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The "Half Cube" Today Screen dev thread

Q: What's a "Half Cube"?
A: It's the idea of having the top half of the screen static and the bottom half as a cube.
Q: Why this thread?
A: Because I had another thread and the idea seemed popular. However, there are still hurdles to overcome to acheive the look and feel I and other people want. There are also various people developing new tools, and hopefullly they may see this and code something to solve some issues. I wanted to provide a thread where we could work together to overcome hurdles and acheive the coolest interface possible - money no object, but freeware apps would be nice of course.
Q: What am I ideally trying to acheive?
A: A top section with a clock and message counters, with a gesture controlled cube (left right gesture to spin between faces) at the bottom containing tabs for all the standard fare. Also, a favorite contacts plugin (gesture up/down to select contacts) and music plugin (gesture up/down to scroll through albums) for faces of the cube that are slick and intuitive.
Ideally it should also handle landscape mode well and the switch between portrait and landscape should not mess up the interface.
Mocked up interface:
THIS IS MOCKED UP IN A VIDEO EDITING PROG USING PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGES. DO NOT ASK ME WHAT APPS I USED OR HOW TO GET THIS UI - IT CAN'T BE DONE - YET.
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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The top clock area is SaFF in XMT.
The Calendar tab is potentially how ThumbCal will look - the author seems interested in doing a today plugin.
The contacts and music tabs are completely mocked up in an art package.
Needed:
1) Tabbed launcher with gesture controlled cube, capable of doing partial screen.
Candidates:
a) Ultimatelauncher
2) Clock / Message counts section for top.
Candidates:
a) XIAMultiTheme (XMT)
rlToday replacement which enhances features. SaFF (The top clock bit) is currently using XMT.
b) rlToday plus skin
Issue: Only one instance per screen, might be nice to use something else so we can have rlToday in the cube.
Issue: Does not handle landscape <--> Portrait switching and back very well.
c) ProjectION clock.
Issues: Clock only
d) HTC Home
Issue: Has extra tabs that are not required and take up screen real estate.
3) Music Player plugin for media section in cube. My personal preference for music player is Conduits Pocket Player as it is easy to navigate using hard buttons and thus safer to use in the car.
Candidates:
a) V2R music player plugin (Controls WMP)
Issue: Gesture left/right used to navigate albums and the cube "captures" that.
Solution: Author modifies plugin to allow scrolling via up/down gesture.
b) Conduits Pocket Player
No plugin today, but the browser in the main program is just like I want. Conduits say they will be revamping the today plugin soon, so hopefully it will be like this.
4) App Launcher.
Something to launch apps from a page inside the cube.
Candidates:
a) Ultimatelauncher - has a nice system for doing this, so no worries.
b) SPB Pocket Plus - My previous preferred launcher.
Issue: As you can drag things around, gestures do not work in the SPB Launcher. Locking icons does not solve this.
5) Quick / Favorite contacts
The one from HTC home is OK, but comes with too much extra junk around it.
Candidates:
a) V2R Photo Dialler 2
Issue: Gesture left/right used to navigate contacts and the cube "captures" that.
Solution: Author modifies plugin to allow scrolling via up/down gesture.
b) Ultimatelauncher adds this feature.
c) HTC Home
Issue: Has extra tabs and clock that are not required and take up screen real estate.
6) Weather plugin
Must support non-US places
Candidates:
a) SPB Weather. Not free.
7) Portrait / Landscape switching
Issue: Switching from portrait to landscape causes the clock to be left justified, not centred, and is still only 240 wide not 320.
Solution: This appears to be an artifact of rlToday, it does not happen if you use HTC Home or ProjectION
Issue: Switching from landscape to portrait causes a scroll bar to be drawn on the right. Even when this disappears (if you scroll the bar down to the bottom), it has already chopped off the right edge of the clock rltoday box, which does not automatically redraw.
Solution: This appears to be to do with rlToday, as if you use HTChome or ProjectION for the clock, this does not happen.
[Update - I found a reg key to make today plugins "Always on top" - you then get no scroll bars ever appear for that plugin]
[Added picture of new 90px high format, 32x32 icons are just placeholders for now...]

