Google Reader client NewsFlow v1.4 for Symbian and Maemo

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

Good way to start Easter holidays is to write few lines of Qt/QML/JavaScript. Now I spent some time with the NewsFlow app, which is a Google Reader client for Symbian, Maemo and MeeGo devices.

I was now able to add theme support to app by using single Theme QML object and chaning the properties dynamically in JavaScript. All UI components would then use the theme object’s properties for colors.

NewsFlow now supports light and dark themes

Other features in the release:

Show read items in list in lighter color
Share to Facebook/Twitter
Mark as unread is now working
Minimize on N900 by tapping top left corner

Download the latest binaries from Nokia Forum Project page, here.Картиниикони

NewsFlow UI Experiments on WeTab MeeGo Tablet

Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

One of the most important uses for my tablet is to read news with it. The default browser works pretty well for that purpose but I tweaked my NewsFlow app’s user interface a bit so that it’s more pleasant to use with a tablet’s larger screen and even surpasses the web pages in some ways.

Now it shows the main menu on the left and news items list next to it. Right side of the screen is preserved for the news item content. All three containers are vertically scrollable.

Here is a small teaser of NewsFlow running on WeTab MeeGo tablet:

NewsFlow 1.2 for N8 and N900

Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

I added few new features to NewsFlow yesterday. Now you can browse items by tags and subscriptions too. You can download the binaries from the Nokia Forum Project site, here.

Here is a short video that I recorded yesterday showing the new navigation:

NewsFlow Moves to Dark Side with 1.1 Beta Release

Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

Taking a small break from coding TwimGo and adding some features to NewsFlow application. NewsFlow is a Google Reader client written in QML and JavaScript. It runs on Nokia N900 and Symbian^3 devices such as N8 or E7.

NewsFlow 1.1 Beta running on Nokia N900 and N8

NewsFlow app showing unread items on Nokia N8

With this release I changed the color theme from light to dark as it was requested on some of the previous blog post comments. It made a big difference and the UI looks really nice. It should look excellent especially on your devices with ClearBlack displays such as E7 which Nokia started shipping today :)

I only added few features to this version:

Dark theme
Ability to tag items
Gesture support: Swipe to left / right to switch item
Improved “Load more…” functionality
Auto-login
Fixed “Open in browser” feature

You can download this release from Forum Nokia Projects site, here.

NewsFlow, Google Reader client for Nokia N8 and N900

Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 by Tommi Laukkanen

I’ve been really impressed with the latest Qt SDK 1.1 Technical Preview release since now I tend to launch Qt Creator instead of TextMate when editing QML files. Only bugs that I’ve found are the problems with the remote compiler so I still need Windows machine to compile apps to Symbian^3 platform.

With Qt SDK 1.1 I’ve been working on the next version of TwimGo but now I needed some break from that and got an inspiration for news reader from Nokia Reader which is a new RSS reader from Nokia Beta Labs.

I tend to use Google Reader heavily to read my feeds and didn’t like the idea of subscribing to feeds on another application. So this made me create a simple Google Reader client with Qt Quick, QML.

Application uses pure QML and JavaScript to access Google Reader API and displaying items. No custom C++ was written for the app. Application runs nicely on my Nokia N8 and N900. See how it runs on N8: