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[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey mate, Thank you for your support!

You're right, i should fix the size of the popup, it will look cleaner. I can also set transparency as an option but after trying several opacities, it gets quite hard to read very quickly.

As for the image loading, its on my list, I'm studying a way to do it elegantly as light as possible. I'm also looking for a way to store the images for offline viewing.

I'll keep you guys informed!

Btw thanks to darius and papito, you will get a spanish and portuguese translation in the next update! Cheers to them!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
And there it is ! new version of Minimal Reader Pro is out !

- 4x3 widget

- Massive speed imporevement !

- Spanish language (thanks Darius !), Portuguese coming soon ;)

- Other fixes and optimisations

Oh btw, Minimal Reader (free) got a huge update to catch up with the Pro version and I removed those annoying adds ;)

Enjoy !
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Awesome! Gonna start with the translation soon btw, lol :) working as a real estate agent and have the time for translation ain't easy!

Hope to have it done within next week :)
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Btw, it loads super fast now! Kudos!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hehe thanks mate!

I have a concern though, some users reported having troubles with the 4x1 widget, has anyone expériences a major bug with that widget size since last update?
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
Hey dude !

NICE update!

I bought the new version of Minimal Pro !
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
.

Ok, stupid question, how do I change the language? xD
[Android Apps and Games] navanman:
I'm seeing some weird issues with the new update.

I have 3 RSS feeds from the BBC in 4x1 widget set to scroll every 10 seconds.

Since the update I get one story then some text "1/3 or 2/3 and "Loading feeds, settings then save to force refresh"

If I press on 1/3 or 2/3 I get a dialog box "Action: Mark All as read, Show Favourites, Cancel"
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Really? That's what an other user reported, it seems to be happening only on the 4x1 widget. I changed the auto scroll speed values to slower values, and removed the 7second one. Maybe thats what causes the problem.

Can you try to change that value with an updated value and see if it solves the issue?

Tell me how it goes
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I put the file as ES language. It doesn't change for you? Maybe i need an other extension for argentinian spanish?
[Android Apps and Games] mrriku:
I'm having the same issues as navaman ie using 4x1 widgets. Tried a few scroll speed value combinations but still getting the 1/3, 2/3 etc displays.

I found if the feeds were removed then placed back it works fine, ie until you hit refresh the problem surfaces again.

Hopefully you'll be able to find a fix for this.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Uh? so it changes as the OS language changes? I wanted to try it out while keeping my OS in english :P
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
The language changes according to your current system language :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, I've pushed an update to fix the issue with autoscroll after a refresh.

Can you tell me if it works now for everybody?
[Android Apps and Games] mrriku:
Thanks bud. You are awesome! Everything (4 x 1 Widget size) is working per usual now.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Great ! Glad that it works as it should, now i can enjoy my Sunday in peace :)
[Android Apps and Games] 13597:
is it possible not to make an article 'marked as read' even i've read it. i just want the white header text not to become grey after i've read it:p

sorry for my English:p
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi mate,

did you try the "Filter unread items" ? that way you only get white headers, and for the ones you want to keep for later, use the favourite button ;)

Hope it helps
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Oh yeah. Well, that's what I dont like about spanish, it needs sooo many long words to say the same as in english. So, if anyone can come up with optimized spanish for the widget, that would be great.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I know, i keep my phone in english too, more efficient ;)

But I did the multi language thing the way google says, with locale detection... changing languages for the widget only would be annoying to implement.
[Android Apps and Games] 13597:
haha i want all my feeds keep there after reading them:p

anyway, your widget rocks!

one more question, why Minimal Reader Pro cannot read the feeds in this link? Everything is fine in my google reader,i mean google reader can get all the feeds from the above link.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Oh I changed it and worked well, so it's all fine ;) (except that is darn long)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
hmmm it seems to be an encoding problem, the source says encoding="big5" ... never heard of that encoding before. Tried to change it to UTF-8, and ISO-8859-1 (the only two available encoding of the stock android xml parser ...) with no luck, one crashes and the other one gives funny characters...

Sorry mate, this one is not going to work any time soon.

Hope you still have some feeds that work tho
[Android Apps and Games] 13597:
big5 is a chinese encoding:p

because i can read the big5 feeds in stock google reader and pulse in my phone...i am just curious about that:p
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
They probably wrote their own XML parser... if only i had the time to do it myself :(
[Android Apps and Games] PhilDX:
i have been a long time user of Scrollable News Widget but switched to Minimal Reader Pro this weekend because my new home launcher does not support scrollable widgets.

i am really enjoying Minimal Reader Pro, its a very nice app. i have multiple news feeds setup within a single widget. one thing that i noticed is that it takes an extra second or two for me to scan new news articles and quickly identify the feed source of each article (even though it is listed in a bolder font). it would be cool if i had the option to set the feed source font to a different color (to make it stand out quickly). it would also be nice if i had the option to increase the font size overall (my old eyes aren't working as well as they used to).

it really is a nice app as is though, thanks to the dev for creating it.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey Phil, Thanks for the support!

