[App][Updated 12-3-2010] DeliciousDroid - Delicious Bookmarks for Android v1.0.0

maxpower47 · Nov 10, 2010

I've been developing a client app for Delicious for android and its ~~pretty close to being~~ ready to release! Thanks to all the guys that helped me test it! If you find any issues, concerns, or have any suggestions to make it better, let me know in this thread or by opening an issue on the project site.

* UPDATE v1.0.0
Initial Market release! No real changes over 0.5.0.

Changelog

Features

Why DeliciousDroid? Aren't there other Delicious clients already in the market? Here are some of the features of DeliciousDroid:

Supports OAuth authentication (for Yahoo based accounts)
Notification of new bookmarks in inbox
Background sync for bookmarks and network contacts
Bookmarks are cached to allow offline viewing and to reduce network traffic
Accounts managed through Android's built-in account manager
New bookmarks by network contacts displayed as status updates
Bookmarks can be added in several ways:
1. A menu in the app
2. Directly from the browser via the "Share" menu
3. By long pressing a friend's bookmark and choosing "Add"
Bookmarks can be edited by long pressing and choosing "Edit"
Bookmark details can be viewed by long pressing and choosing "View Details"
Bookmarks can be deleted by long pressing and choosing "Delete"
Bookmark titles, tags and notes are searchable from both the global search and from within the app
Support for live folders, add a folder to your home screen that takes you straight to bookmarks within a specific tag
Code is licensed under the GPL v3 and is available on Github

Note: Requires Android 2.x (API Level 5+). Android 1.5 and 1.6 are not and will not be supported.

Known Issues
These are some of the known issues in the current build of DeliciousDroid. Feel free to open an issue on the Google code project site if you encounter a bug/issue not listed here, or have an idea for an enhancement.

Only a single Delicious account is currently supported.
Clicking inbox notification just takes you to the main app. As far as I can tell, delicious does not provide any way to get the contents of your inbox via the api. There is a feed for it, but it requires having a secret key that is used as a parameter.
Viewing the bookmark list for your network contacts only shows up to 100 bookmarks, this is a limitation of the api.
Syncing is handled by the OS and appears to happen every 24 hours. Froyo (Android 2.2) allows for setting a different sync interval, but I'd like to maintain compatibility with 2.1 for now.

Screenshots

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Installation

DeliciousDroid is available on the Android Market. Make sure and rate it up or leave a comment if you like it!

khaytsus · Nov 10, 2010

Nice! I have *THREE* installed right now.. Two which view Delicious in two different ways, one I like the view of but it's online-only, the other I don't like the view, but it caches.. And the third to Share to Delicious.

Hopefully this one can replace all three. Having 3 is really ridiculous.

khaytsus · Nov 10, 2010

First observation; no obvious way to set up the account. No link from the application, doesn't forward you to the Accounts if it isn't set up. Just crashes. I suspect this is included in your "unelegant" mention, but wanted to say it. If there's no account set up, it should automatically send you to the Accounts settings IMO. And I think you should also make a quick link to the Account Setup page so the user can add/change, or even force a resync.

Once set up, mine synced, and I see "Network" recent but I'm seeing nothing else. Nothing in My Recent, nothing in My Tags. according to the Accounts setup, the sync is finished (It no longer says cancel sync). I tried to force it to sync again, and when I went back to the Accounts settings noticed Sync Delicious was not checked.

Maybe it didn't do this by default? It should unless you have no control over it? Once I checked this, my bookmarks showed up. Maybe I did something silly here and accidentally de-selected it.

Biggest problem so far; it seems to add random /'s onto the end of URLS!? I've got several bookmarks that won't load here, but I can load them fine on the PC. So I compared the URLs it's sending, and in my desktop it's h ttp://.....blah.html where in Android it's h ttp://....blah.html/ <-- trailing slash

So some stuff I've seen but looks like I could toss out the other 3 once they're fixed, so cheers!

maxpower47 · Nov 10, 2010

khaytsus said:
First observation; no obvious way to set up the account. No link from the application, doesn't forward you to the Accounts if it isn't set up. Just crashes. I suspect this is included in your "unelegant" mention, but wanted to say it. If there's no account set up, it should automatically send you to the Accounts settings IMO. And I think you should also make a quick link to the Account Setup page so the user can add/change, or even force a resync.

