FeedViewer

An Android program for offline reading of RSS feeds generated by FeedMe.

This is a new version of FeedViewer, compatible with more modern devices like Android 10. (The old version of FeedViewer, in my android repository, required a device with a menu button, and modern build tools like Android Studio can't build or even import it.)

For information on building FeedViewer with Gradle, see the INSTALL document.

The FeedMe directory structure is documented below. For information on how to configure a web server so that FeedViewer can fetch daily feeds, see the FeedFetching document.

Wishlist

• Way to keep a directory of saved articles

• Toolbar buttons spaced out instead of right-justified (this may have something to do with the Toolbar's automatically created ActionMenuView, which isn't in the layout files so there's no obvious way to style it)

• Less toolbar vertical padding -- probably not possible, Android standard

• Allow font size changing

• Settings menu to include font sizing

Low priority wishlist

• Space out buttons across toolbar instead of right justification
• Multiple style sheets, e.g. night and day
• Set brightness by dragging down the left side.

Feed Directory Structure

FeedMe is a Python program for fetching RSS feeds once a day, to read offline on a variety of devices. Learn more about it: FeedMe page on ShallowSky.com FeedMe source on GitHub

FeedViewer reads, imports, and deletes collections of HTML files in directories arranged in the directory structure produced by FeedMe:

[feeds root]
|
|____feeds.css
|
|____11-16-Mon
|    |
|    |_ A_Word_A_Day
|    |      index.html
|    |      0.html
|    |
|    |_ Slashdot
|    |      index.html
|    |
|    |_ BBC_News_Science
|    |      index.html
|    |      0.html
|    |      1.html
|    |      2.html
|    |      long_name_1.jpg
|    |      long_name_2.png

(There are also a few other files that FeedViewer will ignore, like log-urlrss at the top level and MANIFEST in each daily directory, that are useful for debugging FeedMe problems.)

For each directory, the index.html provides links to the numbered HTML files.

You can put a feeds.css immediately under feeds on the server and it will automatically be downloaded along with the day's feeds.