[APP] Minimal Reader 3.3 - 02/10/2012

Joenrv · May 6, 2012

Finally out of Beta and available on the Play Store !

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

Hey folks!

I've been hard at work these past weeks to take my Minimal Reader Widgets to the next level. I finally reached a milestone of stability, performance and usability, and I just couldn't help but sharing it with you guys.

I'm proud to introduce Minimal Reader 3.0 - Bringing a full Google Reader experience on your Android device with a brand new APP in addition to the widgets!

The App follows the latest ICS Guidelines and is available from Android 2.2 and above. It's clean, fast and simple to use.

There's a new color system that let's you associate a color to a particular feed, so you can easily spot it when scrolling through lists of news.

App and widgets are completely synchronized, so you can both quick read through your daily feeds on a widget and explore more content in the app when you have time.

The app should be pretty straightforward to use, give it a spin, and if you encounter any issues/bugs, please report them in a detailed comment on this thread.

I'm really looking forward to your feedback, and to make it easy for me, please give me your opinion by simply answering these three questions :

1/ what do you like about the app
2/ what do you miss (compared to other news app maybe)
3/ how would you improve it

Here are some screenshots :

davidyannick · May 6, 2012

gonna test

NITRO_100 · May 6, 2012

For me the minimal reader is the best reader/widget. I'm looking forward to test this beta.

nanny07 · May 6, 2012

First impression: really fast, but I don't have tried the older version (2.6)

What I liked: velocity
What I missed: possiblity to change the mobilizer. Readability Mobilizer is better than the Instapaper One (imho)

Suggestions:
1) after the tap on "mark all as read", the app should refresh the ui to not show again the feed marked as read. If I'm in the "browse" view, under a certain folder, it should prompt me to the upper folder
2) the name of the tabs are too big/long: as you can see from the picture above, the words "reading list (0)" and "favourites (0)" are too close.

backhead92 · May 6, 2012

I like the look, and feeling a lot. Just like 2.6, but great to have a app with it now

Things I miss: Synchronization interval

Suggestions:
Change the order of my labels, now you would have to add labels 1 by 1 to get the order you want. Would be nice if it could just be added all at once, and be reordered afterwards
Maybe an option to rename the labels in the app (only for the app, so leave the label name as it is in google reader), with the same reason as above poster
Maybe I missed it, but just saw there is no option for adding an individual rss feed. Not a problem for me, but maybe other people still like to add them all manually

Joenrv · May 6, 2012

This is great stuff guys, exactly the stuff I need to hear to prioritize features.

Keep it coming!

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

jameslfc5 · May 6, 2012

Look forward to testing this, thanks

Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2

backhead92 · May 6, 2012

Another suggestion/missing feature:
Refresh on app startup

Suggestion:
Option to hide read labels (unless all are read/show all is selected) So you wont have to scroll through empty labels to get to the ones you havent read yet

LuckyStriker33 · May 6, 2012

Is it possible to add an export favourite news option? Just a simple html list with the title and link of the news, something like that.

Best news reader ever

kvigneshkrish · May 6, 2012

Going to test. Just downloaded the beta. Will tell you how it works on both CM9 and CM7.

Cheers!!

Joenrv · May 6, 2012

I'm actually live coding your suggestions right now

Here's my TODO list atm :

From XDA :
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ADD : Reorder colums in manage screen
ADD : hide columns when no more news (option ?)
ADD : Auto refresh in background option
ADD : Refresh on startup option

FROM ME :
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ADD : sync starred from greader as favorites
ADD : white theme
ADD : tutorial with recommended labels
ADD : Tablet UI

This is great. Thanks guys !

backhead92 · May 6, 2012

Nice

Loved the widget, but now with the app its even better

kvigneshkrish · May 6, 2012

I used the application for quite sometime.

Device: Motorola Defy (Rooted + Custom ROM)
ROM: White Rabbit v1.5 - Gingerbread 2.3.7

Pros:

Works Fast even on Edge
Really good looking widget with nice features
Design is good to look at. But I feel the 'carbon' theme is kinda distracting. But its just my feeling.

