[Android Software Development] vrooden:
Same issue here. News are loaded once, but never get updated. Even when pressing the "Update"-icon. After some (re-)tries (I waited some minutes between) the widget looses all entries, is empty and never shows news again until removed and added again to homescreen.

Also at this stage, no matter what settings I choose in the main app for widget (background, colors), they are not applied anymore - widget is dead. It does work though during the first some minutes after adding the widget.

Did so, did not help.

I also found another issue with the widget <> app relation. Lets say widget shows "News 1" to "News 4":

I click the first item "News 1".

The full article pops up.

Now "News 1" is marked as "read" and does no longer show up in the main app.

The widget though still shows all 4 news.

Again I click on "News 1" in the widget.

Now the full article "News 2" is opened - WRONG

Again: "News 2" is marked read.

...and so on, repetitive clicks on items in the widget open the wrong article.

Really GREAT app, though, kinda like the UI and UX!

Yet there are some more "issues" or "room for optimization", will post them later.

---------- Post added at 07:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:38 AM ----------

I second the support for "starred items"!

Sharing is not an option. Though I use Pocket, why should I put an article I want to read later THERE? That's what my news reader should support. I see an interesting article. I don't have time to read it in full right now. I want to star it for later. Also "Keep unread" is not an option here, since until I have time to read, there might be a lot new entries.

---------- Post added at 08:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:45 AM ----------

Some more issues/wished:

List of labels and feeds

I have many labels with even more feeds. Could the labels please be collapsed per default? That's what labels are for: to group feeds for accumulated reading. I don't care about the single feeds. Might be an configuration option though for others who prefer expanded labels.

Or even better: save the last viewstate of the labels. This way one could choose manually which labels/feed he want to be collapsed/expanded.

And by the way: labels should also show the number of items contained (at least when collapsed) (suggestion: in a much smaller font after the label).

Widget and labels

It'd be much more convenient if one could also choose labels for use in widget. This way one could easily add or remove feeds to that label later.

Multiple widgets?

Right now there's only one widget possible. Or multiple, but all show and look the same. Any plans to allow for multiple widgets with their own streams? Setting might still be configurable in main app as "defaults", which can be overwritten optionally in the widget's configuration.

Articles and images

Loading images on demand causes visually unpleasing issues. At first the list looks good, images on the left, short article on the right. Now I scroll down. New articles are at first only shown textual, but as soon as I stop scrolling images pop in. Not a real big issue, more eye-candy.

Anyway, I like Deer Reader a lot, as said before, UI and UX are great. Keep up your great work. Thanks for it!