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[Android Apps and Games] g0at:
Still not functioning as expected for me

(sorry about the stupid timestamp indicators below, was the only way I could get across doing things in a particular order)

Today @ 3pm I:

1) uninstalled

2) rebooted

3) reinstalled new from market.

4) configured

My 'config' is below:

The feeds I'm using have about 1 or 2 articles published a day to them; so I notice straight away when something appears in newsrob but not the widget.

@ 3:05pm I had two unread articles in my list with the below config.

@ 3:06pm I read one feed. Widget performed as expected by greying out one in the browse, leaving one unread.

@ 3:07pm I read the second article, leaving both articles greyed out in the widget, left on autoscroll; as expected.

@ 5:45pm a new article was published to one of my 3 feeds, NewsRob picked this up. I gave the widget's auto refresh a chance to kick in to retrieve it (would have been 2 attempts by now) - no joy

@ 7:20pm I attempted numerous times to manually refresh the widget - no joy

@ 7:25pm Phone restarted, tried again to manually refresh the widget - no joy

@ 7:30pm removed and then readded the offending feed; refreshed. The widget now shows the following:

2x READ, from earlier

2x duplicates of the articles from earlier, this time UNREAD

1x new (UNREAD) article I was expecting from 5:45pm

Config

4x1 widget

3x feeds added (via the connect to google and add FEED option)

filter by age: 12hours

filter on popup: N

filter read news: N

don't load images: N

autoscroll: Y

speed: fast

sync/refresh rate: 30mins

max items per feed: 20

theme: dark

layout: just text

show background: Y

square corners: Y

show borders: Y

show stamp: Y

show blog title: Y

colour read items: Y

popup options - default
[Android Apps and Games] james60007:
Not working for me:

Uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled.

Picked 4X2 widget.

Added 10 feeds from Google Reader by 'Import by Feed'.

Changed the Filter by Age to 1 hour.

Kept all the rest settings as default.

Now hours later, No unread items to display.

Tried manual refresh, still No unread items to display.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, I need to know the URLs of the feeds that have refreshing issues.

I can't reproduce your problems with my feeds ... must be feed related
[Android Apps and Games] g0at:
NP

http://www.pinkun.com/cmlink/pink_un_norwich_city_news_1_633628

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/norwich-city/rss

http://www.skysports.com/rss/0,20514,11709,00.xml

Seeing as the pinkun feed is the only one that's regularly updated I'd suggest that if any that'd be the offending feed.
[Android Apps and Games] james60007:
Some examples from my nonrefreshing feeds:

http://www.businessweek.com/rss/bwdaily.rss

http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/xml/rss/3_7011.xml

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss

http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032091/device/rss/rss.xml

http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml
[Android Apps and Games] bubu:
Hi, i'm pretty new with this app,

it's nice and clean and it works fine!

just a little question, do you have plan to introduce a colorbar to better distinguish what feed is?

and there is a possibilty to delete a wrong feed? sometime i've an Unknow feed without date and hour or simply with a wrong hours (that show me -27min!, i can read the future!!!)

btw i've checked with google reader (online on my pc) and many many articles are with a wrong hour! many with 15 min later many with 10 min in advace and so on.. do you know why?

and last is possible to introduce the possibility to open a feed program?

thanks a lot in advance

Regards

Bubu
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, I've been trying your feeds for two days now, seems to be updating fine ...

I tried :

http://www.businessweek.com/rss/bwdaily.rss

http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/xml/rss/3_7011.xml

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss

http://www.pinkun.com/cmlink/pink_un..._news_1_633628

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...rwich-city/rss

http://www.skysports.com/rss/0,20514,11709,00.xml

I checked each feeds, I always get the latest news as espected.

Was using the 4x3 widget, but it has the same refresh process as the other ones.

I solved a bug last night tho, the one that prevented having more than 20 items per source, so now you will get much more items.

I'll push the update tonight.

Cheers

Joaquim
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi Bubu, thanks for the support !

For the "unknwon" feed, it might be a rest from an old widget, if you keep seeing it: uninstall, reboot your phone and reinstall. That should clean everything up.

As for the dates, I know, it's a problem that is starting to concern me... There's something that I don't get about the timestamps that google gives in the google reader API ... I never have exactly the same when i parse it.

I'll study that problem and see how I can improve it.

About the color and opening an app instead on the pop-up, it's on my TODO list, but I have other priorities I want to implement first. But don't worry, I keep those in mind.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] g0at:
Thanks for testing it. Still can't understand..

I'm going to use a 4x3 widget & the pinkun feed ONLY.

Could the failing to refresh issue not be due to the content of the feed, but due to the fact that it forgets the googlereader permissions (you know where you have to authorise it to use your google a/c?) I've ocasionally (once a month) had to re-auth permissions to use for NewsRob.. maybe because the widget's always a running process (unlike newsrob which is used ad-hock) the 're-authorisation' process doesn't kick in?

