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[Android Apps and Games] puredesire:
Love this widget! Good job!
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Sorry, I didn't mean to make you late for work. I had hoped to catch you online right after I found the bug.

Anyway, working great now. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Don't worry about it, I'm always late to work lol.

Just wanted it fixed ;)
[Android Apps and Games] djbenny1:
Hey buddy

I just another little thing that you can probably fix easily. The images that are downloaded appear as tiny icons, is it possible to blow them up a little?? Can't really make them out on my phone cos they're so small (but they do download now!)

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] lauslein:
Yes, the icons are really tiny… e.g. smilies (which are very small by nature) get sized down until I can no longer recognize them, even though a 16x16 original sized smilie wouldn't hurt anyone…
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey guys, sorry For answering so late, my gf kept me very busy this week end :)

About the small images, I've noticed it too, but when I looked at the images in the browser I realize that its the images themselves which are ridiculously small, and as soon as you scale them a bit bigger, it becomes a pixel horror... So i left it like that for the moment.

Ill do some tryouts see if I can make them a bit bigger without making them too pixelated.

Apart from that, do you think the app is stable enough to start the next batch of improvements?

Can't wait to start coding what I have in mind :)

Also, if any of you wanna help with the translations, pm me your email so I can send you the file to translate. I especially need a German and an Italian translator, but any other language would be good as well!

Cheers guys!
[Android Apps and Games] djbenny1:
yea i have no problems at all - mine is currently updating SOMETIMES now, so i suppose thats better than never lol

is the problem with some feeds not working going to be addressed in this upcoming update?
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
The app is perfect! I think this next batch you could put skins support.

:D

About translations, when you have a new version, send me before doing the update, so the translation into Portuguese will be perfect!
[Android Apps and Games] nkfreak:
I have some feature requests / suggestions (if possible):

Show the title, and the first 3/4 lines of each RSS post in the widget, as well as the image thumbnail in left or right side.

Allow scrolling on the widget (I've read next version will include it, do you have an estimate of when could it will be released? that's the feature I miss from other RSS widgets, and I think it'd position yours to the best RSS Widget in Market so far.

If the scroll could be implemented, clicking on the top of the widget / special icon, will allow the widget show/go back to the first post (this is very handy if you want to come back to the first post without dying of scrolling).

Allow caching of RSS feeds on the SD card to save phone's internal memory.

Apart from that, I think it's an incredible app! I haven't experienced any bugs.

Congratulations to the developer!!
[Android Apps and Games] djbenny1:
1) i dont agree, and im sure the developer wont either. thats what clicking on the title in the widget does - please don't add this, or if you do, please make it an option.

2) please be sure to make scrollable widget an option

id love scrolling, but, and ive no idea why, my phone has problems with scrollable widgets when i use launcherpro - and i dont want to change launcher, no other offers the built in widgets as far as i know.

3) thats a good idea

4) meh, im not that tight for space on phone and probably never will be
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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Uhm, I think the app still suffers from the duplicated widget sizes problems, but so far, still much less than before. But the other day, pressing the refresh button in one, refreshed the feeds in other. And from time to time, instead of showing the feeds it should, shows the name of another widget's feed source. Just the name, not the feeds themselves.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, it's been quite a day for my app today!

I wasn't feeling so good this morning so i called sick at work and spent a whole day playing with the google reader api and the scrollable widget api :)

My progress so far :

- switched to a json parser

- the feeds are now requested through the google reader engine

- function to get all unread news from google reader

- function to set an item as read on google reader

- got a resizable, scrollable widget that displays x news titles. Tested on adw, launcher pro and go launcher

All the bases are in place, i did the hard part!

Keep throwing suggestions, i take them all into account.
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Very nice! Can't wait to get my hands on it :)
[Android Apps and Games] djbenny1:
cant wait either

do you have any idea when we should expect the release??
[Android Apps and Games] DiggerG:
I bot Minimal Reader yesterday and set it up with two feeds (1x4). All worked well until just now when it tells me I have "no unread items to display - Refresh might be needed". How do I refresh? Also, how do I access the app to be able to change settings. In my Samsung Infuse, it is only reachable as a widget. If I can get by these teething issues, I think it will be a great app.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
For now MRP its only accesible trough the widget, there's no app to configure them and afaik, the configuration affects all widgets of the same size. So if you change values for 4X1 widget, it'll affect all 4X1 MPR ones, but not the others.

