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[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
You're right to report them though its very useful to test my new fixes ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Its in the works ;) update coming up this week end
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Devs are going well guys, I'm gonna tick off some stuff on the ToDo list :)

The Atom feeds are a pain thought, I have everything working except getting the link for the full story in the browser... For the moment i just add "(No Link)" to the news title if the link couldn't be retrieved. I'm afraid i'm gonna have to leave it like that until I redesign my parser to support that, which will take me a while :(
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
new version !!

And there you go !

Minimal RSS Widget v1.2 published on the market and never looked better !

Go get it fresh out the oven and tell me what you think :D
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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Amazing app! Well, it gives me some FC here and there but guess my theming is more to blame. But it's truly gorgeous and useful, better than glass widgets. Thanks for it ;)

EDIT:

Ah, ok, seems I found a reproducible FC. When I try to load my facebook rss (php)(whichever) it gives me a FC. Also, I'm unable to add a rss feed from a digg-like site named meneame.net/rss2.php, it says it's invalid. Help? :)

EDIT2:

Now, if someone knows a way to add the timeline twitter rss feed to this app, it would rox beyond the horizon. Regrettably, your own timeline asks for a Twitter API auth before displaying and I'm staring at the login box clueless. Any info in this is much apreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] Macelangelo77:
Just installed the new version and it's awesome. I like it very much, thank you! Personally I haven't found any issues yet, my feeds are displaying flawless. Attached a screenshot to show how beautiful it fits in my home screen layout.

I have some more feature requests, although I'm already quite happy as it is.

First it would be great if the text could really be aligned to the edge of the screen. This could be achieved by making the space used by the arrows available to the feed content, when the arrows are disabled. This only applies to the right side of the screen. For the left side you which is now used to get in the preferences, you could do the same, by making the "tap left edge to go to preferences" optional or selectable (left/right side). I personally prefer an app icon in the app drawer to change the preferences, because that way I can't accidentally enter preferences by tapping the left side without intent. If you would move the preferences to the app drawer out would however require a different approach to change preferences for multiple widgets (I only use one). Just some thoughts...

Last remark: "Alignement" is written as "Alignment" in English.

I really like what you're developing. Keep up the good work.

Sincerely,

Mac

Sent from my HTC HD2
[Android Apps and Games] musashiken:
Cool App!

I hope you can look into different widget sizes eg. 4x2, 4x4.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into this facebook/twitter feed thing - its giving me some ideas :p
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thank you Mac, constructive feedback as usual.

I'll see what i can do for the edge alignement and the app drawer setting.

And i will definitely correct that ugly mispelling ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I have it on my mind for quite some time now, I'm just not sure what display to provide for each size. I'll have to do some ergonomic study for that soon.

Any suggestions?
[Android Apps and Games] HojiCZ_SGS:
Not possible to add some feeds

Hi,

let me to thank You for this widget!

Its perfect

But some feeds are not possible to add. Its displaying:the feed submitted is not a valid rss feed

Even upgrade to version 1.2 is done

Can somebody help me?

Thank You
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
I think twitter feed would be easy, it's been done lots of times, yet I thing it wouldnt be in an rss form, just a direct API call.

About facebook there's a lot of info out there how to get rss but much doesnt works. I found a rainmeter's post that does the trick. Of interest is the "friends_status" ;)

You would need to post what rss feeds are giving you problems.
[Android Apps and Games] HojiCZ_SGS:
example of not working feeds

f.e.: (I cannot send URL like new user so instead of "X" place "." and all begins with h t t p : // )

servisXidnesXcz/rssXasp?c=zpravodaj

servisXidnesXcz/rssXasp?c=sport

servisXidnesXcz/rssXasp?c=hokejh

servisXidnesXcz/rssXasp?c=plzen

servisXidnesXcz/rssXasp?c=mobil

wwwXhokejXcz/rss/rss-vseXphp

wwwXhokejXcz/rss/rss-extXphp
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Awesome! Thanks for the link i didn't know you could get a facebook feed as rss. Looks easy to implement. I'll study that this week end.

