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[Android Apps and Games] kavabunga:
i found something... i can add this feed to the widget (http://news.google.de/news?ned=de&topic=t&output=rss) and it is all right but: i can't open the news in browser... if i click on the news broser get startet an nothing happend.. empty page

i tryed same thing with greader and it works.

it is the same feed wich used in german "news and weather" widget as know as "genie widget"

can you pls check it?

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mir ist erst jezt eingefallen das du auch deutsch mächtig bist :D was auch immer...
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Um you're right that shouldn't happen. I'll look it up tonight after work.

Thanks for reporting it!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
There you go guys ! v1.3.1 is Out !

This a bugfix realease, I (hopefully) solved most of the annoying bugs that were still around.

Give me some feeback :)

ps to kavabunga : http://news.google.de/news?ned=de&topic=t&output=rss now works properly :)
[Android Apps and Games] The Mad Mule:
Applied the update, then did a reboot; the four feeds showed properly (not mimicking each other anymore), the layout works properly in landscape format, and I'm pretty sure the phone finished loading faster than ever before!

Thank you for making this great widget even better! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Awesome! Glad to hear that.

Now that the annoying bugs are out, i can finally start working on the new functionalities!
[Android Apps and Games] Macelangelo77:
I just read the 1st post and am wondering if this (above) does what you say it does... When I go to a website, send the url to my phone it sends the url of the website, and not the RSS-feed. Am I missing something here...?

EDIT: I think I figured it out... Instead of opening the website, you should open the website AND click on the RSS-icon. When the feed opens (which might look strange, as it is a feed and not a normal page) use the Chrome to Phone button to send the url of the feed to your phone. Now open Chrome to Phone on your phone, open Today to view the most recent added links, long press the link you've just sent and press "Copy link url". Now open up the widget preferences, long press the feed URL field, press "Paste" followed by "Add". Now the feed will be added, by pressing "Save" you leave the preferences and you can see the feed displayed by the widget.

For users of the Chrome RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) or similar extentions, you have to temporarily disable the extension, because otherwise the feed will open in Google Reader to subscribe to it, instead of displaying the feed to be able to send it to your phone.

Sincerely,

Mac
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Well chrome to phone sends the current url to your phone, so to use it with my widget, you need to go to an actual rss feed page on your desktop (usually looks like a page with just plain text) and then send it to your phone.

I guess my explanation on the first post wasn't too clear, I'll modify it.

Otherwise everything sweet with the new version Mac?
[Android Apps and Games] Macelangelo77:
Thanks, I just figured it out and edited my post above. Regarding the new version, I'm happy as a child in a candy shop :) I seriously can't find any bugs with the way I'm using it (non-Twitter and/or Facebook)

I've come up with one more idea (for now, at least :)). Would it be possible to hide the "source" (I'm not sure what it's called in RSS-language) of the news item? So basically, the bold printed header above the news item itself (which is also shown in the preferences > Feeds list)? For example, with the Google newsfeed, it's always "Frontpage news - Google News" (freely translated from Dutch), which could just as well be hidden. Another step further into minimalism. I can imagine some value it, but to me it would be great if it could be optionally hidden in the preferences.

Sincerely,

Mac
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Consider it done :)
[Android Apps and Games] Macelangelo77:
You're just to good too be true :D

Isn't it about time to put up a donation button? I'd really like to donate first :)

Sincerely,

Mac
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I guess i could use a beer or two :)

I'll put up one soon

Thanks again for the support, you play a big part in this project!
[Android Apps and Games] chrisch1974:
The same idea I already had. But the last days I was short in time. So I couldn't post this. Together with the already submitted feature of having a time age of feeds it would be very nice. You can make for example a facebook feed which shows you only something if it is not older than two hours. And if there is no new entry it is hidden.

Cheers and thanks for this wonderfull widget
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Yep the filter by age setting is on my list too :) And I like the hide when nothing to display feature, I'll see how I can make it work.

Thanks for all your constructive feedback chris !
[Android Apps and Games] CocoMonGo:
Hey I am not sure if anybody else is experiencing this. I am running version 1.3.1 right now and am subscribing to 8 feeds; 4 reuters, 3 BBC and 1 Gizmodo. Total entries and Max items per feed is set at 100 and 50 respectively. The widget however only shows 30 items at any one time and non of them so far go beyond 2hours old.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I think i know why, this another thing i need to fix.

Right now the max items per feed is used only when adding feeds, not when refreshing (i wanted to prevent any database error).

So if you really want to get your 50 items per feeds, you can do the following:

_Make a backup of all ur feeds.

_Delete the feed which you want to increase the entries.

_Re add it with the restore function.

When you restore, the database is filled with the new settings (in this case, the items per feed setting) so you'll get your 50 items.

