[Open Beta] BreakingNews - Scrolling news widget for your home screen
- The idea behind Breaking News is a widget-like scrolling ticker on your home screen that displays your favourite RSS feeds.
There are many configurable options including:
- Ticker border colour
- Text colour and size
- Ticker location speed
- Up to 5 user customizable RSS feeds
- Automatically uses Wifi if available
- Battery safe! Won't drain your battery, goes to sleep when not on your home screen or when your backlight is off.
Some things Im looking for:
- Does a specific RSS feed not work?
- Does the ticker appear in places it shouldnt?
- When leaving feedback please include your Device Model and OS version.
I also have to give a special thanks to Bellshare for helping out with some code and to CrackBerry Kevin for coming up with the name
Requirements: OS 5.0 or above
UPDATE March 10th - How to add a Twitter Feed: http://forums.crackberry.com/f35/ope...0/#post6122104
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April 8th - 1.12
- Bug Fixes
April 4th - 1.10
- Enabled the trial expiration, so most of you will have your copy expired. When you go into the app it will tell you your activation code, just enter that in. Just need to test that it is work.
March 31st - 1.07
- Fix for those having the app not start
March 31st - 1.07
- Bug Fixes!
March 23rd - 1.04
- password screen fix
- other small fixes
March 22nd - 1.04
- new "setup wizard"
- changed double click END key on homescreen, now pops up a list of all rss items with the current item highlighted
- fixed password screen at boot up flickering (hopefully! but maybe not, still have to do more testing, just increase the startup delay for now)
- other smaller fixes
March 20th - 1.02
- Lag fix
March 19th - 1.01
- Updated UI
- Added "log" to advanced tab for diagnostics
- Fix for feeds not updating
- On home screen double click End Key (tap twice), will launch article in web browser
- On home screen holding ESC key will skip to begging of current article in ticker, if near the beginning of the scroll will scroll to previous article
- There is something in this build that may cause some OSs to lag, it will be resolved next build tomorrow.
- Note: Still working on white "flash" that occurs when opening an app off the home screen.
March 17th - 0.99
- Added option to delay start up after reboot
- Fix for password screen on start up
- Fix for bedside mode
- Other smaller fixes
March 16th - 0.98
-Bug fixes/optimizations
-Added option to show ticker on clock/bedside mode
March 14th - 0.95
- Couple bug fixes, didn't have a lot of time tonight so more tomorrow.
March 13th - 0.94
- Optimization build, focus on this one is making things smoother and faster. Bug fixes tomorrow.
March 12th - 0.93
- Added transparency option "Clear"
- Added backup/restore settings to SDCard (in menu)
- If you enter in a location larger than your device height, will automatically appear at bottom, also applies to rotating from portrait to landscape
- Improved support for 3rd party themes
- Code optimizations
March 11th - 0.92
- Support for international characters
- Fix for blank ticker showing
- Fixed areas where ticker would show up where it shouldnt (ie over menus)
- New loading screen which attempts to learn your homescreen layout
- Option to show/hide border
- Option to show/hide rss icon in ticker
- Other bug fixes
March 10th – 0.89 First Public Build
http://wap.shao-soft.com/shao/Ticker.jad
03-10-11 09:37 AMLike 67 -
- Just a quick update based on a message I just received and something I hadn't thought of, you can also add Twitter feeds!
Visit the persons Twitter through your web browser (on computer), then click on the RSS Feed link, enter the URL it takes you to into BreakingNews, and you're done.
03-10-11 10:30 AMLike 0 - Which field are you moving it over? Notification field it will hide because if you drop down your notifications you'd want it gone. And since you're a dev you'll understand why it is that way03-10-11 10:40 AMLike 0
- Click ShutDown in the app, then restart it by clicking the icon (or just batt pull) and let me know if it works then. Thanks.03-10-11 10:41 AMLike 0
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- in addition to the refresh and save button: if someone forgets to hit this button and exits out of the app maybe have a popup box "Changes Made: Save, Discard, Cancel"
Really enjoying the widget03-10-11 10:48 AMLike 0 - Hello thank you for your app. Just installed on my Torch running os .448 in french network. Installation was smooth. The position is perfect and the refresh works well. Still testing it. Brillant idea
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com03-10-11 10:48 AMLike 0 -
- Hello thank you for your app. Just installed on my Torch running os .448 in french network. Installation was smooth. The position is perfect and the refresh works well. Still testing it. Brillant idea
Edit : regarding the french alphabet with accentuation like � or � it doesn't' work and I see some strange characters like @ instead
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com03-10-11 10:57 AMLike 0 - The application is cool. I love it. Works well on my Curve 8520.
Question: what is the essence of the registration? I thought it is free for now! Pls advice. Thanks for the good job.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com03-10-11 11:01 AMLike 0
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