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[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
Hi Tom,

Thanks a lot!

To which font-size do you refer? HTML view or the whole app?

It's still in beta, but you can double tab the screen in the html renderer to switch between a 1.0 and 1.2 font-size factor. (I hope to be able to implement a 2-finger-zoom)

cheerz,

MC
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Szczepanik:
Double tap to change font size in the html renderer

MC - awesome - thank you! You should provide the HTML renderer as a separate stand alone browser app. I would use it. Is there a now a way to mark all or a selection of a list as read?

Your Goggle Reader goes a long way to making up for the loss of Skyfire who abandoned Windows Mobile. Do you have any plans to integrate feeds from Gmail and/or FaceBook in future? Having everything in one Goggle Reader would be perfection!

Cheers, Tom

Update: Worked out that there is there a way to select a specific feed by clicking on the feed name in Subscriptions e.g. catch up on all the XDA-Portal RSS Feeds in one list

http://www.xda-developers.com/tag/all-windows-mobile/feed/
[Windows Mobile Software Development] markpud:
Hi,

Have been using the new version for the past couple of days and it's great, thanks!

Some feedback, the text could be spaced a bit more vertically, i.e. bigger line spacing to make it look a bit less congested.

Please could the single item view also detail which Subscription the item is from, just as it does on the reading list view? Just next to the date/time stamp would be perfect!!

Certain feeds seem to display images very small.. not all feeds tho. Seems to be when the feed is purely (or mostly) just an image e.g. xkcd.com feed.

Certain items seem to cause the app to crash with an out of memory error. Sorry didn't manage to note the full error and of course cannot reproduce on demand! But i think it's when the item is very big e.g. www.webdesignerdepot.com feed.

Some other minor formatting issues, e.g. feed from thregister.co.uk should have the first line of the text in bold, then a CR then the rest of the text, but it loses the bold and the CR within this app.

Couple of feature requests (i think some of these have already been asked for)

"keep unread" option within the single feed view

"mark all as read" within the "reading list" view

"star" option to be visible without having to click into the ... on single item view (rather than the "share" icon which I never use)

Overall I love this app, has now replaced the browser iphone version for me - possibly the last great app of WM6.x??
[Windows Mobile Software Development] silviaccio1:
Dear mightycoco,

good work! I've installed the new version and now works better.

Anyway some issues are still present.

1. graphical imperfection when the ... button is pressed. maybe better to make shift the buttons menu (up/down or left/right) instead of scroll it or maybe to have all the buttons in the same bar.

2.sometime the out of memory problem is still present (I will try to give you more information later)

3.It would be better to put some actions in a menu to open when 'long tap' is performed.

4. in the 'subscription screen it would be useful to report the unread feed for each subscriptions

5. I've tried to put some feeds in the starred items without success

6. It's possible to maintain the read/unread status as in the web google reader?

I have a samsung i8000 with JD6 (.NET CF 3.5 installed by default)

EDIT

Out of memory error not reproducible, sorry it seems random to me.

the message is:

i17/11/2010 10:25:39 ERROR: Feed::Parse Name cannot begin with the '0' character, hexadecimal value 0x30. Line 128, position 12.

in System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)

in System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Int32 res, String[] args)

in System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Int32 pos, Int32 res, String[] args)

in System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseQName(Boolean isQName, Int32 startOffset, Int32& colonPos)

in System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseQName(Int32& colonPos)

in System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement()

in System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()

in System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()

in System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)

in System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)

in System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)

in System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)

in System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml)

in GoogleReader.NET.Feed.Parse(String xml)

in GoogleReader.NET.Feed..ctor(String xml)

in GoogleReader.NET.GoogleReader.asyncFeedResponse(Object sender, AsyncHttpResponseObject response)

in mcControls.AsyncHttpResponse.(IAsyncResult )

in System.Net.LazyAsyncResult.InvokeCallback(Boolean asyncCompletion, Object result)

in System.Net.HttpWebRequest.asyncGetResponse(Object asyncResult)

in System.Threading.ThreadPool.WorkItem.doWork(Object o)

in System.Threading.Timer.ring()
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
I'll look into this. I think i'll add a word and line-spacing of 2 pixel.