[11/03/08 - Updated info regarding reg key to make always on top]
[11/03/08 - I have now worked out rlToday landscape / portrait switching and will be doing a landscape version and providing code to auto switch between the two]
[11/03/08 - New 90px size and layout - picture added - just placeholder icons for now still]

Battery Status
I was messing around with battery status and came up with something interesting. The only problem is, I can't get it to handle landscape.
For your quick contacts requirement try Spb Phone Suite. It's the closest I have been able to get to the HTC Home contact screen. It also has call blocking features (which I was looking for) and ringer profiles (I never use).
As for the weather plugin, the only one I have been able to find is Spb. I've been searching for other weather plugins for the last couple weeks and found nothing worth using.

I checked with Ikarus concerning the issue with switching to landscape mode and he said he will look into it.

Update:
XIAMultiTheme (XMT) is now going to be used for one or more of the components. Certainly the top clock area.
The current version of SaFF for XMT is attached. Requires mortscript (for the beep when clicking a button) and VJVolubilis (To toggle bluetooth) to be installed in default directories.
Icons still placeholders, but it looks the same (except font layout which is borked as current version of XMT does not centre fonts properly) except for numbers on the SMS / Mail counters which are now outlined!

New animated GIF in the first post.
Mockup of what I want the UI to vaguely look like.

[Alt Design UI Concept] Pandora //updated 3-18

Here is the first in what will hopefully be a small project I am undertaking to improve some android app layouts and keep up on my graphics chops while I search for a new design gig. If people like this I will do some others and continue to post them here. Enjoy.
-Travis
The Issue:
This concept UI assumes that most Pandora users run the program in the background while they browse the web and take care of other business, which may or may not be true. I personally use Pandora often in the car and while commuting (or used to, haha awww). One thing that struck me about the app was it was almost as if the designers ignored many decisions that could have made it more user friendly.
Why would a designer place a row of buttons on the bottom of the screen that were small and hard to see at a glance (while driving, etc.), and could possibly be mistaken for the actual built in virtual keys on the N1 and other new phones? I also am somewhat confused by the placement of the album artwork as the most prominent design element, which I doubt anyone really looks at for more than 3 - 4 seconds.
Generally I thought the usability could be cranked up about 1000% by simple things like making buttons larger, and placing them far more strategically in the middle of the screen, replacing the less important artwork. In this version, artwork is in the background, blurred to give a more interesting texture than the normal black and adding a layer of depth to the UI.
Most of the button functions stay the same, with the addition of the bookmark song button. Action buttons (Play & Next) are larger, and set on opposite sides of the screen for muscle memory.
Song title and artist title have been changed to a larger size to be more legible at a glance. Hopefully this facilitates finding the song title you are listening to quickly, then with the other improved elements, just as quickly being able to rate it, play the next track, change stations, or bookmark the song.
Overall I think this would be a much more friendly interaction than the current version, especially for the listener on the go. Leave the love or hate below!
Design with Album Artwork:
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Full Screen "Battery Saver" Design:
Notification Bar Controls:

Looks really nice in my opinion, very clean and easy to use even if you got big fingers!

