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[Android Apps and Games] raenye:
Whoa, you're quick :)

More suggestions:

1) Reading Engadget's feed in the eye-with-list mode, the photos are too wide for the screen.

Can they be auto-scaled like in the just-eye mode?

(My problem with the just-eye mode is that it only shows part of the text)

2) The star icon should IMHO be in the same line with the other icons.

3) The icons are beautiful and effective --- once you know what they stand for.

I suggest you add a help button (that can be configured not to show, once you get the hang of it), that will call upon a quick tutorial (e.g., a screenshot of the interface with individual button explanations).
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
The eye in the circle is a text (simple) only preview, which also includes an image from the feed. The eye with a list is a 'web' or 'original' view mode, that is original feed content in a webview. I can change the original one, but I think it would be even better to modify text preview. Right now i have limited it to displaying only the first 5 lines of a feed item, but that thing will also be configurable.

Regarding the star, you are also right, will add an option to move it to the item's quick action menu (buttons) or keep it where it is now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atz-GnEDevk is a quick introduction to using the app

Thank you a lot for your feedback!
[Android Apps and Games] raenye:
Some more ideas and comments (tell me if you're fed up with feedback, I'll understand...)

- only after watching the video I could get some of the buttons (e.g., mark previous as read). But the video is almost 10 minutes long, and people don't have much patience for it. A quick what-buttons-do is imperative, IMHO.

- some buttons have a wide, irreversible effect (e.g., mark all/previous as read). An undo button could prove useful. Or perhaps a confirmation dialog?

- since I tend to read feeds with many small items, the most important button for me is "mark single item as read". The button is rather small, so I can only hit it 80% of the time; in the other 20%, I change the preview mode. Maybe there should be an easier way to mark individual items as read, for instance make it possible to choose which button precedes the item title (where the star currently is), so people like me could put the mark-as-read button there.

- when switching orientation (portrait <-> landscape), it closes the current item and resets the preview mode (to text). Usually the reason for me to rotate the phone is to get more width for a specific item that needs it (e.g., has an html table), so please make it remember :)

- would it be possible to choose whether text/web preview is the default? I always use web preview

- jreader's icon keeps swinging in the notification bar for hours. Does it mean it's working? completed?

- in the filters activity, I think it's better to have similar icons for backup and restore; maybe a diskette with in/out arrow?

- in the add/edit filter activity, I think it'd be more clear to have some other UI element instead of a checkbox to choose between "title only" and "title and contents", perhaps a push button; also, what does the crosshair button do?

- in the movie it seems to work, but on my device I cannot chose to which label/feed a filter is applied. I only have "any feed" / "any label" in the drop-down boxes.

Thanks again!
[Android Apps and Games] Athhar:
Feels great...thanks
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Have posted an update to Google Play correcting this bug, should be available in couple of hours, version 01.01.337
[Android Apps and Games] raenye:
Even mark-all? how often do people do this?

In any case, the dialog could be configurable in the preferences (and also have a "never show again" checkbox, for lazy people who never change defaults)

An erroneous mark-all on a 1000+ items feed is simply losing all progress in the feed. No way I'm undoing these one-by-one...

Thanks. I had to manually force close and restart seven times to get ~3300 images sync'ed.

Manual "stop sync" did not work, btw.

Better to sync it to the Google account IMHO. Google reader users already have Google accounts, and creating another account is always a mess.

If (that is, when:)) your app gets popular, do you really want to deal with bandwidth/maintenance/security issues?

I guess you mean radio buttons, unless you want to allow choosing multiple options.

Personally I think of checkboxes as "on/off" settings; how about the UI element used for selecting numbers (e.g., when setting the hour/minute for an alarm)?

Not sure how it's called, but it behaves much like a drop-down box, with swiping instead of tap-to-open and tap-to-select.

Perhaps, if it has no effect when accessing the filters from the main list, gray-out the buttons?

Another unrelated suggestion: if I want to create a filter very similar to an existing one, perhaps the context menu could have "duplicate this filter" option that will create a new filter based on the current filter's settings? then I'll just edit it quickly.

It can also serve an a replacement for the "default filter settings" preference item, which I find not too convenient.

Installed the update; it's working, thanks.

Not sure why would I want to choose both a label and a feed, though. For me, labels are folders grouping individual feeds together.

See there: the guy just didn't get the mark-item-as-done button.

I know it advances to the next item, and that unread items are simply not displayed (or, if view-read is enabled, have a darker background), but here's an example of someone not getting a very basic functionality.

A cheat-sheet interface screenshot with button names is quick to create (and to maintain!) and much more useful than a 10-minutes video.

