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[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hey guys, I'm currently on big update atm that should fix the auto refresh issues as well as many other bugfixing, stability and speed.

I'm almost done with the update, should be out by the end of the week.

I've started a new thread since version 3.0 as a lot of things have changed, plzase continue the discussion there :

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

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] trimtab:
Minimal Reader will die with Google Reader July 1st, 2013

FYI. Minimal Reader and Minimal Reader Pro Apps will die and be completely unusable when Google Reader dies on July 1st, 2013.

Here is the developer's message at the Google Play store:

#### PLEASE READ ####

Minimal Reader Pro will stop working after Google Reader shutdown on July 1st.

I'm very sorry about this, I hope I'll find some time to update the app with a new RSS service but atm I'm just too busy.

Thank you all for your support.

#######################

This is just another reason for developers to use open configurable technology when creating apps. Otherwise, YOUR APP WILL DIE WHEN THE SERVICE OR API THAT YOU DO NOT CONTROL AND CANNOT MAINTAIN DIES.

Remember "API" really means YOU DO NOT HAVE CONTROL and have guaranteed the death of all your hard work if your real master (the API's owner) decides to shut that down.

Minimal Reader Pro was a nice APP. Too bad it is dead. It started as a regular configurable RSS reader. If it was still capable of accepting straight RSS feeds it would still work after July 1st, 2013. Too bad.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
The dev said that such option generated too much strain in the app when there were many feeds refreshed (don't ask me the technical details). Hence he wisely choose to count on Google to do most of the work and made the app to quickly refresh the feeds. It was totally unexpected that Reader would close.

At any rate, a shame. It's really a nice app and widget. Hope the dev can use any API offered by Feedly or something...

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[Android Apps and Games] Roymam:
Dev , Thanks for taking our money. Have a nice vacation or some other thing you are doing with our money.

Such a shame that a paid app cannot do something as simple as read straight rss feed from link.
[Android Apps and Games] Opensystem:
Try "feedly" to replace Google reader

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[Android Apps and Games] Roymam:
Feedly doesn't have a widget. The only reason I used minimal reader is for the widget.
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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A good idea, but since you say it may suck battery, make it an option ;) At least in my case, I just read news feeds so it's not important for me.

Now, I'm getting some problems. Havent had time to check it thoroughly, but seems it's not retrieving all the new feeds for some sites. Engadget is working perfectly but with Meneame.net just took like 4 last time and then kept on with old feeds. I checked google reader and the feeds where there so it's not a problem of the feeds themselves. The same is happening with facebook feeds, aint showing them all.
[Android Apps and Games] mirotis:
As someone has asked before... what is the weather's app name that is in your screen shots. By the way I loved your app... got the full version :)
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Just installed this, and it's awesome! The one thing i miss is to be able to bookmark/save/star my favorite articles for later. But overall 9/10
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Its beautiful widgets with flat white theme :)

Thanks for the support,

Cheers!

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[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I guess it can be useful for some as an option.

For the missing news, I'll try to reproduce the issue tonight after work, see if i can fix it before pushing v1.4.

If you have more info to help me reproduce it, pm me, any details are precious.

Thanks again for the continuous support :)

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[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thank you!

The bookmark functionnality is a very good idea, I'll study a way to implement it elegantly.

Thanks for the feedback!

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[Android Apps and Games] dusanr:
Kewl ...

It looks verry promising and viewable :) I'd like to thank developmers.;)
[Android Apps and Games] xunus:
Nice work! Just bought the full version. Where can i find the wallpaper you've used on your screenshot?
[Android Apps and Games] Desibouy:
Hi,

Nice App but off topic here and have a couple of questions...

1) Please could you let me know which theme you using? it looks very nice. and are you using a home screen replacement?

2) which wallpaper is that you are using?

3) also if you could let me know, those clocks you have at the top, where can I find these?

4) the black notication bar you have there with that little bug droid, is this just for your phone or can any android phone have that? because right now I have a white notication bar.. Please could you kindly help me?

Currently im using ADW Launcher Ex because it has force potrait mode.

Thank You
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
1/ Adw Launcher Ex - Minimal Theme

2/

3/ SimiClock Widget

4/ Black notification bar comes with Darky's ROM on galaxy S, or any Gingerbread themed ROM, the bugdroid comes from the debug mode, nothing special about that

Enjoy !
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Just updated both versions of my widget on the market with this new "mark as read" functionnality and the new filter, tell me how you feel about it :)

Enjoy !
[Android Apps and Games] kylepsp:
Updated now. Great app.

Had a problem with the reader though, when I click on it ut just shows the summary of the article not the full article. don't know if its just the rss feed I'm using (sky sports.com) or the app.