Mantisen said:
Looks really nice in my opinion, very clean and easy to use even if you got big fingers!
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Yep, not all of us are blessed with dainty digits, and i found myself button mashing quite a bit...
Another thing I was thinking about was the addition of a status bar notification with button built right into the notification bar, so no need to hit the bar then jump to the program when you're in the middle of doing something else. I'll try to mock that up and add it to the OG post when its done.

i immediately thought of the new windows phone 7 design when i saw this. which is to say, lovely. secondly i have to wonder if maybe you should take this a step further in your effort to minimize the unnecessary elements and do away with the album art altogether. it struck me that if the cover behind it was too white or light in general it might make the keys too hard to see. instead take another key from the wp7 design and make them large white buttons on top of eye-pleasing color swaths like cerulean, a soft orange or red, hell maybe even randomize the colors.
anyways, i really love this idea and lament the state of graphic design in android, especially in contrast to that "i" device. we're getting the snot kicked out of us in that front.
hope to see this come to fruition.

scotolsen said:
i immediately thought of the new windows phone 7 design when i saw this. which is to say, lovely. secondly i have to wonder if maybe you should take this a step further in your effort to minimize the unnecessary elements and do away with the album art altogether. it struck me that if the cover behind it was too white or light in general it might make the keys too hard to see. instead take another key from the wp7 design and make them large white buttons on top of eye-pleasing color swaths like cerulean, a soft orange or red, hell maybe even randomize the colors.
anyways, i really love this idea and lament the state of graphic design in android, especially in contrast to that "i" device. we're getting the snot kicked out of us in that front.
hope to see this come to fruition.
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Yeah, I can see where is resembles the WP7S start screen with the squares and light typeface...I tried to make sure I wasnt ripping off their media UI unintentionally, as I havent really seen too much of the 7 series stuff yet. Just seemed like the button scheme would lend itself well to a media player...hope its not too close, hahaha.
When I was laying this out, I had thought about making the entire scheme just black icons outlined in white to save battery power and dumping the artwork totally. Might comp a version like that out and add it to OP if I get some time today.

While I like the minimalistic big button approach I think that from a marketing view there needs to be some album art and or ad space on the screen. This interface works for a simple media player.

manderson8898 said:
While I like the minimalistic big button approach I think that from a marketing view there needs to be some album art and or ad space on the screen. This interface works for a simple media player.
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Theres ad space built into the bottom. Just like it is now on the real thing afaik. The G ad is a fake.

is it possible to build something like that into the notification panel? like is it possible at all? cause that would be nice...always felt that there should be some sort of task switcher built into the notification panel...one that can be switched left or right, and a long press gives a prompt to end the task.

Views
I think this is a great idea, and easily implemented too. All the developer has to do is to add another view to their app, and allow a radio button choice in the preferences. The majority of the work is done in the initial view that was setup. In the preferences there could be a Standard interface, and a selector for a Distracted or Disabled or Fat Fingered (call it what you want) interface, which redraws the screen to be better used in another environment. I don't use Pandora, and as such don't have the app installed, but, could someone link this thread into the comments for the developer? Possibly they will get to work on it for the next version.
Regarding the Notification area having separate buttons, I am not sure, but I don't think the current OS Stack can handle that, though its an innovative target to shoot for in the future. Maybe someone better patent "a method of adding interactivity to notifications" so that it isn't usurped and forbidden even though this post would relegate it to obvious status.

I actually emailed this thread to the dev. I got a polite message back, but they didnt seem very interested in the idea. But they are big players, and I am only one guy with opinions so that understandable.

[APP] NClip (Notifications /w clipboard integration)

Updated and nicer
I once had an idea for this app, so i started learning Java to make it happen.
I had a need to keep important information from my clipboard at the front of my attention (e.g text message,email etc) so I added some features and the result is NClip
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Create custom notifications using the clipboard contents or a custom message. Ongoing notifications and customizable icons.
•Fast and efficient
•Clipboard integration
•Over 25 icons
•Ongoing notifications
•Compatible with all resolution screens
•and more coming soon!
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Search nclip in market
Desktop market - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.havmedia.nclip
AppBrain - http://www.appbrain.com/app/nclip-clipboard-notifications/com.havmedia.nclip

Updated to 2.0 (sorry for the massive images)
Changelog:
What's in this version:
Updated interface
Updated icon
Speed increase
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I'll be reviewing this app on the BoB Only show for XDATV. Look forward to it for Tuesday or Thursday!
xoxo

OMG, this is exactly the app i was looking for.
I had the idea of such an app for months!
Thanks for it!

the cat ran across the road?!
wow! m already starting to like this app,
xD

pretty cool,i've been looking for somthing like this.