Changes I Would Love:

The tab texts are quite long. Better if they were smaller and space between was larger. (Already given)
The title text of content is a tad big. A smaller text would be better and feel flush with the total design. Previously given menu choice of 'Small' text makes it too small = Ability to choose a proper text size using a slider with numbers (Higher flexibility?)
The space between the contents in the widget could be slightly more.

FORCE CLOSE

The main app FCs every time I press the hard 'menu' button or the 'more' icon on the top-right corner. You should check that for sure.
It again FCs every time I press a feed in the 'Browse' tab under the reading list. FCs every single time.

Will the beta testers be given free licenses?

Joenrv · May 6, 2012

kvigneshkrish said:
I used the application for quite sometime.

Device: Motorola Defy (Rooted + Custom ROM)
ROM: White Rabbit v1.5 - Gingerbread 2.3.7

Pros:

Works Fast even on Edge

Really good looking widget with nice features

Design is good to look at. But I feel the 'carbon' theme is kinda distracting. But its just my feeling.

Changes I Would Love:

The tab texts are quite long. Better if they were smaller and space between was larger. (Already given)

The title text of content is a tad big. A smaller text would be better and feel flush with the total design. Previously given menu choice of 'Small' text makes it too small = Ability to choose a proper text size using a slider with numbers (Higher flexibility?)

The space between the contents in the widget could be slightly more.

FORCE CLOSE

The main app FCs every time I press the hard 'menu' button or the 'more' icon on the top-right corner. You should check that for sure.

It again FCs every time I press a feed in the 'Browse' tab under the reading list. FCs every single time.

Great feedback, thanks.

About the FCs, could you download Sendlog from the play store (free) and send me a log after reproducing both crashes ?

It works fine on my CM7 galaxy S (2.3.7).

kvigneshkrish · May 6, 2012

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ptqgt4tgbl14h1/SendLog.txt

That is the dropbox link for you. I didn't know a better way to send it across. Hope you find it useful. If you can't download, just reply. I'll make sure you are able to.

Cheers.

Enhanced · May 7, 2012

Just installed the beta and I love it for most part. There are a couple things I don't like though and all of them are cosmetic (not too much of a biggie but I like my homescreens looking good):

1. For the widget, I dislike the new size of the "header". The 3 buttons and the counter (also the new MR button) are quite bigger than on 2.6. Much liked the previous size better.

2. Still concerning the widget, the new button that launches the full reader is a bit unsightly. Even though the icon represents MR, maybe a more subtle icon can be used instead that is more inline with the 3 other header icons (simple, single colored icon). If not, then maybe let us specifically hide only this icon (also allow the counter to be moved to the left most if the icon is hidden).

3. Hope you are still working on making the widget look more sightly when there are no items. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=24773750#post24773750

Other than these, I'm pretty content.

Thanks for your hardwork!

xananoide · May 7, 2012

Minimal Reader Pro 3.0

Hi Joenrv!!

I heard the latest news by this forum, when I came to see if my eternal "refresh" problem can be solved!
I was very surprised, that a new big update even in beta, but, I was disappointed to know this version only works in 2.2+ android version! Mine is 2.1 and still be for some time!
So please, can you tell me if for my version, no more updates will be released?

Thanks in advance!
Alex

Joenrv · May 7, 2012

xananoide said:
Hi Joenrv!!

I heard the latest news by this forum, when I came to see if my eternal "refresh" problem can be solved!
I was very surprised, that a new big update even in beta, but, I was disappointed to know this version only works in 2.2+ android version! Mine is 2.1 and still be for some time!
So please, can you tell me if for my version, no more updates will be released?

Thanks in advance!
Alex

Hi Alex, unfortunatly I have no plans on supporting Android 2.1 ... I'm using libraries that work on Android 2.2 and above only ...

But If you're here on this forum, you must know ways to flash a higher version on your phone... I mean what phone today has no custom ROM > 2.2 here on XDA?

ovivo · May 7, 2012

Very nice app and widget. I like the clean and simple interface. I was going to suggest white theme (not only for pop-ups), but I see it's already on todo list.

Small remark - can you remove or add option to remove the horizontal padding of the widget - it doesn't expand fully horizontally and visually differs in width compared to other widgets I have (vertically there is no such padding/margin).

tititake · May 7, 2012

Could Minimal Reader use https to connect to google reader? For some reason, I have to use proxy and it only supports https.

Thanks.

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