As for that message saying "refres", you just have to press the refresh button, located in different parts of the widgets depending the size you have chosen.
[Android Apps and Games] DiggerG:
Thanks for this. For now, I have uninstalled and reinstalled. It is working again.
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
Suggestion:

In widget 4x3, enable function go back when the 1/5 and want to go to 5/5 and advance 5/5 for 1/5 example.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Guys, i wanna work on my widget so baaaaaaaad!! But i don't have any time! Between work, gf and friends it's hard to make time for it...

I think I'm gonna sacrifice my week end for it, as im going away with my gf for a few days the weekend after that...

Hopefully I'll do most of the work this weekend but this is no small update, and i don't wanna release publicly it before it's ready.

I'll do my best to try to finish it before i go away. Maybe I'll publish a beta version here so you guys can test it.

Btw, i had a feature idea last night : access a list of news from the same feed source the same way you access your favourites list.

Ex: on my 4x4 widget which has many feeds, after a refresh, i wanna see only the news from Engadget - click on the page numbers, select "display single feed", then select "Engadget" from a list (maybe with the number of unread items next to it).

That would show on the widget all stored news from Engadget, then when i'm finished, click on the page numbers again and press "back to normal view" to go back to the full list ordered by time.

What do you guys think?

Would you use that feature?
[Android Apps and Games] djbenny1:
it sounds handy, but personally i wouldnt use it i dont think.

also you don't want to over complicate it - its "minimal reader pro" :)
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
What the man said ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Ok I'll leave it on the side for now, i should focus on what i already started anyway, which is huge.

Thanks for putting me back on earth guys ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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Still is not a bad idea, specially if the bug that messes feeds in the same sized widgets cant get sorted out, that way I can just use a big widget and make it show me some blogs that rarely get updated among those who get updated like crazy...
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Oh yeah, darius i meant to ask you : can you tell me a way to reproduce the bug that messes up feeds everytime?

I can't seem to reproduce it on my phone, and i got two of each widget size on my home screens :p
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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After leaving my phone alone, or working with , I go to the MRP widgets screen and I see there are some messed up feeds. Regrettably I have no idea what triggers it, but it manifest in many ways:

- One random widget is saying that it needs to go to setting and do a manual refresh, thing that only helps to refresh another widget while the original shows the same msg.

- Another random one gets the refresh of the previous widget and if I refresh this widget, it doesnt refresh the other one, just itself, as it should.

- Clicking on a news of a random messed widgets shows the pop-up with the news of another feed, even if closing it and reopening.

And I'm using Launcher Pro Plus, 5 screens, Cyanogenmod 7 nightlies, MDPI phone and idk what other data could be useful.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Ok, can you tell me which widget sizes seems to cause the issue the most ? Also, what settings do you use ? (auto scroll, auto refresh, etc ...)
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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I think with the 4x1, but to be honest I dont have that much space to test others.

About settings: No filters, No Autoscroll, 20 to 40 Total Entries, 1hr Refresh Rate, Max per Feed 10 to 30, Dark Glass, Hidden Layout, No Background. The other options werent here when this issue started to happen so I dont think they are important.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Ok i thought it might be caused by the auto scroll as i don't use it... But it doesn't seem to be the case.

This bug is really a big pain in the butt... I haven't reproduced it on my phone since the last update tho...
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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And you're using Launcher Pro too?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
No, I'm a big fan of ADW Launcher Ex, which seems to have a nicer approach to refresh widgets : I can see in the logs that it refreshes widgets one by one when it reloads, whereas Launcher Pro doesn't, maybe that's what causing the issue, but it shouldn't anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
Suggestion:

The ability to quickly mark an item as read (grayed out), without actually opening the pop-up window.

An invisible button somewhere on the specific news item could gray it out or maybe even tapping on the individual time stamp would. Even further, instead of graying it out, have the option for the item to be removed altogether from the widget. This would be the most favourable option I believe as the widget will only scroll new items.

This would allow a user to dismiss many irrelevant items while allowing for them to just quickly glance at the widget and see if they have any new items.

This suggestion is for the current implementation of the app. Not sure how your future integration with Google Reader and it being a scrollable widget will change things.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
Then dont worry about that bug for the time being, Launcher Pro dev is supposed to launch a new rewriting of the app some day, hopefully this year. We'll see if the bug still is present after that.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi mate,

I like the idea of being able to mark an item as read just by clicking the time stamp, I'll see how I can implement it. It might be harder to do on the scrollable widget tho.

