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RSS Reader for Android

License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Kotlin 71.06% Java 28.94%

fox-rss's Introduction

Fox RSS

⚠️ This project isn't maintened for now. I don't turn it into an archive because I still want to improve the app, but I don't know when I'll come back to its development.

Fox RSS is a simple rss reader which allows you to create a selection of articles to read later. The application is available on the Play Store in english and french.

Fox RSS is a free and open source android application.

How to use it

An complete introduction is available there in english and there in french.

Add rss feeds

There are two ways to add a rss feed. The first one is to manually add the url of the rss feed. Go in the tab "RSS Feeds" and click on the "+" button. Add the url there. The second way is to share a website from you favorite web browser. When sharing it, choose Fox RSS as destination app. Fox RSS will recognize automatically the rss feed if it exists.

Do your selection

In the first tab, drag the articles you want to the right and the ones you don't want to the left. By doing so, you're makng your selection of articles to read later. All of them are available in the tab "Selection". Unread articles will stay there indefinitely, whereas read articles will vanish after a specific time chosen in the settings (or one week by default).

When you click on an article (in the swipe view or the selection view), a reader will open to let you read it. You can also open the article in your web browser from the reader view.

See all the articles of a rss feed

If you want, you can have access to all the articles of a specific rss feed by clicking on it in the "RSS Feeds" tab.

Contribution

I'm currently working alone on this project and because of my studies and my brass band 🎺👨‍🎓, I don't have enough time to fully develop nice new features. So if you like the app and have android development skills, please consider joining the project ! Here some features users already requested :

dark mode
more customisation choices (for the reader view and the articles selection)
.opml import
RSS database explorer
import rss feeds from online services (ex: Feedly, the Old Reader etc.)
clean the code (I'm still a student, it lacks of order, methodology and algorithm efficency)
anything you consider worth to add !

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fox-rss's Issues

[Feature Request]Add night/dark mode

Really liked this app, but it seem to have no night/dark mode, would be perfect to add it.
Edit:
It seem to be already implemented? But my phone doesn't have global night mode.

Adding Nextcloud RSS support

Basically, Nextcloud has a RSS reader service. It would be amazing if the app would he able to support it in order to expand its usage base.There is an existing API that can be leveraged.

Extra information can be found here:

https://github.com/nextcloud/news/

Either way, thank you for the app!

Add opt-in tracking

Izzydroid currently displays a warning because the app is sending logs without explicit permission or even notice, would be nice if you could add a prompt asking the user if they want to send the information to you / a notice

Question!

Does the app have a future to-do list? The most extraordinary rss reader I've ever seen, but it's missing a lot of features..

Material Design 3 / You

Hi, just found the app on F-Droid, it's really awesome, I had 2 wishes for the app, dark mode and material design 3 / you, but I saw you already thought of the most important one.
I think material design 3 / you would be a nice upgrade so would be really cool if you could implement that :)

Project Translation

I've seen OSS projects use these sites for translation purpose

I think Weblate is better as it's opensource.

Features: https://weblate.org/en/features/

https://weblate.org/en/hosting/

opml import

Hi,

Amazing app to read in another way rss feed. My question is : is it possible to consider opml import in the next versions of Fox-RSS ? I have around a hundred of rss feed and i cannot import them one by one.

Once again great work
Thanks
Antoine

Attempt to invoke virtual method 'int java.lang.String.length()' on a null object reference

After adding a RSS https://medium.com/feed/androiddevelopers and going back to the articles tab, the app crashes with the following trace:

2021-04-14 16:45:07.436 15274-15274/com.pigeoff.rss E/RecyclerView: No adapter attached; skipping layout
2021-04-14 16:45:07.558 15274-15274/com.pigeoff.rss E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.pigeoff.rss, PID: 15274
    java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'int java.lang.String.length()' on a null object reference
        at java.io.StringReader.<init>(StringReader.java:50)
        at android.text.HtmlToSpannedConverter.convert(Html.java:748)

Add outstanding-number-of-articles counter

Love the app!
Small feature request: it would be great to have a small counter somewhere on the article screen which displays the number of articles you still have to swipe on.
If you have 5 outstanding articles and you swipe on the current one then the counter should decrease from 5 -> 4.

Certificate issue

A scan (see here for details and background) just revealed the APKs at your releases are signed using a debug key. As that has security implications, may I ask you to please switch to a proper release key, and provide the corresponding APK signed with it? Thanks in advance!