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[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
It is curious you say that the refresh process is shared by all widgets because I just did my own test.

I left both widgets (the one that I think is "bugged" that only displays the counter, and the circled one that doesn't refresh, the "right" one you say) on my homescreen and waited an hour. The "bugged" one had it's counter increase which means it refreshed correctly (still doesn't show items though). The circled "right" one did not update at all.

So it seems to me that one of them refreshes fine while the other doesn't. Maybe it isn't the refresh process after all and an individual widget problem.

Hope this helps!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Helps a lot, there must be something wrong when the new scrollable widget sets up the auto refresh process.

The weird thing is that it works fine on my nexus... I'll have a look at the code.
[Android Apps and Games] Gunde:
Hopefully you'll be able to fix it. It's the only thing keeping this 4,9 star app from being a 5 star one ;)

The new look is sweet!
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
Congratulation Joenrv, this update is awesome !!

:D:D
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
I've noticed one thing that's kind of annoying. Let's say i scroll for a bit and i find an interesting article, i tap and read it. When i hit the back button i'll have to start from the top again and scroll like hell to get to the point i was on.
[Android Apps and Games] Div033:
Yes, this WAS a major annoyance. You just need to uncheck "Mark read while reading" and no more jumpy problem :)

Is there any chance we can get the option to set the time display to 12h am/pm?

Sent from my Droid Incredible using the XDA app.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Try unchecking "Mark as read while reading". It will avoid that behaviour, but on the other hand it won't mark the item as read (unbolding the news title) as soon as you read it.
[Android Apps and Games] itsmyname:
Using the 4x4 scrollable widget for firmware 2.x. When I click on a headline, it opens up the wrong story.
[Android Apps and Games] mwedge:
I am using the scrollable widget with the latest ASUS ICS build on my Transformer and I have the sync issue. I have to manually hit the refresh button for it to resync. Also there are times when all the items will disappear and it displays "press settings to add feed". then after a little time the items will come back and display properly.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
thanks for the report guys, while I was working on the upcoming update yesterday I found the reason of the auto refresh problem. I fixed it and it seems to work much better now.

Update coming shortly.
[Android Apps and Games] Marsup`:
Hey joenrv, just bought minimal reader and I must admit so far so good !

I have 2 questions though concerning the widget :

- Full titles are never shown when they are longer than 2 lines, isn't there a way around this limitation ?

- I often like to read my news by categories, and the only way I see is to have several widgets, each one with a category. Do you think having a single widget and being able to switch through categories would fit in your design ?

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

for the 2 line limitation, it's not enabled if you only show the news title (hide the news content). Otherwise it didn't look good with the content and image layout.

As for the categories, Jeppe was telling me to make an app in addition to the widgets, where it would be easy to manage subscriptions and eventually read them from there too, in a more structured way. I'm very excited about this, just need the time to do it !
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
New update available guys :

** NEW in v2.6 **

- Added new option to change the font size on the scrollable widgets

- Added new option to show full article on the 4x2 static widget

- Added new "Glass" background/theme, created by Jeppe Foldager

- Fixed the auto refresh problem on scrollable widgets

- Fixed some other bugs

Enjoy :)
[Android Apps and Games] Decadence1:
I was wondering if you could implement a "Quiet hours" feature where autorefresh is disabled during a selectable time period. This would help save battery. Apologies if this has already ben requested. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
That's an interesting suggestion, although I can't imagine when I would use it. If it's to stop the auto refresh process at night, you could simply set it to WiFi only, or just cut your internet connection.

Could you give me an example of how you would use that feature?
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
I think he means to save batt during night, where i would keep updating every hour (if set so during day) without have to shut down data...

Refresh on screen on option only, would solve that..

But it doesnt drag that much battery does it?

And havent we all set our phones for charging every night? : )
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
.

I'm finally rocking ICS on my little HTC Aria and gotta say that the scrolling widget looks awesome. Thanks Joenrv!
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Looks like Minimal Reader Pro is the best app investment i've ever done. You've updated and developed this app since the beginning and i wish more devs were like you Joaquim.

Keep it up!
[Android Apps and Games] prodyg:
Is it possible for you to add two way sync for Google reader. I would love it if I view an article in the widget, it's marked read in Google reader.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Haha awesome ! glad you can finally enjoy my latest widget :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks mate, those kind of messages really motivate me to keep going forward.

Although I need you guys to give me more ideas to keep improving my widgets!

Jeppe is constantly motivating me by throwing new ideas at me, that's exactly what I need. You can thank him too for these last updates btw, he's been a big part of it !
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey there, it's already double way syncing, but it does it only on the next refresh. So at every refresh, the articles that you've read are marked as read on google reader as well.
[Android Apps and Games] Marsup`:
Are you sure it works both ways ? I've noticed that when I read something in google reader, if the widget already has it, even forcing the refresh won't remove it.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Sorry you're right, once it's in the widget, it's stays there. But it will not fetch articles that are read in google reader.