Thanks for the hint, complete forgot about this. Will be there in the next version.

Hm, I'll loo into the feed you mentioned. But there are feeds which render the image as a thumbnail, when fetching them. Like Google News does... (http://news.google.com/)

On the other hand, i downsize images to the horizontal resolution of your device as there is no horizontal scrolling implemented in the html renderer...

Already working on this. Next version will have some improvements regarding memory management and very long feed-entries...

Thanks, I'll have a look into this.

Update: This specific RSS feed uses <h4> tags for the first line. I haven't had h[1-5] tags not implemented, that's why they showed plain. It's implemented now. However, I didn't come across any rss-feeds which use h[1-5] tags in their feed entries ;)

Will be added to the feature list.

Will be added to the feature list.

I'll rearange the icons in the next version.

Overall I love this app, has now replaced the browser iphone version for me - possibly the last great app of WM6.x??[/QUOTE]

Thanks :D

Cheerz,

MC
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
Thank you. That's a known issue which will be fixed in the next version.

I'm thinking about this currently. I don't want to show the default windows menus... There is already a feature request.

I don't fully understand the google reader api there. Have to hack it out. Currently the results when requesting the unread count is not reliable...

Hm, that's rather strange. Did the star-icon on the feed-entry turn inverse after some time? This happens sometime, when there is no connection to the server or the network was gone... Maybe i sould cache such requests and re-send them if networking is back...

Feature request is already there ;)

Cheerz,

MC
[Windows Mobile Software Development] silviaccio1:
No, it remains highlighted.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
Interesting. Can you post the link to this specific entry? (the original one, not the reader.google.com one)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] silviaccio1:
I'm not sure to have understood your request, so...

first attempt to answer:

http://feeds.hwupgrade.it/c/32480/f...r0Echip0Enand0Eflash0I344380Bhtml/story01.htm

or, as other example

http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32604/...sta0E2790Edollari0C281110C10Bhtml/story01.htm
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
Hi Silviaccio,

Thanks! Yes, that was the info I was asking for.

I tested this on the following feed: http://feeds.hwupgrade.it/rss_hwup.xml

I tried to star/unstar/like/unlike/mark as unread/share/unshare on the following article

"Cali di prezzo sempre più sensibili per chip NAND Flash"

All requests went through and the tags where set correctly in reader.google.com

Can you confirm that you still have issues with this feed?

Can you reproduce this on other feeds? (e.g. http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&output=rss)

From which list did you get to the feed entry? (From the main read-list, from the starred/shared list or from the subscriptions->feed list)

It still might be, that you got a wrong response from the server and this just got ignored or your network connection dropped in this moment. I wraped this piece of code now into an error handling. If the server doesn't respond as expected, some debugging info is written to the logfile...

cheerz,

MC
[Windows Mobile Software Development] silviaccio1:
I have the problem with every feed I tried

See above

From the main read list, in fact the issue consist int he fact that no feed appears in the starred list.

When I access to feed from subscription->feed list the star icon reverse immediately after having tapped it but exiting and reentering it shows correctly highligthed.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] markpud:
Thanks, i'm not sure if they're just providing a thumbnail, it looks full size when read via the desktop.. but looks like a thumbnail on this app!

cool thanks

I'm sure we can find many non-standard feeds amongst my collection lol, thanks again..

Looking forward to the next version :)

And if you have a donate button I'm sure I can send some motivation your way!

Cheers, Mark
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Szczepanik:
Next Version after 1.10.11.14

Tiny Goggle Reader is an excellent off-line reader. On my HTC Artemis P3300 I download 50 feeds via WiFi in the morning, read while commuting and refresh Google when I get home. I really like the way the right arrow / swipe takes you to next item even from the excellent internal browser. I agree with Mark and note if you prefer I will donate to xda-developers or buy one of the games on your site pointCODE.de.