I definitely agree that it would be nice to personalize certain sources so that they stand out better.

I was thinking adding that function to the manage tab, on clicking one feed from the list.

Should i make both the source name and the title header customizable? What about the piblished date?

Tell me how you picture it.

I also want to put a color picker for the background and the text in general. I think next update will be all about cosmetics ;)

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] PhilDX:
wow, you sound like a really enthusiastic guy :-)

personally, I think that it would be sufficient to just be able to customize the source name font color, that would make it easy to priortize which items as the user scans the list. ideally, one could choose a different color for each source. I'm not sure about the published date, you could argue either way on that one.

BTW, the little popup article reader is very nice and polished.

oh, one other comment...and please don't take this as a criticism, I don't mean it that way: it seems to me that there might be a little bit of unused space on the widget - the most I've ever seen are 4 headlines per screen on my 4x4 widget with "big" font, and there appears to be enough extra space top and bottom to fit a fifth headline. just an observation, that's all. thanks
[Android Apps and Games] puredesire:
Consuming this app a lot of battery? Looks nice!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I'm always enthusiastic about my personal projects :)

Ok so I still don't know what to do with the publish date, I guess I'll leave it white and changeable with the general text color option.

About the unused space, I know, it's annoying, but I had no choice ! Sometimes you get several news headers that are 3 or 4 lines long, in that situation, all the space is used. I couldn't afford to have the text go out of the widget so I had to make my layout according to that "worse-case" situation.

If you have an idea on how to make a layout that's more space efficient and takes all lengths into account, I'll be happy to hear it :)

Cheers mate!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
If you set the options to manual refresh, and no auto-scroll, the widget consumes no battery at all. It only does when you use it, and I think it's very reasonnable since the last update :)
[Android Apps and Games] Fihlvein:
Hi Joenrv, I just bought the pro version of this widget yesterday and I was wondering do you have a timeline for the scrollable widget feature? I really like the functionality of this widget, but I desperately want a scrollable widget to easily browse for interesting feeds quickly.

Great job so far.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I knoooow i want the scrollable widget so badly too!

My gf is going away this weekend so I can finally work in peace!

Hopefully i can code most of it this weekend and finish it by next week.

I'll be posting my progress on my twitter @joenrv

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] Fihlvein:
Sounds like a quality time to be well spent with a keyboard and many cups of coffee (or beer?) ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hehe definitely!

Gotta refill my stocks btw ;p
[Android Apps and Games] Fihlvein:
Btw I noticed that if I read feeds through widget, these feeds will remain unread in Google Reader even though performing sync. Is that normal?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Yeah, it's normal, i haven't implemented that kind of synchronization yet. I think ot would make the app slower and i don't really feel the need for it (i barely ever go to greader now)

Is it something important for you?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, i have a question :

Do you use the Text Alignement setting on the 4x1 and 4x2 widget ?

I'm thinking of removing that setting, it would make it easier for future evolutions on those widget sizes.

So would you miss that setting much if I remove it?
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Hi Joenrv, I just bought Minimal Reader Pro last night. Really like it.

Personally, I use only left justified.

Oh, one bug I've noticed is that the widget layout doesn't seem to stick after awhile. I chose text with buttons and arrows, but the buttons and arrows eventually disappear.

Sorry, I didn't go through every post, so I dunno if it's a known bug (or by design?). ;)

Edit: It seems the timestamp will disappear too.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi joe, sorry for the late response.

I've seen this bug happen on some launchers bit not on mine (adw) . Can you tell me which one you use?
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Hi, I'm using the Dell Streak 5 (2.2, default Dell Stage launcher). Dunno how I can help out, but tell me if there's anything.

I'm using the 4x4 widget, and the only suggestion I have is to make the arrow keys bigger or at least the area where I can tap to be bigger. Dell Streak is pretty big, but I'm finding it a bit difficult to page through headlines.

Thanks a lot! :)

Edit: I've switched to Go Launcher EX, so that should fix the disappearing GUI stuff. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] lauslein:
Me too :)

I just bought Minimal Reader Pro today, it's really great so far, even though I'm missing the scrolling feature.

Keep it up! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Ok never tried the dell stage launcher, I'll try to solve the issue on with the launchers i have, I think i can reproduce it with the honeycomb launcher on the emulator.

Do you confirm that it works fine with Go launcher Ex tho?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks for the support mate!

unfortunatly the scrollable widgets won't come with next version but with the one after that. I wanted to make the non scrollable perfect before starting with the scrollable one.

