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[Android Apps and Games] AoOs:
I have been experiencing difficulties with a few things:

Sometimes, most of the time, I have to click the title 5-10 times before it will open the article.

When reading an article and slowly scrolling down, it will jump right or left to one of the adjacent articles.

And a feature request: make a 'I'm right handed' option, which makes the navigational arrows switch to the left side of the widget, so right handed ppl won't have to strain, and bend, their thumbs to reach them.

Thank you for the best reader out there.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi there,

What phone do you use? If the widget is not responding it means your phones memory is low. I don't have any issues with my galaxy s.

For the scrolling, its really weird as you can't swype on the text area of the popup you can only swype on the top of the popup OR the sides of the popup. Are you scrolling down with your finger on the edge of the popup? That would explain it. Just try to scroll down with your finger in the middle of the popup and it won't jump to the next / previous story.

As for the request, on the 4x1, 4×3 and 4×4 widget, there's an option in the display tab called "invert buttons position", which does exactly what you need.

Hope it helps

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] aiacone:
Fantastic! And how can I resize the widget with Gingerbread?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
What launcher do you use? Usually you just have to long press the widget then release it and drag the edges to the size you want.

Hope it helps
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey guys,

It's my birthday today!! I just turned 25 years old, quarter of a century!

If you wanna make me a little present, just post a nice comment on Minimal Reader or Minimal Reader Pro on the market, that would mean the world to me!

If you have already, thank you so much!

Cheers to me!! :p
[Android Apps and Games] aiacone:
Thanks. I'm on MIUI launcher.

---------- Post added at 08:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:20 PM ----------

Happy birthday! Going to comment...
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Last time I was on miui (I switched to cm7 two weeks ago), the latest release didn't support scrollable Widgets... does it support them now?
[Android Apps and Games] aiacone:
Brainmaster MIUI perfectly support scrollable widgets!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Oh ok, the official miui.us one didn't.

So does the resizing work on that rom?
[Android Apps and Games] aiacone:
No, it doesn't work. But I remumber in the free version a scrollable 4x2 version. I tried to reinstall it, togheter to the paid one; I can see the scrollable 4x2 version, but when i choose it, i see: For this, you've to buy the app! :o
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
Hey Joenrv send to me the file for me update the translation in Portuguese!

Cheers !

:D
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Yeah that's normal :)

Give me your e-mail, I'll send you a modified version with a 4x2 scrollable widget.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Yeah I'll send it asap, I just need to isolate the new stuff from the full english file.

Thanks again mate :)
[Android Apps and Games] aiacone:
aiacone@cittanuova.it

alberto.iacone@gmail.com

God bless you! :D:D:D
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I'll send it tonight after work to your gmail.

Cheers :)
[Android Apps and Games] xananoide:
Happy Birthday

Hi, Joenrv:)

Just to wish you a happy Birthday!!

Cheers to you.

God bless you!!!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks mate :)

Btw, I'm this close to finishing the "Refresh on connection" and "Refresh on Wifi only" options!

I'm using the "Professional Android Application Development 2" book that my gf got me for my birthday yesterday ;) good stuff in there, gonna be useful for my new job and for my future apps !

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] tboooe:
Is this a bug: the articles are not being set as read after I open them. I tried turning on and off the setting to filter on unread items. With the option off I assume the article title is supposed to turn from bold to regular. However this does not happen. With the filter on I assume the article is supposed to be removed from the list after I open it. This doesnt happen either. Am I perhaps not understanding how your great widget works?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I think what happens is that you use the scrollable widget and you got the "marked as read while reading" unchecked.

Check it and it should fix your problem.
[Android Apps and Games] tboooe:
Yes I am using scrollable widget. If I use the mark as the read option, the widget then keeps returning to the top of the page. Is there any other solution to this?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
No, this is something I have to improve. i haven't found the way to refresh the widget with the read stories and keep the current scroll position... I just don't have that level of control over a scrollable widget with the api I used. Maybe the new api from google on honeycomb and ics will let me achieve that.

Sorry about that :( for now, you have to choose between jumping to the top or not mark stories as read right away.
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
This should boost sales a bit i think :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hehe yeah I've been in contact with the writer for some time, sent him few versions. I think the ics theme is what made him write the review :)

So happy to be featured on the most famous US android blog! Came a long way since the first version back in march... all that thanks to your support guys.

Cheers!!
[Android Apps and Games] Wishka233:
I apologize if this has been addressed already.

I notice that articles that I mark as read from the google reader website are still displayed in the widget even after clicking the refresh button. Am I missing an option that would automatically remove these "read" articles from the widget or is it a limitation?

Thanks and great job otherwise. I love this widget.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi there, thanks for the report.

It is indeed a limitation, the sync from google reader to the widget only applies to new items. Meaning when refreshing, it won't get the news that are already read on google reader.

