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

How to use the Beta App via Google Play ?

Please update your News App and Appframework to the latest version which is only available on GitHub.

ownCloud News App: https://github.com/owncloud/news

Appframework: https://github.com/owncloud/appframework

After this, join the following Google Group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/owncloud-news-android-app there you can find a link 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

Updates

0.3.8 (in development)

• 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