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Any good RSS reader?

I'm looking for a good RSS reader for our form factor. I've tried the official Google Reader app and despite having compatibility mode disabled in Spare Parts it still only takes a fraction of the screen. I usually use Dogg on my Evo but it lacks Google Reader integration.

switt said:
I'm looking for a good RSS reader for our form factor. I've tried the official Google Reader app and despite having compatibility mode disabled in Spare Parts it still only takes a fraction of the screen. I usually use Dogg on my Evo but it lacks Google Reader integration.
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Try Newsrob. Its been my favorite since day 1 with my Evo and works really well on the gtab. Pulse is nice too.

switt said:
I'm looking for a good RSS reader for our form factor. I've tried the official Google Reader app and despite having compatibility mode disabled in Spare Parts it still only takes a fraction of the screen. I usually use Dogg on my Evo but it lacks Google Reader integration.
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Are you talking about the new Google Reader app that just launched yesterday? I didn't see the issue about it only taking a fraction of the screen.
It's a good basic reader, but I do find a lot of the bells and whistles in NewsRob to make RSS reading much more enjoyable on the tab. (And I'm a heavy RSS user.)

Pulse. So amazing on the tab.

edgevision said:
Pulse. So amazing on the tab.
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+1 for Pulse News Reader

+1 too for Pulse!

I love feedr.

pules said:
+1 for Pulse News Reader
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+1 for Pulse. Awesome on the large screen.

jdnyc said:
+1 too for Pulse!
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QFT
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RSSDemon
RSSDemon by Meecal is prerry good.

Is the "mapping" off the tiles off for anyone else in Pulse? I have to click two or three tiles to the right of the story I want to view. Very stange.

rayden25 said:
Is the "mapping" off the tiles off for anyone else in Pulse? I have to click two or three tiles to the right of the story I want to view. Very stange.
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It did that until I updated with the latest version 1.7.3
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+1 for Pulse I love this app

Pulse is the bomb! I use it every day!

I'd never tried pulse before, and I agree it does look fantastic on the big screen; but has anyone tried the widgets? I keep getting an error that the homescreen doesn't have room, even on an empty screen. Anyone else have this problem, and find a fix? This is on the latest version to be gotten from the market.

The Pulse widgets work fine for me on VEGAn-TAB 1.00 Beta 2.

Great Live Wallpaper Clock!

I just found this app, this is perfect for AMOLED screens. Looks great too.
This is not my app, just like to share it. Also the clock being wider than the screen is BY DESIGN, I like it, just like the ZuneHD/Windows Phone 7 UI.
Full Version, 69 cents:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/wp-clock-full/com.tomanyz.lockWatch
Lite Free version:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/wp-clock-light/com.tomanyz.lockWatchLight
Attached Picture: (I'm using it with Minimalistic Text for the weather, wp clock will feature weather in a future release)

I found it on the market and I'm running 2.3.1
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I found it on the market and I'm running 2.3.1
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Same here running 2.3.1 market nexus s

Good find, thanks. Purchased.

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That does look nice. But 69 cents? I thought the lowest it could get for developers was 99 cents? Well, whatever.

It's now showing on the 2.3.1 because I emailed the author regarding the Market issue, and he took off copy protection soon after.

Is there any way to disable the clock on the lock screen? It would look much better

The K-Zoo Kid said:
Is there any way to disable the clock on the lock screen? It would look much better
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I'm wondering the same thing, lock screen clock gets in the way.

Can you change font size and the order the time and date are in? Curious before I buy.

I can see why but the free version is very limited so I can't really get a feel for if I'll like the paid version. Of course I could just try it I suppose, thanks to the 24hr refund policy

just bought it, it is only 69 cents. very cheap but looks great.

I'm worried about the battery drain. While it seems to not do as much depleting as other live wallpapers, my battery usage seems to be dropping faster than I'm normally used to. After a full night's charge, by the end of the work day (5 PM), with moderate use, I have roughly 50% or so left, give or take. It's currently 4 oclock and my battery is at 37%.
How is everyone else' experience with this wallpaper and battery?

