I replaced feedly with FeedEx as part of an attempt to shift to open-source apps wherever possible and after the newest update (navigation drawer) I'm very happy about that. Thanks!

One feature I miss that feedly has is that posts are automatically marked as read when I scroll through them (one by one when they're being scrolled up out of sight). That would be much more convenient than trying to hit the checkbox for each one and often unwillingly opening the post. You could add a switch in the options menu to de-/activate the feature.

Another problem I had was accidently sliding left/right while reading a post. It would be nice, if one was able to disable this as well.

I inserted an rss feed of my own, and when i refresh it for th first time, all the entries load, but when i refresh it again all the entries become the same entries. Am i something missing in my xml file? Or is it a bug in the parser?

Hi HoloAddict,

This super app requires an about us section, which will talk about your contribution towards the app.

It can be a like the GMail "|" button

Samsung galaxy S4, Android 4.2.2, app version 1.2.6, seems autorefresh does not work:

• install app
• add feeds (i have test feed that i can manually add items to)
• refresh manually
• set autorefresh time to 1 minute
• add new items to feed
• wait 1 minute

Progress bar begins to animate and never stops, feeds are not updated. I hooked up in debug mode in eclipse and it seems nothing triggers FetcherService, although manual refresh works and refresh on connection change works also.

I'm glad you've got the "fetch full text"-feature, but it's terribly slow. I added the feed of spiegel.de, set it to fetch full and it took >2 mins on WLAN, while a quickly done and not in any way optimized ruby script took <20s for the same task.

I'm guessing you're processing item after item and not in parallel? I hope that gets optimized, since I'm planning to add quite a few feeds of which I'd like to have the full text and in the current state, that would take ages and suck the battery dry.

Thanks for this awesome app!

I imported around 60 (yeah, that might not have been the brightest idea …) feeds via opml today and after I first updated them they now all have the name of the first feed (which incidentally was a tumblr-blog called „pancake pancake pancake“, so I have about 60 feeds with that name now ^______^).

Another related issue: I seem to be unable to delete all the feeds to try again (I'm not going to do that one by one, a Select All or tick box option would be cool). When I delete the app and/or only the Application Data the feed list get's reloaded when reinstalling/reopening. Why is that?

…

Interesting: I just deleted two of the feeds by hand and imported the opml again and the feeds are now named correctly. So I just need a way to delete them all …

I have a problem regarding one special feed:
http://blog.fefe.de/rss.xml?html
When I swipe through new articles the article order is completely random and articles I already read are mixed up with new ones.
I think the problem is a missing date field in this feed.
It looks like FeedEx takes the retrieval date. All articles which are retrieved at once have the same date. Maybe this is the reason why the order gets lost?!
Nevertheless, thanks for the great app!

Umm so I have been wanting to change the the "time that the entries will be kept" to forever as I am making an app for medicine purposes which will take articles from websites that will have older articles as well. This app will be free on the play store and is being made for an institute. Thanks.

Please when press the back button, open the left menu.

I go back with the button from articles, but many times It closes the application but I was hoping to return to the newsgroups menu. It's very painful.

Also, in big screen, I use right hand normally, to move the finger to the left upper corner is difficult. (In my case with 7" tablet)

Thanks for your great job, it is amazing.

The starred items are obviously read. So no reason to hide them in the STARRED tab when "Hide read entries" ON.

Sometimes those items are not hidden. But mostly they are.

+ feature request: show read starred items also in FEEDS/ENTRIES tabs too.

Hi,

HoloAddict, may I know how to change the Navigation Drawer color from black to white? I tried, but no luck.

I would appreciatie a 1x1 widget showing the number of unread items.

Thanks for the very nice app!

Would be good to be able to add predefined RSS feeds that come along with the app. I'd like to add some feeds that users would be able to read/follow from the start (after they install the app on their device) without a need to add them. Is it possible or how to do it?

Hi,

I just want to know whether I can simple add several more feeds in .opml file? How to add more default feeds?

Quick reply would be highly appreciated.

The current dark theme seems to use a bright grey on dark grey for the feed text. I'd prefer white text to increase the contrast for outdoor usage without having to change the screen brightness to manual and increase it (AMOLED display, black pixels consume almost no power).

Could you please implement an option for this (e.g. high contrast colors for black background and white text) or for a free color choice?

Not sure if this is an issue with CM nightlies or a feedex issue but it always seems to happen in FeedEx. If feed images are downloading and I rotate my screen, I sometimes experience a sudden reboot. Runing feedex 1.3.3 and cm 10.2-20130928-i9100-NIGHTLY.

Is it possible to display more than 10 feeds in the default feed.

Please advice where to modify the option.