Thanks for all your work!
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Updated, and i've uninstalled NewsFlash Plus. No need for it anymore. Awesome work bro!
[Android Apps and Games] Cunione:
What about a free pro version with ads ?! :D:D

Gotta test it...

I've already tested the first version 1.0 on WinMo (what is that strange name ?)... I'm the guy who asked for the "import rss feed from file" option (if you remember me...). ;)

Good work.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Some websites just provide a short description of the article on their rss feeds, especially the big newspapers which of course want you to read their articles ob their website exclusively. Gotta find a way to retrieve the full article and still maintain low loading times... I'll study that.

Thanks for the support!

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[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I do remember!

The free version is now fully featured, it's litteraly the pro version with ads :)

Try it!

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[Android Apps and Games] Cunione:
So... and what about importing an .opml file (in Android) ? :)

Having a bug (if it is a bug) :

- I succesfully imported my feeds from Google Reader.

- Put the widget on my homescreen.

- Oops ! I want to put another widget !

- Longpress on my homescreen.

- Widget / Minimal RSS

- DAMN ! Where are my feeds ???!!! I need to re-import them one by one ? (or via GReader)

Etrangement strange ! ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hehe i focused on greader instead of opml files as it is a more practical and popular way to import feeds.

It's not a bug, it's the normal behaviour :)

If you want to put several widgets on your homescreen, the obvious reason is to have different feeds on each widget!

Why would you want to add the same feeds twice?

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[Android Apps and Games] Cunione:
Hummmmmmmmmmm ! :D
[Android Apps and Games] Desibouy:
Thank you..
[Android Apps and Games] HansiHusten:
Woho, very nice widget, very nice.

Only problem that I encounter is that I have set the option to show only unread news, but it still displays the old ones :o

Known problem?
[Android Apps and Games] blackn339:
thanks a lot .it's really cool
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Really? It doesn't happen on my phone. Can you give me more details? Is it on the widget or the popup? And what feeds do you use? Any detail is precious information.

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[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Glad you like it. Cheers! :)

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[Android Apps and Games] HansiHusten:
Thanks for your fast reply.

I set your nice app up with two google reader feeds called Tagesschau.de and Spiegel Online, set the option to show only news of the last 12h (that works OK) + made a checkmark in "filter read news".

Im on google reader right now with 0 unread messages via http, hit the refresh button on your widget but it still displays news that I have checked as read.

I also have a small feature request :D

When the popup appears, would it be possible to swipe up and down or left or right to display the next news item? That would be great :) Also when the popup appears and I chose to close the popup the actual news item I clicked is gone, gone like the next news item is displayed. Maybe its better to halt the automatic scrolling feature while a popup is open?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Oh ! you mean you check your news as read in Google Reader ? then it's normal that it appears on the widget because I haven't implemented the syncronisation between read items in GR and on the widget. But if you read a news on the widget, it will be filtered correctly.

Also, if you read the Help message you will see that you CAN swipe left or right ON THE NEWS TITLE (not on the bodytext as it is a vertical scrollview only) and you will get the next or previous article with a nice slide animation :)

And for the last point, when you launch the popup, it marks the item as read, and if you have the filter unread checked, that item will get off the widget list and the widget will display the next one. But the auto scroll feature is disabled while the pop-up is open, and only re starts when you close the popup.

Hope it helps.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Just updated Minimal Reader and Minimal Reader Pro on the market, finally brings that 4x2 widget size you've been asking for !

Other widget sizes and improvements coming soon :)

Enjoy !
[Android Apps and Games] Who.am.I:
I'm using the free version but can't get the hotukdeals.com/rss/username url to work.

Any suggestions?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Try www.hotukdeals.com/rss/hot

Tell me how it goes.

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[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Just updated my widget again, added an option for left handed people to switch arrows / buttons position :) Also fxed the layouts a bit and added a scrollbar to the widget.

Next I wanna implement a Share function on the pop-up, tell me what you think and don't hesitate to throw ideas for it.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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No no, I just needed resizing the 4x2 back to 4x1 but I checked that the arrows advanced two feeds per click so I just fused two sources and done, no more resizing needed.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Ok that what i thought.

Last night was productive, almost finished my major update!

Ps: btw i still have twitter implementation in my mind, with a little bonus which i hope will work, I'll get into it after this one ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
And there it is ! Minimal Reader Pro updated to v1.6 !

[ MAJOR UPDATE - Uninstall might be needed ]

** NEW in v1.6 **

_ Added 4x4 widget size with clickable news counter!

_ Added Favourite button on pop-up.

_ Added Share button on pop-up.

_ Even bigger images on pop-up.

_ Added Mark all as read function on 4x4.

_ Added Independent settings for each widget size.

_ Big code cleanup and CPU optimizations.

_ Many other bug fixes and minor changes.

Enjoy guys !
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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Excellent! Thanks, trying out, will tell you if anything changes.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
So what do you guys think?

