- Added a preference on iPad to show videos inline or full-screen. Defaults to inline.
- This preference only applies after the app is restarted, as it's a configuration option of the web view, that has to be set on creation.
- Saved searches (if any) are now listed near the bottom of the feeds list.
- When one is tapped, the folder or feed is displayed and the search performed.
- When showing a saved search, a Delete Saved Search command appears at the top of the menu.
- When showing a non-saved search, a Save Search command appears in the menu.
- When the status bar is shown and nav bar hidden, now shows the feed gradient.
- Fixed incorrect scrolling when going to a story that shows the bar.
- Fixed the status bar background not showing up.
- Fixed the traversal buttons sliding down on first appearance.
- Added a “Hide status bar” preference below the “Full screen” one.
- It is only shown when “Full screen” is on.
- Defaults to on, which does the previous behavior.
- If turned off, the status bar remains visible when scrolling to full-screen.
- In this situation, a fade-out gradient will be shown under the status bar, so the story content dims to avoid conflicting with the status bar content.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- Fixed issues related to the way the feeds list is set up, that caused tapping on folders and feed detail buttons to fail (that was very tricky to narrow down).
- Fixed the FTUX presentation on iPad.
- Implemented the feature, showing or hiding hidden stories, only offering it if there are some.
- I used the “all” icon in the menu as a placeholder; please provide one you’d prefer.
- Since the crusty old menu mechanism doesn’t handle dynamic items well, I took this opportunity to migrate the feed detail menu to the block-based MenuViewController mechanism, resulting in significant code reduction.
- Enhanced MenuViewController to support the theme controls etc, so other menus can be more easily migrated next time they need to be updated.
- Added a "Restore position" preference in the "Reading Stories" group, with options to restore the previous state on launch always, within a specified interval, or never.
- When within the indicated interval, the app restores the feeds, feed detail, and story selections and scrolling positions.
- The active story is marked unread to ensure it remains available for restoring, and re-marked read when resumed.
- NOTE: only supported on iPhone for now. I’ll add iPad support later.
- Pinch in gesture in a story to force the nav bar to show when hidden for full screen or autoscroll.
- Pinch out gesture to hide it if appropriate.
- Form sheet Safari presentation now only on iPad.
- Responsive swipe is covered by another issue.
See discussion in previous comment on the issue. Sam, you can decide whether to accept this change, which seems reasonable to me, or live with rare sites borking the app, or perhaps ask for help from Apple DTS.