Yep, that's what I meant about unelegent. I agree, it should either take you straight to the Accounts & Sync screen or at least display a message that you need to go there instead of just FC'ing. I'll try to incorporate that into the next build.

khaytsus said:
Once set up, mine synced, and I see "Network" recent but I'm seeing nothing else. Nothing in My Recent, nothing in My Tags. according to the Accounts setup, the sync is finished (It no longer says cancel sync). I tried to force it to sync again, and when I went back to the Accounts settings noticed Sync Delicious was not checked.

Maybe it didn't do this by default? It should unless you have no control over it? Once I checked this, my bookmarks showed up. Maybe I did something silly here and accidentally de-selected it.

Yea, the Sync Delicious part is not checked by default, I suppose it probably should be (or at least there should be a message or something in the My Recent or My Tags screens directing you to go check it.

khaytsus said:
Biggest problem so far; it seems to add random /'s onto the end of URLS!? I've got several bookmarks that won't load here, but I can load them fine on the PC. So I compared the URLs it's sending, and in my desktop it's h ttp://.....blah.html where in Android it's h ttp://....blah.html/ <-- trailing slash

I'll have to look in to that. Its only adding them in the cache, so don't be worried that its corrupting all your bookmarks on the server. It'll be fixed in the next build.

maxpower47 · Nov 10, 2010

khaytsus said:
So some stuff I've seen but looks like I could toss out the other 3 once they're fixed, so cheers!

I forgot to ask too, what device are you testing it on? I've only tried it in the emulator and on my heroc, so I'd be interested to see if its handling other devices/resolutions fine.

Also, are you using a legacy delicious account, or a yahoo based oauth one?

ishkarioth · Nov 10, 2010

Working nice in 2.1 HTC Hero, but I found that every bookmark shows twice in both Recent and by tag views. And everytime I have to select a listview it asks me to open with Delicious or with... Music.

But working ok and plays nice with browser.

khaytsus · Nov 10, 2010

maxpower47 said:
Yep, that's what I meant about unelegent. I agree, it should either take you straight to the Accounts & Sync screen or at least display a message that you need to go there instead of just FC'ing. I'll try to incorporate that into the next build.

It'll make the initial install a lot smoother, less confusing.

maxpower47 said:
Yea, the Sync Delicious part is not checked by default, I suppose it probably should be (or at least there should be a message or something in the My Recent or My Tags screens directing you to go check it.

If you can, I'd suggest checking it by default.

maxpower47 said:
I'll have to look in to that. Its only adding them in the cache, so don't be worried that its corrupting all your bookmarks on the server. It'll be fixed in the next build.

Cool.

Odd that's getting tacked on there, but you'll fix it.

maxpower47 said:
I forgot to ask too, what device are you testing it on? I've only tried it in the emulator and on my heroc, so I'd be interested to see if its handling other devices/resolutions fine.

Also, are you using a legacy delicious account, or a yahoo based oauth one?

Nexus One using Enom's 2.12.3 ROM (I'm a little behind, not a ROM flashing addict) and using a legacy Delicious account.

I'm going to try Sharing from the browser later, and maybe try Yahoo, although Yahoo's password management is all screwed up on my account. I can't login to IM, but I can login to Yahoo Mail, and I can't login to some other thing.. all using the same Yahoo account. Maybe I need to change the password again, maybe it'll "sync" then.

maxpower47 · Nov 10, 2010

ishkarioth said:
Working nice in 2.1 HTC Hero, but I found that every bookmark shows twice in both Recent and by tag views.

If you uninstall/reinstall the app does it do it again? If so, can you provide me some more details about your setup? Delicious username, authentication type (delicious or yahoo), etc. You can PM me if you don't want to post it on here.

ishkarioth said:
And everytime I have to select a listview it asks me to open with Delicious or with... Music.

Ok, I think I know what's causing that. It should be fixed in the next build, probably tomorrow.

ishkarioth · Nov 10, 2010

Uninstalled and reinstalled, repeated items are gone. BTW, using classic delicious login.