Like the new 4x4 widget and the favourites feature?

Everything working as it should?
[Android Apps and Games] eunice3:
I can't get the update. the latest on android pit is 1.5.2.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Damn ! forgot about android pit... uploading it right away

Thanks for the reminder, enjoy !
[Android Apps and Games] sjukmidlands:
A brilliant reader, very smart and easy to use, hence why I upgraded to the Pro version.

Out of interest, having read through this thread, I note that some users have had a problem with not finding their Google Reader feeds. This happened to me when I updated to the Pro version, but in fact what had happened was that I had previously removed the feeds from the official GReader app on my phone - and when it sync'd to Google it deleted them there as a result. Hence when this app looked to import the feed again it found none - as there were none! For me as there were only a few feeds it was simple to replace them - but a warning for others!

One small issue - and one I have noticed on other news readers I've tried on my phone - some, but not all, news items are repeatedly downloaded and shown, sometimes many dozen times, listen identically one after the other. Mostly BBC News items and only the odd one. Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks for the support !

If it happens on the web google reader client too, it means that the issue comes from the source itself. Not much you can do about it ...

If it's only on the widget, then probably a delete / re-import would solve the issue.

Tell me how it goes.
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Just purchased the full version. Best buck i've used :)

But one question; when i mark an article as a favorite, where do i find it again?

Perhaps you've already answered this question, so sorry if that's the case.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Thanks for the support and the Market comment mate :)

To access your favourite articles, you need to :

- have a 4x4 widget on your home screen

- click the news counter (the "1 | 5" between the arrows and the buttons) to open the action menu.

- In that menu click on "Go to favourites"

I will put that on the first post, I guess it's not that intuitive.

Oh and when you are in the Favourite view, if ou open an article and press the heart icon again, it will remove it from the favourites.

Also, in favourite view, click again on the news counter on the widget to open another action menu, click 'Back to normal view" to go back to all your read/unread articles.

Tell me how it goes.

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Thanks! Gonna take a look at it :)
[Android Apps and Games] sjukmidlands:
Hi again, just to let you know, that quite often it does still import new items multiple times, for instance BBC News North West Wales: Policemen airlifted off Snowdon has downloaded multiple times today since it was first posted 6h38m ago (and always shows the same time stamp). Checking Google Reader online, it only shows this item once.

It seems to be a problem reported by others before with other RSS apps which has subesequently been fixed - will see if I can find details, as I do really want to stick with this app if at all possible. It's by far the cleanest and most minimal looking RSS reader app.

Steve
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Does it still happen after deleting / re-importing the feed?

As a very last solution, you can uninstall - reinstall the app to start with a clean database (make sure you got all your feeds on your google reader account for easily re-import them)

Tell me how it goes.
[Android Apps and Games] sjukmidlands:
Thanks, will try that and report back.

Best wishes, Steve.
[Android Apps and Games] sjukmidlands:
Ok, I've now done as requested, uninstalled the app, downloaded it again and re-installed. I then imported my Google Reader feeds, and of course to start with it just fetched in one entry for each item - but a few hours later for some items there up to two screens of the same item, i.e 8-9 entries, and these repeating entries quickly fill up the available 'space' I allocated in settings for the number of items to show/download etc.

As I previously mentioned, when looking at some of the other RSS widgets available, some of the feedback posts have mentioned the same problem, one such being AtomaRSS Scrollable NewsWidget where the description mentions in update to 2.5 "fixed double entries".

Hope this helps!

Best wishes,

Steve

Example item at the moment: On BBC News North West Wales feed, an item posted yesterday titled "Tories win key north Wales seats" has been downloaded repeatedly. Even after opening it thus marking it read, and hiding read items, refreshing downloads it again. And again. And again....
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Does it happen with every widget size? Or one in particular?

I've looked up in my code if anything could provoke that but couldn't find any clues.

I added the BBC News North West Wales feed to my widget, will see if I can reproduce it an study the logcat.

Thanks for the report.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Ok, I reproduce the issue of items reimporting on the BBC feed ... and I know why it happens :

Have a look of the two latest news from that feed (I simplified the XML for better reading) :

<item>

<title>Fuel protesters' go-slow protest</title>

<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 14:41:26 GMT</pubDate>

</item>

<item>

<title>Man's body found in sea off Conwy</title>

<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 16:10:13 GMT</pubDate>

</item>

As you can see .... The second item was actually posted AFTER the first one !!

This is a big mistake from a big news company like BBC ... Either the ppl who make those news enter the wrong date in, or the code that generates the feed has something wrong, but by looking at the publish dates you can see that there is no logical order ! they are just randomly put one after the other...

That's why it duplicates the entries, because my parser gets confused by this second feed which is 'younger' than the one before so it takes the first one as a new article ....