Thanks again for the quick update and full attention :)
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Have posted a couple of updates to Google Play, solving some of the issues.

Could you please check if the text only view with current customization is ok on your feeds? And the mark read button (and others), have added some additional padding around the icons, which is also clickable, i hope it will solve the miss hits.

Will work on the sync issue a little bit later, i think of implementing full article download for offline reading first.

Regarding the filters sync, yes i meant to use a web service on jyvee.com where a user could login with his google account and manage filters. I'm not sure how i could sync it to google.

Yes, i meant radio buttons. We'll check all of them and see which one works best.

Cross-hairs will be grayed-out and copy-filter-to-a-new-one can be added, but lets see how often you need that copy feature. Doesn't just copying of the text of a filter and pasting into a new one work?

Regarding the feeds and labels in the filters, s feed can be in multiple labels, multiple accounts, multiple accounts can have similar labels, etc.

And the final, have added a quick help menu option. It is currently only icon descriptions, but will add required info as it gets necessary.

Thank you very much!
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Can anyone confirm if the app works on optimus 2x?

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] justauser:
Very promising app. I think a great strength of this over all the rest of the readers, and I've tried them all, is the watch capability. Here are a few comments on missing functionality compared to other top readers:

- labels: I can't see my labels/tags and can't tag items.

- List view UI: when I want to see all items in a folder I'd like to be able to group by feed or by date and if by date, start with oldest or newest first.

- storage: are items stored on SD? If so, you should add an automatic cleanup that keeps items for N days. If you do this, please allow the user to keep all starred or tagged items even if they are older than the cleanup window.

- disable images/videos: I don't want images or videos downloaded /displayed in the item display. Also, you should have an option to disable javascript in the item display as well. Images are used for tracking and JavaScript can cause security issues.

Again, very nice start and lots of promise. Look at things like gReader and Goodnews for ideas of useful options.
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Hi,

Thank you very much for your comments!

This app was born several months ago around the idea of filtering and watching for posts that interest you. I have also checked a lot of various options (online services, desktop apps, mobile apps) and even-though the field of rss readers is highly competitive and there are tons of amazing apps (like gReader, Newsrob, etc) i haven't found any that would minimize the time i spent to get the news i want to read.

- What do you mean by labels/tags? The first activity that opens when you start the app lists labels/tags your feeds belong to. Is there any other tagging option in Google Reader? Do you mean I should implement additional labeling for items (in local DB)?

- Date ordering will be added in future versions;

- Data is stored in the database in internal memory, images - in external one. No need to perform a manual clean up, it is done automatically after each synchronization (all read items except starred ones are deleted). No need for backup - everything is synced to Google Reader.

- I'll will add a preference to disable (not download) images, good idea. Javascript and plug-ins are not enabled in item list previews (short previews might images of from youtube or vimeo videos, but not the actual plug-ins), but are enabled in full preview activity (most of the sites require it to display content properly, but it can be disabled in preferences.)

The app is being actively developed and I push updates almost daily. Currently working more on stability issues and bug fixes, need to do some Google Play marketing (the app is failing in that field a lot, needs some good reviews), but I have lots of ideas on how to improve our news-reading experience :) and looking forward to hearing more suggestions from users.

Thank you very much!
[Android Apps and Games] justauser:
Some answers

All of the other readers have "tags". In Google Reader in settings there is a tab called "folders and tags". You can tag items so that you can group/identify them for later use. As far as I can tell, tags and folders are the same thing but if a label has only items it is a tag and if it has feeds it is a folder. These are set/removed and sent to Google Reader and *not* stored locally. Usually when you tag an item most readers also mark it read, but some make this an option.

Sometimes folks want to keep read items around for later use. Most readers allow this. Keeping starred is great but when you add tags, also keep tagged. And when you sync, bring down starred / tagged items thta are marked as read, because we tend to read the feeds on multiple devices and may read on a phone, star there and then sync a tablet and want to see the starred items, even though they are tagged.

Thanks for adding the option not to download images. Save bandwidth. Understand that in full content view (basically web view) you have to show the content. This is fine with me.

As for Play/reviews, I think the key is pushing your strength in watches/filtering. No one else does this and it is typically a feature of the best desktop readers: feeddemon and rssowl. You're adding filtering/watches makes this the first reader as powerful as the desktops. Of course, you need to add the tags and other stuff so that you match the needed usability.