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I can see why but the free version is very limited so I can't really get a feel for if I'll like the paid version. Of course I could just try it I suppose, thanks to the 24hr refund policy
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You mean the new 15min refund? Google scrapped the 24h refund.
Star this issue if you don't agree: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13116&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
(don't comment unless have useful thing to say, it sends email to all who starred)

Full version is updated with more options and better battery life optimization. And promise of weather info in the next update. Good wallpaper just got greater.

With the new update the time is not centered and I'm not really a fan of the bounce animation. Wish I could go back to 1.3.2 version.

nice concept, but... it's an aweful waste of space in the home screen real state
you have to sacrifice like 3 rows of icons to be able to see the time & date properly
i'll hard to integrate into any theme design
i'll stick to Fancy Widget for time + date + weather

Yes
nxt said:
It's now showing on the 2.3.1 because I emailed the author regarding the Market issue, and he took off copy protection soon after.
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Download widget locker from market. It basically adds another home screen for your lock screen that you can add/remove widgets (stock clock) to your liking. I use this anyways because it gives you access to your notification bar without having to unlock your phone and gives you many many more unlock options. It also gives you different slider options if you want to keep the feel stock or change it up.

AllGamer said:
nice concept, but... it's an aweful waste of space in the home screen real state
you have to sacrifice like 3 rows of icons to be able to see the time & date properly
i'll hard to integrate into any theme design
i'll stick to Fancy Widget for time + date + weather
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Guess u one of those that fill up your home screen with apps lol. Not for u. Nothing like a clean looking home screen.
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KnightMAREcrow said:
With the new update the time is not centered and I'm not really a fan of the bounce animation. Wish I could go back to 1.3.2 version.
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I agree. The good news is, according to the developer's website, he plans to re-center the clock in the next update.

Live Wallpapers that work on Eris

Hey everyone, I was wondering what live wallpapers you guys have found that work on our phone.
Ones that I have found that work are:
Light Grid
Maps
Nexus Revamped
Star Wars ESB
The Matrix
Other cool ones like ParticleStorm, Solar Winds, VR Tunnel Lite won't work.
Loving the Livewallpapers on the Eris!!
Marc

For starters:
Android pissing apple (Tiny Wolf Studio)
Blue Flames (Raw Apps)
Sexy LWP's (RawThemes)
3D Koi Pond (A.O.l Studio
Starfield 3D (A.O.l Studio)
Avatar Trees (A.O.l Studio)
Starlight (Jason Allen)
Substrate (Moonblink)
UK Snow globe (mippin)
Shamrock (1473labs)
Radar Simple (Prokaryo)
LED scroller (DKIT Android Ltd)
Bezier (Per Jonsson)
Circles (Faiz Visram)
Space Junk (Access Lane, Inc.)
Green Live (iBog)
Flying Androids (Binesy)
Falling snow (Benjamin Rosseaux)
Beautiful live (Levelup Studio aka Beautiful widgets)
Bobs (per Johnsson)
Cube (Android Apps)
PhysX (Nils Schaetti)
Mystify (Discoversites)
Droid 2 eye (BetterYourDroid)
Droid X eye (BetterYourDroid)
Flying toast (UKLooney)
Nexus Revamped (Stealthcopter)
On Dubs (Black Market Apps)
Plasma (Casey Langen)
Shake Them All (Yougli)
Zoomfield (Kai Bjurman)
yes I've used all these and many more many times over including the cool ones that dont work due to incompatible resolutions like vr tunnel, seeds of life, circuit board, pano planet earth rot ect...you have to work your mojo to get them to stick and they often wont stick forever (just turning off your screen will cause many of these to revert back to your last static wallpaper) but they can be made to stick long enough to impress your friends. the ONLY live wallpaper I've tried that absolutely will not work is Silhouette. It does a funky split screen stuff that just wont behave no matter what. none of the samsung ports have ever worked on my phone either.

