Recent Blog Articles Page

irongut commented 2 years ago

Feature Request

New page using CarouselView and IndicatorView to show recent blog articles.

Blog RSS: https://blog.taranissoftware.com/rss.xml

Expected Behaviour

Articles should look similar to cards on my readme and include the intro section of the article (up to the first <h2>). Tapping a card will open the article in the default browser. Cache the rss for 1 hour.

Sailing the Sharp Sea: Latest

Possible settings:

Update data only on non-metered connection
Open links in internal / external browser

Additional Context

Some cover images are webp format, others are png. Can MAUI handle webp format?

Does MonkeyCache work in MAUI? If not is there an alternative?

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irongut commented 2 years ago

webp images work on Android & Windows, need to test iOS.

irongut commented 2 years ago

MonkeyCache creates a lot of warnings like the following about MonkeyCache and its dependencies:

NU1703: 'MonkeyCache 1.5.2' was resolved as a dependency of 'MauiBeach', but the dependency is using 'Xamarin.iOS' while 'MauiBeach' is using 'net6.0-maccatalyst15.0' as its TargetFramework. There might be compatibility issues when MacCatalyst projects depend on Xamarin.iOS projects.

I have no way to test MacCatalyst. Android & Windows work but iOS crashes on launch with inner exception:

System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 
'/Users/davemurray/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/543FA802-3DDE-4B99-A5C9-8ACD8E9EF619/data/Containers/Data/Application/5492E225-F071-4143-8AD6-4165EC3B0E2A/Library/Caches/com.taranissoftware.mauibeach/MonkeyCacheFS'.
   at System.IO.FileSystem.CreateDirectory(String fullPath)
   at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path)
   at MonkeyCache.FileStore.Barrel.WriteIndex()
   at MonkeyCache.FileStore.Barrel..ctor(String cacheDirectory)
   at MonkeyCache.FileStore.Barrel.get_Current()
   at MauiBeach.ViewModels.HomeViewModel..ctor() in D:\Dev\Csharp\Demos\MauiBeach\src\MauiBeach\ViewModels\HomeViewModel.cs:line 57

The line causing the exception is the first time the cache is accessed:

if (Barrel.Current.Exists(key)) { .. }

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