Five years after the first release of Readrops, I am really proud to announce the new 2.0 version! This version marks the end of a chaotic development recovery after two years of inactivity. This is a new start for the development of Readrops and starting from 2.0 you should see more frequent updates.
General
- 🆕 design:
- 🆕 Material3: Readrops implements last material design system version
- 🆕 Bottom bar navigation: you can now navigate to feeds and account management way more easily, with 4 tabs in total:
- Timeline
- Feeds
- Account
- More
- Timeline tab:
- 🆕 Article size: you can now choose among three article sizes: compact, regular and large
- 🆕 You can now show only articles less than 24h old
- 🆕 Mark all articles as read FAB: the floating action button now lets you mark all articles read, taking into account the current filter, replacing opening new feed activity action
- 🆕 Mark articles read on scroll: an option is now available to mark items read on scroll
- 🆕 Drawer: hide folders and feeds without unread articles
- 🆕 Local account: sync now respects the current filter and will only synchronize affected feeds
- Feeds Tab:
- 🆕 Feeds and folder management have been merged into a single screen
- Account Tab:
- 🆕 Add, manage and remove any account from Account Tab
- More Tab:
- 🆕 This new screen gathers some app infos, parameters, open source libraries and a donation dialog
- Articles screen:
- The global UI has been improved with a new title layout
- 🆕 Action bottom bar: you now have access to a collapsable bottom bar containing the following actions:
- Mark as read/non read
- Add to favorites/remove from favorites
- Share
- Open in external navigator/navigator view
- 🆕 A new font, Inter is used for the article content
- 🆕 Some html tags look have been improved:
- blockquote
- figure/figcaption
- iframe
- table
- "Open in" option has been reduced to two options: navigator view and external navigator
- 🆕 FEVER API implementation, should work with any provider which supports it
- Migrate to Nextcloud News API 1.3
- 🆕 Follow system theme option (default)
- 🆕 Option to disable battery optimization for background synchronization
- Add support for new Android versions until Android 14 (API 34)
- Translation updates
Technical
- The UI has been entirely rewritten in Kotlin using Jetpack Compose, moving from old traditional view system
- All other Java parts have also been rewritten in Kotlin, including API implementations, repositories, etc
- RXJava was replaced by Kotlin coroutines and flows
- Migrate to Gradle Kotlin DSL
- Migrate dependencies to Version Catalog
- 🆕 Support user certificates