Hope it helps
[Android Apps and Games] chrisch1974:
You are welcome. I started myself a Android project and I can say how thankful I am for your work. Because there is a lot of your free time going into this project which is absolutely wonderful.
[Android Apps and Games] jtseidner:
I didnt have time to read through all these threads but I noticed that some headlines with an apostrophe (') come up funky.

For example if it was suppose to say "John's computer", it says "John&#39s computer".

Hope it can be fixed. Otherwise I really love this widget.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks for appreciating the time i spend on this, but i wouldn't use my free time for it if i didn't love it! I'm actually thinking of taking some holyday from my work to dedicate myself full time on this project! My gf doesn't like the idea so much hehe

What's your own project? Did you publish it? Maybe i can help you test it ;)

Take care
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I think i know where this comes from, I'll fix it in next version.

Thanks for reporting it!

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Hej I'm back ;) Gotta say your widget is running as smooth as ever. No more rumbling even if I smash the thing at 119 taps per seconds, nicely done!

Now, I've run into random glitches, like the feed of another MRW widget showing up in another, even after backing up and restoring. Also, some widgets just shows up one feed source even when it has like three (hapenning with FB feeds)

apart from that, can you fix the %amp (&) display character too? ;]

And remember, just work half time! It's very good as it currently is
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi Darius ! Glad you're back :) I'm gonna need you for some twitter testing :p

For the feeds mixing up in the settings, I still haven't found where that comes from, but i know if you scroll up or down on any widget, it refreshes the private settings and then displays the feeds in the setting correctly.

Did you get wrong encodings for the '&' character in the titles? If so I'll try to fix it but it shouldn't happen.

Working half time is exhausting, slow, and it's like having two jobs ! That's why I was thinking taking 4 or 5 days off to make quick progress in the beginning. But maybe weekends are enough, I'll see.

Anyways glad this last version is stable enough to actually start expanding it with exciting new functionnalities !

Stay tuned ... I'm preparing something Big !
[Android Apps and Games] chrisch1974:
My opinion to that is that there should be always a good balance between work and private live. So don't forget your girlfriend :D I'm more than 16 year in IT business.

My project is at the moment the enhancement of an existing widget. You can find it here if you are interested:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11616562&postcount=295

I have a lot of ideas for the widget and I wil try to implement it. But programming for Android is completly new to me :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Glad!!

Yeah well, that's the thing, some mixed feeds showed up after a refresh, that's the weird thing

Yup, like "Barnes %amp; Nobles" or "AT %amp; T" on the engadget feed.

Like Chrisch1974 pointed out, a balanced load of times is needed. Dont let your gf down ;)
[Android Apps and Games] kavabunga:
Jawohl!!! wunderbar :D danke.. jezt kann ich nähmlich aug genie Widget komplet verzichten!!! super
[Android Apps and Games] CocoMonGo:
Not quite working still. Even tried to remove the widget add it again but the same thing. What I then did was remove all the feeds and add one feed that had more then 50 items (BBC world new rss - sorry i cant post the url because I have not yet reached 8 posts) with the settings already in place. But the widget still only scrolls through 30 widgets. But what I observed was that it seems to show the top 30 items based on the time stamp :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
hmmm ok I'll look into that today, did you check if the bbc feed actually contained more than 30 items in their rss feed? maybe that's the reason.
[Android Apps and Games] Cocotus:
Hi, I installed newest version and it works good! I had a problem with my feed not updating since I added it. I use the widget in widgetlocker so it could be a widgetlocker problem oder some setting on my phone. I had to delete and restore the feed so it's updated now. Need to observe if its working correctly now. I noticed the option Manuell Refresh - how does this work? I coud not find a Refresh button, just curious. :)
[Android Apps and Games] chrisch1974:
You have to press the arrow key on the first feed up. then it should bring a message and refresh.
[Android Apps and Games] Cocotus:
Ah ok I disabled the arrow keys, guess I will activate them! Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] CocoMonGo:
Yup it does. Last count was 50-55 or so items.:D thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Macelangelo77:
Even if the arrow keys are disabled, you can use them. If you tap on right top side of the widget (where the arrows used to be), you can still do a manual refresh. Even if you aligned the text to the right, you can still tap it to use the invisible arrows, without opening the link behind the feed item.

Sincerely,

Mac
[Android Apps and Games] virus_spreade121:
I just installed this widget , but when I goto Widgets , there is no Minimal RSS widget there ???
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I found what was limiting the max feeds to 30 :) it's fixed now.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, i have an announcement to make. I've beed working quite a lot this weekend and i feel like my widget is getting ready for the next step of its evolution.

I'm planning to release a 'full' version of my widget which will include (in the first version) google reader support, offline article reading, multiple widget sizes and even more customization options!

This will be a paid app, i haven't decided the price yet (probably around 1.50 euros).

The free version of the widget will be updated once or twice more with some important sync and performance improvements.

