We just submitted the new version of Feeds to Apple for approval.
New in this version:
- You can now touch the status bar to scroll to the top of all lists.
- Better internationalization and character support including languages other than English.
- The much requested “mark all as read” button has been added
- Up/down arrows while reading a feed to navigation directly to the previous/next feed description.
Keep the feedback and suggestions coming!
Any idea when would the new version show up in the app store. Apple is really proving itself not to be ready for the bigger masses yet, lately.
Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t tell us developers much of anything. All they said is that it is “in review” and they provide no other status or time estimate. Hopefully, they will get it in there ASAP.
I’ll be waiting eagerly….
I think you should include web browsing in your app so you don’t need to switch to safari.
Smedberg, We originally had this built into the application but ran into problems with some of the websites that are very image and resource rich robbing the application of all of it’s memory. We are still waiting for Apple to give us solutions for some bugs that we entered. As soon as we can get browsing in the application without causing memory issues you can bet that it will be there.
Thanks for the feedback.
First let me say that Feeds is the one add-on iPhone application that I use every day. It has truly changed the way I access information. Thanks for your great work.
One brief suggestion: Any chance you could make the program have the ability to group feeds into user-defined categories (e.g., news, entertainment, science, etc.)? I have a good number of feeds, and grouping them would really help me out.
Peace.
joel
Hi Joel, Thank you for the comment. Grouping the feeds into categories sounds like a viable option. We will certainly consider it for a future update.
Loving the update. One more feature request, can the feeds that have unread items appear bold or even better show the number of unread items.
Ed, the next version of feeds will have the unread count next to each feed if all goes well. We have to finish up offline mode in order to be able to get an accurate count. Both features are closely coupled and will be released simultaneously.
HI there, I have used 3 RSS feed apps for iPhone, newsgator which is great but i dont read off the pc so its a mission to add feeds. Also I bough iRSS mobile which is nice but very unstable.
I bought you app and I must say I really love it compared to all the others, it is quick and easy to use with no stabiliy issues.
If the requests made above are built in it will be PERFECT
Madouc, Thank you for the feedback. We are hard at work on the above requests. With the exception of being able to view the webpages right in Feeds (which will require Apple to fix a couple bugs in Mobile Safari before it is stable enough for us) we should have the rest of the features ready for the next release if all goes well. Unfortunately, we don’t provide exact release dates but as a rough estimate you can expect it sometime in the near future.
I added a feed that does not exist and every time I try to delete it Feeds crashes. Can you please look into this. I love the app.
Hi Michael, We sent an update to Apple a couple days ago that should take care of the problem. Please let us know when you download the update if it allows you to remove the feed.
I’m not finding ‘Mark All as Read’ across my whole google reader account to be terribly useful. Can we get a ‘Mark all visible items As Read’ or ‘Mark this Feed Group as Read’?
I like the page advancing Mark-As-Read on the google reader iphone site, as the majority of my RSS items are not worth reading and I don’t want to see them as new when I go back in.
@Brent if you are in a category and you touch ‘Mark All as Read’ it will only mark that category as read. Likewise for when you are in a single feed. The problem with marking only the current page of items as read is that if you have 20 feed items on screen, Feeds would have to send out 20 http requests which you definitely do not want to do. The performance would be horrible. When Google officially releases their API they might include a batch function like they do with Reader which would make it doable.
Mike