Thanks again, very constructive feedback.
[Android Apps and Games] chrisch1974:
Hi Joenrv,

first thanks for the wonderful new version. All new features are very nice and I love them. Specially the fixed time problem. The Heise feed has now the correct time but it tells me (No Link). If I look at the feed there seems to be a link. Maybe a small problem in the widget?

After updating to the new version I think the arrows are hidden. You can fix it if you go to the setting and save them. You don't have to change anything.

And if you scroll to the last feed with the arrows and you press it once more (or two, three... times) you have to press the up arrow for the same number of time the go up again. Maybe you can add a message "last feed reached" or something. Or ignore the press down.

And once more thanks for your work and this wonderful app.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I'm glad you like it Chris, unfortunatly for the '(No Link)' issue, as I mentionned it a few posts earlier, I have a problem with parsing the link to the full story with Atom feeds ... They really are a pain. So for now i just set (No Link) next to the titles where i couldn't extract the full story link. It's gonna take a while to add this functionnality as i have to redesign my whole parser... So I left it like that for the moment.

Hope you enjoy the new features thought ;)

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] HojiCZ_SGS:
not working links

these rss feeds are not working

Sorry for the format, but I cannot send URL as new member

instead of "X" place "." and all begins with h t t p : // )

servisXidnesXcz/rssXasp?c=zpravodaj

servisXidnesXcz/rssXasp?c=sport

servisXidnesXcz/rssXasp?c=hokejh

servisXidnesXcz/rssXasp?c=plzen

servisXidnesXcz/rssXasp?c=mobil

wwwXhokejXcz/rss/rss-vseXphp

wwwXhokejXcz/rss/rss-extXphp
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I think the problem comes from the encoding : encoding="windows-1250", didn't even know it existed ... Another fix to add :(
[Android Apps and Games] chrisch1974:
Hi,

maybe I should more concentrate when I read the thread :) Heise will also offer a rss feed under http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf for me as workaround. But then I get "No publish date found". Maybe you can have a look at this if you have time.

And for the windows-1250 encoding. Common for Central and Eastern Europe. But I don't understand why there is no utf-8 encoding for such things. It would solve the encoding problem and will be easier for the developers.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
The rdf alternative was a good alternative, well thought, but by looking at the feed source, that's the item tree ;

<item>

<title>Opera Mini fürs iPad</title>

<link>http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Opera-Mini-fuers-iPad-1188392.html/from/rss09</link>

</item>

----> No published date ... :(

And yes, encoding formats are a huge pain in the a** lol
[Android Apps and Games] chrisch1974:
I think I should kick Heise in their a** Praying for standards and not ably to make a correct feed. But thanks for checking this for me :)
[Android Apps and Games] Kaherdin:
Great app! Sorry to say when I updated the app the widget crashed. Im using zte blade android 2.1 shipped ROM from Swedish carrier TeliaSonera. Now ive tried to uninstall the app, restarted the phone reinstalled it and still when i try to add the widget the only thing that happens is that the widget presents the the text "unable to load the widget". Nothing i Do will make it work again!!

Please, should i install the previous version or is there a Way of making it work?
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Tried restarting the launcher? you checked in that the rss gives feed?

I had some FCs when loading the widgets too but after some restarts of the launcher it started worked stable. I also thought some widget was not working since there was no info but the rss had no info, it was wrong directed.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
The ultimate way to have a clean installation is to go "manage applications" in the settings, select minimal rss widget and click "clear data", then uninstall.

Only after that u can install v1.2 with a clean database.

Hope it helps
[Android Apps and Games] Kaherdin:
Sorry to say your tips on a clean reinstallation was not successful.

Launcherpro plus has been restarted and i also tried to use the standard Homescrreen to see if it would work there with the same result as seen in the pic. Sorry about the pic rotation, shootme-app seems to take all captures this Way.

-what could i Do to fix this. I really want to use the app and everything was fine before the update... could u post the previouse version for me to try?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Can you tell me what feed urls you added?

I need to reproduce the problem to see the logs.