I tell you this now for 2 reasons :

- i wanna know what are your thoughts on this evolution.

- i want you to throw all your features request for this new version! I'll try to implement all your wishes this week.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] Macelangelo77:
I think it's a logical step in the evolution of your project. You've spent quite some time on it, neglected your girlfriend, so you have to make it up to her somehow :)

No serious, I'd be gladly willing to pay for it. I currently have no other wishes, as I really like it just the way it is right now. Let me know when it hits the (paid) Market.

Sincerely,

Mac
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks Mac, I'm definetly going for it ! I think you won't be disappointed ;)

When it's released, you'll be the first to know !
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, I've been working every night these days and I'm getting to something really awesome!

Expect the release of this full version early next week :)
[Android Apps and Games] CocoMonGo:
For for it man! you deserve some credit more then just words on a forum.

Unfortunately I will not be able to buy your app plainly because the Android Market is not available in my country to buy apps. :(
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
GUYS, I'VE FINALLY DONE IT !!! Minimal Reader Pro is OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT !!!!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=11890423#post11890423
[Android Apps and Games] damajor:
Please add "https" support ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
It's on my list :)
[Android Apps and Games] navanman:
Hi,

I'm seeing large battery drain using the latest version of your app on CM7 RC2 on HTC Desire.

I have 2 RSS feeds with 1hr refresh, slow scroll (7 seconds) with alpha transparency with hide arrows.

I noticed my battery was draining quicker than usual and Where is My Droid Power confirmed that it was consuming over 30% of my battery power.

I noticed a review on the Market with the same issues; CM7 RC2 battery drain.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I've done a lot of optimization on the pro version, i just haven't had time to port those improvements to the free version yet. It's hard to maintain two projects on my free time :(

As soon as i free some time I'll work on this.

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Android Apps and Games] navanman:
Just to update on what I'm seeing with CM7 RC2 and above (2.3.3 Gingerbread).

If you have the widget on your homescreen running on battery it takes a very small amount of total power.

If you then charge your phone through USB, power brick and then unplug for some reason the widget will use up lots of battery, CPU cycles?

If you then delete the widget and re-add it to your homescreen, it will be back to normal again.

Cheers again for a great app.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey guys, last night i updated the free version of my widget which is now called minimal reader.

I decided that having two separate projects is gonna take too much work to maintain, so i merged the pro and free version. The free version has ads on the popup but is fully featured : google reader, offline reading... just like the pro version.

I really enjoy using my app and i want to share it with everyone!

Enjoy and give me some feedback!

Cheers

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Android Apps and Games] broconz:
can anyone identify the weather app that is in the OP pictures?
[Android Apps and Games] gascomm:
i think it's the SiMi Clock Widget by haterman, which includes battery & weather widgets. sorry but i'm as yet unable to post links to market as an untrusted noob : )

also, when moving from wifi to g2/3 i'm getting a notice saying the feed needs refreshing but am unable to find an option to do it. maybe i'm missing a trick or am requesting a tap option for a manual feed refresh?

a beautiful app, but am considering un-installing due to the refresh notice appearing when connected to good solid wifi or mobile signals.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi, the refresh msg comes when there are no more feeds to display, either because of the age filter or the unread filter. If you disable those filters you will always get feeds displayed no matter what connection you're on.

Hope it helps
[Android Apps and Games] gascomm:
ah, thank you! very fast response : )

overnight update & i'm a fool for only having had 2 feeds running initially. working as expected & flawlessly with 8 feeds & a fiddle with filters. thanks again for what is now my sole rss reader. u have built a thing of beauty.

don't know if it's been requested beforehand but the ability to edit feed names would be handy, as i've a couple of twitter search result feeds which would benefit from being able to add a more descriptive title than that pulled from the feed...
[Android Apps and Games] gascomm:
have the widget running on homescreen & lockscreen ...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13069572&postcount=5105

hadn't noticed when i had the single homescreen instance but now, when i click a headline the popup is opening on a different story from the one i wished to read ... could this be because i have 2 running instances?, a setting i've missed? or a bug?

thanks in anticipation
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi Gascomm,

there shouldn't be any problems with several instances of the widget, although I haven't tested it with one instance on the lockscreen, but I don't see why it would interfere ...

Does it happen everytime? on the lock screen and the home screen ?

also, do you use the "filter read news" setting ?

I have three instances on my phone right now and it always open the right story, so I'm interested to see if it's a reproductible bug or not.

If you can, tell me exactly how to reproduce it everytime and I'll solve the issue.

Thanks again for the support and report !

ps: very nice lock/home screens by the way :)

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] vespend:
Is there a setting background ?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
What do you mean?