I'll look up if there's an easy way to mark as read items when syncing with google reader, although it would mean fetching more data than it currently does.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] anampostale:
can I get even bigger fonts

let me first say, great app! I love using this to quickly read all my feeds. Here's a feature request I have!

I didn't use the pop up window function to read before, but now that I got the Samsung Note I am finding that I rely on the popup function to read more and more, but the font size is killing my eyes! even at "big" I still find it too small on Note's huge screen. Can we please have an option to adjust font sizes on our own, or maybe you'd consider up the options more? like add in "XL" and "XXL" font size options for those of us with huge screens ;p

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi there, thanks for the support!

I totally agree with your request, I need to adapt my widget to tablets and bigger resolutions asap, i don't like how it looks on my Xoom atm...

I'll add your request to my todo list, thanks for the suggestion!

Cheers

Joaquim
[Android Apps and Games] murraybowles:
great product!

I installed MRP on my Droid a few days ago, and I love it.

I have two suggestions:

(1) In the dark glass pop-up, unless I'm in ideal light, the dark links are hard to read. If there was an option to make them lighter, or even not contrasted at all (since they are underlined), that would be great

(2) Do you intend to make the MRP Favorite flag sync to the Google Reader Starred flag? I've used that in other readers to keep track of stories I wanted to read later.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi there, thanks for the support!

You're right about the grey links, they're not very readable, ill see if I can find another color which would suit it better, or even make it an color choosing option?

About the greader starring, I guess I could make the favourite function sync with your starred items, would that work for you?

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] murraybowles:
yes, that would be great.
[Android Apps and Games] PooJou:
Hey mate,

Love your work - I have a Galaxy Nexus and for the life of me I cannot get anything to show up in any of the widgets - any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi mate, that's really strange, the static widgets (4x1 to 4x4) should work, they work fine on the ICS emulator.

Could you send me some logs ?
[Android Apps and Games] PooJou:
Hey, reinstalled and the static widgets are fine now - is there a known issue with the scrollable one?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Yeah, just like in honeycomb, the method used to make scrollable le widgets is different than the one used on adw or go Launcher.

I need to make lots of changes or even do a new widget to make it work on the android > 3.x stock launcher.

It will come tho, just wait till I get my galaxy nexus :)

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] PooJou:
Mate, you are doing great - I'm waiting eagerly for the ICS update :D

Am also telling everyone they should use Minimal Reader!
[Android Apps and Games] swishman:
Good Job , great app
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks guys :)

Hey btw, I've started working on a twitter widget, right now it shows my timeline on a scrollabble widget, and there's just one button to refresh.

I've got some good ideas to make it really nice, but I'm gonna need you guys for beta testing and give me improvements ideas when the first version is ready.

Was just wondering how many of you would be interested in a twitter widget?
[Android Apps and Games] xananoide:
Updates on Wifi

Hy Joenrv,

I was very curious about the next update! When I saw "New setting : Refresh on WiFi only", I was happy. But after working a day with de app, i verified that it not update automatically as soon as I turn on wifi.

I wish this could be corrected sometime.

Thanks anyway!!

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I know mate, sorry, i've been trying to make it work but got in some trouble while testing, it works on the emulator but not on my phone, i think it might be because of my cm7 rom...

So i left this feature out for the moment.

Hopefully I find what's wrong with my rom and make it work.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Count me in! Maybe that will get me back again to twitter. And there's lot of interesting data there, but I just forget to access it.

:)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hehe I kew I could count you in darius ;)

I've been using my twitter widget all day and I gotta say it's quite practical and addictive, can't wait to make it exactly how I picture it.

I'll keep you posted (on twitter mostly)

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] hongkongtom:
really good app, I have got this annoying bug, once I've place reader ticker (no matter stock Google ticker or Minimal Reader), after a restart the letters on my Galaxy Nexus would be corrupted like the screen cap. this problem went away after I remove the widget and a restart. it happens to stock ICS launcher or NOVA launcher which I'm using. I'm on 4.0.2 stock root, Minimal reader free 2.1, any idea? I would certainly buy this app if this annoying bug could be fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
I doubt very much that this bug could be MRP related, so you'll have better luck fighting it if you post this bug in the Galaxy Nexus forums.
[Android Apps and Games] hongkongtom:
Believe so, already posted in GN forum, just trying my luck over different things, especially Minimal Reader messes with news ticker widget also.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

ITL53F

4.0.2

Rooted

Stock rom & Recovery
[Android Apps and Games] Marchisio:
Hello,

Where can i find the wallpaper on first screenshot?

On the top

https:// market.android.com/details?id=com.jv.minimalreader&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5qdi5taW5pbWFscmVhZGVyIl0.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Sorry mate, I can't find that wallpaper anywhere ... lost it. It was one of the stock Nexus S backgrounds though.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey guys, I'm back from holidays !