Suggestions
This is a great great app and a really good idea.. but I wanna give you some suggestions. The GUI is messy and doesn't properly use space.
On the very top is the Clipboard entry area (this should be at the bottom as its not usually used) it occupies immediately 1/2 of the screen with a large area that is totally wasted. Then, if there are contents on the clipboard they are not displayed nicely in the window (really ugly).
Then because of large unused area for the clipboard, now the Custom entry are is hidden when the keyboard is pulled-up (which by the way should pop-up immediately and it doesn't). Then if I want to add an icon, that menu selection is at the very bottom, so I have to close the keyboard to get there and, that menu doesn't have icon previews, just bullets (it needs icon previews as like the PICK ICON menu item). Finally the NOTE CUSTOM MESSAGE is at the very bottom (worse place), needs to be at the top.
All this makes a single entry an endless effort of way too many clicks to get anything done. I'm on a 7" Galaxy Tab. Look at the screenshots and get inspired
Finally, for this app to make ANY SENSE, it needs to be AS EASY TO ACCESS AS THE NOTES IT CREATES!!!!!!!!!! So, make it run as a hidden notification so it can be pulled down from the taskbar and activated (like the app Clipper - Clipboard manager for example.. you can check it out on the market if you are not sure what I mean)
Really nice app though. I want to love it.. you just need to make it right now

I've already added some features to the program, including the short cut you suggested, just my keystore is 100+ miles away on my desktop so I cant yet publish the update (its been sitting around for over a month).
I have also updated the gui, it shows only what is relevant at a given moment and keyboard no longer poses an issue on my nexus s, literally the app has everything you want (its just not published), i'm working on it

havok123 said:
I've already added some features to the program, including the short cut you suggested, just my keystore is 100+ miles away on my desktop so I cant yet publish the update (its been sitting around for over a month).
I have also updated the gui, it shows only what is relevant at a given moment and keyboard no longer poses an issue on my nexus s, literally the app has everything you want (its just not published), i'm working on it
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havok123, thanks for the feedback, this is great news! I didn't mean at all to be harsh or overly criticizing.. think your app is truly fantastic and therefor I just would like it you to get it perfect! I'm happy you decided to learn Java just to program this... totally worth it!
When you have an update for the or if you want me to help you beta test/trouble shoot an updated version, post the info here on the thread or PM me. Id love to help you if I can.
Keep up the great work and when its perfect make a paid version. It will be worth it and I think many people would buy it. You can definitely count me in and your work should be rewarded!

Just uploaded update finally.
Updated to 3.0
Changelog:
What's in this version:
N Clip Shortcut
Edit notifications on click
Updated GUI
Bug fixes

Great update, interface much more workable & cleaner.
One suggestion that immediately comes 2mind is, get rid of the sticky app icon that shows up on taskbar when selecting the enable shortcut option. No ned & cluttery. IfU add a note without chooding custom icon, now there are DOUBLE app icons on the taskbar being displayed one of which is NOT a note.. very confusing and unecessary.
If the enable shortcut opion is chosen, we know its there in the pulldown menu already, thats enough &keeps taskbar cleaner for actual notifications only

going to get on it over christmas break xD

[APP] Rocket Launcher! What do you think?

Hello XDA!
Me and my pal Crazy J made an Android Home Screen Replacement app and are trying to get it popular. It's called Rocket Launcher and it looks something like this:
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
We made a video tutorial on how to use it in case some of you don't get some parts of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGsa-EAtkDM
You can also download it from the market here: <Paid version><Free versions>

Really amazing concept.
What is the difference between the two versions?
I think preference is spelled wrongly as well.
No way to redorder widgets?

