[APP][Wear OS] Peek News - RSS reader for Wear OS - New Update!

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I am pleased to present my first Wear OS app, Peek News. It is available for open testing and I would love to get some feedback from the XDA community.

Link to Playstore

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30 March 2023: Initial release
5 April 2023: Parsing improvements and exception handling progress
7 April 2023: Atom feeds support
20 April 2023: Bug fixes
4 May 2023: Improved connectivity
29 May 2023: Position in list of news items remembered when navigating back from details screen
25 June 2023: Automatic feed updates and parsing for Atom 1.0 feeds.
30 August 2023: New logo, tile with latest headline, ordering of feeds.
 

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I am pleased to present my first Wear OS app, Peek News. It is available for open testing and I would love to get some feedback from the XDA community. The app is free for XDA members with a promo code.

Please note: The app works with newspaper type rss feeds that are xml based. e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/rss or https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml

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    bernarbernuli
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    StrangerWeather said:
    Version 1.4.0 is live in the store. The logo is changed. There is also a new tile where you can see the latest piece of news from your feeds. I recommend using automatic updates set on 15 minutes so you always have up-to-date news on your tile. In my tests, this uses virtually no battery (although I only have 3 feeds installed). The other improvement is that news items are now sorted according to latest first. Hope you like the update! Feedback welcome.
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    It's very good, it works very well. Yesterday I noticed that without internet connection you can't read the feeds, it shows a warning that says "Loading error! This could be due to poor connectivity or to anincorrect URL.". My watch is not LTE and I was not near my phone so it would be linked and get the feeds from the internet.

    I suggest you enable a feature that when there was no internet connection you could read the feeds that were downloaded the last time you had internet, and when there was internet as there is now, logically,
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    StrangerWeather
    StrangerWeather
    bernarbernuli said:
    It's very good, it works very well. Yesterday I noticed that without internet connection you can't read the feeds, it shows a warning that says "Loading error! This could be due to poor connectivity or to anincorrect URL.". My watch is not LTE and I was not near my phone so it would be linked and get the feeds from the internet.

    I suggest you enable a feature that when there was no internet connection you could read the feeds that were downloaded the last time you had internet, and when there was internet as there is now, logically,
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    Hi, and I should thank you here for all your help getting this update ready!

    The ability to read feeds offline is already there. Maybe you are on "update when opening"? This is the only situation where the app will try to update and then warn you about connectivity if there is no internet. If you switch to "None" in the Settings, you should see your feeds again? If that's the case, I will think about sorting something out for users who use "update when opening". :)
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    StrangerWeather
    StrangerWeather
    Version 1.4.0 is live in the store. The logo is changed. There is also a new tile where you can see the latest piece of news from your feeds. I recommend using automatic updates set on 15 minutes so you always have up-to-date news on your tile. In my tests, this uses virtually no battery (although I only have 3 feeds installed). The other improvement is that news items are now sorted according to latest first. Hope you like the update! Feedback welcome.
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    bernarbernuli
    bernarbernuli
    StrangerWeather said:
    Hi, and I should thank you here for all your help getting this update ready!

    The ability to read feeds offline is already there. Maybe you are on "update when opening"? This is the only situation where the app will try to update and then warn you about connectivity if there is no internet. If you switch to "None" in the Settings, you should see your feeds again? If that's the case, I will think about sorting something out for users who use "update when opening". :)
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    That's right! I had marked "Update when open", I will leave it on automatic updates set on 15" as you recommend.
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    StrangerWeather
    StrangerWeather
    alt68 said:
    Hello.
    Great app!
    Can you make Update the feeds automatic?
    And when i read an article and switch back to the table of Contents i am again on the top.
    Would be better to go back to last entry.
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    I can indeed sort these two things out. Will add them to my list! :)
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    alt68
    Hello.
    Great app!
    Can you make Update the feeds automatic?
    And when i read an article and switch back to the table of Contents i am again on the top.
    Would be better to go back to last entry.
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    StrangerWeather
    StrangerWeather
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    I am pleased to present my first Wear OS app, Peek News. It is available for open testing and I would love to get some feedback from the XDA community.

    Link to Playstore

    PXL_20230323_161252303.jpg
    PXL_20230323_161347387.jpg
    PXL_20230323_161429260.jpg



    Logcat:

    30 March 2023: Initial release
    5 April 2023: Parsing improvements and exception handling progress
    7 April 2023: Atom feeds support
    20 April 2023: Bug fixes
    4 May 2023: Improved connectivity
    29 May 2023: Position in list of news items remembered when navigating back from details screen
    25 June 2023: Automatic feed updates and parsing for Atom 1.0 feeds.
    30 August 2023: New logo, tile with latest headline, ordering of feeds.
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    StrangerWeather
    StrangerWeather
    {Mod edit: Quoted post has been deleted. Oswald Boelcke, Senior Moderator}
    Please do not ask for ETAs on this thread or send me Private Messages asking for ETAs.
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    StrangerWeather
    StrangerWeather
    I have decided to make Peek News free with no ads. Hope you enjoy it!
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