Next version is almost finished, still got to polish it a bit but it should be out this week end. Most of the changes concern the visual aspect of the widget/poup, and it's looking pretty good ;)

Thanks to all of you guys for the motivation you give me,

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
The Dell Stage launcher is a bit slow and buggy, so maybe it's not worth the effort. Seems to work fine in Go Launcher Ex... no problems so far.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjiougirl2000:
I don't know anything about phones so please bear with me.

I just had to wipe my phone and put a new rom on it. But the market app isn't there and I can't find where to download the app on the forums here. I tried doing searches for it and still can't figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laie1472:
What rom are you using??? And you might want to do a search for something called Google apps or gapps or gapps/midi. Usually were ever you found your rom it will be a link somewere on that thread for the google add on. Which give you the google market,gmal,car home and a few others depending on which one you decided to use. Once you aquire the zip file just boot into recovery and flash them. Good luck.

Yea its me again with the

Modified Hero--
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjiougirl2000:
I'm using purple glass on my phone. I guess it's a froyo rom.

I checked the thread and there was a link for the gapps. Thank you for telling me that. I would never of thought of looking there.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laie1472:
No problem. If you need anything else let me know, and if I can help I will. Good luck.

Yea its me again with the

Modified Hero--
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjiougirl2000:
Thank you, I will remember that.
[Atrix 4G General] The Bishop:
It looks like the bottom right of my phone has an issue where the front and side parts do not meet up, and so I get some light bleed on that edge. Does anyone else have this issue, or is it just mine and should I get it replaced?
[Atrix 4G General] booty hater:
I would find out if its a problem specifically to your phone or all of them.If its just yours get it swapped out.
[Atrix 4G General] Squadfer:
That would be just yours... I dont have that issue
[Atrix 4G General] graemegb:
dont have any problems like that. swap it for a new one.
[Atrix 4G General] CC Lemon:
I just checked mine and looked very hard to see if any light leaked and it doesn't seem to. I'd definitely say that's not normal/how it's intended to be... not sure how common it is.

Does the gap seem noticeable? Aside from the light that is. Does the "frame" around the glass seem bent? My glass seems to fit the frame completely, so I can only imagine that happening if the frame was bent somehow or if the glass was not made properly.

If the gap is significant enough to let crap get in there, then it might be worth returning. If it's just a little light, it's a tougher call. Based on the pictures, I'd like to say I wouldn't bother. That said, I get the feeling I'd probably get it replaced if it were actually my phone. The biggest thing is if you can see any other potential problems as a result of whatever the issue is.
[Atrix 4G General] vinay427:
Same as above, I don't have that issue.
[Atrix 4G General] The Bishop:
Thanks everyone -- I'll take it back tomorrow and see what they say - probably will get a replacement just to be on the safe side.
[Atrix 4G General] The Bishop:
the only time that you can really tell is in the dark (how I saw it in the first place this morning when I got up and grabbed my phone) -- otherwise even looking directly at it it's not noticeable. I'm just wondering if the store did something to it (very long story, but they hosed up and ordered me the wrong stuff and magically found this one to give me so I'm wondering if it was a return that I got or something odd).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
So Ive been reading a bunch about rooting in an effort to grasp everything before actually going through with it. 2 things still have me slightly confused. RUU and PC36IMG.

As far as I can tell, these are both versions of the Stock 2.2 ROM that ships with the phone. These are necessary to help restore the phone in the event that something goes wrong during the Root process, or when flashing a custom ROM.

Am I on the right track??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidc23:
Yep there both the same thing they brinv phone back to stock
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
A RUU is an update utility that you run from your PC that will install stock software and firmware on your phone, including the ROM, kernel, radios and hboot. A PC36IMG.zip can literally be almost anything. That is just the file name that hboot looks for, and can be a ROM, radio update, recovery, or just about anything. So all RUUs do the same thing but PC36IMGs can vary dramatically. So before flashing a PC36IMG, you need to know exactly what that particular file does/ is meant for.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
Watch out man, that is inaccurate information and could potentially mess up someone's phone if they just flashed any old PC36IMG without knowing exactly what it is. They can all be very different.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Yes and no. A PC36IMG CAN bring it back to stock, but it can also be a recovery, radio, ect. That's why you need to know what the file is supposed to do, and if you're not sure, you need to look inside on a pc or not flash it at all.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
So PC36IMG.zip is a file the phone looks for, and then, whatever it finds inside, it flashes to the phone.

What command, or action, forces the phone to look for PC36IMG.zip?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Correct. And no command needed, have the zip on your phone, boot into the bootloader, and it'll detect it in about 10 seconds, then you select yes to update and then to reboot to flash what is inside it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mindspin_311:
Ok cool.