Hey! Thanks for the kind words, let me answer your questions:
1. The difference right now is the paid version dosen't have an add in the app drawer, although that add is not producing that much revenue anyway. So the paid version is just basically to support us. So far it's paying the electricity bill but it's only doing that mind you.
2. Where is it spelt wrong?
3. Yeah you can, it should explain that in the video. If it dosen't: you just press the bar next to the widget, and then press the bar of a different widget and they will get swapped.

i like your choice for a name
are you limited to only having 6-7 icons on the screen?

Ads in a launcher are a no-go. Why not just disable an option or add something special to the paid version?
I will never use a launcher that features advertisements - the free version of the W7 launcher is the only other one I can think of, and I used it for all of 2 minutes before the ads drove me insane.

@GoneMADSoftware No you can have as many as you want in that strip in the middle
@Braneless You do have a point since right now we are making nothing off the adds, except people complaining about their existence. I'll think of something that the paid version will feature so the users will use it.

I looks cool

taranasus said:
Hey! Thanks for the kind words, let me answer your questions:
1. The difference right now is the paid version dosen't have an add in the app drawer, although that add is not producing that much revenue anyway. So the paid version is just basically to support us. So far it's paying the electricity bill but it's only doing that mind you.
2. Where is it spelt wrong?
3. Yeah you can, it should explain that in the video. If it dosen't: you just press the bar next to the widget, and then press the bar of a different widget and they will get swapped.
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Like the look of the launcher a lot, if we could move widgets themselves it would be nicer, if you only have one widget you can't move it... also not all of my apps show in the list. More home screens and icons would be nice, no landscape mode, it cuts it off and the ability to scroll makes the launcher move around in portrait mode landscape just doesn't look right.
Great concept, keep up the work guys and I agree, great name for a launcher.

taranasus said:
@GoneMADSoftware No you can have as many as you want in that strip in the middle
@Braneless You do have a point since right now we are making nothing off the adds, except people complaining about their existence. I'll think of something that the paid version will feature so the users will use it.
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nice I will have to check it out

Urabewe said:
Like the look of the launcher a lot, if we could move widgets themselves it would be nicer, if you only have one widget you can't move it... also not all of my apps show in the list. More home screens and icons would be nice, no landscape mode, it cuts it off and the ability to scroll makes the launcher move around in portrait mode landscape just doesn't look right.
Great concept, keep up the work guys and I agree, great name for a launcher.
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If you only have one widget you can move it arou... I don't follow. It's a widget list, like an app list, a lists start at the top therefore the first (and in this case only) widget would be at the top... where else would it be? I mean it's clearly a list of widgets so where else would you have it?
The fact that not all of you apps still baffles me. I just can't seem to find a way that works to get all the apps, properly, on all model phones. The way its done now seems to be the standard one and it works on most phones... what model phone do you have? I'll think of something... I do have 2, 1000-or more page android books lined up to read, if only my E-book reader would arrive this century, but i digress.
More home screens... i'd rather use the one home screen that exists already and expand it sideways with more branches. So you can add more icons and what-not. If i just add more screens it's like every other launcher out there.
I don't want it to have a landscape mode and i will probably remove the dodgy landscape that it has right now since it looks very wired. The launcher moves a bit in portrait mode because on a HVGA or QVGA screen the picture itself is bigger than the screen of the phone therefore a QVGA user won't be able to see all the icons without scrolling. I do admit that the slight movement of scrolling that it dose right not is a tad annoying and i will get around to fixing that; but there are only so many hours in the day and i've been having huge issues with sony xperia phones not displaying the icons of apps since yesterday so... need break!
Cheers for your feedback though!