Thanks! Got some of these installed! Anyone else? Some really good ones there!
Marc

I was wondering if any of the aquarium LWP's worked. I tried the two aniPET ones, and they don't work, but the idea of having a virtual fish tank on your screen is kind of cool =]
Oh, and this one works too. Its the one I'm using right now. SMB FTW!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710647
Edit: just installed the New York Giants one from WebApse. I don't know if the other one worked (from SilentDesign I think), but this one does. Even though the Giants have been done since week 17...still gotta love it =]

Can anyone tell me where I can get these and how I install them ?

spc_hicks09 said:
Can anyone tell me where I can get these and how I install them ?
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first phone must be rooted and loaded with a rom that support live wallpapers (most froyo and eclair roms at this point). All the ones I listed are directly from the android market and most free.

It seems hit or miss which work and which don't some of those on the list didn't want to work on my phone.
Peace

wwonka69 said:
It seems hit or miss which work and which don't some of those on the list didn't want to work on my phone.
Peace
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some may have been updated to higher resolution, unsupported openGL (beautiful widgets weather for one) but for the most part all should work. I'm curious to which ones on the list didn't work for you.

thanks for this list. been hit and miss for which ones work on my rom. but good resource.

any that have updated to OpenGL ES wont work or wont work well:
Beautiful Widgets (old works great but if you dont have it backed up cant get it)
Nexxus Revamped (same. old works great, new is OpenGL ES)
list will probably get larger. do NOT do update if you see the update includes OpenGL ES (both the above describe in update description).

Anyone have The old nexus revamped?
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haggisman14 said:
Anyone have The old nexus revamped?
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I second this. It would be a great addition to my gallery and a nice change.

Kindle app updated, Tablet support.

It looks very nice and fluid on the xoom. I like the new lay out it has for Honeycomb. The new store front UI is very nice as well. I like the scrollable Recommended For You across the top, and layout in general. I do like how in the settings it now shows which device name it is labeled as so you can change it on the amazon website to correctly reflect which device is which. I think my only gripe is that you can't change the background to a sepia effect so its more comfortable to read on.
My xoom updated automatically. I went to my apps on my Nexus s and it wasn't showing it as available for update, I had to search for it manually to perform the update. So for anyone not seeing the update on possible other devices do try the manual search in the market.
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Nice, millions times better than before but it would be nice if they added page turning animation and soother scrolling.

Any screenshot ?

yeah, i played around with it for a while. its a little buggy still, but a definite improvement. at least there is negative space around text. it would be nice to have better animations, two column support, and better overall horizontal screen responsiveness. the store in particular is borderline useless in horizontal orientation. about 30% of the way there

APK please?

mobilehavoc said:
Nice, millions times better than before but it would be nice if they added page turning animation and soother scrolling.
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yeah, i played around with it for a while. its a little buggy still, but a definite improvement. at least there is negative space around text. it would be nice to have better animations, two column support, and better overall horizontal screen responsiveness. the store in particular is borderline useless in horizontal orientation. about 30% of the way there
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I do tend to agree with both of you, while one of my main loves for Honeycomb is its drive to be very functional in landscape it does leave much to be desired in any apps as far as portrait goes.
Animations would be nice as would the two pages per screen, I guess owning a kindle myself it seems like they try to keep the app geared more like the device itself. I'm still surprised there aren't color options to increase ease of readability and provide longer battery options, two things the device itself captures but while Amazon designs the app to be more device like not just software like, fails to capture here.
I'm guessing the lack of these features leads to desire to want a kindle. Wouldn't want all the creature comforts and selling points in an app that could potentially steal your devices thunder.
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sirius b said:
It looks very nice and fluid on the xoom. I like the new lay out it has for Honeycomb. The new store front UI is very nice as well. I like the scrollable Recommended For You across the top, and layout in general. I do like how in the settings it now shows which device name it is labeled as so you can change it on the amazon website to correctly reflect which device is which. I think my only gripe is that you can't change the background to a sepia effect so its more comfortable to read on.
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There are option in setting for you to set your background colour (white / sepia / black).
Great app, got me to finally purchase kindle books!

dj_ghosie said:
There are option in setting for you to set your background colour (white / sepia / black).
Great app, got me to finally purchase kindle books!
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Under my settings all I see is Deregister This Device.
Device Name
And the option to use the volume buttons to change pages
No color controls. If I'm missing something please show me. I'd love to change this. I know some of the other readers in the market have this option.
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sirius b said:
Under my settings all I see is Deregister This Device.
Device Name
And the option to use the volume buttons to change pages
No color controls. If I'm missing something please show me. I'd love to change this. I know some of the other readers in the market have this option.
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You should have a brightness icon in the action bar, fourth from the right. Color options are there.