I'll try to see if there's an elegant way to achieve this with the unofficial API.
[Android Apps and Games] itsmyname:
Still having this problem, even with the latest update
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Try to back out of a story with back arrow instead of homebutton, and then enter a new story. Does that work?

Jeppe
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
I think that happens when pressing Home instead of Back to exit the pop-up

But I'm having a bigger problem. I had to roll back to my gingerbread nandroid, I updated MRP and all the sudden I'm getting FC everytime I open an entry from the scrollable and the 4x2 widget. Funny enough, I don't have a problem with the 4x1.

Suggestions? :/
[Android Apps and Games] itsmyname:
Nope, doesn't work
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Try clear data, uninstall and reinstall.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Could you tell me which filters/options do you use ?
[Android Apps and Games] itsmyname:
Well I've got predownload images and thumbnails on widget checked
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Would it be possible to get more of the articles shown in the widget (after tapping an article)? Right now it's a couple of lines of text and then i'm forced to continue reading it by opening the browser.

It would be nice if it does the same thing as Read It Later, which is to grab whole articles so i don't have to jump between the app/widget and the browser.
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
It depends on the source

Sendt fra min Galaxy Nexus med Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Duh, true.

But thanks, it worked!
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Hmm, true but not entirely true.

Gizmodo, Lifehacker, io9 and others gets pulled as full articles in Read It Later, but with Minimal Reader it still shows about 5 lines and then shows "Continue to read".
[Android Apps and Games] :
Would you mind updating the app on Androidpit, cause I don't have a credit card...
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Done
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I'm thinking of adding an internal browser with the instapaper API to make web pages ultra light. That would allow me to show the full article for any news that supports instapaper-ization.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Btw guys, just released the twitter widget that I had been working on for a while : Minimal Twidget.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jv.minimaltwidget

It's an alpha version, but quite usable.

Give me some feedback guys, this might get integrated to Minimal Reader depending on how it evolves :)
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
*image link fail*
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
I've installed and used Minimal Twidget now and i noticed that right after i added the widget the homescreen started to lag when i scrolled.

I have no idea if MT is the cause of this, and is that even possible? Very nice widget btw, and i'm looking forward for the future updates :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Try restarting your launcher
[Android Apps and Games] allenkwc:
Cannot Sync Automatically

hi There,

Very appreciate the app and therefore I purchased the pro version.

However, I found that it failed to sync sometimes, just don't know why. I tried to import the feeds from Google Reader again but no hope.

Isn't that the google reader of the google account is required to sync in order to refresh the widget?

Please advise, many thanks!

Cheers!~
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Do you mean that you get the notification saying that the sync has failed?

If you do, just click on the notification when it appears and it should reconnect you with google reader. After that refreshing should work fine.
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
Any update on making the widget look more sightly when not having any feed items present? As you can see below, the design of my homescreen revolves around Minimal Reader (as I'm sure tons of others users do as well) so when there are no items present, it looks fairly incomplete. I hate looking at my homescreen when it is how it is in the right picture below:

I'm almost resorting to not reading the last few articles so that there would be some items present. :D

Maybe we could implement the idea of going back to the unfiltered view when all items are read? Or maybe leave the last 3 items read on the feed? With both cases, you could grey out the title, content, and blog/date and remove the counter so users would know that there's no items present. For example:

This would still retain the essence of the homescreen while still clearly illustrating to the user that there are no new items to be read. This shouldn't be too difficult either as I've done all this within the parameters of the app and it's awesome customization options.

Please give it a good thought! I really think the grey out idea is a good one as I consider it more and more. As always, make it an option for those who wouldn't prefer this (I don't see why they wouldn't though).

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
LOL, that's what i'm doing :p
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Minimal Reader wins week one of #thenextinstall, 10 new apps try to knock it down - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidandme/~3/kd7rp-C-Yrs/
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Haha I have the same syndrome of leaving news unread to make it look nicer :D that's why I don't use the filter to hide read news. I just use the "show unread" button on the popup.

But it's an interesting idea, I'll work on it. Thanks for the detailed suggestions!
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
No prob!

And I kinda forgot about unchecking the "Hide read news" option. It kinda makes it better as it unbolds the item but it gets confusing seeing if there's read news or not. Plus, an unbolded title looks a little ugly and awkward. :) Greying out is better!

Thanks for listening to our feedback. It's much appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Rly? But I remember a time where the read news would turn grey. That option is no longer here?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Yeah that was a looooooooooong time ago :D

But you guys are right, greying the text would be nicer than unbolding
[Android Apps and Games] trollsperm:
One more (tiny) suggestion..