Also, if you set the "Filter read items" in the settings, items will be hidden from the widget as soon as you read them. The scrollable widget will have the same behaviour.

Thanks for the suggestions,

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
Interesting.

If you implement my suggestion, I can use it in conjunction with "Filter read items" to achieve what I was looking for. This is perfect and I really hope you can find some way to do it!

As for the scrollable widget, I hope you make that optional as how the widget functions is right how is perfect for what I use it for. I use it to provide me with a RSS list of deals from a deals forum so it being scrollable doesn't entirely matter. I'd much rather just look at the widget and let it scroll through on it's own the new deals I haven't yet addressed yet (and then subsequently mark them as read or not if you can implement my idea). Much like the other options in your widget, hope you make this one optional as well.

Thanks for considering my suggestion!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Don't worry, the scrollable widget will just be a fifth widget to choose from. The other widgets will stay the same, only the import of feeds from greader will change a bit.

It should be doable to implement marking as read by taping the time stamp on the non scrollable widgets. Added to my todo list ;)

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] djbenny1:
hey pal any updates on progress??
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Yeah sorry i tweeted it (@joenrv) but didn't report it here, so far :

- Scrollable widget fully working

- import all unread items from greader in 2 clicks

- import feeds by label / folder

- because of that, refresh is also much, much faster!

Left to do :

- unread count on widget

- mark as read on greader

- add refresh on wifi only option

- customization of the scrollable widget

- polish everything

Hopefully i will finish these things before Thursday, cause I'm leaving with my gf for a few days.

So expect an update Wednesday or Thursday.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] Enhanced:
Don't forget the mark as read my clicking on the time stamp! :)

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hehe don't worry i haven't forgotten about that.

Last night i got stuck on a refreshing problem for hours... I solved it in the end but it delayed my progress on the new stuff.

The good news is that I managed to get my gf to make me new icons for the widget buttons, they look much cleaner now!

I'm starting to think that i won't have a satisfying version by Thursday tho... We'll see how it goes tonight.

I'll keep you guys posted.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Ok guys, I'm going away for 4 days in 2 hours, I haven't packed, haven't showered (lol) .... BUT I DID IT !

I managed to publish Minimal Reader Pro v2.0.0 just in time !

It's not final, there might be some bugs left, but it's very usable.

Go update and give me some love :)

Cheeeeers !
[Android Apps and Games] sjukmidlands:
Thanks an already installed just now. The scrollable version works fine, brilliant! Enjoy your time away!
[Android Apps and Games] :
Scrollable version is great! I hope you can make different sizes too. Would love a 4x4 version.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey, it's resizable :)
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Joenrv, the scrollable widget is amazing! I can never go back! Thank you for all the effort. Please don't push yourself (and your gf) too hard. Don't burn out!

Two things that jump out at me:

1) Need more widget sizes (although Go Launcher allows me to resize it).

2) The "Import All" feature displays only 20 articles. If I select each feed individually, it works properly (I've set mine to 100).

Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks man :)

About the import all thing, if you set the 'max item per feed' setting to a higher value and re-import (delete the old one first) , you'll get more items.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] djbenny1:
great work.

i dont think that increasing the text size works though.

also the scrollable widget is buggy but i think that is a launcher pro issue not with your widget as it works fine with adw.

im continuing to use the standard 4x4 widget because launcher pro fails at scrollable - im not sure if it is updating properly though, will know more in half an hour i suppose when it is supposed to have sync'd.

thanks

edit: yea mine doesnt update :/

even when i go to do a manual refresh, it just flickers for a second and nothing new comes up (theres a lot of new stuff that should be added)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Really? It works fine on my launcher pro (I haven't done extended testing tho)

About the non refreshing feeds, did you try to delete and reimport your feeds / labels? The way the feeds get refreshed has changed quite a lot, maybe that's why it doesn't work with the old imported feeds.

Btw guys,I strongly recommend using labels (folders) in google reader to regroup your feeds as you like. Then you just have to import the label once on the widget and you're done. The refresh will be much faster than adding each feed individually, and it syncs automatically if you add feeds in your google reader label.
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Something's still wonky when using import all or import by label. Using import by feed, it shows 100 articles, which is what I set the maximum to.

Using import all, I get 120 articles; import by label, I get only 40. For now, I'll stick with import by feed.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hmmm this is odd, i just imported one of my labels with 100 items in it, no problems.