Suggestion
Cool concept. Being able to select the icons on the home screen would be nice. Like the look of the stock ones from the launcher but prefer to use different SMS and Launcher apps. Having those apps Icon's mixed with the Stock phone etc. is less clean then it could be. Keep up the good work

[APP] Minimal Reader 3.3 - 02/10/2012

Finally out of Beta and available on the Play Store !
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jv.minimalreader
Hey folks!
I've been hard at work these past weeks to take my Minimal Reader Widgets to the next level. I finally reached a milestone of stability, performance and usability, and I just couldn't help but sharing it with you guys.
I'm proud to introduce Minimal Reader 3.0 - Bringing a full Google Reader experience on your Android device with a brand new APP in addition to the widgets!
The App follows the latest ICS Guidelines and is available from Android 2.2 and above. It's clean, fast and simple to use.
There's a new color system that let's you associate a color to a particular feed, so you can easily spot it when scrolling through lists of news.
App and widgets are completely synchronized, so you can both quick read through your daily feeds on a widget and explore more content in the app when you have time.
The app should be pretty straightforward to use, give it a spin, and if you encounter any issues/bugs, please report them in a detailed comment on this thread.
I'm really looking forward to your feedback, and to make it easy for me, please give me your opinion by simply answering these three questions :
1/ what do you like about the app
2/ what do you miss (compared to other news app maybe)
3/ how would you improve it
Here are some screenshots :
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
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}

gonna test

For me the minimal reader is the best reader/widget. I'm looking forward to test this beta.

First impression: really fast, but I don't have tried the older version (2.6)
What I liked: velocity
What I missed: possiblity to change the mobilizer. Readability Mobilizer is better than the Instapaper One (imho)
Suggestions:
1) after the tap on "mark all as read", the app should refresh the ui to not show again the feed marked as read. If I'm in the "browse" view, under a certain folder, it should prompt me to the upper folder
2) the name of the tabs are too big/long: as you can see from the picture above, the words "reading list (0)" and "favourites (0)" are too close.

I like the look, and feeling a lot. Just like 2.6, but great to have a app with it now
Things I miss: Synchronization interval
Suggestions:
Change the order of my labels, now you would have to add labels 1 by 1 to get the order you want. Would be nice if it could just be added all at once, and be reordered afterwards
Maybe an option to rename the labels in the app (only for the app, so leave the label name as it is in google reader), with the same reason as above poster
Maybe I missed it, but just saw there is no option for adding an individual rss feed. Not a problem for me, but maybe other people still like to add them all manually

This is great stuff guys, exactly the stuff I need to hear to prioritize features.
Keep it coming!
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Look forward to testing this, thanks
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2

Another suggestion/missing feature:
Refresh on app startup
Suggestion:
Option to hide read labels (unless all are read/show all is selected) So you wont have to scroll through empty labels to get to the ones you havent read yet

Is it possible to add an export favourite news option? Just a simple html list with the title and link of the news, something like that.
Best news reader ever

Going to test. Just downloaded the beta. Will tell you how it works on both CM9 and CM7.
Cheers!!

I'm actually live coding your suggestions right now
Here's my TODO list atm :
From XDA :
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ADD : Reorder colums in manage screen
ADD : hide columns when no more news (option ?)
ADD : Auto refresh in background option
ADD : Refresh on startup option
FROM ME :
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ADD : sync starred from greader as favorites
ADD : white theme
ADD : tutorial with recommended labels
ADD : Tablet UI
This is great. Thanks guys !

Nice
Loved the widget, but now with the app its even better

I used the application for quite sometime.
Device: Motorola Defy (Rooted + Custom ROM)
ROM: White Rabbit v1.5 - Gingerbread 2.3.7
Pros:
Works Fast even on Edge
Really good looking widget with nice features
Design is good to look at. But I feel the 'carbon' theme is kinda distracting. But its just my feeling.
Changes I Would Love:
The tab texts are quite long. Better if they were smaller and space between was larger. (Already given)
The title text of content is a tad big. A smaller text would be better and feel flush with the total design. Previously given menu choice of 'Small' text makes it too small = Ability to choose a proper text size using a slider with numbers (Higher flexibility?)
The space between the contents in the widget could be slightly more.
FORCE CLOSE
The main app FCs every time I press the hard 'menu' button or the 'more' icon on the top-right corner. You should check that for sure.
It again FCs every time I press a feed in the 'Browse' tab under the reading list. FCs every single time.
Will the beta testers be given free licenses?