Will keep an eye on the product.
[Android Apps and Games] ngonchan:
I have two Google accounts on my Milestone, but JReader always said that 'No accounts defined'. Any ideas? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Hi ngonchan,

Would you agree to help me to troubleshoot the issue? PM me if you can.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
I think it was a theming issue on Froyo-Gingerbread , if that is the case it should be corrected.

Can I ask users with 2.2-2.3 test it out?

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] ngonchan:
With the latest update from Google Play, now I can easily select my account. It's fixed the "hard to read" issue in the image that I sent you some minutes ago also :)

Thanks.

//Just fyi, Im using 2.3
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Thank you ngonchan for informing me and helping to find a solution for this issue.
[Android Apps and Games] mario_001:
I was trying to install jreader on my sister's phone but could not find it in google play
[Android Apps and Games] justauser:
Just downloaded the latest. When I mark a feed / folder read that has 30+ items in it the app hangs.

I find the reading experience awkward. If I select a feed I see the items, but when I mark read I'd expect the next feed in that folder to open or, if I've finished the folder, to go back to the main screen. Without this, too many keystrokes. I would use the whole folder view but without grouping by feed it is awkward, since many feeds have multiple items that need to be read together - feeds for discussions or checkins or the like.
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Hangs on marking 30+ items shouldn't happen. I tested marking up to 10000 items and in that case it only takes about a second. Background sync might also cause that (2 processes modifying the database simultaneously) , if that is the case I'm continuously optimizing the sync process and hope that will be solved soon.

Open feed should get closed when all items in that feed are marked read and you should return to the previous label unless you have set to show read items in the list (second button from the left on the action bar). When show read items is enabled, marking all the items read does not dismiss them, they are still displayed and that's why the feed is not closed.

Please let me know if you still experience hangs on marking items as read.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] raenye:
Got some mixed images today.

By mixed images I mean the following: I have a high-volume feed in which each item has a small image. I noticed that in some items the image displayed is incorrect, and comes from another item in the same feed. The original item, to which the image belongs, shows the correct image.

I cannot reproduce, so I'll keep track of it and report if it happens again.

Also: the animation of the notification icon is pretty annoying :eek: Perhaps make the animation optional?
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Hello raenye!

I have changed image caching logic a bit with v.1.1.469. On previous versions, folders were created for each item in external cache dir (sdcard/Android/data/com.jyvee.jreader/cache/). I noticed that there were way too many duplicates (mainly same feed item htmls re-use most of the graphics, but happens across the feeds too), so i have tweaked it (not only because of the duplicates). The transition should have been painless for users meaning that images downloaded with prior syncs should be kept until items are marked read, but images for new items are cached in new way. The only reason I can think of for that strange behavior with image display is that there might be a bug in transition, but it should get corrected as you use the app and old items are marked read (deleted). You can also clear cache for the app and re-sync. This will clear internal cache (databases, preferences, webview cache) but will not modify external cache (external cache is cleared only on un-install). After that, sync will download only missing images (with new logic) and the cleanup process will remove old foldered item image cache. Let's see if this happens again, I'll try to dig dipper in that case.

Will add an option to change Sync notification icon (default animated, static, none (do not display sync notifications)). Currently working on theme support and it requires a bit more work (testing) than usual changes, but I hope I'll be able to push an update by the end of the day or tomorrow. Have decided to re-arrange preferences too. Will keep only the basic stuff in main prefs window and will move the rest to the 'Advanced' screen.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Have uploaded an updated version with theme support and many other improvements and additions. Notification feature is implemented too.
[Android Apps and Games] sUsH667:
thx for this cool app!

are there any plans to supply it with a dark theme too?

that would be friggin' awesome...

keep up the good work!

thx n greetz,

sUsH
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Thanks! A new version has been uploaded to Google Play with theme support an hour ago :)

More features to come ...
[Android Apps and Games] sUsH667:
absolutely amazing!

again, thx!

and even if i normally prefer simple inverted apps, in this case the jreader dark theme is even better!

so thank you for this great work and keep it up!

EDIT: when using the jreader dark theme the popups are still white, would be cool if they would fit the chosen theme. just a suggestions though...

greetz n thx,

sUsH
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Make sure to set google play to update apps automatically (on wifi only if you prefer), another is coming today-tomorrow with a bit of tweaking:

- MOD: Modified text preview styling, now it will include spaced paragraphs, bold and italic text

- MOD: Modified web preview styling, background and link colors are set to theme's ones

- FIX: As always ... some fixes

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
BTW, anyone has theme (colors) suggestions? I know that device manufacturers style Android on their devices sometimes drastically, so let me know if a more suitable theme is required.
[Android Apps and Games] sUsH667:
cool, ok.

i don't know if your listed stuff covers that, but when on jreader dark theme, the font when writing in the search windows on feedsearch-screenn is bacl on a black/dark background and so extremely hard to read.

and as you see how i talk about such little things, you will understand that everything is working really fine, else i wouldn't point out this teenytiny things but bigger ones, right? ;)

greetz,

sUsH
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
I noticed that too, will be corrected.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] sUsH667:
another thing:

it seems that i can't add feeds.

tried to add android central podcast, and get the message "an error occured while trying to add a new subscription"

then tested other feeds with the same result.

i checked the list to be sure they really not got added.

do you have any idea?

greetz,

sUsH
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Another update is posted.

