 months. :banghead:

It's a real shame because the aforementioned bugs render this app unusable, at least for me.

If anyone knows the name of a comparable rss app with nice looking widgets, please PM me. :cool:

Sent from Galaxy S2 LTE (SGH-I727R)
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
The dev should be reachable via Twitter, its [MENTION=3092189]Joenrv[/MENTION], so lets request an answer from him, maybe, if enough people are requesting it, he will answer..
[Android Apps and Games] XTCrefugee:
I just tweeted at him about Google Reader, and his response about an update is "I want to. But I'm not sure I'll be able to do it in time...". It will be a real shame to have to find another RSS app/widget if it comes to that :(
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, I apologize for the long silence, my focus has been entirely on Falcon these past 6 months.

I'm aware of the Google Reader shutdown, and I ****ing hate it.

Before the announcement, I was planning a massive redesign and refactor of Minimal Reader Pro, with an innovative UI, and focus even more on the offline capabilities.

After the announcement, I started to look for alternatives, but quickly abandonned as I couldn't find anything worthy, and I had a lot to do on Falcon.

Now that the Falcon development is slowing down, I have 2 alternatives :

1/ Beg feedly for an API access

2/ Allow adding of custom RSS urls

3/ Ditch RSS completely, move on to a mobilizer, like I do on Falcon

Solution n.1 is viable, but I don't really like that I build again something on top of some else's platform and be dependent of them.

With solution n.2 and 3, there's a big problem. Every single news source will have to be requested separately, drastically increasing data/battery consumption of refreshing which would become quite slow...

In the end, I think I'll retire Minimal Reader Pro in July, to come back with a new app, using my own solution (prob n.3), and if people like it, I'll rent a server to have my own API of cross device syncing, feeds aggregation, etc...

For the timeframe, I honestly have no idea when I'll get time for this. I'm starting a new job mid July which will probably require my full attention at least for a few months.

I'll announce everything on Twitter (@joenrv) when I have something to show.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] clel:
Finally...

I would prefer solution 1 as well, but it does not have to be only feedly. You could integrate some more services, like commafeed that offers an api. I know that you prefer setting up an own server, but I would really like to have external services supported, of which I can choose. It would also be a bit less work since you would not have to do the RSS server stuff.

So I would suggest to do a quick integration of at least one third party service similar to GReader. Later you can always add an own server etc., but until that your users that like your app very much and do not want to live without it would be satisfied.

I hope you rethink your decision to retire Minimal Reader and implement an easy way to keep the app alive until you come up with something like an own server etc.
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
Please do n.1.

I need and use MRP everyday so retiring it would be the worst.

At least try to use the Feedly APIs and see how it works? If it's not great, then retire and go for a new method.

If you're not really going to have time, I assume option 1 would be the easiest thing.
[Android Apps and Games] dsa88:
1. There's http://theoldreader.com the clone of GReader, should be easy to integrate, get API, since most of the Min.Reader users do not actually need feedly magazine style. Just good old RSS feeds.

2. Please, can you at least update twitter API to 1.1 on Minimal Twidget?

I'll hate losing two good, major apps on 2 of my home screens in just a two weeks.