Try something, as items might still be in your database from a previous import, remove the widget from your homescreen and re add it. Then set the settings to the max and import.

Tell me how it goes.
[Android Apps and Games] Overlord Yuri:
Thanks again for your awesome widget! I did tell you in a mail that the widget was perfect, but I actually have one request.

I'd like an option to switch off the #new count. I don't actually read more than the headlines of most of my feeds, so I either have to ignore the new feeds count, or mark my feeds as read all the time. I'd rather just have a blank space at the bottom where the count is, but given a choice I'd have a clock that showed when the widget was last updated.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks for the support mate, I'll see what i can do about your request. Added to my ToDo list.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Okay, I re-added it. I think it's because I have all my feeds in one label. Max per feed (label?) = max items, I guess.

It's not a big issue... I'll just use import by feed.
[Android Apps and Games] g0at:
having issues with the 4x1 widget updating articles since the update. Have re-added the feed numerous times; seems as though it just cuts out updating randomly; however readding the feed in resolves it.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Yeah there seems to be some issue with updating the feeds. One of my labels doesn't update at all now. One other label worked fine before but it seems that it is not updating now either. I'll see if I can get it to work.

Edit: Can't get any of my feeds to update now. Have tried readding and clearing the app cache.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I've been using mainly two scrollable Widgets with different labels this weekend and haven't had any refreshing issues...

What widget type do you use? Also, when importing single feeds, tell me which ones seem not to update.

I'm coming back home tonight, I'll do some extensive testing this week and see if I missed anything.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] :
4x4 widget. Tried a few labels and then individual feeds, but not getting refreshed at all right now.

Edit: Sorry. One label is working, but the other only gives "No unread items to display, Refresh might be needed". Don't have the "show only unread" option turned on.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
When the wiget shows "No unread items to display, Refresh might be needed", it might be because the import failed. I really need to show a message dialog when something went wrong while importing.

Try deleting and re adding that label that doesn't show anything. There might have been a connection error while importing or something.

Tell me if its any better.

I added one instance of each widget size with different feeds and labels. Starting a extensive testing session for a few days.

Will keep you guys informed.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Okay. Now it seemed to load fine when I selected the feeds individually. Label still does not work. I think the problem might be with one feed in particular (which has worked before though). I will keep looking into it. Also, I have two 4x4 widgets at the same time, if that might be the cause of issues.

Edit: This is the misbehaving feed that does not update: http://www.hs.fi/uutiset/rss/. It works just fine in reader.google.com though. Other feeds in that label work fine, but if I import the label it won't show anything I think.
[Android Apps and Games] g0at:
I've added FEEDS individually, they show as unread on newsrob, don't on the widget. if I delete the widget & readd the feeds it'll pick the unread articles up. Very frustrating :-(

Using 4x1, default 'mark read' settings.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
hmmmm I think I know why http://www.hs.fi/uutiset/rss/ doesn't work, it has no description or content for the article, only a title.

I'll fix the import/refresh and make sure that when you click a news with no content to show on the pop-up, it opens the story in the browser directly.

Thanks for reporting this.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Ok guys, I solved the problem provoked by feeds with no content that prevented the widget from refreshing. Haven't done the filter to open the browser instead of the pop-up tho, so if you click on an item that has no content it will just show an empty pop-up. For now just click on the "browser" icon on the pop-up to open the article in the browser.

I just pushed a quick update on the market, please try it and tell me if it works better.

If you keep having strange random issues, please uninstall, reboot and reinstall.
[Android Apps and Games] joe_dude:
Okay, so I completely flushed Minimal Reader, rebooted the device and re-installed.

I have 8 feeds under 1 label (tech). 20 items per feed, 100 max., no age filter.

Using "Import Full", it displays 20 entries.

Using "Import by Label", it displays 20 entries.

Using "Import by Feed", it displays 160 entries.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Thank you! I think it's pretty stupid on their part not to put any content into the feed, but oh well. I'll download the update and see how it works. I'll report if I have any issues. Think it's fine if it doesn't open up in the browser straight away even if it doesn't have content.

Edit: Works OK. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Yes, that's normal, thr reading list as well as a label is considered as a single source. As the max item per feed setting says : max items coming from the same source.

So you know what to do if you want more items for your label or reading list :)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Great! Im glad it works.

Don't hesitate to report any other bug you find.

Cheers!