There are a few options to customize the background.
[Android Apps and Games] gascomm:
hi again,

the lockscreen instances' popup is disabled by the lockscreen app http://www.appbrain.com/app/widgetlocker-lockscreen/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker

homescreen popup has just misfired 10 out of 10 attempts ;(

settings...

feeds - 8

filter by age - 3hrs

filter on popup - unchecked

filter read - check

don't display images - checked #

auto scroll - on

scroll speed - very slow

total entries - 20

refresh rate - 30 minutes

max items - 10

# have just noticed this was set to not load images & on unchecking/ to load images the popup appears to be synced as expected. hurrah!

the bug vs idiocy battle rages on within my desire ; )
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
4x4 widget please
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
So the bug came from the "don't load images setting" ?? Because I tried to enable it and still couldnt reproduce the issue...

Although, sometimes it can happen that the autoscroll triggers right before clicking the news and it seems like it's showing the wrong one but it's just that it scrolled to the next story before showing the pop-up. But if you could reproduce 10 out of 10 times it can't be the problem ...

Anyway, I'll keep trying to reproduce it.

Thanks for the report !
[Android Apps and Games] gascomm:
i've not had a repetition of the problem since enabling image loading ... it had crossed my mind that initially it could have been the next headline rolling in as i clicked but when it wasn't working i was hitting the headlines immediately as they loaded (set on slowest refresh).

maybe, wait & see if it's a common issue - as mine is now working as expected ; )
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
All right, I'll look into my code see if that setting interferes, although it works fine on my phone.

Thanks for the feedback!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Has anyone experienced some refresh issues after rebooting?

Two people commented on the market about that but for me it works perfectly...

If you had trouble refreshing after a reboot please contact me.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] jlt220:
Could we get a version that has more than two stories in the widget for tablets and larger screens. Or maybe you could make it scrollable that way if it was scaled in ADW or launcher pro it would resize and more headlines would be visible. oh and btw it's a sweet app.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I'm working on a 4x4 widget at the moment, but a non scrollable one. I've decided that I will do a separate app with scrollable widgets so that users without an alternative launcher can use this one.

I would also love to make a nice tablet specific app, the only thing stopping me is time ... stupid everyday job :p

The 4x4 widget is getting quite good though, I'm testing it fully today, few more tweaks and optimisations and it should be ready ! I've also added some extra features, this is gonna be a big update !

stay tuned :)
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
.

I'm having weird problems. Not sure if bugs or that I have some misconfiguration, even it has the defaults loaded.

At any rate, I have two feeds, from engadget.com and meneame.net. Sometimes (most of the time) when I press update, it only feeds me with like 5 articles and the rest of the 5 feeds are old ones. So sometimes it's like "20 mins ago, 1 hour ago, 1,5 hours ago, 9 hours ago..." It's been since some updates like this.

I really dont know why this is happening, I havent set any filter of hours and the feeds shows up right in google reader...

In another hand, the "leaking feeds" problem is still most of the time present. Even at times, when I press the refresh button in minimal reader widget 1 leaking the feeds of minimal reader widget 2, it refreshes the MR Widget 2. I have to go to settings, save and press refresh again.

It would be awesome if you could finally fix that leaking problem. For now, I'm not using the widget, this two problems renders them a bit pointless.

I was waiting for my ISP to fix my wifi, I thought maybe that was the problem and after 3 weeks it's finally fixed but problems still are present.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi darius! Nice to hear from you ;)

For your first problem, it's normal. I had to read a few times to understand but when i got what u mean it made me realise there's a flaw in my refresh function :

i only insert in the database articles that are newer than the newest one u had before refreshing. I made it that way to save data and battery, but all this time ive been replacing the newest ones and keeping the old ones! Thats why you get 5 articles very new and 5 very old.

It's quite easy to fix tho it will be done with my next update. Thanks for reporting it!

As for the leaking problem, i haven't experienced it in a long time now. I recommend that you use two different widget sizes instead of two of the same size. I made it so there can't be any leaks between widgets of different sizes.

Tell me if it's any better.

Cheers mate!

Ps: my devs are going well, 4x4 widget is finished! Update will be ready soon :)
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Really? that easy? I mean, is kinda annoying, and no one reported it before? o_O

Or maybe I didnt explain myself clearly enough. See, the source has 20 new articles by the time I hit refresh, but somehow only shows like (like, not always is fixed to 5) 5 new and then keeps on with old articles from the past refresh. It misses the 15 new articles (well, still it'll gonna miss 10, since it's set to only refresh with the latest 10) and those 20 shows up in the google reader, so it's not a problem of the source.

Uhg :/ in fact I have 3 widgets of the same size. But, ok, lemme try.

Maybe, idk, you can set something different besides size? A kinda visual feature that remains invisible?

Oh, and I have a request! (no, it's not the twitter one). That the widget autorefresh when it misses the last autorefresh window as soon as there's a data connection established. Sounds ok?
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Ok, tried resizing, still it leaks and refreshes the wrong widget :/