ownCloud News Reader - Android App

The ownCloud News Reader Android App is under AGPLv3 License terms. Status: Beta Bugs and enhancements can be reported under: https://github.com/owncloud/News-Android-App/issues

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How to use the Beta App via Google Play ?

Join the following Google Group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/owncloud-news-android-app there you can find a link (after I accepted you in the group) to Google Play for registering as beta tester of the app.

FAQ:

The app shows an empty Toast when trying to sync or sign-in (little dark box at the button of the screen)

• Make sure you're using the latest version of the news app and the appframework from GitHub. Otherwise you can use the Android version <= 0.3.3 (via Google Play or GitHub Choose version).

How to compile the App

Requirements:

1. Android Studio
2. Git installed (you can do the following stuff without git but I'm not going to show how).

Download and install:

1. Open cmd/terminal
2. Navigate to your workspace
3. Then type in:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/owncloud/News-Android-App.git

for the dev branch:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/owncloud/News-Android-App.git -b dev

Run the following script "remove_invalid_languages.sh"

Import the Project and start coding!

That's all. I hope it works for you! If something is not working, please send me an email to david-dev@live.de

Contributors

• David Luhmer (Maintainer)
• Daniel Schaal
• [otrichet] (https://github.com/otrichet)

Updates

0.9.5 (in development)

0.9.4 (Google Play)

• Improvement - #363 Add support for Chrome Custom Tabs
• Improvement - #361 Pause podcast when receiving call
• Improvement - #362 Redesign of the login dialog (special thanks to Daniel Schaal)
• Bug fix - #360 Fix app crash
• Bug fix - #364 App crash on Android < 4.1
• Bug fix - #258 login fails with long passwords
• Bug fixes

0.9.3 (Google Play)

• Several UI-Improvements (special thanks to Daniel Schaal)

0.9.2 (Google Play)

• Improvement - #350 option to set lines-count of title
• Improvement - #318 Image in advanced News item
• Bug fix - #342 Low contrast checkboxes in settings (pre Lollipop)

0.9.1 (Google Play)

• Improvement - #343 Mark as read only when scrolling past article
• Improvement - #345 Pause support for podcast streams
• Bug fix - #348 Notification icon in Android 5.0 is just a white square

0.9.0 (Google Play)

• Bug fix - #339 Does not remember position in article listing
• Improvement - #338 Allow App to be installed on SD-Card

0.8.9.5 (Google Play - Beta)

• Bug fix - #334 Display error since 0.8.6 - white screen after swiping to next article

0.8.8 (Google Play - Beta)

• Improvement - #329 "Mark all as read" freezes UI for long lists.
• Bug fix - #333 Crash when opening Settings on Android 2.3
• Bug fix - #332 [0.8.7] Crash when opening article after mark newer item as read

0.8.7 (Google Play - Beta)

• Bug fix - #331 Bug in 0.8.6: App crashs by opening an article in external browser

0.8.6 (Google Play - Beta)

• Bug fix - #303 List Item opens wrong Article (off by one)
• Bug fix - #308 Allow feeds being checked as "keep unread" instead of "read" when "mark as read while scrolling" feature is used
• Bug fix - #324 when I read the last unread news the news are not marked as read
• Bug fix - #327 Scrolling with volume keys produces sound... (Thanks @cemrich)
• Bug fix - #321 Disabled options menu item not greyed out in actionbar (Thanks @cemrich)
• Bug fixes

0.8.5 (Google Play - Beta)

• Bug fix - #311 Android 5.0.2 performance
• Bug fixes

0.8.4 (Google Play)

• PLEASE NOTE: This update deletes all your un-synchronized changes. After updating you'll need to perform a manual sync.
• Improvement - #288 Text to Speech (TTS)
• Bug fix - #307 App crash when favicon has a height or width of 0px
• Improvement - Show dialog to share a link/open in browser on long clicking a link in the detail-view
• Improve performance

0.8.3 (Google Play)

• Bug fix - #301 App crashes while adding feed
• Bug fix - #296 App crashes when cache is full
• Bug fix - #295 Images included from relative URLs are not loaded

0.8.2 (Google Play)

• Bug fix - #292 0.8.1: Can't save sync interval
• Improvement - #282 Launch by default: *rss.xml - subscribe

0.8.1 (Google Play)

