If you're still getting reports of display issues I can load it onto my htc Eris and Moto Droid later to try to isolate the issue.
Thanks for the offer! However users reporting this issue (in market comments) donot provide the feed urls as asked, also no market comment describes the actual problem, market commenters tend to just shout simple and quite useless "don't load!" statements.
Anyway i added in 1.2 some hints to help the user, and i also auto-prepend the protocol to the url if it is missing. I hope this will help, even if only a little.
Another thing, i don't know how the market filters applications, but this widget targets android version greater than 2.1; and I only tested it quickly against a 2.1 emulator (which is a real pain, by the way, given how slow the emulator is).
saltorio said:
One issue I have noticed is that it tends to display the "Loading" text in the upper-right corner almost always.
I cannot reproduce it. I have no clue right now as what could be causing that behaviour.
However please note that (re)loading is a two-step process which involves querying the db twice: first news entries are fetched from the db (if any), then feed is remotely loaded, when the feed has been loaded, news entries are saved to the db, and the widget is updated (which triggers the second db query).
Perhaps what you see has something to do with the way i reload the feed?
saltorio said:
And one last request (for when you have the time). The ability to save your widget settings to SD card and then import them back would be helpful for time when you need to re-load your widgets (such as after a firmware upgrade).
Done! This was actually planned
It was indeed a critical feature (for me at least) : as i test the widget, i tend to install and uninstall it quite often and losing the configuration with each and every reinstall proved to be quite annoying.
So now it possible to export (resp. import) preferences to (resp. from) SD (in Main settings activity) and to import/export feeds (in Edit Feed activity). I separated the feed import/export and preferences save/restore.
k0smo86 said:
Issue fixed! User error! Great app!
Just out of curiosity - and also to add something to prevent users to make the same errors if possible, what error was it?
BanziBaby said:
I have the widget working on ADW Launcher but if i then use home switcher for Froyo to change to Launcher Pro I cant get the widget to load the news feeds.
Is it a case of only one instance is allowed to run?
Multiple, independent, instances are allowed. I have no issue with LP (with or without using Home Switcher). However ADW can auto-enable scrollable widgets, i'm not sure LP can. So scrollable widgets must be enabled explicitely by the user. But I'm not sure this the root of problem.
hka148 said:
me too, I 'm using stock i9000 launcher. Selected the rss provided but no feeds showed up.
I can't test with the i9000 launcher (i only have a desire), but i doubt the widget is compatible with this particular launcher. Did you test it, for instance, with Zeam?
Icebergslim3000 said:
Great app. It's nice to finally have my news widget back. One question, is it possible to add a slider to change the level of transparency.I'd like it to be a little darker. Thumbnails would be nice to. Other than that perfect.
This is also a planned feature. I prefer to not give any roadmap, but it will come (rather sooner than later).
Thanks you all for your support and your suggestions.