Does it work if you just clean install, add the widget, then in the config screen, only add www.engadget.com/rss.xml and save?
[Android Apps and Games] skg22086:
sorry to say but im getting the same problem.. im using launcher pro plus, i tried adding engadget rss feed.. and after several restarts.. it just says "problem loading widget"
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, I may have found what is wrong, can you try clean re-install with this apk file ? attachement below

Tell me how it goes, I'm hanging on your answer :)
[Android Apps and Games] fnetf:
Hy Joenrv, i try the widget at my Archos 70IT, everything works fine.

But sometimes after booting, the widget starts to get problems to load.

The only help is to put in the trash and make a new one on the screen !
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi fnetf !

Do you have many feeds added? and are you connected to the internet when booting? cause it can take while to refresh the widget after boot if many feeds are added (needs to refresh all of them), and if not connected to the internet, it doesn't refresh, but it should still display either your old feeds or the message "Loading Feeds... <---- press left edge for setting". If it gets stuck on that one, just go in the settings and press save (make sure to be connected to the internet), that should make it work.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I found the problem for the non loading widgets, it's specific to android 2.1 and below. I fixed it, amongst with other minor bugs.

Pushing v1.2.1 to the market right now !

Btw, you can now add your Facebook RSS feeds to the widget :)

Here are the urls :

Notifications

Friend's posted links

Thanks to Darius_bd for the tip !
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Just would like to add, that you should click those links and above or to the left side there's a link to the rss feed, not that you should put those links in the dialog box ;)

Additionally, the feed I'm more interested than notifications and links it's friend's status. You can grab that rss by going to http://www.facebook.com/notes.php, copy the rss link, and change the part where it says "feeds/friends_notes.php" for "feeds/friends_status.php" and voilá ;)

PS: The links may be looooooooong for you to just hand-copy it. Use barcode scanner along QR Code to easily copy the link and paste it in the dialog box.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Awesome ! Thanks again Darius, you Rule !
[Android Apps and Games] dubqnp:
Almost none of the feeds for the danish newspapers work. Could it be an æøåÆØÅ causing problems?

http://www.b.dk/seneste/rss

http://www.bt.dk/bt/seneste/rss

http://jp.dk/rss/seneste_nyt.jsp

http://politiken.dk/rss/senestenyt.rss

Here a screenshot of the widget as i use it :)
[Android Apps and Games] That-Guy:
Would love to have the option to show more than one item at a time.

For example just a scrollable list which covers the whole screen merging all my feeds together based on the time/date the item was published.

Could this be made a feature?
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Uhm, I'm getting constant FC with my FB feeds and wont load them :/ I also getting constant FC when trying to delete FB feed from the widget

Interestingly, I have no FC when adding those FB feeds in atom form (changing =rss20 to =atom10), but then MRW shows (no link)

Also sometimes I touch it, be it to enter the settings or to scroll up/down and the widget would give me just a vibration feedback. What does that means?

EDIT: Hahaha, ok, no more FC after fiddling with atom1.0 feeds and going back to rss2.0 feeds. It's a bit random this one, uh?
[Android Apps and Games] PiTTBLooD:
Errors in new version

The first simple version works well but the new version can not be added feed. All of new options are a very good idea but this widget (in the new version) do not work in my device yet.

My device: Galaxy S with JPY (Froyo 2.2.1)

Error: Minimal RSS Widget (com.jv.cleanwidgets process) is stopped.....

Waitting the next version... Congratulations for this widget
[Android Apps and Games] fnetf:
Hy look in the Google Market at "Scrollable Widget"

This is the thing you are looking for !
[Android Apps and Games] Spartoi:
Can someone post AndroidCentral's RSS feed? I can't seem to find it on their site.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Feeds.feedburner.com/androidcentral
[Android Apps and Games] skg22086:
Scrollable widgets is great too but this looks better.. just add a scrollable feature to this widget and it's gonna be great.. using the arrow just sucks.. i end up miss clicking it and launching the feed..

Sony Ericsson X10A
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
How can you miss the arrows?? they take 1/4 of the screen in a row! o_O
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Did you have v1.0 installed before upgrading? if so, uninstall completely and re install v1.2.1, should fix everything.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I added friends status, links and notifications in rss format, had no FCs at all, maybe it was something else...

