Reader unleashed

Finally, it's done. I've finished the course and here I give away the version it ended with. There are bugs and there are features I've promised and not implemented, bur it reads RSS!
I might find time to really finish it, but it's not that probable as I'd like.

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It's been a long week

It's been a bit more than a week since I've posted my objectives for the following weeek. The task has taken me a bit more time than I've expected, but I've fixed quite some issues and design flaws on the way, so I'm OK with it.
I've removed some DB problems and, most importantly, made the Views really managable!
The management is done via drag'n'drop. Wanna delete something? Drag it into the bin! Moving feeds around the views is no problem, and it's really intuitive I think. All the editing is done using dialogs, I'll need to talk to the software keyboard a little and make her behave. But now, it's finally useable! Issues there, still, but i'm gnna fix that soon.

Next week, thede won't be any exceptions thrown in the log! I need to devise a way to close the DB in the right time.

How things go on

I've kind of forgotten to post this week, so I have here for you a special treat: screenshots, yay!

The settings activity needs quite some graphics work, but I think the rest looks quite good for my design. As you can guess, all the colors are customizable using a nice color-picking dialog I've written. The feed organization is all done using drag and drop, which I'm yet to finish, but the idea is in place.

The least user-friendly thing I have yet to solve is adding feeds. Users will have to copy/paste from Browser, which is quite user-unfriendly, but I can't think of a different way. At least there will be a paste button...

I have now 2-3 weeks to finish the whole thing, so I'll need to hurry a little bit. The good news is that other school stuff has become less of a time-eater, so I might manage to meet most of my targets. But there's still work to do elsewhere, so I'll start cutting off features.

The resolution this week:
Gourmet reader will let you manage your feeds an feedviews next week!
Wish me good luck and lots of free time!

Next wek's joys 4 - 3. - 9. 4.

Another week passed and here I am, writing the next report. I've written basic code for the views and a designed the UI for the initial screen. (Await the screens and fancy drawings!) It's pretty cool, and I've devised a way to draw cool frames of completely custom colors! Now just to talk a friend of mine into making a nice box for me.
Next week, the views will be manageable - will allow the user to add and remove single feeds and add custom coloring.
That might work, because it's Easter!

Next week's joys 3 - 26. 3 - 2. 4.

Ok, loading from the Internet works like a charm! I'll need to deal with HTML entities and rogue HTML in the feed, but these are just minor details.
Now for the next steps:
Next week Gourmet reader will be able to display the so-called FeedViews.
A FeedView is a page that takes different feeds and puts them together in chronological order. One example is of course the All FeedView, that displays every sinlge item from all the followed feeds. Then there could be News, Sport for sports fans, Maths for math research fellows etc.
The items will be color-coded by feed, of course customizable. That implies some settings interface, which I may not manage to complete.

Next week's joys 2 - 19. - 24.3.

Since I have done some extra work during past week and before, I thing this target is completely manageable, even though I'm to sit to like 3 tests next week.

Next week, Gourmet reader will be able to display a single feed from the Internet in a readable form.

I really hope there will be no problems this time. Maybe last week I just didn't hope enough!

The outcomes of past week

The week flew by, and unfortunately I had less time to do work than I expected (I forgot that I'd be gone all the weekend). However, it seems now that I've done enough to be able to meet my targets today!
Behold:

That's my blog, right! For now, there's some dummy coloring not even aiming to be readable (pretty much random), completely random headline sizes and not-so-nice black borders. But it works, and it doesn't die in pan when I interact with it!