• Bug fix - #291 0.8.0: App crashes when adding new feed
• Bug fix - #290 0.8.0: Three dot menu in light theme wrong colors (black font on dark gray background)
• Bug fix - #289 0.8.0: Widget isn't working anymore
• Bug fixes/Improvements

0.8.0 (Google Play)

• Material Design
• Bug fix - #236 Read items in Android News Client are not synced to server
• Bug fixes/Improvements

0.7.7 (Google Play)

• Bug fix - #278 App broken on latest News release (4.0.1)
• Improvement - #277 Blockquote not correctly rendered
• Improvement - #272 Too much loading since v0.7.x
• Bug fixes/Improvements

0.7.6 (Google Play)

• Bug fixes

0.7.5 (Google Play)

• Bug fix - #269 App won't start

0.7.4 (Google Play)

• Update podcast feature
• Fix podcast video view position
• Bug fix - #256 3.001: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was Number at line 1 column 19
• Bug fix - #262 Deleting a feed on the server does not delete it on the client
• Bug fix - #257 Share "Title - url" via twitter
• Lot of bug fixes

0.7.3 (Google Play - Beta)

• Update podcast feature (Add option to download podcast)

0.7.2 (Google Play - Beta)

• Improvement - #252 "Open in Browser" should open current page.
• New feature - #182 »Read« checkbox in widget
• Move "Sync Settings" option from Actionbar to Settings
• Bug fix - #212 sort order of starred items
• Improvement - #124 Add download image options: Over WiFi only, Over WiFi and Mobil or ask when not connected to WiFi
• Bug fixes
• Improve podcast layout

0.7.1 (Google Play)

• Layout improvements
• Performance improvements
• Bug fix - #244 app crashs if screen rotate

0.7.0 (Google Play - Beta)

• Layout improvements
• Bug fixes

0.6.9.9 (Google Play - Beta)

• Bug fix - #245 clicking on feeds under starred items gives weird result
• Lot of bug fixes

0.6.9.8 (Google Play - Beta)

• Bug fix - #243 Readed items are not synced to owncloud
• Bug fix - #242 Starred items aren't counted
• Bug fix - #241 Feeds without unread items are shown

0.6.9.7 (Google Play - Beta)

• Rewrite backend - IMPORTANT All your data will be deleted. You'll have to make a full-sync after the update.
• Lot of bug fixes/improvements
• Performance improvements
• Add sorting podcasts by pub-date (descending)
• Add showcase view (API 11+)

0.6.9.6 (Google Play)

• Fix app crash on devices with Android 2.2 - 2.3.*
• Small layout improvements (podcast view)
• Automatically restart app after podcast view has been enabled/disabled (or app theme changed)
• Start podcasts from the item detail view

0.6.9.5 (Google Play - Beta)

• Add option to delete downloaded podcasts
• Bug fixes

0.6.9.4 (Google Play - Beta)

• Add Podcast download support
• Add Video Podcast Support
• Youtube playlists are supported (Subscribe to a YouTube playlist using RSS)
• Fix app crash
• Other fixes and improvements

0.6.9.3 (Google Play - Beta)

• Accept ogg podcasts
• Improve layout of podcast player

0.6.9.2 (Google Play - Beta)

• Bug fix - #234 Favorite items don't count in total item count
• Accept mpeg podcasts (only mp3)

0.6.9.1 (Google Play - Beta)

• Add notifications for Podcasts
• Fix app crash (tablets)
• Add option to disable podcast support
• Add podcast view to item detail view
• Bug fix - #231 App 0.6.7 crashs on start or after closing

0.6.9 (Google Play - Beta)

• Add Podcast support (early preview)
• Bug fixes

0.6.8 (Google Play - Beta)

• Bug fix - #232 Sync of already read items creates duplicate items
• Bug fix - #230 Leaving space after ownCloud address in the Login dialog produces an error

0.6.7 (Google Play - Beta)

• Improvement - #226 Poor sync performance under high count of unread articles
• Bug fix - #227 Images appears in android gallery apps

0.6.6 (Google Play)

• Bug fix - #223 All unread article counts are 0
• Bug fix - #220 Wrong display of unread items

0.6.5 (Google Play - Beta)

• Bug fix - #223 All unread article counts are 0

0.6.4 (Google Play - Beta)

• Improvement - Improved feed list scroll performance
• Improvement - Fixed that the list was blocked while updating the unread count

0.6.3 (Google Play - Beta)