I can finally get back to work. And as I just purchased a Galaxy Nexus, my first task will be to make my scrollable widget work for the stock ICS launcher and NOVA Launcher.

Another feature I wanted to implement is add thumbnail pics to each news on the widget by predownloading the first image of each news. What do you think about it? Would it kill the "minimal" aspect? Should I set it as an option maybe?

I'll keep you updated on my progress, you can check it on twitter as well : @joenrv

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Scrollable + images would be essential. Could be an option.

Also, I think the ics blue is very close, but not perfect. ;-)
[Android Apps and Games] pemell:
Twitter

Hi Joenrv.

I bought your app from the market and I love it. It's perfect in my own custom rom.

Though, I have a Huge problem. I can't get twitter feeds into it, tried several different ways but there is always something not working.

I know twitter removed their rss function, but I would love some feeds updating me in your reader.

Also, I didn't get the scrollable widget to work in my zeam launcher, but maby you where already aware of this. Nothing shows up in the reader when switching to it. I don't bother too much about that though, the twitter feeds are much more important.

Regards

Pemell
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi Pemell,

I'm currently working on a dedicated twitter widget that I think you'll like :) It won't be integrated into Minimal Reader, I'm making a new app for it. First I need to update Minimal Reader to make it ICS compatible asap though.

About Zeam Launcher, I think I read somewhere that it lost support for scrollable widgets, isn't it the case?

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] misterx51:
awesome app. love the pop up feature
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
You're right, my ics blue wasn't perfect :) just fixed it.

Scrollable widget for ICS is almost complete. Attacking the images this week end, will keep you updated !

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
Hi Joenrv !!

To improve the translations, you could open an account in Crowdin.

:D
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Wow that's awesome ! thanks papito !

I created a profile and uploaded the file to translate. You can join the translators group here http://crowdin.net/project/minimal-reader-pro/invite

Didn't even know such a tool existed, it's exactly what I needed :)

Cheers mate !
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
There it is guys, Minimal Reader Pro update available on the market !

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jv.minimalreader

** NEW in v2.1.9 **

- New Widget optimized for Android 3.x / 4.x (scrollable and resizable)

- Revamped the ICS theme

- Changed the publish date format

As usual, please report any bugs you find to help me solve them asap.

Also, if you want to help translate my app, go here http://crowdin.net/project/minimal-reader-pro/invite, click your language and start translating.

Now, back to work, gotta make those image previews work :)

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Cool. Ill start the Danish version tonight
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Can you please make it work with Nova Launcher?
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Joaquim, is it possible to get 5x5 and 3x5 widgets? The stock TouchWiz launcher on the Galaxy Note is 5x5, so 4x4 looks very wrong since it's not properly aligned.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
The new widget works with Nova launcher, I use it on my Gnex :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Yes I need to do those too, it's on my list. Annoying that TW doesn't even support resizeable widgets though ... even MotoBlur does it lol. Isn't there a ICS ROM available yet for the GNote?

In the meantime if you're not too attached to TW there's always Go and ADW Launcher, which IMO are better than TW.
[Android Apps and Games] god2pac:
i'll try it, looks cool.

I love minimal style

:)
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Ill try again then. It didnt come up w anything. Stock Nex did though
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Make sure you use the right widget, the one that has a different image preview and is labelled "Minimal Reader Pro [Android 3.x/4.X ONLY]"
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
The Note only has a pre-alpha CM9 build for now, so not that much to talk about yet :p

I've freezed TW now and using ADW EX. MUCH better!
[Android Apps and Games] Chema_F:
Jooooder!! (Con perdón, me permito el español) Aleluya!!

I had installed your widget more than a month ago. First week it worked perfectly and then -I don't know why- problems appeared. "Scrollable" decided not to work, when I touched any new in the widget the pop-up showed nothing. But that didn't happened with the other sizes of widget! And right now, when I was to cry for some help, I don't know what I've done with the favourites icon in the scrollable widget but it works 100% fine. Who knows..

Now my question, trying to add Facebook notifications via rss. The url generated in Facebook is not taken as a valid url in Minimal Reader Pro. This is: www facebook com/feeds/notifications.php?id=718873442&viewer=718873442&key=AWiiwT5dg-2oR0Ok&format=rss20

Any tip? Thanks!

Oh! I have to tell you: un trabajo cojonudo!!!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
jeje me alegro que te guste !

about Facebook notifications, I think it doesn't work anymore because I use the google reader engine to parse RSS feeds, and I know Google and Facebook are not very good friends ... it probably won't work that way. Maybe I should make a special treatment for facebook to parse it manually ...

But right now I'm busy making an efficient image download system.