Thanks.

maxpower47 · Nov 11, 2010

Great feedback so far guys, keep it comimg. I've just updated the app with fixes for everything mentioned so far, the download link is in the original post.

Changelog

kenkiller · Nov 11, 2010

Installed latest version over previous version on my i9000, Yahoo OAuth account.

All the information disappeared when I entered the app.

Tried to remove the account and retry, both sync options were ticked. No information in all 3 view options. Is there a problem retrieving? Is there anyway to force a re-sync?

edit : did an uninstall, reinstalled the latest version. working again.

maxpower47 · Nov 11, 2010

kenkiller said:
Tried to remove the account and retry, both sync options were ticked. No information in all 3 view options. Is there a problem retrieving? Is there anyway to force a re-sync?

Yea, while you're in the account in the accounts and sync screen hit menu, there should be a "Sync Now" option.

kenkiller · Nov 12, 2010

Thanks....totally didn't think to hit the menu button. Did as stated above, everything is fine.

ishkarioth · Nov 12, 2010

Perfect. No more duplicated items so far, thank you, but still missing something. No more chosing between Delicious or Music when entering a list-view, but it still happens when selecting a single tag on second level. Might be the same issue, just different location so you didn't update that.

Thanks a lot, for this app and for this support.

maxpower47 · Nov 12, 2010

ishkarioth said:
Perfect. No more duplicated items so far, thank you, but still missing something. No more chosing between Delicious or Music when entering a list-view, but it still happens when selecting a single tag on second level. Might be the same issue, just different location so you didn't update that.

Oops, yep, forgot that one. Its fixed for the next build. I've got a couple new features cooking up for it too, so stay tuned...

khaytsus · Nov 12, 2010

Tried to use Yahoo today, and it FC's on me. Looks like when it calls back from the OAuth it gets a 404, which pisses off your program.

Tradition login worked but I got nothing except "recent bookmarks".

So I uninstalled, reinstalled, put in Delicious username, synced, works now. Seems like there are issues with the upgrade?

It's also possible that it's a problem I launched it before it was finished syncing? I exited, even killed the program, re-entered, still had no bookmarks synced I could see, but it was fine after the reinstall. However after the reinstall, I waited for it to finish syncing first.. Possible a problem there?

maxpower47 · Nov 12, 2010

khaytsus said:
Tried to use Yahoo today, and it FC's on me. Looks like when it calls back from the OAuth it gets a 404, which pisses off your program.

Tradition login worked but I got nothing except "recent bookmarks".

So I uninstalled, reinstalled, put in Delicious username, synced, works now. Seems like there are issues with the upgrade?

It's also possible that it's a problem I launched it before it was finished syncing? I exited, even killed the program, re-entered, still had no bookmarks synced I could see, but it was fine after the reinstall. However after the reinstall, I waited for it to finish syncing first.. Possible a problem there?

Do you currently use delicious with that account? If you've never logged in to delicious with it then it wont work. You have to go in through the main delicious site to set up a new delicious account that gets linked to your yahoo id, it doesn't create one by default.

maxpower47 · Nov 12, 2010

Another day, another update, version 0.2.1 is up. Download link on the original post.

http://code.google.com/p/deliciousdroid/wiki/Changelog

Edit: v0.2.0 had a nasty bug preventing Delicious accounts from being added, 0.2.1 fixes this.

linuxholgi · Nov 13, 2010

Installed version 0.2.1 and works for my. This could be my favorite Delicious app. But on my Motorola Milestone (using Froyo), the font is so tiny, that I need magnify glasses to read it (looks like 4pt/5pt).

Haven't found an option to change the font size. Maybe this just occurs on high-res devices?

maxpower47 · Nov 13, 2010

linuxholgi said:
Installed version 0.2.1 and works for my. This could be my favorite Delicious app. But on my Motorola Milestone (using Froyo), the font is so tiny, that I need magnify glasses to read it (looks like 4pt/5pt).

Haven't found an option to change the font size. Maybe this just occurs on high-res devices?

Could be, I haven't tested it on one yet. I'll get the emulator set up with the Milestone's specs and see if I can reproduce it. I'll either see if I can make a setting to change it or see if I can just detect the resolution and change it automatically.

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