I have just uploaded a new version of Reader Widgets Pro and Free to the Android Market. The main change is to the WebView authorization process. Google recently change the Reader authorization method for the API. However, it turns out this also affected the Reader mobile site so that automatic login stopped working in the [...]
Yesterday I received a free Nexus One from Google as part of their Android Developer Seeding Program. Reader Widget Free qualified for this so I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who downloaded, rated and provided feedback on it. It has been downloaded over 22000 times. Also thanks to those who [...]
I have just uploaded the latest version of Reader Widgets Free and Pro to the Android Market. Here’s the full changelog: Memory usage of large widget reduced Added clear cache button to webview menu. This can be used to free up some of the disk space without having to go into the Android application settings [...]
I have just uploaded version 2.8 of the Reader Widgets, both Pro and Free, to the Android Market. Here’s the changelog: Added zoom controls to the WebView. This means multitouch also works on Nexus Ones running update 1. Bug fix: users upgrading from V2.6 to 2.7 may have experienced problems with the webview requesting a [...]
They have just announced some updates to the Google Maps API V3. This seems to have fixed an issue where the plus and minus buttons in the info window for each pub in PubCrawler were difficult to press on Android 2.x devices. I didn’t need to do any code changes for this which is always [...]
I have just uploaded a small update to Reader Widgets Pro/Free to the Market. Here’s the changelog: Updated authentication with Google Reader API ahead of some changes Google will be making in April Unread count JSON response parsing now performed with jackson for slight speed increase Removed some legacy code to reduce app size Google [...]
I have a bit of an addiction to benchmarking. It must be because I’m a PC gamer (yes we still exist). Actually it’s probably more of an addiction to tweaking every last ounce of performance out of something. Recently I learned how to get to the protocol buffers version of the Google Reader API. Protocol [...]
I have just uploaded V2.5 of Reader Widgets Pro and Free to the Android Market. This update contains a quick fix for some changes that Google made to authorization for all of their APIs. The authorization tokens used to access the API now get invalidated by Google every night. The widgets were unable to handle [...]
I hold in my hands something that has ten times the CPU clock speed and 32 times the RAM of the first PC I bought 13 years ago. I think the time has come to stop calling these things mobile phones (and super phones – lets stop that right now) and start calling them what [...]
Despite the #uksnow my Nexus One has arrived. First impressions are very good. I’ll post a mini-review later. PubCrawler and the Reader Widgets both work on it by the way.
