Friday, October 1, 2010

NewsRob September Release / 4.3

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NewsRob September Release / 4.3

I am back from my vacation and enjoyed it very much. Thanks for your patience.

Selective Syncing / Sync "newsrob" only (Pro)

This is the implementation of the current #1 feature request: Sync Only Certain Folders

Unfortunately there is no efficient way to exclude selected feeds from the sync. However from this version on you can now tell NewsRob to only sync feeds that are below the a tag/folder called "newsrob".
As a side note you can add feeds to more than one folder/tag at the same time.

Although this feature should be easy enough to use, it was quite complex to implement it properly. So for this release you find the setting to enable this feature under the "experimental" section in the settings. If you run into any trouble please let me know on the list.

There are two possible extensions to this functionality and you can submit feature requests on uservoice for them. If you create those feature suggestions you can also announce them on the existing feature request from above, so that you meet an audience of likeminded people quickly.

It might be interesting to configure the name of the "newsrob" tag. That way you can sync multiple devices with different sets of feeds, e.g. "newsrob-droid" and "newsrob-tab".

Also "newsrob" only syncing does just that (plus starred, shared, notes in the pro version). Maybe I should add "friends's shared articles" as another category?

Furthermore a few major bugs are fixed now and a lot of minor ones. Among the major bugs were issues with "Unsubscribe Feed" and "Mark Read Until Here".

14 comments:

  1. needs screen always on while reading

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  2. Still waiting for google auth support (instead of entering login/password every 2 weeks).

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  3. New version is broken on 2.2 droid x. I originally see it shows 7 articles, but after I click that it takes me back to the first screen showing 0 articles. Even if I click to sure read articles, they aren't they're. Please fix asap

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  4. Lex, doh!

    Could you please install the free log collector app com the android market, reproduce the issue, launch log collector and send the log to me: mariano.kamp@gmail.com.

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  5. Fixed by uninstall and re install

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  6. Lex, interesting. Will still try to find out what the cause is. Other people have likely the same issue.

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  7. Correct. Had the same issue as Lex. Reinstalled to fix.

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  8. The date that is displayed on each article is wrong, sometimes the year is off by decades. And it also seems to be sorting October (10) before September (9).

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  9. Guys, ok, NewsRob 4.3.1 is out and fixes the date issue (aka sync issue). Sorry for that and thanks for the heads up.

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  10. 果子林 , please submit feature suggestions to newsrob.uservoice.com.

    Nikolay, check the mailing list archives for the long version. Short version. I will try again(!) to use Google Auth with Android 3.0. If that does fail again I will likely use OAuth (but will never go back to Google Auth in Android then) or will drop support for Google Apps accounts.

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  11. Broken on 2.2 motorola droid 2. Marked all new entries as read; sometimes while i was reading them they would just disappear. Now i can't get it to work at all.

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  12. I tried to uninstall this and it left the newsrob folder on my SD card with a file named a548d7c55c1b00b48 inside it that is corrupt and I can NOT DELETE EITHER ONE NO MATTER WHAT....I am NOT HAPPY!!!

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  13. Dragon Master.

    Shouting won't help. NewsRob just uses Java API to write to the SD card. It cannot corrupt by itself corrupt any files. It writes a lot of files to the SD card though and SD card are known to fail sometimes.

    Anyway, if you can't delete the file using a file manager I suggest you copy what you want to keep from your card, reformat it and restore the backed up files.

    After that please uninstall NewsRob to save your voice.

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  14. Hi,

    I am with the press and have a question about NewsRob. Can you please email me at yelena_moroz [at] condenast.com. THanks! (I am on deadline)

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