As the other feeds work fine, this is really a big disappointement from the BBC ... thought they were better than that.

Sorry about this issue ... but can't do anything if they dont repect the basic rules of RSS feeds :(
[Android Apps and Games] sjukmidlands:
Thanks very much for looking into that, I shall contact the BBC about it. I used to work in BBC News!

Steve
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Really? That's awesome!

Tell them that they should add a chronological sorting in the code of their feed generator like Collection.sort(items) with a date comparator (in java).

I haven't checked if it's the same with all their feeds though. I'll look it up when i have the chance.

Keep me updated :)

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] mmzdaniel:
It would be really awesome if you could make the widget save the images so that offline users can download feeds, disconnect and read it on the go :)
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
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Ya know, I've been testing your app quite a lot and I'm happy to say that you got rid of that annoying bug of old feeds, so, thank you a lot! ;)

Now! I have a little idea. The other day a feed wanted to load an image and just couldnt. And it was too much hassle to cancel loading of images just for that one feed to show up on the pop up, soooo, I thought "why not just tap on the loading thing while loading the image to cancel it?" That way you can shorten the msg too "Loading Image - Tap to skip". Uhm?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I thought of some kind of pre download of images, but it would make the refreshing process soooooo slow if not on wifi. And i hate the apps that keep cached images on my phone as it can take a lot of space.

So i guess i can implement it but as an option and it would download images on wifi only, limited to one image per article, hows that?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Great, im glad that annoying bug is out of the picture!

As for your idea... I think it's Great! It feels very intuitive, i love it.

I will study how to implement it for my next update.

As usual, always constructive feedback from you darius, thanks again.

Cheers mate!
[Android Apps and Games] mmzdaniel:
That's exactly what I was thinking of. Well, almost. Could you try and make the image limit also an option? (To counter the bloating, maybe some clearing policy like, older than a day or something like that).

BTW just bought it, looks awesome.
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
How to add twitter? The link is off

:(
[Android Apps and Games] charliebigpot:
Would it be possible to mix the feeds regardless of the time they've been published? Let me explain, when I get up in the morning the first 10 feeds are from American newspapers, late morning it's from whichever newspaper started working first in Europe, etc.

I wouldn't mind having new feeds mixed with old ones, else it takes a while to get through the different sources.

Thx!

Charlie
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Ok I'll try to make it work, it would be great indeed if I could still get all the images even when I'm in the metro with no internet :D

Thanks for the support!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
They removed that service recently, guess twitter wasn't very happy about it ...

I may have found another way to add a twitter feed to the widget but can't test it right now as I'm at work :p

Will try it tonight and keep you updated.
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Hi Charlie,

I don't really get your point, what would be the criteria to order feeds then ?

I was thinking of setting an option to see feeds grouped by source on the widget, could that be what you're looking for?

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
i'm very interested to buy your app, but i got some difficulties to read the new feeds. All options i have to select only are old feeds. Even when i select the option "filter read news" i can't get it. Can you do something for me?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I don't get what you mean, does it still shows read stories even when you check the "filter read news" option ?
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
Sorry, i made a mistake. Everything working perfectly!

I can translate your app to Portuguese. What do you think?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
can you say thsi sentece :

"I want to read only news from "feed". And i had choose to filter read new option, but it still apears the old feeds."

in portuguese ?

I speak fluent spanish so it will be easier for me to understand :p

From what I understand, it's the option to hide already read articles that doesn"t work for you ? is that right ?
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
En serio? Oh, y yo que queria ayudarte con la traduccion al español... ;D
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
jeje pues si quieres te envio el xml y lo traducimos entre los dos :p
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
Eu disse que mesmo selecionando a opção "Filter Read News" apareciam os feeds antigos. Mas foi erro meu. Esta tudo OK com o seu App !

:D
[Android Apps and Games] Darius_bd:
No problemo!
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
Fico feliz que ele funciona! nenhum problema, então? ;)
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Hey Joenrv,

I can translate the app to norwegian if you're interested. I've translated a lot of iOS apps and some Android apps so i've done it before. PM me if interested :)
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
Muito bom o seu português, parabéns.

:)

What do you think? Let´s started translate now?
[Android Apps and Games] Joenrv:
I PM'd you guys for the translations :)

Thanks a lot guys, really appreciate the support !
[Android Apps and Games] CocoMonGo:
Hi Joenrv Android Market finally is selling apps in my country! woohoo! as promised (wayyyy back)I have purchased ur app.

Could you make the Reader Panel fixed size and semi transparent like the widget itself? When I open different FEED sources the size changes from webpage to webpage.

Also any chance of making the images load in the back ground rather then wait for it to be downloaded before the feed is being shown?

Great work with the app dude!
[Android Apps and Games] brenopapito:
Good idea !

I like it !