Thank You

The app is very stable, major bugs are solved, maybe it's time to ask a feature? ;-)
Zoom.
Preferably with relayouting, i.e. making fonts larger without additional horizontal scroll

If an item is starred, it is shown in the entries tab, even if the 'Hide read entries' is enabled. There is a 'Starred' tab where I would expect all starred entries, regardless of read status, but I would not expect any read items in the entries tab if 'Hide read' is enabled (that setting is used to see if there is anything new that I haven't read).

Recreation: have read starred entry, go to 'Entries' tab, have 'Hide read entries' enabled
Expected: only unread entries visible
Actual: read starred entries also visible

Nextcloud also has a News reader web app / server with an API: https://github.com/nextcloud/news/tree/master/docs/externalapi cc @Raydiation and @zimba12 are the developers.

Would be cool if FeedEx would support that as well since Nextcloud gets more and more widespread. You can see some screenshots of the app at https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news

Cheers! :)

Thinking that the accumulation of thousands of entries in the list was a bug, I deleted the app data to start afresh. Now I know it was not a bug (see issue #49 ), but deleting data also deleted all the favorite entries that I marked during the last 6 months. Those favorites were important and would be great if there would be a way to export or to backup the favorite list somehow.

Thank you.

If certain (important) feeds are updated I'd like to be notified.
Thanks

Sometimes people update and change their blog posts. Unfortunately I see FeedEx doesn't track such cases.
I think a user may expect such changes to be tracked and optionally the app could mark such items as unread.
What do you think?

I use feedex with a few feeds and update them every 30 minutes. For a few of them I retrive the full text, but no images are supposed to be downloaded.

If I look at data usage, I see that feedex uses 500Mb per month, on wifi which seems really extraordinary.

How can I try to understand how this ridiculous amount of data is fectched ? Is it because all the entries even the old ones are fetched again every time?

Google spends a lot of money for UI development. And many people find GMail UI useful.
So I suggest to borrow some things from the UX.

1. #1 already started this
2. New FR: have two-pane interface for landscape: left pane with items list, right is the current item contents.

This is just a suggestion, what do you think about it?

Suggestion: option to sort feeds in reverse (oldest first/at top).

I seem that the bug descibed here #30 was corrected partially. I found two other feeds that have the same behavior.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Le_saviez_vous
http://www.certa.ssi.gouv.fr/site/certa.rss

It's hard to reproduce the bug, it appends randomly.

Hey is it possible to push new feeds/categories to the default_feed?

I had a couple of RSS feeds from Tumblr, and some of them have seemed to stop working. I have at least three, one of which I have been getting updates from, but I noticed earlier that another one had not got the entries downloaded, even though there has been some recently.

They also didn't download after I pressed the refresh button.

I have checked the feed url used, none of them have https.

Example not working: http://tabakrules.tumblr.com/rss
Example working: http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/rss

I get notifications for new posts/entries, even though I have the app open. I don't think this behavior makes much sence.

Will you consider having the app disable checks for new entries while the app is open?

Hello,
is it possible to move the fullscreen button somewhere else in the windows ? Because it's kinda annoying when I read (because I always scroll to read the first line). Maybe between the previous and next buttons is a better place for this button.

Usually I leave an application using back button, so visually application seems to be closed. Then I turn network (WiFi) off. After a while message box appears from android system, which says that the application FeedEx caused an error.

Using LogCat I got this messages:

E/AndroidRuntime(7150): FATAL EXCEPTION: IntentService[RssFetcherService]
E/AndroidRuntime(7150): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime(7150):     at net.fred.feedex.service.FetcherService.onHandleIntent(FetcherService.java:151)
E/AndroidRuntime(7150):     at android.app.IntentService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(IntentService.java:65)
E/AndroidRuntime(7150):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime(7150):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
E/AndroidRuntime(7150):     at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:60)

FeedEx: 1.3.2, installed from f-droid.org
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S
ROM: Android 4.2/4.3 - Different versions of SlimROM.

Best wishes and thanks for the best RSS Aplication for Android phone.
Kamil Tollinger

Is there a reason why justify text alignment is the standard? In my opinion it doesn't look nicer than left alignment. I wonder what would be the most used setting IF configurable.

Just a feedback.

For the feeds listview if we can have a short description below the title. Alongside if we can even display an image, the UI will become more sleek n impressive. Due to this the user can directly get a short brief and also see an image for the news item .

Thanks

Hi!

First things first, this might entirely be an issue with the custom theme I use, but I hope you could check it out on your end.
I use this custom theme on my CyanogenMod-ed phone: http://zdunex25.deviantart.com/art/MIUIv4-for-CM10-320827899

Using FeedEx with the light theme option produces this:

If I turn off the light theme option, the problem seems to be fixed:

But with the "non light theme", the news items become barely readable:

Since I don't have such issue with Spare RSS (with the light theme setting on) I thought it could be fixed.

Thank you for your time, and for your otherwise great app.

Hi, sorry for my bad english i'm french, I have an problem to add this rss flux, https://linuxfr.org/news.atom , to FeedEx, it can't acces to this.
Can you do some think ?

