Feeds now available through ModMyiFone.com repository
Yesterday, Kyle from ModMyiFone.com contacted me and offered me to host my iPhone app Feeds for me. This means that you won’t have to add any custom sources to your Installer.app any more in order to download Feeds. I will still keep my old repository but will only use it for test builds, so you might want to stay away from it 
Thanks also to Fabiano, who offered me to put my app on iSpazio and the over 1′000 people who’ve already installed my application.
To keep track of bugs and feature requests, I also set up a project page on Google Code, so it would be great if you could post them there.
Feeds (Version 0.2)
Update 04/19/2008: Starting from tonight, Feeds should be available through the ModMyiFone.com repository.
A new version of Feeds is available through my repository the ModMyiFone.com repository.
Changelist
- Journaling implemented — blog entries that you read offline now will correctly be marked as read on the server side during the next synchronization
- Smarter syncing: when the number of unread items reported by the Google Reader API corresponds to the one on the iPhone and there are no new entries, nothing will be downloaded. This enormously reduces the time spent on synchronizing.
- New application style with a fancy button bar
- A lot of small bug fixes and some memory management cleanup
Feeds — Fix for Firmware Versions 1.1.3 / 1.1.4
Thanks to Roman for reporting issues with Feeds on his fresh-from-NYC-iPhone running firmware 1.1.3. I upgraded my iPod Touch to firmware 1.1.4 and found that storing the SQLite database file in the application folder was causing the error (probably not a very smart idea anyway 
). I resolved this issue and just updated the Feeds package in my repository (http://424f.com/iphone/repository) with a new version, so you might want to give it another try if it didn’t work before.
Versions that «Feeds» has been reported to be working on are:
- 1.1.1 iPod Touch
- 1.1.2 iPhone (thanks to Bigli)
- 1.1.3 iPhone (thanks to Roman)
- 1.1.4 iPod Touch / iPhone
iPhone-Feeds (Version 0.1 Alpha)
While I haven’t been working on my Google Reader-based news reader for the iPhone (uncreatively named «iPhone-Feeds») over the last two weeks, I finally got back to it on Monday. Though it’s still not a finished application, I guess it’s time for an Alpha version to find out whether it actually runs on other iPhones with possibly different Firmware versions.
How to Install
In your Installer.app, add the repository http://424f.com/iphone/repository. After refreshing the repositories, you should find an entry «Feeds» in the category «Network». Install it like every other App. When you start it for the first time, the settings dialogue will automatically appear and prompt you for your username and password. After that you can now synchronize with Google Reader and download all those witty blog entries.
What’s missing?
- Synchronization works only one way — while changes made on the Google Reader website are reflected correctly on the iPhone, it currently does not work the other way around. This is the most important feature planned for the next version.
- There’s no folder view, so if you have a lot of different feeds, the feed list might look quite messy.
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x — feel free to tell me what the value of x is and chances are that it won’t be missing anymore in a future version
