This app release has many new features, and one of the most important I think is a Full screen in article list . I tried to propogate the main app destination (non-disturbing content reading, Isn't it?) from single article reading to article list too. This feature has pulled many others, among them are tap zones, auto action bar hiding, showing text. Now you can watch article images immedialtely in article list. One of the most important new settings is background color of action bar. It also propogates to status bar and article text buttons. So if we set it to the same as article text one we will get a solid reading space in both modes (article & list) which I found very pleasant.
With images space couting the refresh process became to long (And it was so even without it). To reduce it extracted the longest part of it (deleting old articles and images) to separate operation (with customized period) wihch can be triggered manually from menu.
And a few words about another small feature, which actually was the source of all above (and below) descripted. The new load type: One page. It was added because I has been wanting for a long time to read and be notifyed about changes in some threads from one forum, which lacks RSS. Even if there was RSS it would have a content for a few days ago only, but I wanted to read it from the beginning (several years). The forums content is handy to read in article list mode. So I had to improve many parts of it. Also I had to implement recursive loading of all forum pages and dispaly images in aritcle list and ...
But this is not limited to forums only. Now we can devide any web page by items, exclude useless paths, show them in Handy New Reader as different articles sorted by date, and watch the updates. (Dont forget to enjoy the reading also).
The recursive loading is working in Web links mode too. So we can now load the articles from many pages (1, 2, 3, ...., 77, 78, 79).
The bas news is that mechanism is a bit difficult to setup: we need to know a html class names for article parts (for the whole item, for text, date, author, icons, url...), which could be get (new menu item for copy) from Editing mode (previously called Reload with tags). I understand that this feature is still raw and wait for your suggestions.
What's actually new?
Article list screen:
- Full screen (two tap zones in the bottom screen edges as in the article screen)
- Action bar is softly hiding when we scroll list down
- Actiion bar (and same for status bar) background color setting
- Show article text toogle button ('T')
- Open the article in show text mode by Read more... button
- Top and bottom tap zones for page up/down scrolling
- Display images in the show article text mode (three images max per article )
- Delete old articles menu item
- Duplicate current feed menu item
- Reload article fulltext button moved to action bar
- Colontitul (scrolled progress bar + clock) added
Article screen:
- Edit content view menu item (renamed Reload with tags). In this mode the article html element's class names are displayed, allowing (by tap on them) to set the bounds of full text content and|or exclude some unneeded content parts (like ads). After editing you should press End editing button (to reload the article in common mode)
- Copy class name menu item in Edit mode
- Detailed progress and erorrs texts are moved to bottom
- Error text is hiding by article scroll
Common:
- Delete old articles became a separate periodical operation, frequency of which can be setuped in settings. Also you can trigger it in article list menu item
Edit feed screen:
- New feed load type: One page, alowing to divide a particular web page into articles (usefull for forums with no RSS)
- New options: Next page class name (for recursive load) and Max page count to process
P.S. sorry for a little attention to your issues last time, but I suppose the features above have more priority. I didnt forgot about the ussues a will return to them soon.