- Added a Grid layout option to the feed detail menu.
- In Grid layout, the title length and image position options are replaced by grid columns and grid height options.
- When chosen, the right panes are replaced by a Grid view.
- This is a work in progress.
- Changed the preview image caching to try each of the story images in turn until a valid one (not missing or too small) is found.
- Only loads one image for each story initially, loading more if needed.
- Now caches based on the story hash instead of image URL.
- Replaced the feeds list notificaitons icon.
- The feed detail folder title icon now matches the color.
- Changed all of the settings icons to the new style.
- Changed the feed detail mark read icon.
- Changed the focus and hidden unread indicators.
- Unread indicators sized to match the web.
- Tweaked feed detail spacing.
- Increased feed detail titles to up to three lines.
- Titlecased Interactions / Your Activities.
- Removed borders and tweaked section titles in trainer.
Feeds list:
- Updated Focus and Saved icons. (Note, can’t use color on just one component of a segmented control, so uses the same color for all.)
Feed detail list:
- Now updates the title when updating the theme.
- Increased the horizontal spacing.
- Increased the title font size by 1 point.
Story detail:
- Fixed the cutoff icon.
Feeds list:
- Fixed dark areas next to nested folders.
- The feeds list background colors now match the web.
- Adjusted the color of the icons.
- Changing the font size or comfort layout no longer dismisses the menu or reloads.
Feed detail:
- A story with a short title in two-line mode now has a shorter cell.
- Fixed multiple rows being selected.
- Comfortable layout now has larger top and bottom margins.
- Fixed notification icon in menu.
- Fixed saved_searches appearing in move submenu.
- Adjusted the height for feeds.
- Changing the title, image, font size, or comfort layout no longer dismisses the menu or reloads.
Story:
- Lighter header color.
- Updated icons and removed borders for share/save/train buttons.
- Updated the trainer popover to use the new style.
- The Feeds list now shows only the folder name for nested folders, instead of parent ▸ subfolder.
- A folder that has only subfolders, without any directly contained feeds, is now displayed in the list.
- Selecting a folder will now show the feeds within all subfolders (plus any direct feeds).
- Collapsing a folder with subfolders will now collapse them too, as one might expect.
(Some interesting challenges with this one!)
- Heaviest activity was scaling story thumbnails on the main thread; moved to a background thread.
- No more heavy activity when scrolling shown in Instruments.
- I wasn’t able to reproduce this, or figure out how it could happen.
- But I added a check to prevent it, and will leave a breakpoint there, so if it does occur for me, I’ll be able to investigate further.
- Laboriously updated the icons (finding the names in the web inspector, updating the code, inspecting the colors, setting those separately, dealing with scaling issues, etc etc).
- Let me know if you spot any icons that I missed, or unscaled icons (they have to be explicitly sized, otherwise appear huge).
- More space between story title and story content.
- More space when reading a folder.
- Added Compact/Comfortable to feed detail menu.
- Changing Compact/Comfortable also adjusts the feed detail list.
- Adjusted the color of the story content etc in the feed detail list.
- Removed top and bottom borders from feed title gradient in story detail.
- More space in story detail header.
- The feed detail is offset when selected.
- Updated the feeds social, search, and saved background colors.
- Unread counts no longer have a shadow, and have more space.
- Folders and feeds remain selected in the feeds list when returning from a story or refreshing.
- Folders in the feeds list no longer have a different background color.
- The folders and feeds highlight is now rounded and unbordered like on web.
- Story titles author now next to date, and same color as content.
- Story titles now always bold.
- Story titles are now positioned to have equal top spacing (i.e. normalized).
- Unread indicator now top-aligned.
- Added border radius and margin to highlighted feeds.
- Feed favicons are now rounded.
- Blurblogs moved below folders.
- Fixed an issue with the feed detail settings for some folder types.
- Renamed All Stories to All Site Stories, to match web.
- Removed border from story content header.
This one took a long time to reproduce and track down; it turned out that because the infrequent stories use a magical loading parameter, they are not suitable for offline caching; the offlien stories didn’t match the fetched one, thus messing up the cached next story page.
- Fixed dark fields.
- Fixed login controls not being centered.
- Fixed login view appearing then disapparing on iPad.
- Fixed crashes trying to load data while showing login view.
- Added a new “When opening app” preference for what folder to show on launch.
- Implemented for both iPhone and iPad.
- Fixed loading default prefs.
- Removed the obsolete restore position preference.
- Enhanced the preferences views to support letting the app add custom values, to enable choosing any folder.
- Fixed default behavior of “when opening a site” preference on iPad, so if the preference hasn’t been changed, shows the first story by default, matching the preference.
- Added support for this preference on iPhone, where it defaults to show the stories.
- Fixed crash on iPhone.
- However, the state restoration mechanism doesn’t work with the split layout, since it has dynamic content.
- If state restoration is desired, we’ll need an alternative approach, more like when loading from a widget or notification.
- So discarded experimental code, and left disabled for now.
- Fixed feeds list disappearing when selecting a feed.
- Fixed non-functional full-screen buttons in top and bottom layout.
- In top/bottom full-screen mode, a Sites button appears to show the sidebar (or can use edge swipe).
- Hidden the Widget Site Stories smart folder.
- Changed the Widget Sites preferences to only allow selecting feeds for one folder, or all.
- The selected folder is displayed when tapping a feed in the widget.
- N.B. This is a temporary solution until each widget can have settings for what folder or feed to show.
- Added a Delete Account button to the bottom of Preferences.
- Enhanced Preferences to make the button red.
- Tapping it dismisses Prrefs and shows the delete account web page.
- I created a “dejaldeletetest” account, then deleted it, to confirm it works.
- Added a new smart folder for Widget Site Stories, above Read Stories towards the bottom.
- It lists stories from the feeds the widget displays.
- Loading a story from the widget uses this feed, so it’s much faster (doesn’t have to keep loading to find the story).