• Feature - Import Accounts from other ownCloud Apps

0.6.2 (Google Play)

• Bug fix - #219 No feed icons in list overview (0.6.1)

0.6.1 (Google Play)

• Bug fix - #216 Bug in list overview in 0.6.0

0.6.0 (Google Play - Beta)

• Performance improvements
• Layout improvement
• Fix critical app crash when leaving the add new activity
• Improvement - #199 Change App-Logo/Icon
• Improvement (better performance now) - #154 Scrolling feed list is slow
• Improvement - #215 Adjust Colors of light and dark view to the web-interface

0.5.9 (Google Play - Beta)

• Extreme performance improvements
• Several bug fixes
• Layout improvement
• New feature - #35 Subscribe to feed with app
• Improvement - #208 Summary: gray font on black background
• Improvement - #154 Scrolling feed list is slow

0.5.8 (Google Play)

• Bug fix - #214 Scrolling within article causes unwanted tap on links

0.5.7 (Google Play - Beta)

• Bug fix - #213 When using the dark theme websites with no background color are unreadable
• Improvement - #211 Links within articles
• Improvement - #198 enable auto sync configuration

0.5.6

• Fixed flickering of the screen when changing Feeds (in dark Theme)
• New Pull-To-Refresh Style
• Bug fix - #200 Clicking article in widget makes app crash
• Bug fix - #196 Stutter with "mark as read while scrolling" turned on
• Improvement - #189 Read mouse-over

0.5.5

• Improve Changelog View
• Bug fix - #186 Missing "clear cache" in the settings (on Tablets)
• Improvement - #189 Read mouse-over
• Improvement - Fix Layout problems in DetailView
• Improvement - #195 Mark as read when opened in browser
• Bug fix - #194 favIcons and imgCache show up in Gallery

0.5.4

• Improvement - #184 Option to disable notification

0.5.3

• Update star/checkbox icons for devices with lower screen size
• Update language support
• Improvement - #176 Open directly in Browser
• Improvement - #179 Widget items not clickable
• Improvement - #183 Widget items color stripe position

0.5.2

• Improvement - Notification when background sync is enabled and new items are received
• Improvement - Fix high CPU-Load in Detail-View
• Improvement - Speed up image caching

0.5.0

• Improvement - #162 New items available notification pops up when there really aren't
• Improvement - #160 Widget font size
• Improvement - #161 'Send via' should be removed from sharing

0.4.11

• Critical Bug fix - #158 0.4.10 instantly crashes when opening

0.4.10 (unpublished)

• Improvement - New Changelog Design
• Improvement - AppRater Plugin added
• Improvement - #155 Feed view isn't refreshed on sync
• Improvement - #153 Sidebar should be darker
• Bug fixes

0.4.9

• Update German Language support
• Readded full support of Android 2.2+ (was broken since 0.4.4)
• Improvement - In Landscape Mode on Tablets (7inch+) the Feed/Folder pane is always visible.
• Improvement - #77 There should be icons for folders and special categories
• Improvement - #139 Article list jumps after having article opened
• Improvement - #137 Back button shouldn't close app when app displays a specific feed or folder
• Improvement - #151 Reload slide pane when open event is triggered
• Improvement - #136 Fix that the translated app name is used as the folder name
• Improvement - #134 Sidebar - "Loading ..." font color should be brighter
• Improvement - #133 Refreshing after adding server data results in unauthorized
• Improvement - #57 Background synchronization
• Bug fix - #152 Changing sorting direction

0.4.8

• Improvement - #140 Open in browser and Share with controls always act on original article
• Update Language support

0.4.7

• fixed app crash when sync on startup is enabled
• faster favIcon pre-caching

0.4.6

• Fixed app freeze when sync is finished
• Small improvements

0.4.5 (unpublished)

• Fixed critical app crash after sync finished
• Improved security for self signed certificates. Special thanks to Dominik Schürmann (@dschuermann) #130 (Implement MemorizingTrustManager to prevent MitM attacks)
• Small bug fixes
• Improvement - #128 (»Mark all as read« is sometimes disabled)
• Improvement - #125 (Feed list entries flash when unread count changes)
• Improvement - #129 (Line height needs to be increased for better readability)

0.4.4 (unpublished)

