Radar RSS v0.0.5 (Beta) — Instant Launch, Universal Image Engine & Gesture Navigation
Radar RSS v0.0.5 (Beta) — Instant Launch, Universal Image Engine & Gesture Navigation 🚀
Radar RSS v0.0.5 delivers major performance breakthroughs, fluid swipe gestures, bulletproof image extraction across international news feeds, and full bilingual localization.
🌟 What's New in v0.0.5
⚡ Instant App Startup (< 50ms)
- Offline-First Stale-While-Revalidate Engine: Articles and headlines are now cached in local persistent storage, enabling immediate paint upon launch with zero blank screens or perceived network delays.
- Instant Electron Window Launch: BrowserWindow displays in under 30ms with dark theme (
#0a0b0e) to eliminate white flashes.
👈👉 Fluid Swipe Story Navigation
- Horizontal Swipe Gestures: In the Story Reader modal, swipe Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left (or use keyboard arrows / UI buttons) to seamlessly flip through stories with smooth slide animations and haptic feedback.
🖼️ Universal RSS Image Loading & Layout Previews
- CORS Block Removal & Intelligent Fallback: Removed restrictive CORS preflights from news CDN images and integrated automatic cached proxy fallback (
weserv) for hotlink-protected publishers. - Robust Media Extraction: Decodes escaped HTML entities (
<img ...>) and extracts images from modern lazy-loading attributes (data-src,data-original,srcset,media:group). - Enhanced Visual Layouts: Added thumbnail previews across Hero secondary lists, List layouts, and Ticker cards.
💼 Portable Executable Reliability
- Fixed static asset path resolution and single-instance locks in standalone portable
.exebuilds when executed from arbitrary folders (Downloads, USB drives, desktop).
🌐 Complete Bilingual Localization
- Full English repository documentation and UI, with seamless one-click switching to Brazilian Portuguese across all dialogs and modals.
🔔 Animated Toast Notifications & Resilient RSS Ingestion
- Replaced legacy blocking browser alerts with sleek animated toast messages and native OS notifications for breaking news.
- Added UTF-8 BOM stripping (
\uFEFF) and 4.5s per-feed timeouts to prevent feed stalls.
📦 Downloads & Artifacts
| Platform / Type | Filename | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Windows Installer | Radar RSS Setup 0.0.5.exe |
Full Windows NSIS setup with Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts |
| Windows Portable | Radar RSS 0.0.5.exe |
Single standalone .exe that runs without installation |
| Android APK | RadarRSS-v0.0.5.apk |
Signed native Android release package (Capacitor) |
| Auto-Updater Map | Radar RSS Setup 0.0.5.exe.blockmap & latest.yml |
Differential update manifests for seamless background auto-updating |
Full Changelog: v0.0.4...v0.0.5