Just some thoughts?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
You're completely right, it could be an authentification issue, but only if you use labels or your reading list, individual feeds don't need authentification.

If it is indeed an authentification issue, when you see the refreshing issue appear, try to go in the settings and click the "connect to google reader" button, that should renew your authentification token (no need to import anything). Then try to refresh again and see if it works.

Tell me how it goes
[Android Apps and Games] g0at:
e: didn't get very far with testing that authentication theory above, will give it a go at some point though..

Still trying to track this down...

See screenshots below, this is the first time I've noticed this 'bug' / glitch, which, in conjunction with my setup (display articles in last 12hrs only) may be the reason why news feeds do not *seem* to be refreshing..

1) Article - was actually published ~15mins ago

2) On widget actually managed to get it to sync, however reads 15 HOURS ago.
[Android Apps and Games] james60007:
Thanks for looking into it. But it's still NOT refrenshing for me. One thing I notice is that the time stamp is different from Google Reader.

Also some blog titles with signs are not parsed, like >, displayed as &gt.

BTW, everything worked before version 2.0.0.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction guys, there's definetly something wrong with the way i handle the dates now that i get them through the google reader api. And these dates impact the refreshing process.

I'll study that and keep you guys informed. Thanks again for the time spent on figuring this out.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, just pushed a fix on the market for the date problem (v2.0.4)

Turns out I was taking the real published date into account, whereas Google Reader uses the time when the news is actually crawled into the google servers.

So I fixed that and now the dates should be the same on both, and as the date influences the refreshing process, i think it might solve the updating issues.

It might take a few refreshes but now the widgets should be 100% synchronized to google reader.

Tell me how it goes for you.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] james60007:
Thanks for the fix. Now most of my feeds update correctly. But a few still don't refreshen.
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Just a quick FYI, no problems to report so far. :)

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] g0at:
Working for me at last; but only when I add labels, not when I add feeds indiviually.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
This refreshing issue is starting to get on my nerves ... hate bugs that I can't see lol.

Ok so what feeds URLs still don't refresh properly ?
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Hmmm... maybe I have encountered a bug. Is anyone else having battery life problems with the new version?

First day that my phone has drained down almost to zero before I got home. Might be just a coincidence....
[Android Apps and Games] james60007:
Does the feed title affect the refreshing?

http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/xml/rss/3_7011.xml

In Google Reader, it shows: WSJ.com: What's News US

On the widget, it shows: WSJ.com: What &# 39; s News US

My other non-refreshing feeds have the same title format problem as the example.

Also for some feeds, Google reader has a different feed title from the actual feed title. I fixed some refreshing issues by matching the feed titles.
[Android Apps and Games] puredesire:
Works great!
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Uhm, my phone like two days ago has been draining like crazy... I thought it was the ROM going nuts all the sudden but will test if the widget has any incidence.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hmmm interesting, I'll digg into that tonight see if i find anything in the code.

Thanks for reporting this mate.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Really? My battery drain seems fine.

Check your battery stats after a day of use. If it's the widget draining, you'll see it right away.

Of course if you set a quick auto refresh and auto scroll on several widgets at the same time and read your news on the popup all day long, the battery stats will show a high percentage.

But with no auto scroll, and manual refresh, the widget doesn't drain any battery, at least for me.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Just pushed another update for Minimal Reader Pro (2.0.5)

Fixes all encoding issues, it should also fix a few importing and refreshing bugs, like importing labels with special chars in it and such.

Also arranged the 4x2 and 4x1 widget a bit.

Tell me if everything works.

Cheers guys
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Hi Joenrv, everything's good so far. The battery drain is a red herring, so you can ignore it.

Thanks a lot! :)
[Android Apps and Games] james60007:
Tested this version on all my feeds. Only non-refreshing feeds are those with special characters in the title, such as >, &, '

For example,

NYT > Home Page

http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

This one imported correcly into the widget but no refreshing, not even with manual refresh.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
.

No idea what a Red Herring is but I set the widget to manually sync and I'm still getting drained, ergo, it's not your nice little widget.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hmmm I think I know why, it's not the fact that it has a special char in it, it's that the source name is "The new york Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia", but when i parse the feed, the source of each item is "NYT > Home Page".

That's why it's not refreshing, it doesn't find any rows to replace in the database with that source name... I'll fix it this week end.

In the meantime, it should work if you put it in a label in google reader, and import the label instead of the individual feed.

Tell me how it goes
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I'm a confused ... is it draining or not? Does the widget appear high in your Battery stats ?
[Android Apps and Games] KreAch3R:
This widget is beautiful and works perfect! I can't believe I found exactly what I was looking for, yet. :)

I would like to suggest something, if you don't mind. Please make all buttons, "x New" counter and "time" hideable. I would like to have as much as bare information on my homescreen as I can get. And this would also support the "Minimal" name of the widget.

