- It’s alive, ALIVE!
- You can now build and run NewsBlur for macOS!
- Still lots of issues, including the story CSS not rendering properly, but it works.
- Plus of course making things more Mac-like, like modal views as real windows, etc.
- Committed to a new branch, since not ready for prime time.
- Now doesn’t select a story if the appropriate one can’t be found.
- Left commented out the old behavior of selecting the first unread, in case you change your mind.
- Added a preference to override the mark read on scroll option per feed/folder.
- If off, changing the feed menu item toggles the global preference.
- If on, changing it only affects that feed.
- All app-specific uses of UIWebView have been replaced with WKWebView.
- Some third-party uses remain.
- More testing required.
- Note that I’ve bumped the minimum iOS version to iOS 11, since that is needed for WKWebView support.
- Committing to a new branch until ready.
- Added Statistics to the preferences for the left swipe in the feeds list.
- A bit of refactoring to support displaying the popover from a cell on iPad.
- Added a Statistics item to the feed detail menu (please provide an icon).
- This command will show the statistics web page in a popover on iPad, or pushed on iPhone.
- Extended the “original” view controller to support showing a custom page without changing the title or including the navigation bar buttons.
- Added an Export Preferences… button in the Preferences view to save a copy of the preferences to a file.
- Added an Import Preferences… button to load a saved preferences file and replace the prefs.
- Added a document type and UTI type for the prefs file (you can provide an icon if you like).
- Enabled iCloud document support to allow saving to shared locations.
- Added a bridging header to enable Swift code to work properly.
- Fixed the story sometimes not getting displayed in the app when tapping in the widget.
- Now uses the scaled thumbnails provided by the server.
- Split the image cache into separate caches for feed images and story images.
- Now prunes the cached story images to only those currently displayed.
- Added the feed color bars (sharing those colors required a bit of refactoring).
- The fonts etc now more closely match the app.
- Now uses elipsises for the feed name, title, and content text, if needed.
- Improved HTML tag cleanup.
- Tapping a story in the widget now opens it in the All Stories river view.
- Tried to get the widget to reload the content on first launch, but couldn’t. I might try again later.
- Reworded the first launch message as “Tap to set up in NewsBlur”, as a placeholder and to help discover the prefs.
- Now just reloads the table when collapsing or expanding, to avoid @nriley’s crash (the animation was pretty much invisible anyway).
- Manually changing the theme now turns off the preference to follow the system appearance.
- Turning on following the system appearance immediately updates the theme appropriately.
- Done; it’s first in the story settings menu, to be consistent with others.
- I resisted replacing FontSettingsViewController with a MenuViewController usage; that would simplify the code and future changes, but would’ve taken more time now.
- Added a "Download text" preference. Defaults on.
- If on, the text is fetched for feeds that are in text view when fetching new stories.
- The text is fetched after stories, and before images, using a similar mechanism.
- The text is stored in a new "cached_text" database table.
- The text is deleted when the story is deleted.
- When displaying a text view, the cached text is used if available, otherwise it is fetched as before.
- Replaced the non-functional multi-select segmented control in notification popover with four buttons, that are drawn similar to an iOS 13 segmented control.
- Now reloads the feeds list when the preference is changed.
- This also fixed some other preference changes, since the notification handler passes a different class for multi-select options.
Note that need to pull-to-refresh to make the preference take effect, since it sorts on loading the feeds. I think that’s reasonable; not something people would change often.
This was a tricky one to reproduce and trace. I added a safety check for the master navigation view getting too big. I also fixed a couple of other Catalina bugs: a crash on launch due to incorrectly creating an image, and a NaN issue with drawing.
- Reproduced by scrolling a story to go full-screen, double-click to show the Safari browser view, interactively go partially back, then scroll in the browser.
- Now shows the navigation bar when using the browser, since the browser shows it, so they’re consistent.
- Fixed the story appearing to be unread after returning to the app.
- Fixed the "scroll horizontally" preference appearing twice.
- Fixed the add feed and action toolbar buttons sometimes appearing blue.