Btw, that QR code trick is cool, Chrome to phone works quite well too :)

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
But I'm curious about that rumble feedback it gives me. Why is that?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
The vibration feedback comes when you long press the widget, as if you were to move it. If it does that it's probably that the widget is being busy loading and you keep clicking the arrows repeatedly so it thinks your long pressing it.

What phone are you using btw? cause I had that sometimes on my old samsung galaxy i7500 while testing in the beginning, but never on my galaxy S.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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Ok! Got to find a way also to get a twitter rss. It's very simple. First we gotta make a list of the stuff we want to have the feed. In my case, I added my friends, left out the companies. Then with the link to the feed we go to http://twiterlist2rss.appspot.com/ and paste the link in the box. We'll have two links, we just grab the RSS one and paste it in the widget and done ;)

(Guess the list gotta be public for it to work)

I'm using an HTC Aria, and no, the feedback is a very brief one, not like moving the widget. Maybe it's the busy thing you mentioned. But I also get it when trying to access the settings. I need like 5 presses, the number 3 would give me a rumble and just the 5th would get me in.

I have a request! If the text area could be stretched to the left, where the settings area is. Is enough to say that if we press that part we'll be directed to the settings and not the link. Or maybe make it an option? It's screen that we're loosing to fill in ;)
[Android Apps and Games] skg22086:
Well.. i don't have it appears cause it mess up the overall look..

Sony Ericsson X10A
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
1/ dude, you really are awesome, i will try that twitter trick as soon as i get a break from work! Does it works well for you?

2/ about the vibration thing, you have to know that a click on the widget launches a "PendingIntent" which, as its name indicates, is pending, meaning waiting to get enough free ressources to be launched. So be patient, click once (twice at max) and let the OS do his thing ;)

3/ do you really want that tiny left space as text space? If yes, I'll try to make the settings a separate app launched like a normal app. That will free that left space.
[Android Apps and Games] Macelangelo77:
I noticed the "delay" too, it seems like it's unresponsive. This appears to take longer when there's no (or a crappy) internet connection. Would it be possible to show a busy indicator (like the spinning ball) when tapped so you at least know you tapped at the right spot? Maybe some error handling would be great too, when connecting fails. I noticed when I reboot my phone, it never starts auto scrolling, it stays at the Loading, tap left Edge-message. I have to enter preferences first and save them before it starts. After boot it takes somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds before my Internet connection is up, so maybe a timeout would prevent the widget not loading feeds at boot up?

To me, it's not about space, it's about alignment. I'd like to be able to align the text to the edge. If that would be possible (with a few pixels space from the border) that would be great.

I noticed something else too: when I wake up my phone, the auto scroll doesn't restart by itself. Maybe this is just the same issue as mentioned above.

Last: I found another typo ;) In Preferences > Settings > Scrolling speed > Set the srolling speed. Sorry, can't help but noticing it :)

Sincerely,

Mac
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I'll look into the booting problem, though for me that doesn't happen, when I boot even in offline mode, the widget just starts scrolling over my old feeds. I'll see if i can reproduce it with my old galaxy i7500.

For the left space, i definetly have to work on the app config thing then, but doesn't it seems weird to configure a widget through an app?

Maybe I can just add a setting to align the text on the edge of the screen and make the shorcut to the settings overlap the text, but I find it a bit messy :s

And finally, thanks for spotting the ugly typo, again :)

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] Macelangelo77:
Maybe the auto scroll issue after boot can simply be solved by adding an optional delay. If you need logs or whatsoever, let me know. I'll be happy to help you.

IMHO it's not weird to config a widget through an app. It comes in three flavours: editable though the widget, editable through an app or not editable after placing it on the homescreen, meaning you have to start all over again. I strongly prefer one of the first two :).

Sincerely,

Mac
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Any error log is Very precious to me, don't hesitate to send them !