Look at the attached screenshots. In the image to the left, only the title of the article is selected. When I touch an article like that, the article is opened in the pop-up viewer.

On the other image, the title of the feed (in this case "TVLine") is also selected. Then nothing happens (as far as I can tell). The article is not opened, at least. What about making this alternative article-touch do something? In my opinion, it would be really useful if a touch like that filtered the list of articles, to only show articles from the same feed as the selected article. So that the scenario that's happening in the image to the right, would filter the list of articles to only display articles from the feed "TVLine". (And when in filtering mode, the "mark all as read"-button could temporary perform the "exit filtering mode" function).

:D
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Is your name really TrollSperm? :D
[Android Apps and Games] trollsperm:
What about also enabling a possibility to select color for the counter, as indicated in the attached screenshot? It can't be grey when everything else is white, you know.. Such a disarray affects my sleep.. :P

That's what happened when I joined this site a few minutes after reading about the (at that time) upcoming movie "The Troll Hunter".. But it's not my IRL name, of course.. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Og du er dansk trold, ser jeg
[Android Apps and Games] trollsperm:
No, no, I'm a Norwegian "fjeldabe" (derogatory for "mountain ape"; for you non-Scandinavians out there). I assume you noticed the Jyllands-Posten RSS-feed? For various reasons I have that Danish newspaper in my Google Reader, in addition to a couple Swedish (including "Hetaste IT-nyheterna" on the screenshot), a dozen Norwegian and two dozen English newspapers..
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Presentation at the Devoxx France conference in Paris at the Google Booth.
[Android Apps and Games] SagiLo:
Hi

1. When i use the app to read feeds and so and mark them as read, going to google reader web interface shows nothing was marked as read so i have to re-mark all the items again (and be careful not to mark really not yet read headlines)

2. Favorites are lost ?

I'm using the scrollable widget and marks some items as favorites from time to time, i noticed it doesn't appear in Google Reader as starred, and in order to reach them out i have to add 4x4 widget and use it's context menu to access them, any way making it more accessible ?

Thanks !
[Android Apps and Games] itsmyname:
The link on the first page for twitter RSS doesn't work :-(
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
For Twidget, i would like to have the option to change the text color, like in Minimal Reader. But it's still alpha, so i guess you're already on it.
[Android Apps and Games] arichter:
Multiple Widgets: a different widget gets refreshed

Hi,

thank you so much for Minimal Reader Pro, for me this is the most polished RSS widget/reader. Switched immediately from "AnyRSS reader" once I got to know Minimal Reader, bought the paid version soon after.

I have a minor trouble though when using the widget on my HTC Incredible S on a rooted Stock Gingerbread ROM. I've added four separate static 4x1 Minimal Reader Widgets to my home screen. Each 4x1 widget is linked to a different RSS feed (I'd like to differentiate between RSS sources by having more than one widget). Each of those RSS feeds is imported through Google Reader.

Now, when I try to manually refresh one of the four widgets (using the designated refresh button on that widget), it happens that a DIFFERENT widget gets updated...

The widget that I try to refresh stays the same, but one of the other feeds gets updated (in it's widget). Also, after I click on the news title in the widget that I'm trying to refresh (to open the Pop-Up window of that widget), a Pop-Up window opens showing the details of the other widget/feed . Same thing with the "Settings" button - the Settings Window for the "other" widget/feed opens.

What's interesting is that this phenomenon does not happen immediately after adding the widgets to the home screen, only after some usage (couple of hours, IMO). I've found that the "wrong" widget (the one that gets updated) is the one that I added first to my homescreen (tried with different feeds/widgets, same result). I also tried this with adding the RSS feed URLs directly into their widgets, circumventing Google Reader). I think it also happens with automatic refresh.

IMO, this is not the intended behavior of the widgets, is it?

My work around so far is to use the arrow buttons of the widget to make it show the next item of the RSS feed. Then, if I click the news title of that entry, the correct Pop-Up window opens. Same thing with the "Settings" dialog, and the refresh buttons.

Could you look into that?

Thank you very much, and thank you for your work on Minimal Reader!
[Android Apps and Games] ryuseiken:
how backup

Is there any way to make a backup of the widget's list? It's a pain having to choose the ones you had one by one every time you add it
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
You could assign a label to the feeds you want to use in the widget in Google Reader, and then just import that label.
[Android Apps and Games] PhilDX:
^^ this ^^

otherwise the ICS update is awesome!
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
Just refresh the widget after you read the items and it will be marked as read in Google Reader as well. That's what I do and I have no issues that conflict with Google Reader. The only minor issue is that if you read the articles on your Google Reader and MRP has already pulled the items into the widget, it will remain on the widget and you gotta mark em as read on the widget too.