So it could be a kernel, ROM, radio, ANYTHING?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Correct :eek: Though really no reason for it to be a rom/kernel since they're easily flashed in recovery, but it COULD be, so anytime anyone gives you a PC36IMG or you download it, check the contents of it first.
[XPERIA X10 General] fiscidtox:
I feel like a lot of the issues that have been caused with android could be solved by this simple solution, if every company gave the option to allow us to use their custom android, or we could also have the choice of having just plain vanilla android. This would be easy for them, and would also solve a great deal of user issues...
[XPERIA X10 General] Bwyan Benton:
I agree.....one thing that bothers me about android is all the manufacturers adding there custom skins on top of the android platform...while there sometimes nice...they also have a tendency to bog down the system and cause lag.

Perfect example, and Im sure youll love to hear this is "Timescape" haha.

But I guess one thing that seperates my phone from "his" phone is the custom skins that they use.

But the option for "android at its purest" should be there for ALL devices.
[XPERIA X10 General] aR_ChRiS:
to be honest i don't see how this can benefit all user groups

the problem we have with our x10s now is not that we have a totally customised firmware, it's the fact that we have an encrypted bootloader, which samsung/htc/some other manufacturers don't have.

the only solution is either sony ericsson somehow unlock the bootloader for us or we crack the code that locks up the bootloader.
[XPERIA X10 General] Bwyan Benton:
Im pretty sure were on our own for cracking the bootloader :(
[XPERIA X10 General] im_iceman:
I think that offering Vanilla android for those that want it would be good. I can't think of a reason why SE (or anyone else!) couldn't do that.
[XPERIA X10 General] fiscidtox:
people that don't root would be able to still get a regular version of android with everything working...
[XPERIA X10 General] karlos77x:
hi all, i think the manufactures should kkep the option of personalize their product,but google should have some regulations for android in order to work better,i'm not an expert but in that way al of us win.

regarding the problems with cracking the x10 bootloader,i dont expect it woul be easy for the coming xperia family,so after i see how good are the htc or samsung new smart phones i'll be buying one,too bad coz i have been using sony ericsson phones for the last 5 yrs and no problem,even with the x10 i have no real problems but the fact that it can't be fully custumize it really bothers me since that is the whole point of an android phone,isn't it? peace.
[XPERIA X10 General] kunalgahlot:
cracking bootloader is next to impossible coz Sony has learnt from past and now they dont take any chance.

Sent from my X10i
[XPERIA X10 General] Bwyan Benton:
While i have such a bad feeling i know your right......I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that "special thread" to be posted one day.
[XPERIA X10 General] compumasta:
Ahh yes but the kernal was changed when we flashed 2.1 right? What he's saying is that they could release vanilla like that. Then if they choose they could provide an option for their custom firmware. But the key with this is that even if they didn't want to keep making custom firmwares for a phone they are phasing out supplying a working vanilla wouldn't take near the effort to implement for further updates. So they could release se custom 2.1 as their final release but still provide vanilla 2.2, 2.3 etc.

Sent from my Delorean using a flux capacitor!
[XPERIA X10 General] agentJBM:
I agree that the phone companies want to keep their customizations as it's what differentiates them from the competition, and gives the device its own identity. Google is making improvements to allow Android to work around the skins to avoid the phone companies having to scramble behind them with every update.

I am sure someone, possibly Google, will shortly be coming out with a fully generic "developers" device just as you described.
[XPERIA X10 General] -PiLoT-:
Android Dev Phone
[XPERIA X10 General] MJ_QaT:
There is an option for that, if you want pure vanilla, either go to an ice-cream stand or Nexus S

Companies do the customization to differentiate their devices from others

But it's not a bad idea though
[XPERIA X10 General] fiscidtox:
My whole point is you would still have the option to have their custom skin though! You just wouldn't be lost in the dust with updates b/c of companies choosing not to update their skins however, or if a skin was terrible you wouldn't have to root (for those less tech savvy folk)
[XPERIA X10 General] MJ_QaT:
They ( all companies ) fixed that problem with 2.3

So everything now works with Android's applications instead of creating different application that works independently ( similar to mediascape in 2.1 )

So with or without root you can choose your favourite app as default

I understand what you meant, giving an example, companies can have an easy setup on first start with two options like ( option A: use vanilla UI, option B: use manufacturer's UI ) so everyone can go with what he/she wants
[XPERIA X10 General] agentJBM:
What then would happen with the customizations for the hardware such as the camera? I can't see SE for example putting a 8 megapixil camera in a device and then not supporting its features.
[XPERIA X10 General] fiscidtox:
All it would need would be the camera drivers. That wouldn't be any work for their dev team...
[XPERIA X10 General] agentJBM:
Following along...if they had done this with the X10, what you would have would still be vanilla 2.1 with the bootloader locked or no? The bootloader and camera drivers would still be needed for any custom ROMs.