kvigneshkrish said:
I used the application for quite sometime.
Device: Motorola Defy (Rooted + Custom ROM)
ROM: White Rabbit v1.5 - Gingerbread 2.3.7
Pros:
Works Fast even on Edge
Really good looking widget with nice features
Design is good to look at. But I feel the 'carbon' theme is kinda distracting. But its just my feeling.
Changes I Would Love:
The tab texts are quite long. Better if they were smaller and space between was larger. (Already given)
The title text of content is a tad big. A smaller text would be better and feel flush with the total design. Previously given menu choice of 'Small' text makes it too small = Ability to choose a proper text size using a slider with numbers (Higher flexibility?)
The space between the contents in the widget could be slightly more.
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The main app FCs every time I press the hard 'menu' button or the 'more' icon on the top-right corner. You should check that for sure.
It again FCs every time I press a feed in the 'Browse' tab under the reading list. FCs every single time.
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Great feedback, thanks.
About the FCs, could you download Sendlog from the play store (free) and send me a log after reproducing both crashes ?
It works fine on my CM7 galaxy S (2.3.7).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ptqgt4tgbl14h1/SendLog.txt
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That is the dropbox link for you. I didn't know a better way to send it across. Hope you find it useful. If you can't download, just reply. I'll make sure you are able to.
Cheers.

Just installed the beta and I love it for most part. There are a couple things I don't like though and all of them are cosmetic (not too much of a biggie but I like my homescreens looking good):
1. For the widget, I dislike the new size of the "header". The 3 buttons and the counter (also the new MR button) are quite bigger than on 2.6. Much liked the previous size better.
2. Still concerning the widget, the new button that launches the full reader is a bit unsightly. Even though the icon represents MR, maybe a more subtle icon can be used instead that is more inline with the 3 other header icons (simple, single colored icon). If not, then maybe let us specifically hide only this icon (also allow the counter to be moved to the left most if the icon is hidden).
3. Hope you are still working on making the widget look more sightly when there are no items. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24773750#post24773750
Other than these, I'm pretty content.
Thanks for your hardwork!

Minimal Reader Pro 3.0
Hi Joenrv!!
I heard the latest news by this forum, when I came to see if my eternal "refresh" problem can be solved!
I was very surprised, that a new big update even in beta, but, I was disappointed to know this version only works in 2.2+ android version! Mine is 2.1 and still be for some time!
So please, can you tell me if for my version, no more updates will be released?
Thanks in advance!
Alex

xananoide said:
Hi Joenrv!!
I heard the latest news by this forum, when I came to see if my eternal "refresh" problem can be solved!
I was very surprised, that a new big update even in beta, but, I was disappointed to know this version only works in 2.2+ android version! Mine is 2.1 and still be for some time!
So please, can you tell me if for my version, no more updates will be released?
Thanks in advance!
Alex
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Hi Alex, unfortunatly I have no plans on supporting Android 2.1 ... I'm using libraries that work on Android 2.2 and above only ...
But If you're here on this forum, you must know ways to flash a higher version on your phone... I mean what phone today has no custom ROM > 2.2 here on XDA?

Very nice app and widget. I like the clean and simple interface. I was going to suggest white theme (not only for pop-ups), but I see it's already on todo list.
Small remark - can you remove or add option to remove the horizontal padding of the widget - it doesn't expand fully horizontally and visually differs in width compared to other widgets I have (vertically there is no such padding/margin).

Could Minimal Reader use https to connect to google reader? For some reason, I have to use proxy and it only supports https.
Thanks.