Can I add a few more suggestions for future version (with apologies for duplication):

ALL Add one or two pixels breathing space to left hand side of all screens (except Settings which is good)

HOME Items should be bold and larger font again

HOME consider central alignment of items on home screen

HOME Remove date

HOME consider adding icons = door for Exit, spanner for settings etc.

HOME consider HELP with a list of icons and what they do (maybe link from about to your web page)

SETTINGS increase number of items available to 100

SETTINGS add ability to turn on / off all pictures (in html renderer)

READING LIST When working off-line, as you "read" items, bold should be turned off

READING LIST consider page "down" and "up" buttons to page up and down easily (could be at top of page by the titlebar heading "V ^ Reading List")

READING LIST consider "top" and "bottom" of list buttons on second row

READING LIST consider "exit" button on second row

READING LIST when double tap increases font size could you increase font weight slightly as well please :)

READING LIST mashable.com seems to give me the most errors if you want a problem feed to test

READING LIST like the vibration at end of list - consider going back to list

STARRED ITEMS does not seem to work for me (star an item but nothing shows on list even when on-line)

SUBSCRIPTIONS enable off-line filter of cached Subscriptions (currently says "No items") so one can read a single cached feed when off-line

I have added your pointcode.de site feed and would appreciate your updating RSS with new release on it please. This is now one of my daily apps. Thank you again for all the work you have done and appreciation for what you are doing.:D

Cheers

Tom
[Windows Mobile Software Development] wildcardspv:
Problem

Hi,

This seems like a great app, but I have the following problem.

When I first installed it today, I entered my log in info and successfully logged in. It recognised what feeds I am subscribed to but any attempt to refresh them downloads no data (no error msg, just no content arrives).

Since then, whenever I run the app, it opens at the Reading List screen and says

"no items available, you are not authenticated."

I can then move between the different screens and it still recognises my feeds, but they remain empty.

I've been using Speeed Reader until now and have had no authentication problems with that app so I'm sure I'll be able to use this app too, but how can I get past this problem with this app please???!!?

Many thanks

wildcardspv.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] silviaccio1:
I've tried the last version 1.10.11.21.

Problems:

1. previous setting were lost

2. when starting you are pushed to the reading list screen, if you try to go to the setting screen the sw crashes.

3. when the feed are long or contain images, passign from a feed to the next one is slow and the buttons bar scroll is low

Good news:

1. the starred item list now works!

2. the buttons bar is faster

Suggestions:

1.the first screen should bethe settings screen or should be settable

Conclusions: GOOD WORK!!

Please continue to optimize that application.

Thank you very much, how to donate?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Lifear:
the new version is great. i have lost my settings from the previous installation, but this is not a problem. its cool to have now the button, to mark all read... many thx for that. now i have only one wish: make it faster! i have tried it yesterday in evening via wlan. there are only two unread articles in my GReader, but it took ages to load them. i don't know if this was a temporarily problem but it was a long waiting...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
@siviaccio and bilbo, sorry for loosing your settings and yes, i'm currently trying to improve overall performance.

One thing i didn't find out since the beginning: the app was constantly eating up 8-15% of CPU usage even when the app was in background.

I have rewritten the whole list-view control which makes out the entire application base and the new listview is extremly more lightweight. less code, less cpu, less memory (but maybe more, unknown bugs ;)

The new listview also makes some cool things possible like a tiled-view. I can't resist and give you a small teaser what will be possible in the next version.

In the attached screenshot you see the "Shared feed items" view and the "Subscriptions view".

stay tuned and thanks for all of your support!

cheerz,

MC
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Lifear:
Ohhh... we have to thank YOU, for this great app. I like it very much. Im very happy, that there are developers how support windows mobile 6.5.x at this time. Most of the developers have gone without a word... at this time i own a HTC Diamond with WM 6.5.5 and the most of my favourite apps don't become updates (the ageye apps, facebook, and much more...) i would like to by a new device like a HTC HD2 when there are new apps and updates, but i must by a Android device, because i hate Windows Phone 7, this OS is no option for me...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Szczepanik:
version 1.10.11.21 14-nov-2010

Wunderbar! Fantastisch! Vielen Dank!

