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.

Language

Is your language not supported yet ?
You can add your language easily on:
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/owncloud/resource/android-news/

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).

Roadmap

My ToDo List is available on: http://www.strikeapp.com/#z6679l3t

How to compile the App

Requirements:

1. Eclipse + ADT Plugin + Android SDK installed
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 https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock.git git clone https://github.com/David-Development/Android-PullToRefresh.git git clone https://github.com/owncloud/News-Android-App.git

Go to Eclipse and do the following:
--> File --> Import --> Android Project from Exsisting Source --> [...]/ActionBarSherlock/actionbarsherlock
--> File --> Import --> Android Project from Exsisting Source --> [...]/Android-PullToRefresh/library
--> File --> Import --> Android Project from Exsisting Source --> [...]/News-Android-App

Then make a right click on the News-Android-App Project and select "Properties". Select the tab "Android". In this Window you should see the Project Build Target at the top and Libarys at the buttom of the window. Two of them are maybe marked with a read cross. So remove them and add the ActionBarSherlock and the Android PullToRefresh Libary

If you get this error message:
"Found 2 versions of android-support-v4.jar in the dependency list, but not all the versions are identical (check is based on SHA-1 only at this time)." try to copy the [...]/News-Android-App/libs/android-support-v4.jar file to [...]/ActionBarSherlock/actionbarsherlock/android-support-v4.jar

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

Updates

0.5.3 (in development)

0.5.2 (Google Play)

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

0.5.0 (Google Play)

• 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