• Fixed Security issue - thank you for the hint @davivel #47 (can't connect to my ownCloud)
• Fixed issue - #105 (Androids back button does not hide empty feeds)
• Fixed issue - #119 ("mark all read" button has some bugs)
• Fixed issue - #103 (Favicons not shown)
• Fixed issue - #112 (Click on wrong item)
• Fixed issue - #115 (Database lock issue)
• Improvement - #117 (Rearange the icons in the detail view)
• Improvement - #118 (Add author to the new detail view header)
• Improvement - #120 (Add coloured line to the feeds view in the average coulour of the favicon)
• Improvement - #107 (Keep unread)
• Improvement - #60 (Sync from unread items (or any feed view))
• Improvement - #113 (Long press on image to show title text)
• Improvement - #108 (Mark as read once post is beyond the screen)
• Improvement - #34 (Widget)
• Layout improvement - #106 (Option to skip list view)
• Layout improvement - #55 (collapsible feeds list to maximize item space on phablets)
• Layout improvement - #15 (make column bar between folders and newslist movable)
• Layout improvement - #116 (Remove About/Changelog Menu Item from the List Detail View (Second view))
• Improved german translation - #88 (Bad german translation)

0.4.3

• Fixed issue #104 (0.4.2 does not sync)
• Fix issue that sometimes Exeptions are not shown
• Update F-Droid (merge dev with master)
• Update Language Support from master branch

0.4.2

• critical bug fix that sync was broken #102 (0.4.1 doesn't sync anymore)

0.4.1

• Font settings are also applied to the item detail view now
• Fix issue that the Button "Download more items" was not working

0.4.0

• Fixed app crash when image cache is enabled and the dialog appear which asks the user if download via roaming is allowed.
• Fixed app crash reports.
• Fixed Issue #96 (Can't sync feeds - using a bad URL)
• Improved #95 Make font/font size user selectable
• Improved #86 clearing the cache while having read items prevents them from being synced
• Implemented Feature #99 Option to change item order new-old/old-new

0.3.9

• Support for APIv1 and APIv2. (That means the app on Google Play will be updated, too!)
• Small fixes
• Improved memory usage while synchronizing
• Auto sync of item state every 5 minutes
• Changed font style to Roboto Light

0.3.8

• Fixed Issue when trying to download more items in "all unread" and "starred items" view.
• Added option to set up the maximum cache size.
• Fixed app crash on tablets (could crash somtimes since v.0.3.7 when trying to download more items).
• Fixed Issue #78 (The cache should be cleared in the background)
• Improved feature #84 (Buttons to toggle the folders are hard to hit and not descriptive)
• Improved feature #76 (There should me more spacing between feeds and folders)
• Speed optimizations in the Folder/Feed Overview
• About/Changelog added

0.3.7

• Option to mark articles as read while scrolling #14 ("mark as read" on scroll)
• Rich list theme layout (WebView) #6
• Fixed issue #46 (Android 3.2.1 crash)
• Fixed issue #68 (Special folder "all unread articles" shows all articles)
• Fixed issue #69 (Crash when image cache enabled)

0.3.6

• Option to scroll through articles with Volume rockers #61 (Use volume rocker to browse through articles)
• Option to download old items for feed/folder #63 (Allow dowloading old items)
• Light Theme for item view #59 (White Theme doesn't apply to articles)
• Image offline caching function asks now if you want to download if you're not connected with wifi
• Item detail optimizations

0.3.5

• Fixed issue #52 (Folders visible multiple times)
• Fixed issue #53 (New items get added at the bottom)
• Added default feed favIcon
• Theme is now also applied in the settings screen
• Implemented #56 (Click on header to open article in browser)

0.3.4

• Offline reading (Only when you sync items the marked/starred/unread/unstarred items get synchronized. This save a lot of network traffic
• Offline image caching
• Login is getting verified when you click sign-in
• Strict-Hostname-Verification (Important Security Fix)
• Simple or extended list view
• Light or dark app Theme
• Implemented #29 Mark all Article in one Column as readed
• A lot of other new stuff and fixes

0.3.3

• Dark/Light App Theme
• Feed List Design Simple/Extended
• many new languages have been added

0.3.2

• Fixed app crash when leaving item detail view.

0.3.1

• Polish language support added (thank you for translating Cyryl)
• App crash fixed when no item header text is available
• Go back in the item view if you press the home button
• Added Up Button in detail view as fix for GitHub Issue #13
• Other small fixes

0.3.0

• Android 2.2+ Support added
• small bugfixes