Thanks again! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
The thing is that no widget shows up there, even when I have many, so guess no one is shown. But as I said, even when I set your app to not sync, I have battery drain, ergo, hence, can't be your app and it's something else ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Added to my TODO list :)

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] KreAch3R:
Thank you very much! Looking forward to your updates.:)
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
Another suggestion: You could add a new option to choose what language i want to use? Example: The ROM what i use is based on EN-US and i prefere use the reader with PT-BR but i no have choise.

:D
[Android Apps and Games] djbenny1:
can you also please fix it so that after clicking an article and reading it, then closing the popup, you aren't returned to the top of the list?? but rather where you left off??

that would be really cool - if it only returned to the top of the list after you moved to a different homescreen or something.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
That's my top priority, it's really annoying.

The problem is that I can't set any item as read without reloading the list and therefore jumping to the top of the list...

If anyone has any knowledge about the scrollable widget API , like how to change a single item in the scrollable list or how to scroll down to a given position. Please contact me :)

The other approach would be to delay the mark as read function. But that means you don't have a direct feedback on what articles you already read...

Do you guys have any ideas on when or what should trigger the list reload to mark the items as read, without completely losing the track of what you have already read?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
MIUI? ;P

that would be very difficult to implement... Is it really important to you?
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
No, Cognition S2.

If it is very difficult, forget this, i relly like to see scrollable widget works in TW 4.0

:D
[Android Apps and Games] g0at:
Congrats, made phandroid app of the day, hopefully more purchases :-)

http://phandroid.com/2011/08/02/apps-of-the-day-remote-ringer-minimal-reader-more/
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Saw that when I woke up this morning ;) really nice surprise!

I'm still trying to figure out a way to avoid the scrollable le widget jumping to the top after reading a news (explanation few posts above) .. Any ideas anyone?
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Uhm assign a bookmark number to each news entry and add the command of jump-to the bookmark number right after setting that entry as read.

Ok to be honest I know nothing about android, or programming for that matter ;D
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Maybe set the scroll position to the article that has just been clicked?

Two bugs I've noticed:

1) If I happen to click an article while it's refreshing, the pop-up will sometimes load the wrong article (seems to be based on position?).

2) Sometimes the reader doesn't refresh. When I click refresh, it starts, but never shows the "update complete" pop-up. I have to clear and re-import my feeds.

Edit: Congrats on the app of the day. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I think i might have a temporary solution for the jumping to top problem. I'll try to implement it today.

About your second issue, it happens to me sometimes when i have other background processes using up my memory. What happens is that the refresh thread is killed because I've set it as low priority thread. Don't wanna make you miss a text or a call while the widget is refreshing.

Try just clearing some processes when that happens. Also, just going on the settings and save makes the widget back on top of the call stack so the system gives it higher priority.

Btw, i just fixed another refreshing issue, the one with the Nyt feed.

I'll push an update tonight.

Cheers guys
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Here it goes guys, Minimal Reader Pro v2.0.6 :

*v2.0.6

_ Fixed the last Refreshin Issue, please report if all feeds refresh properly now

_ Added an option to avoid the scrollable widget to jump to top while reading a news

_ Fixed 4x1 white widget not marking news as read

Hopefully now every feed refreshes as expected.

Also, you can now choose not to mark items as read as soon as you read it on the pop-up, which avoids the scrollable widget to jump to the top of the list everytime.

So you just need to uncheck that setting and the widget will stay at the position you left it.

To mark as read the items you've read on the pop-up, you can either press the heart button twice (will go back to normal view with the list reloaded), or go to the settings and save.

You can also click the mark all as read button but that will actually mark everything as read, not only the ones you've read on the pop-up.

That's a temporary solution but at least it can make happy those who prefer to see their items mark as read immediatly, and those who prefer to keep the list at the position they left it.

Tell me if everything works for you guys.

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Looks like updating sometimes still doesn't work. My phone is showing over 100 MB of RAM free, so I don't think it's a memory issue.

Maybe when it tries to update and the screen turns off (along with wifi), it hangs the update thread?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Ah yes the refreshing process stops if the connection is lost. Does it complete when you keep the screen on?
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Nope, it wasn't updating even when I manually refreshed it and kept the screen on for several minutes. "Update complete" pop-up never occurred.