Can you sideload books into the Kindle app? I tried copying a mobi file to the kindle directory but it doesn't work..

Yes I have sideloaded books to kindle. Specifically some mobi files on android development from commonsware. I just dropped them in the kindle folder and they showed up.
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I'm not a huge fan of the layout now with the size of the gap around the text, there is a huge ammount of real estate wasted.
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Kcarpenter said:
I'm not a huge fan of the layout now with the size of the gap around the text, there is a huge ammount of real estate wasted.
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Me neither! So I wrote a quick email to Amazon and here's their reply:
Hello,
I'm sorry, currently the option to display 2 pages with adequate font size is not available in Kindle for Android.
I’ve forwarded your concern and suggestions to our development team and we'll consider your feedback as we plan further improvements. We regularly update our Kindle and Kindle application software with added features. I've let the Kindle team know you're interested in this feature.
We'll consider your feedback as we plan further improvements. It is always important for us to hear how customers react to all aspects. Your valuable feedback will help us to improve the selection and service we provide and we're glad you took time to write to us.
We do value the feedback of our customers and make every attempt to integrate their comments or suggestions into our stores and procedures.
As always, please feel free to contact us should you have future suggestions, questions or comments. We have team of experts who takes into consideration each and every feedback of our customers and brings them into practice.
Thank you for using Kindle.
Best regards,
Kaliraja M.
Amazon.com
Your feedback is helping us build Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company.

I can almost see the Xerox marks on that email response.
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JanetPanic said:
Yes I have sideloaded books to kindle. Specifically some mobi files on android development from commonsware. I just dropped them in the kindle folder and they showed up.
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Ok finally got it working. I had to force stop the kindle app first and restarted it before it could see the new books.
Are you sure the kindle app automatically detects the books once you copy them over to the kindle folder?

nice app but I like more to read ebooks on my Kindle. better for my eyes

musashiken said:
Ok finally got it working. I had to force stop the kindle app first and restarted it before it could see the new books.
Are you sure the kindle app automatically detects the books once you copy them over to the kindle folder?
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No I am not sure of that. I may have not had the Kindle app running or I may have hit "sync and check for new items." I have a few books I need to add to my xoom so I will try again today and pay attention.
On a different note is anyone else having problems with text select? It used to be the kindle app had a magnification of the text so I could tell what was being selected. They did away with that but kept the crappy handles. If they shift to the honeycomb text select I am fine without the magnification but using the small (kindle specific) handles I can not tell where I am which makes it difficult to grab a precise section of text.
Edit: I should mention I am at the smallest font size. I read mostly technical books and the more text I can get on the screen at once the easier it is to follow. Particularly sample code. On large font sizes text selection is not as much of a problem.

Does anyone know if text to speech will come to the Android Kindle??

What Ver do you have? im on 3.2.0.35

[APP] Dualweb browser

Check it in market its pretty cool but I think it's a bit buggy
I was on pulse news just browsing and came across it.
If you have problems, disable 2 screens from the browser leave google then enable again
I'm at work so I can't be very descriptive

GREAT!!! it works fine. Some bugs but this is the first version so its nice for a starting version.
I would prefer to have vertical split screen option like in windows 7 that you can have one screen in the left and the other one in the right

raviosopr said:
GREAT!!! it works fine. Some bugs but this is the first version so its nice for a starting version.
I would prefer to have vertical split screen option like in windows 7 that you can have one screen in the left and the other one in the right
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Agreed, they updated it today to iron out some bugs

This is awesome. Perfect for keeping up with various subforums at once. Thanks for increasing my ADD.

This shows a dev who understands how the tablet environment works. Needs the labs quick controls app or something similar to access bookmarks, new tab, etc.

This is definitely awesome! I could be reading XDA and school work at the same time
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This is way cool! I've wanted, for a while now to make dual page browser but sadly I know nothing about creating apps. I even whipped up a chopped screenshot. Excellent find.