I already managed to preload the first image of each news for offline reading ! It really changes everything, now I can read all my news with images on the metro without worrying about the network :)

The next step is to show a thumbnail on the widget, I should crack that step in the next few days.

Will keep you updated.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] PooJou:
Mate just did a reinstall on my gnex and ZOMG SCROLLABKR WIDGET!!!! Thanks for all the hard work!!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hehe thanks mate !

just wait till the next update though, I feel it's going to be a game changer. I can't wait to finish my day job tonight and keep working on it :D
[Android Apps and Games] itsmyname:
How do I get it to show newest feeds first, regardless of the source? For example it shows all of the feeds from one source altogether, even the old ones, and then I have to scroll past a few pages to get to the next source, which may contain newer feeds but is grouped after the first one feed
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi there, the items are already organised by publish date. So you should always get the newest item first regardless of the source.
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Danish translation is completed
[Android Apps and Games] trollsperm:
Many of my feeds have long titles like "Local news from City Name, delivered by Newspaper Name", etc. In Google Reader I've renamed them to something like "Newspaper Name". Would it be possible to make Minimal Reader use my custom names instead of the actual feed title?
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Refreshing 4x1 makes it close on Nexus
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks mate !

Just approved it, it will be included in next version.

Cheers :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I'll see what I can do, if I remember well, I think I already take these custom names in the feeds list in the settings. So it shouldn't be a problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Yes I've seen that bug too, it's only on ICS and I got it fixed already. I'm just waiting to finish my current devs on the images to push an update with the fix included. Should be up in the next few days.

In the meanwhile, use the new scrollable widget please :D
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Ok. But would be great if we could hide the buttons on that one too..:-)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey guys,

I've almost finished my next update, and I need a bunch of beta tester to make sure I haven't forgotten anything.

I need at least an ICS user and a Gingerbread user (with an alternative launcher like Go or ADW).

There will be only one day of testing (I'm planning to push the update to the market tonight), so if you're intersted and got some time to test and report your feedback today, e-mail me : joaquim . verges (at) gmail . com

Please mention what phone you use, ROM, Android version and launcher.

Thanks !

ps @blackbearblanc : Option to remove buttons added, looks good :) still clickable though
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
me me me me me blackbearblanc@gmail

Stock Nexus 4.0.1

Nova Launcher / stock launcher
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Reporting for duty Sir!

Galaxy Note ROMOW 7.5 HD (2.3.6) With ADW EX.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
There it is guys :)

** NEW in v2.2 **

- New Feature : Image pre-download for offline reading with images!

- New Feature : Thumbnails on widget ! (scrollable widgets only for now)

- New option to hide buttons on scrollable widgets

- Brought back the old ICS theme

- Added Danish, Turkish, Russian and Brasilian Portuguese languages (Thanks to all the translators!)

- Bug fixes

Thanks to all beta testers !

Enjoy
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
No changes in reviewapp and the release?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
What do you mean?
[Android Apps and Games] Div033:
For some reason, my timestamps on news items are appearing as 24 hours instead of 12. Any advice on how to correct this?
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Are there any changes, between the one I chekked for bugs and the one now in market?

Should i keep the one i got installed?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I only set a 24h format for now. I need to add an option for 12h format.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I added your last changes on the Lang file and added the other languages. Also updated the change log.

Not very different, update if you feel like it :)

Thanks again for all the help !
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Thanks Joenrv! Love the new features!
[Android Apps and Games] trollsperm:
Do you think it could be possible to add a feature to "force" the browser into opening the "mobile" version of the article instead of the link that's actually used in the feed? For a lot of feeds it is recognized that I use a mobile device, but not all. Among others, it doesn't happen on this feed.. All articles, like this one, are also available in a mobile version - the only difference is that "www" in the url is replaced with "m".. I'm thinking on a optional setting for each individual feed to "replace www in url with m/mobile/custom"!?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi there, sorry for the late reply,

unfortunatly that feature would be hard to implement as many websites use their own URL format for their mobile site, and it also depends on the user agent that your browser uses.

I think if you force the user agent of your browser to android, most of the websites should redirect you to the right version of the website.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey guys, just realeased a new version of Minimal Reader Pro (2.2.2)

This update is focused on optimizing the new image pre download feature, now it uses less data, less disk space and the widget scrolling is much smoother.

I recommend doing a clean install for this one, but it shouldn't be required.

Tell me if everything works for you.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] zadock:
Hi Joenrv! I purchased PRO version, but when I select a 4x2 scroll widget, I get a message telling me "Only in PRO version..."

What's the problem?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi there, thanks for the support !

You probably chose the wrong widget, the pro widgets are labelled slightly differently than the locked widgets from the free version.

My advice is just to uninstall the free version so you get only the Pro widgets.

Hope it helps.

Cheers