But out-of-the-blue, it started working again. I was installing some apps, so maybe that cleared it up somehow (?).
[Android Apps and Games] castor.troy:
Very nice widget but NOT good working under qHD on HTC Sensation.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Really ? I tried the free version on a sensation the other day it displayed fine. Could you describe what happens ? maybe a screenshot?
[Android Apps and Games] james60007:
Thanks for the new version. Now all my feeds refresh properly.
[Android Apps and Games] djbenny1:
the "dont return to top of list" rule doesn't work when you choose to "not show read articles."

it continues to show all the ones you've read but its only a kind of screenshot, and if you click on it, the article that SHOULD appear there actually is there, you just cant see it (if that makes sense?)

the "dont return to top" rule therefore has me kind of between a rock and a hard place right now because i like to know what i have already read, but i also want it to not return to the top - right now you can't have both.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I know, it's really a temporary solution.

I'm working on a new update at the moment and I'm hoping to find a better solution while experimenting with the scrollable widgets API.

Right now the solutions I have in mind are not good enough.

If anyone has some knowledge in the API or has a brilliant functional idea that could solve this problem, please contact me !
[Android Apps and Games] :
Any chance for a 4x4 scrollable widget? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
If your launcher supports scrollable widgets then it supports widget resizing as well.

Just resize it to the size you want.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Damn, that's a rather good idea. Works very well too. Thought it would've just stretched it, but this is perfect. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I guess i should make it more clear that the widget adapts to its size.

I'll add it to the new "tips" section

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Btw guys, been working hard these last days :)

New features in testing process :

* mark as read directly by clicking the right part of a news on the widget. No need to open the popup anymore.

* when you refresh, a sync is done between the widget and google reader to mark as read items in google reader. You will also only refresh unread items on the widget. (no double read between devices anymore)

* when you add a feed manually on a widget, you have the option to add it to your google reader subscriptions so you don't have to type it ever again.

I'll keep tweeting my progress on @joenrv.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
Been waiting for the mark as read feature! Can't wait.
[Android Apps and Games] kisekio:
I haven't tried this, but just curious, do the widgets work well with honeycomb tablets? They look very awesome, so it'd be great if they work as sleek in tablets as they do in phones.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Unfortunately the widgets aren't optimized for honeycomb yet, but i plan to make a nice scrollable and resizable one for android 3.1+.
[Android Apps and Games] sd97cl:
Thanks for making a nice app
[Android Apps and Games] xAirrick:
[Q] How do you edit the widget if "Just Text" is selected

There is an option to show "just text" on the widget. After setting this how do you edit the widget?
[Android Apps and Games] tzrchallenge:
Thanks! Working on Nexus One!
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
The buttons are still there in the same positions, but just transparent.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey guys !

sorry I haven't been around these last days, just back from a holiday in greece with my gf :)

But I'm back now, and I have an urge to code lol

I want to finish my current devs asap and for this next version I'm gonna do a beta test phase with whoever want to help.

I want this beta phase to iron out all the bugs that I haven't seen before a release on the market.

So if you wanna help, just e-mail me or PM me your e-mail adress, I'll make a beta testers list and send you all the apk(s) when the beta phase starts.

Here's the main features that I want to test out for Minimal Reader Pro 2.1 :

* mark as read directly by clicking the right part of a news on the widget. No need to open the popup anymore. (non scrollable widgets only for now)

* when you refresh, a sync is done between the widget and google reader to mark as read items in google reader. You will also only refresh unread items on the widget. (no double read between devices anymore)

* when you add a feed manually on a widget, you have the option to add it to your google reader subscriptions so you don't have to type it ever again.

So if you're interested, you know what to do :)

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] akastanis:
Stories with images while offline.

Suggestion: I'd like to see an option that allows the images to be downloaded with the new items. That way when I read news items while offline, the images would appear too.

Thanks,

-Ande
[Android Apps and Games] gmdata:
Would be nice if could set widget's background color.;)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I've been thinking about an option like that, and I think I'll do it as a Wifi only option, as I'm not sure about the amount of data that will be downloaded. It could be a very long process.

I'll see if I can find a light way to implement that.

What color would you put on ? maybe I can make a theme that color :) I've been wanting to do more themes rather than giving total color control to the user. It's safer and easier for me.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
To the beta testers :

How is it going guys? like the new features? found any bugs?

don't hesitate to report your thoughts by mail.

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] pyrobon:
Hi! =)

Thank you for such a wonderful widget.

When can we expect the new version?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
This week end if the beta testers don't report any bugs.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
There you have it guys :)

Minimal Reader Pro updated to v2.0.9 on the Android Market !

Changelog :

- Tapping on the left part of a news to mark is as read without opening the pop-up (4x3 and 4x4 widget)

- At every refresh, sync with google reader to mark items as read (no double reading)

- Option to add a subscription to gogle reader when adding a feed manually

- Added notification when sync with google reader is lost, tapping the notification will re establish sync

- Added separate tips and changelog section

- Bug fixes

Next version (2.1) will be a 'graphical' update, will add lots more customization settings !

Gonna work on porting some features to the free version now :)

Enjoy !