Feeder v1.4

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Version 1.4
  • Completely rebuilt for speed and size.
  • Feed refresh now multithreaded for faster refreshes of multiple feeds. Photo view now multi threaded for faster loading of all images in a feed
  • New minimalist UI in Feeds list and Items list. New cleaner UI for Item view
  • New built in email integration! No more kicking you out to Mail to send a news story to a friend. Email integration now supports full HTML rendering. What you see in the app is what you'll see in the email.
  • Web browser built in & supports rotation, zooming, etc, making it easier to read web stories right in Feeder
  • Lots of other fixes, tweaks, and improvements.
Version 1.3
  • You can now do a title search across all feeds, making it easy to find and read all stories about say "Apple" or "Obama" or whatever else you are interested in.
  • Alternatively, search for ! (exclamation mark) to find all your starred items - making it easy to find all your favorite stories that you wanted to read again.
  • Search for ? (question mark) to find all your unread items. Just refreshed all your feeds? You no longer need to hop from feed to feed to read what's new, just search for ? (question mark) and see all unread stories in one view.
  • Minor UI changes to the article title UI - it now blends into the iPhone UI better, but is still tappable if you want to read the full-story in the built in web browser.
  • Other minor fixes
Version 1.2
  • Feed icons: Each feed has an icon
  • Photo view: Similar to Apple's "Photos" app, shows all photos from a feed's articles.
  • Simple feed add: Add a feed by just typing the website URL (i.e typing "www.yahoo.com" will find any feeds on Yahoo's website).
  • Improved splash screen.
  • Lots of bug fixes & improved memory usage.
Version 1.1
  • Built in web browser: When viewing an article, it's title is now a link. Tap on the title to view the original website article within Feeder - no more having to jump out to Safari - Yay :-)
  • Mark all as read: When viewing a feed, a new button in the top right (it's icon is a check-mark) let's you mark all articles in the feed as read. You no longer have to go through each article individually to mark them all as read.
  • Numerous other display changes to reflect the unread count in the Feeds view and the Application Icon.
  • Feeder now gives you visual indication of when it is accessing the network to get feed updates, html, images, etc.
Version 1.0
  • Easily add multiple RSS feeds
  • Update all feeds at once or any individual feed
  • Feed items are sorted & grouped by date/time
  • Read feed items are grayed out so you can see what you've already read
  • Any feed item can be starred so that you can easily keep track of it; emailed via Mail; or the original story can be viewed in Safari.
  • When adding a feed you can either type in the URL for a feed, or select a feed from a list of popular sites like Digg, Gizmodo, etc.

Feeder Menu

General
  • When you run Feeder it starts out at the main menu, which lists all your RSS feeds.
  • If a feed has no unread stories it's name is drawn in black.
  • If a feed has some unread stories it's name is in blue.
  • Feed icons are also shown when they are available for a feed.
Toolbar
  • Tap the "Edit" button (top left) to add or delete feeds
  • Tap the refresh button (top right) to update all your feeds. Note: You must have internet access to update all your feeds.
Search
  • Tap on the search bar to enter either:
    • A one word title search string, such as 'iPhone', 'Apple' or 'Obama'
    • A ? (question mark) to find ALL UNREAD stories across ALL feeds. This is great for quickly scanning all your unread stories in one place
    • A ! (exclamation mark) to find ALL your STARRED stories. This is great for finding stories that you wanted to view again later.

Feed Headlines View

General
  • After tapping on any feed, this view will display the headlines of all the stories in the selected feed.
  • Feeds are grouped by date.
  • Tap any headline to view it's story.
  • Once you have read a story, it will appear grayed out
  • If you star a story, it will appear in a blue color.
Toolbar
  • Feeder Takes you back to the list of all feeds
  • List Shows this headline list view
  • Photos Shows all the photos in the feed, allowing you to view stories by the photo instead of the headline.
  • Mark all as read Marks all the stories in this feed as read. Great for marking off all the stories you don't want to read

Feed Photos View

  • Photos view takes the photos from all the stories in a feed, and presents them in a similar manner to Apple's Photos app.
  • You can scroll through all the photos, and tap on any one to view it's story.
  • This view is great for quickly finding stories by the people or places involved.
  • Everything else works as described in the Headline view.
  • Note: Not all feeds include photos!

Story View

General
  • After tapping on a headline or photo, you see the story view. This is whatever content was included in the feed for this story. Sometimes it will be the complete story with photos, sometimes it will be just the opening paragraph, or enough for you to decide if you want to read on.
  • Tap on the story title to view full story on it's original website
Toolbar
  • * Star an item to highlight it in the headline view, or find it again later using a ! (exclamation point) search.
  • Mail: Mails the story using the new (in v1.4) integrated email.
  • Previous: View the previous story in this feed. This saves you having to keep jumping back to the headline or photo view to get to the previous story.
  • Next: View the next story in this feed. This saves you having to keep jumping back to the headline or photo view to get to the next story.

Story View

General
  • After tapping on the stories title, this view will show you the full story from the original website.
Toolbar
  • All other buttons are the same as in the Story view.

Add a Feed View

General
  • From the main menu, tap the "Edit" button, then the "+" button
  • There are multiple ways to add a feed:
    • Select a default from the list in the middle of the screen.
    • Type in the URL of a website, and Feeder will attempt to find a feed for the website.
    • Type in the URL of a feed, and Feeder will attempt to add it.

Feeder v1.2

General
  • Video demo. Walkthrough of some of the new features in v1.2

Feeder v1.1

General
  • Video demo. Walkthrough of some of the new features in v1.1