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 [...]
In my previous post on this I mentioned that parsing the Google Reader XML (Atom) feed with SAX was faster than parsing the JSON stream with json-simple. However, this is no longer the case thanks to jackson which is used in the Reader Widgets from version 2.3. On my HTC G1 running Android 1.6 (donut) [...]