OK it's decided then, it will be a separate config app, shouldn't be too hard to implement.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
I think it's easier to overlap the settings button, but as you wish ;) Maybe you can do the same about the arrow if those are hidden, stretching out the text also to the right. Of course, with some margins to both sides.

About the rumble, I'm still getting it while going trough the feeds. It's like it loads 2 or 3 and needs to read the phone cache to load more, because I went trough them already and it's not loading from the internet. It's still loading. And I'm running my phone @ 800mhz so there's something weird there.

Aaaand lastly, the twitter rss is running fine, but I think some are not loading or are slow to get feeded. Maybe because it involves a third party website. Would love if you could do it trough direct API call to the twitter servers. And maybe the same with Facebook? *angelface*
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I guess i can just put a "full screen" parameter in the settings in the meantime.

For the vibration, it's hard to tell what's happening by just reading, i need to see it in action! (Video?)

As for facebook and twitter, I'm definitely looking up a twitter integration, but the facebook one seems a bit useless, no? ...

Anyhow, Valentine's day is over so I'll be back to work tonight (wish i could work on it all day.. stupid real work lol). Im planning on fixing a FC that i had last night which made me loose my feeds... also I'm thinking of adding a backup/restore feature to avoid any re-typing the feeds. What do u think?
[Android Apps and Games] Macelangelo77:
That would be perfect.

Sound like a great idea! Maybe combine it with im-/export of OPML?

Sincerely,

Mac
[Android Apps and Games] ejdren:
Great

Hey, this is THE widget I've been waiting for. I'm really glad you made it.

Would you ever consider putting in a text size option?
[Android Apps and Games] jbirdsf:
Love this idea...but it won't load on my Fascinate. :(
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks! Hadn't thought of it but i guess it makes sense to put a text size setting, I'll look into it.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Email me some logs or info on what's happening I'll see if i can fix it.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Btw, I've been working tonight, fixed a random FC which was very annoying, and started the backup restore function. So far backup is working, restore is resisting me a bit more. I hope I'll finish it by tomorrow night.

I'll keep you informed!
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Cant rec a vid, as this thing rumbles xD I would have to show you life but... It's like the widget loaded, let's say, 3 news from a feed. Then I update it, 3 more new ones since last one. I click on the down arrow and shows me the next, down again and it gives me a rumble. I wait, I click again and shows me the next, I click and rumble again... when it should have shown a cached copy of the previous feed, right? And I set it to store like 30 feeds, I dont know why it's rumbling saying "hey, wait a minute"

Useless? why?

Lot of thanks for your had work Joenrv! ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
It's really weird, i tried to reproduce that on my galaxy i7500 @550mhz, and even by clicking dozen of times really fast i never made it rumble... tried it on a friend's htc hero too, no rumbles... i don't know what to do, i don't think your logs would help me either...

Facebook feeds already work quite well with the rss trick you found, and to me, its a pain having to load mobile facebook on my browser when i have the official app and Tweetdeck already. Plus, the facebook api is a pain... i know that too well because i make websites and web apps for a living.

Twitter on the other hand, lovely api ;)

Thank you for motivating me!
[Android Apps and Games] Aanze:
Hi, thanks for all this work.

There's a smal bug though; when I set the color font to "black", it randomly switch to white after some time. Dont know what does this effect.

Anyway, when I get to settings, its still set to "black". Then I save and it comes back to normal.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Problem is for me that's it's just loading 10 entries, even when I set it to load 50...

But I flashed a new rom, lemme see if this solves the rumbles and this feed thingy

Oh, then keep it that way ;)

EDIT: Aha, been messing a little bit more. Ok, maybe I need to get more rigorous with my testing, so forgive me changing the story everytime. Anyhow this time I get a sure rumble when I go beyond the 10 feeded items. Supposedly it should go to the first item if you reached the bottom, but since it's retrieving only 10 when the limit is more than that, it loads and does nothing. I click again and I get a rumble. I checked with different limits and it always just loads 10 items per feed. I'll let the autorefresh to kick in and see if there's 20 or just 10 showing up.
[Android Apps and Games] sebascp:
great widget! goes great with my current theme xD
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Post a screen shot! ;)