Just noticed a new review at http://www.androidzoom.com/android_...agazines/jreader-google-reader-rss_clbhp.html

I wonder if anyone knows how to contact the reviewer Emmanuel Lund. I would like to express my gratitude.
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Usually that's a connection error, try it again and let me know the exact time when error occurred so that i could track it (make sure that error reporting is enabled in preferences). Or find the error here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuAd4NNEW8podHAtZU1yc3lpYjk4V3o1eGhDNWg5RXc and let me know which one is yours (by phone, time)

Edit: deleted old errors from the form so that we could find yours :)
[Android Apps and Games] sUsH667:
ok, i activated error reports and tried again, but the errors are not yet in the list.

and my connection works.

thx for all your help!

greetz,

sUsH
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Ok, will dig into this tomorrow, what option did you use for adding subscription: search, through browser or direct url?
[Android Apps and Games] sUsH667:
search.

thx for caring!

greetz,

sUsH
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
I think I have fixed the bug, let me know if next update behaves similarly.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] sUsH667:
new report

first of all, thx for the credits in the changelog! ;)

so, well, good news, kinda:

i'm no more presented with an error.

the bad news is, that the feeds still not get added.

i meanwhile tried it via feed-search and by entering the url directly.

both seemed to have been accepted fine, no error or anything, but no matter how often i sync, the added feeds are just not there.

through all of my testung and usage i had the transmission for your error statistics enabled, hope it helps a bit to get this totally great app straight, i really like it.

i have two additional suggestions:

1. if using a dark theme (tried with jreader dark) the font while entering something in textboxes (feed search or url input for example) is black, which is nearly impossible to read.

2. again regarding dark theme: it would be nice if the menu-popup matches the rest of the theme.

right now it is a giant white square ruining the experience of the great jreader dark theme.

@all: another thing that definitely has to be mentionend here, is the very userfriendly workflow and style of the dev.

on all of my post there was immediate response either with a post or even with an update of the app (within hours that was!).

greetz n thx,

sUsH
[Android Apps and Games] rah77az:
Here is the logic of the latest version:

- if feed is added and JReader receives confirmation form Google Reader server no message is diplayed;

- if feed already exists on Google Reader no message is displayed (will change it later to a toast saying that feed already exists);

- if any error occurs or no confirmation from Google - the error toast is displayed.

I will check it again, but to my opinion the feed is already in your list, but it might have a different title and could be somewhere within the folders. In JReader (and Google Reader too) the feeds are distinguished by feed url, so title can be changed but feed will be the same one. If you still can't find it in your subscriptions list (i would suggest checking it online in Google Reader settings) send me the exact phrase you search for in Feed Search activity, title and url of the feed, will try to dig into this dipper.

The themes ... it's a mess, I know. A lot of work needs to be done Partly because of the action bar and supporting libraries but mostly it' the lack of my experience. Earlier this week i was even thinking of discontinuing pre-ICS device support to make all things work properly. Anyway, the next couple of days I will be dealing with bugs and theme issues only (I hope :)). First, i'd love to work on items list a bit, there are inconsistencies in scrolling and marking items as read and I have been postponing it for a long time. And i think I need to review all the features and make sure it aligns with the base IDEA:

1. JReader is for getting the news the user WANTs to read (opposed to the common idea for rss reader of aggregating ALL news) while spending as little time as possible (this one is really bad for in-app ads :));

2. JReader should be easy to use for any user, no matter how in/experienced the user is;

3. It should be clean and easy on the eye, while following Google's general theming guidelines and trying to match the device's UI as much as possible;

4. JReader should have as many features as possible that users require while obeying the above-mentioned purposes;

5. JReader should use the device resources to the max to achieve it's purpose. I have done LOTs of optimizations, but I think that I should not worry about battery life or data usage as long as I get what I need and save myself some time (damn you mobile operators, it's 2012 and most users are still worried about mobile data expenses);

Thanks!