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Android / Hardware Acceleration / WebView

Here are some interesting resources if you are interested in looking under the hood at how Android offers hardware acceleration.

Google I/O: For Butter or Worse: Smoothing Out Performance in Android UIs
A great overview of the different rendering models offered by Android. Lots of innovation coming in Jelly Bean.

Google I/O 2012: What’s New in Android Developer Tools
Demo of various tools you can use to profile and debug Android Apps.

Google I/O 2012 – Android WebView
Great presentation on the inner workings of the Android WebView. A great resource if you are looking at polishing HTML5 apps on Android.

Let me know if you know of other resources we should add to this list.

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Polishing rough edges – Patch 1

On tuesday, we pushed out the first beta of feedly 10 desktop. We received a lot of feedback and suggestions on Facebook, twitter and get satisfaction (thanks!). Today, we are pushing out a patch (build 10.0.431) which addresses some of the most pressing issues:

  • FIXED – Uncategorized is not accessible.
  • FIXED – Use a sans-serif font for the title only view.
  • FIXED – Add preference to allow users to customize header fonts.
  • FIXED – Clipping at the bottom of titles in title only view.
  • FIXED – Trying to click on the + sign to add a new feed in the search panel generates a loading loop.
  • FIXED – Index page spacing is broken.
  • FIXED – Allow users to make index their start page.
  • FIXED – Once inlined, the techcrunch image looks tiny!
  • FIXED – When using entire inlined articles, the read/unread color is not working.
  • FIXED – Ability to login to feedly account in Firefox/Aurora.
  • FIXED – Access to scrollbar on Chrome, Firefox and Safari. FIXED
  • FIXED – Link started kit header to matching explore page.
  • FIXED – remove tumblr option until we finish v1 to v2 API migration
  • FIXED – add twitter and facebook to the explore panel
  • FIXED – feed popup is missing a string resource m.496 (???)
  • FIXED – Customize button next to source title does not work in the category pages
  • FIXED – Featured articles should be fresher. Ideally same day articles.
  • FIXED – Explain feedly concept during unpacking experience.
  • FIXED – “unread only” not checked is not honored on category pages
  • FIXED – External links with embedded amp are broken
  • FIXED – Allow users to try to reconnect when feedly looses it network connection

We pushed 10.0.431 out to all feedly xt users. If no P0 issues are reported tonight, we will push the update to all feedly app users, safari users and submit the app to mozilla for review tomorrow.

We will most likely push another patch out at the end of next week so if there are other things you would like to see fixed, please post a comment or send us an email via care@feedly.com

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions <3

Updated on June 2nd: Feedly+Firefox 10.0 submitted to Mozilla for review. You can get the early access on the Mozilla Store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly/versions/?page=1#version-10.0 Have a great week end!

Updated on June 4th, 2012: We pushed out 10.0.432. Fixes the search regression. Re-introduces the jump to next button.

Updated on June 8th, 2012: We pushed out 10.1.435. Fixes issue where non-subscribed explore articles were sometimes shown in the featured section of today. Added back the explicit Add Website option. Fixed a few other pixels here and there.

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FIXED & APPROVED – Bug in feedly 9.0 for Firefox

Feedly 9.0 for firefox has a bug where it only shows one or two articles for the feeds which do not include images. We are very sorry about this. We are able to reproduce the problem and are working on a fix. We hope to be able to submit the fix to Mozilla later this afternoon. More information in 2-3 hours.

Update 01/16: Special thanks to the Mozilla team for the review. Feedly 9.1 is now available for download https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly/

Update 01/15: We have been able to FIX this problem. Feedly 9.1 has been submitted to Mozilla for review. You can download it here:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly/versions/

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Feedly 9.0 – Polishing and Bug Fixes

We spent the last 8 weeks finding and polishing rough edges in feedly for chrome/firefix/safari. We are excited to push out a new version of feedly desktop (aka Feedly 9.0).

It …fixes the sporadic loading issue in firefox, …adds support for multiple google login, …fixes the integration with Facebook, …offers richer article previews and …evolves towards a more minimalistic experience (It might take a couple of days to get used to some of the new fonts).

We also added a new explore page to make it easier for you to find and follow new sources:

In order to improve the scroll speed, we had to evolve the theme effort. Some of the more sophisticated themes are no longer available (at least temporarily). Sorry about that. You should expect to see more work in that direction in feedly 10/11 – aligned with some of the optimizations the Chrome team is performing on Windows.

Available for Chrome and Safari now.
http://www.feedly.com/index.html

Being reviewed by Mozilla:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/feedly/versions

Looking forward to your feedback.

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Feedly 8.1 – 10 Bug Fixes

We just pushed out feedly 8.1. It fixes some of the bugs/regressions reported over the last 24 hours (thanks for the feedback!).

Change log:

  1. FIXED – Mark as read counter was sometimes clipped.
  2. FIXED – Clicking on the unread count was no longer marking sources as read.
  3. FIXED – Move the “Back To Top” icon above the” Jump To Next” icon.
  4. FIXED – The source title and the author name sometimes push the mark as read link out.
  5. FIXED – There is no way to mark an article as read in the new card view.
  6. FIXED – Empty tag page resulted in a session expired loop.
  7. FIXED – Loading a category or feed page through a link sometimes resulted on an empty page.
  8. FIXED – The Google+ option of feedly mini does not always work.
  9. FIXED – Some of the blogs like LogoPond no longer render correctly in the mosaic view.
  10. FIXED – Sometimes “Jump to Next” transitions from one of my sources to an essential source.

Please let us know by posting a comment if you run into any other high priority issue. We are happy to do another patch if needed.

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Feedly 8: Tagging, New Views, Infinite Scrolling and more…

We are rolling out today a new edition of feedly. Feedly 8 is centered around two new features and two new views.

Feedly 8.0 is available for Chrome and Safari now. It is being reviewed by the mozilla team and should be available for Firefox in a couple of weeks.

Feature #1: Tagging

You can now collect articles by tagging them. Think of tags as a more permanent/topical save for later. In version 8.0, collections are private/personal. In version 9.0, we will make it easy for you to selectively publish and share your collections.

Feature #2: Infinite scrolling

All the list pages now support infinite scrolling and will automatically load more content as you reach the end of a page. The result is a simple and faster way to browse through your favorite content.

View #1: The New Cards View

As part of feedly 8, we are rolling out a new view called “Cards”. You can apply it to the collection of articles you have tagged, to a section or a specific feed. It it optimized for great visuals.

To assign the cards view to a page, click on the view icon on the top right of the page and select the Cards option:

View #2: Denser and more efficient title view

In feedly 8, we have redesigned the “Titles” view with crunchers in mind. The entire with of the page is dedicated to content, tools hover in and you can easily navigate through the content using keyboard shortcuts. Combine that with the new infinite scrolling and you have a feed crunching machine.

Note: if you want to see the list of the sources in the latest page, simply choose the old titles view from the view options.

Here is a quick summary of the refined keyboard shortcuts supported by feedly in version 8.0.

Feedly 8.0 is available for Chrome and Safari now. It is being reviewed by the mozilla team and should be available for Firefox in a couple of weeks.

Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions. Special thanks to Sarah for the feedback she provided during the design of the new Titles view.

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