MC - Wicked! Cool! You're the man! ... [Rule 4. Use the English language] ;)

Thank you for all the above improvements that for me are working √

On my HTC Artemis P3300 I like:

New version is very stable - when used as an off-line reader has never crashed.

Memory is much better - does not leak

New loading icon square pattern

"Simple black" theme (although any chance you can change colour of hyper-links - dark blue on black is not easy to read - maybe light blue?)

"Star" option now visible without having to click into the ... on single item view - thanks markpud for this idea :)

"Starred items" list view works nicely both on-line and off-line

"Mail" option works perfectly both on-line and off-line. Very useful for copying text or URLs.

Wearing winter gloves I can swipe to next page on my HTC Artemis P3300 (maybe I won't ask Santa Claus for the HTC HD2!)

Would be good if you could get "Keep Unread" & "Star" options to work off-line ...

Unfortunately now only the title increases in size - body text remains the same - I seem to have lost this functionality :

tiny GReader is now on my Start Menu! Thank you again.

Cheers

Tom
[Windows Mobile Software Development] markpud:
Hi, some more feedback on the new version..

It seems much more stable, and I love having the star option in view!

It now handles longer items without crashing, but it just seems to truncate them off at a certain point so I have to scroll back up to click the header and read the rest in the browser :(

Also it seems to be hard to scroll back up, slower than scrolling down??! Maybe it's my device causing issues, my Blackstone is pretty old and I haven't flashed a new ROM recently..

xkcd.com and most other feeds with images now seem to format much better, thanks.

Tapping to increase font size now screws up the formatting; all the words on top of each other?! I'll try to do a screenshot if you need?

The padlock icon to mark the item unread is great.. could this fit in next to star on the first row??!

I'm not certain what the 9 box 'progress' icon is doing most of the time! It always seems to be animated when i'm on the reading list view, but nothing actually happens unless I press the "update" icon..

I also found one of my feed items where the author put no title, in the reading list it showed as two br tags, but inside the item, a blank title so no way to click thru and read it in the browser!

A question - if i press the "mark all as read" - does that mark everything in my subscription as read, or just the 50 that are loaded into tinyGR? I'd want the 2nd option! And could it be avail via an icon under the reading list?

Your tiled view version looks pretty cool too!!

Edit: almost forgot - any chance the app can "play" animated gifs within feeds? I gotta get my lolcats fix :p
[Windows Mobile Software Development] silviaccio1:
I've to confess that I don't like the WP7 look of the tiled version.

I understand there are people that like it,so I hope you will give the option to choose.

Thank you again for that application!

I will take my phone for a long time thanks also to you.

Bye.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
Yeah, that's the bad news about the OutOfMemoryException fix... Maybe in some far-away-version i'll manage to get some kind of dynamic rendering based on the position you are when scrolling... don't expect this very soon...

Hm, I can't verify this. Running the thing in the emulator is akward slow, but scrolling is slow in both directions... I'll keep an eye on this!

Yes, there was really an bug, if there is no content but only a picture. Nice it's working for you

I introduced an bug when doing the peformance tweaking of the tokenizer. Fixed in next version.

Hm, not sure about this. Maybe if more people vote for it ;)

I must admit, the pending-animation has some live of it's own. It's bugging me since version 0.1... Some day, it will be more reliable. I already have some ideas...

Ok, that's rather lame. In the first place we should blame the author of that article. I think it's rather a no-go to publish stuff without the proper meta-data in place - but fixing it should be a no-brainer ;)

It only marks the items in your list. nothing else. (and sometimes even those are left out)

Erm, it really does and brings some spice into the articles. On the other hand while the tiles are updating the image from the feed, it can get sometimes a bit sluggish. But you can turn of image loading for tiles or tile-view at all.