Thanks in advance.

One page has a href to pdf file. Taping on the link makes FeedEx crash.
adb log:

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:48:10 +0600: D/dalvikvm( 3981): GC_CONCURRENT freed 380K, 10% free 4181K/4608K, paused 5ms+3ms, total 24ms
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:48:11 +0600: D/AndroidRuntime(29136): Shutting down VM
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:48:11 +0600: W/dalvikvm(29136): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40d70930)
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:48:11 +0600: I/ActivityManager(  408): START u0 {act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=/pub/conferences/2012/captronic/android/android-captronic.pdf} from pid 29136
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:48:11 +0600: E/AndroidRuntime(29136): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:48:11 +0600: E/AndroidRuntime(29136): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=/pub/conferences/2012/captronic/android/android-captronic.pdf }
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:48:11 +0600: E/AndroidRuntime(29136):   at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1622)
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:48:11 +0600: E/AndroidRuntime(29136):   at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1417)
...

Hello,
I've found a little problem with Futura-Sciences RSS Feeds : pictures are not displayed correctly

I join you some captures

Thank you so much for this great application

When on the main screen, it requires pressing the back button twice to exit the app (it used to be one, and most other apps I use will exit on one back button press).

Luckily the toast message is there to remind me I need to press it twice (this seems to be the only thing that happens when I press it once).

I would like to be able to configure different options depending of each feed.
Years ago, I had in PalmOS a soft called rescoNews! and it has many options which I am missing in feedex and all the rss apps i have tested since then.

At least the following for me are "must have":
-Expiration time/ delete old entries
-Download images
-Feature to allow download of old feeds (it is not existing in global options but for specific feed it is so useful)

I am sure you are very busy but maybe in future releases......

Hi,

On several feeds, post I have already read becomes unread when FeedEx update the list of feeds. Here two feeds which are buggy.

http://www.debian.org/News/news

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/joueurdugrenier/uploads?alt=rss&amp;v=2&amp;orderby=published&amp;client=ytapi-youtube-profile

Maybe they are specials and don't respect the standard RSS format but they worked on my previous feed reader.

I took two screenshots on my smartphone for the example.

The YouTube post just became unread and the post date is 15/09/2013 according to FeedEx but according to Google, the video was uploaded the 03/09/2013. I suspect a change in the RSS YouTube post, it has been modified (views number? Rating?).

It is a very incomfortable issue for me, and I think this is not a good behavior for a feed reader.

Hope I clearly explain.

Greetings.

Android Cyanogenmod 10.1.2-mako (android 4.2.2)
FeedEx 1.2.8 via f-droid

I'm just starting to use FeedEx.
It works great, here's a little bug.
When I read an article from http://www.legorafi.fr/feed/ (which has no favicon), the previous favicon is still displayed (ex: univers freebox or linuxfr.org).

Please consider.

E.g. this my FR

Hi there,

After using this app for a few months, I've just noticed that my internal storage has been almost completely used. It appears this is the result of caching far too many images. I'm unsure though as the cache files aren't associated to my image viewer. There are currently ~3700 items in /storage/sdcard0/FeedEx/images. Assuming, these files are actually images (I expect they are), to prevent similar issues in the future, I'd like to suggest ways of limiting the size of the image cache.

• Add a set-able limit to the image cache (perhaps a 200MB default?)
• Many images are icons (think of "retweet" and "like" buttons) that are regularly used - especially on entries from the same site. Implementing a hash-comparison system to decide whether or not to store an image could come into play here. The process for an entry might go like this: Download article image > generate checksum > compare with checksum database > if entry already exists, discard newly downloaded image, otherwise, create a new entry.
• You might even consider the origin of the file - if it's the same originating url, chances are you won't even need to download the file again.

Of course, I may be interpreting this incredibly and horribly incorrectly. At any rate, I love this app, it's the best RSS reader I've seen so far.
Keep up the superb work,
eages.

E.g. http://page2rss.com/4e0d8451e08cd5f9f7e0fc7739d6048f

HTC Sensation, Android 4.0.3 stock

Selected '2 days' option but it keeps older entries.
Clear cashe, clear data, uninstall/install, change to '1 day' don't help, older entries are still there.

Greetings

In item view I see Retrieve the full text (if RSS has this).
I'd like an option to fetch this automatically (as well for offline reading).
Thanks a lot for this app, the FeedEx is indeed a big leap from the original app!

Would be so cool to see...

1. Pull Down to Refresh...
   (making updating more convenient)
2. Multi-selection on hold down
   (so if the user wants to mass delete feeds they can with ease)

After I got interrupted reading a longer item, I have to toggle the hide unread option and search for it again.
I suggest the following enhancement: Mark an item as read when the user reachs the end of the text instead of marking it as read on opening. Of course this is only possible at long text items.

What do you think about that?