Description
-- Scrollable RSS reader widget --Full history available at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848454
IMPORTANT:
- You MUST uninstall 1.x before installing 2.x (do not simply upgrade)
- Do not install on SD!
Please note the story title color is controlled by both the widget theme and specific feed setup. If a feed declares a color, it takes precedence over the color declared in the theme. This is a feature designed to help users to quickly sort out articles visually.
The widget is highly customizable (emphasis on "highly"). Please take the time to go through the options before spreading false info because you missed a configuration option.
FEATURES:
- Homescreen app widget
- Natively scrollable
- Natively resizable
- Appearance customization
- List or grid disposition
- Five item layouts to choose from
- OMPL Import/export to SD
- Multiple widget instances
- Multiple feeds per widget
- Feed color discriminant
- Thumbnail support
- Feed lookup (browsing the target)
- Feed search (using googleapis)
- Share stories
- Save favorites (~bookmarks)
Found a bug? Report it through the proper channels. Issues reported via the market comment feature won't be investigated. Period.
A set of three hidden buttons are present over the title bar; they are used to, from left to right: open the widget config, refresh the widget stories (without fetching feeds) and reload the widget (actually fetching feeds). Please note that those three buttons are always present even if the title bar is hidden. You can enable the global option "Debug" to see where they are actually located.
Background rendering can be tweaked in the global options ("prefer shape over 9-patch"). Widget is best rendered with shapes but they have been reported to not work correctly on some devices. So by default a 9-patch is used. This is ok in most cases but if for some reasons you want the widget to be smaller than 3 rows (or 3 cols) you may see visual artifacts on the background borders (when rounded corners are enabled). If so, try enabling the latter option.
Limitation (HoneyComb only):
- Widget title cannot be hidden on HoneyComb (feature explicitely deactivated)
"There's only one widget size! Why?" The widget is natively resizable under HC/ICS/JB - the default size is set to 4x4. Providing more widget sizes would make the apk heavier and would clutter the widget choice page.
Doesnot work at all? Probably something wrong on your side.
Since version 2.0.0 the widget is natively scrollable under Honeycomb (from 3.1), ICS and JB. It is however not compatible with prior Android versions.
Please report any issue to google code: http://code.google.com/p/scrollable-news-widget/issues/list
Gingerbread users: please use version 1.4.4.1 available from google code (1.4.4.1 still requires an alternative launcher such as Go Launcher or ADW Ex).
http://code.google.com/p/scrollable-news-widget/downloads/list
Bad things happen but...
"Work not! Fix it!" Yeah, right... That's the way to ask! Or is it?
"Dev should test the app" Seriously? Do you really think it has not been tested? Whining won't bring you anything.
The source is freely available but this is mostly a one-man job. This is software thus there ought to be bugs. I cannot think of all borderline cases; also there are zillions of feeds out there and unfortunately most of them are malformed. Being rude is easy but sadly it won't help me to fix issues and it won't bring you anything neither (or so i hope).
This widget has been tested against Motorola Defy running CM9 and CM10 (Android 4.0.4/4.1.x) and Asus TF101 running Prime 2.1.1 (Android 3.2) and CM10 (4.1.x) with the following launchers:
- Apex Launcher
- Nova Launcher
- Go Launcher
- Stock launcher
- ADW Ex
It has also been reported to work correctly (i.e. as expected) against a variety of other device/rom/launcher combinations.
Brian
Aug 8, 2012 5:17:07 AM
Great, but a big problem I would say it's excellent, but there are often times where I will click on a news feed and it won't load the browser. It never did this before. (GSIII on GoLauncher Ex)
rosanna
Aug 7, 2012 2:17:16 PM
Samsung galaxy note Perfect. The only thing would be highly beneficial for the note users is if we can amend the size to fit galaxy note. Apart from that, amazing Thank you
Alan
Aug 4, 2012 12:20:35 AM
Great...until latest upgrade Been using this since my first Android and i've always loved it...when it works. Fantastic on my S2 but on Galaxy Tab with ics (4.0.4) its unusable. Frequent "nothing to read" and since ics upgrade it locks the whole tablet when trying to add a new instance of the widget (got 2...want a 3rd...given up trying now) Unfortunately I'm going to have to look for an alternative...for my Tab at least.
Bill
Jul 29, 2012 7:40:20 PM
Terrible! Locks up, doesn't find news feeds to add, cannot get it to resize widget from full-screen default. Uninstalling. Galaxy S2 with ICS.
Tom
Jul 27, 2012 3:33:44 PM
Sucks Sucks. Uninstalled.
Joshua
Jul 26, 2012 4:59:08 PM
So far, so good :) I was trying to find an equivalent to the stock news widget that came on my Droid X, and this is it! Only one problem: I had to drag the widget onto a blank screen because of it's default full screen size, and then resize it, and then move it. Maybe consider changing this next update?
Ken
Jul 26, 2012 3:23:10 AM
Great app! Ainol novo7 ICS 4.0.3
Guy
Jul 25, 2012 11:53:55 PM
Excellent Missed my Gingerbread HTC news widget when I moved to Galaxy s2 with ics but this app is a perfect replacement
Neogeo64
Jul 25, 2012 8:14:22 PM
Most used widget Use it daily for tech sites like engadget, etc. Great widget.
Ahmed Faraaz
Jul 25, 2012 8:23:10 AM
Very Useful The most awesome scrollable news widget.Doesn't work in zeam launcher..