I must answer this with no - for now...

Thanks for all the input!

cheerz,

MC
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
Sure! All 'fancy' non-functional stuff shuld/must be optional. But implementing this gave me a good excuse for myself to rewrite the whole ListPanel control - the normal List-View benefits from this rewrite, too ;)

Happy to bring some value to your device ;)

cheerz,

MC
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
Rule 5: especially if you are from bavaria - that's near germany :D (*hahaha* my all-time favourite - non bavarian pal's tend to beat me, when saying this)

Ah, the old caching thing... It's something i have in my mind since... can't remember... It will be there - in some future versions!

That was a bug introduced when doeing some performance tuning. Fixed in the next version ;)

The place it should be ;)

Cheerz,

MC
[Windows Mobile Software Development] pth6:
Very good job.

When the next release?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
Hi pth6,

The new version is still a bit unstable. I hope next week it's table enough for a release. I have rewritten a lot of things...

Cheerz,

MC
[Windows Mobile Software Development] pth6:
Good news

I am eager to test this new version.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Szczepanik:
Release Next Week

MC Looking forward to the new release ...

Can I vote for mark unread padlock icon next to star on the first row please

As well as mark all as unread to work consistently please

I hope this is working on the HTC HD2 Leo as I have asked St Nick for one?

Thank you for keeping up this development and responding to all our requests e.g.

Cheers

Tom
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mightycoco:
New version 10.12.14

Hi,

It's there. I uploaded the new version 10.12.14 to the main thread. Due to a lot of rewritten code, there might be some new bugs - I hope not to much ;)

On my device, the performance improved again, esp. in the list view control. Also the memory footprint went down to even 2-3MB (most of the time)

My next goal is to write a service which runs in the background and throws notifications when new items arrive... have to think about that...

@Szczepanik: Yes, it will run on HD2 - it's done for HD2 and tested on HD2 and I love my HD2, too. (never wrote HD2 so many times in one sentence)

cheerz,

MC
[Windows Mobile Software Development] pth6:
tanks a lot!

A have some time a bug when a change the feed.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Szczepanik:
tinyGReader _latest _1.10. 12.1

MC Thank you. Attached report.

Cheers

Tom
[Windows Mobile Software Development] silviaccio1:
Please, make it as selectable option.

Thanks.

EDIT:

Downloaded and testig the 1.10.12.14 version.

I've to say that i liked more the previous black skin with little green text, I hope it will be possible to have it back :-)

Very good the internal browser, no bugs till now. This for me is the main added value of that application. good work!

Bugs till now:

1.Very nice the lateral sliding, but a little buggy:

a.some time too much slow

b.some time the screen is not updated and there is a sort of trail effect.

c.Other ones there is a lag before the updating of the screen.

d.Sometime the screen finished to slide before than the new screen is drawn

e.Sometime the last few pixel of the sliding screen shift away veeeeery slowly​

2. When tile view is selected and you go from reading list to home screen, before the home screen is drawn the list view appears for an instant (It is not a bug for me because I don't like tile view)

(I've a i8000 with more than 40 MB free when tinyg is running).

Sugestions:

1. green font as before for little text , the grey text should be leaved only when no unread elements are present

2. when 'subscriptions' is chosen as first page the subscription button should be put in place of reading list button in the button bar (and viceversa)

3. hierarchical organization of subscription should be used in place of alphabetical one (as example I have three subscription for the same site, they should be grouped. I've seen an application that do it)

4. Please add Italian to the language list (see attachement)

Testing in progress.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] markpud:
Hi,

I'm loading the new version to my phone now, will let you know if i see any issues :)

Re the background service - it's an interesting idea I will see how it goes but I would probably have an alert every 30 seconds during the day!!

I've sent a donation your way as thanks for this great software - making my last period of WM usage productive, but I think I'll go to Android when this contract runs out next month!

Cheers, Mark