Anyways, I was just wondering we could be allowed to pull more than 100 items from a feed? I have 11 or so sources on my RSS feed and I routinely exceed 100 items when I wake up in the morning. This causes me to read the 100 items on my phone while having to read the rest on my Google Reader. If the limit could be upped to 150 or even 200, I'm sure that would suffice for most.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] MrBauer:
App looks very cool, giving it a go now!
[Android Apps and Games] texten:
good job, thats my favorite widget! thx :eek:
[Android Apps and Games] ArmanUV:
It seems to me like you have done 99% of a full app. Why not make this into a complete app that also has widgets?
[Android Apps and Games] ArmanUV:
gotcha
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
We are allready on to a big surprise :thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Precisely :)

we've been working hard these past weeks on the biggest update ever for Minimal Reader Pro.

it's pretty advanced, but not quite ready yet.

Here's a little preview for you guys (work in progress)

Going back to work now :p
[Android Apps and Games] ArmanUV:
Very nice.

I've been looking all over for a ICS-worthy google reader replacement. Google reader is nice and simple but lack of features like mobilizer (like readability) support and dark theme makes it less than idle.

I tried a great number of apps but all them had flaws (no holo themes, unstable, bloated with too many features, ...).
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Regarding Minimal Twidget, i'm not able to post stuff, nor can i go to the settings. It's still in alpha stage, so that's expected.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Try a clean install. Clear data, uninstall, reboot your phone, then reinstall.

I had something similar a while ago and it was because the launcher was considering the widget as not part of my package so it wasn't able to launch my activities ...

What launcher are you using btw?
[Android Apps and Games] PooJou:
Is anyone having refresh issues? It seems my scrollable widget isn't updating properly by itself

..
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, I've started a new Thread to beta test the latest version of Minimal Reader Pro. You'll be surprised how much has changed :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1638779

You can download the APK and post your feedback there.

Help me beta test this bad boy !
[Android Apps and Games] Carlos72:
Hi,

I'm a happy user of this widget, but there some small issues with it.

When I select the option to display only unread feeds, and read some news, I'm throw to the top of the list. This is a wrong behavior, since the list should remain at the same position.

Second, when I read some news, the widget don't mark it as read instantly, for some reason. Wil be nice if this happens when I finished reading it.

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Cant be done the same at the same time, you'll have to choose to mark the unread news (jumping to the first item) or not to (keeping in the same feed where you left it)
[Android Apps and Games] Carlos72:
Ok, not problem doing this, but the feeds needs to be marked as reed as soon I finished reading.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
I think that part of your problem is currently being addressed by the dev if I'm not wrong.
[Android Apps and Games] Carlos72:
Ok, let's wait for the new version.

Anyway, this problem is very small, overall the widget is great.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] PooJou:
I can confirm the auto refresh bug happens on my hc tablet as well running 3.2
[Android Apps and Games] norhor:
Hi. Great widget.

Ive one question. Is it possible to read the whole article offline
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Nope, but install "Pocket" from the Play Store. Next time you're reading something with Minimal Reader just tap the share icon and choose "Add to Pocket". Then it'll be available offline.
[Android Apps and Games] ingenious247:
Starting to get a lot of force closes now for some reason.. Click on an article in the scrollable widget and "stopped unexpectedly" several times a day. Have cleared cache multiple times, no dice
[Android Apps and Games] trollsperm:
Some time ago I suggested an option to use the custom names of the feeds in the widget.. Judging by your replies I assumed it would be added in the future, but then it seems not much has happened..

If you look in the screenshots, one of the articles shown are from a feed called "RSS - Forsiden" (which means "RSS - Main page"). That name tells me nothing about which newspaper it's from - and that's what I'm hoping to avoid. I've entered meaningful names for all my feeds in Google Reader. The correct names are already available, just waiting to be used in the widget!

Most newspaper in Norway are owned by one of three companies. If I subscribe to the feeds from two newspapers from the same company, there will be some duplicate articles - since they cooperate on some areas. In the screenshot, there's two articles named "Vekterstreiken er slutt". Would it be possible to also add a feature for avoiding multiple articles with the same title/header to be displayed? Which article that is shown and which that is hidden doesn't really matter, since they should be identical, or near identical..

:D
[Android Apps and Games] Firipu:
nvm
[Android Apps and Games] Gunde:
I love this widget but it's driving me nuts that I can't get auto refresh to work at all.

I've tried on several different phones with several different ROMs (stock and custom) and it just will not refresh no matter what I try :(

I don't get it.
[Android Apps and Games] killian32:
+1 Same problem here.

Worked fine on GB but ICS wont autoreferesh