Navigation from article to article

jocmp / capyreader

An smallish Android RSS reader

http://capyreader.com/

MIT License

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Navigation from article to article #369

Open montechristos opened 1 week ago

montechristos commented 1 week ago

Thanks for the tool, it is very promising

Feature request: It would be great to be able to navigate from article to article (back and forth) from within the article. In other RSS tools, swipe left-right does this.

Thanks in advance

jocmp commented 1 week ago

hey @montechristos. thanks for trying out the app. I'm currently wrapping up a first iteration of this with #265 with buttons. I'm not including a gesture yet due to some complications in how the app is built.

Are there any RSS tools that you're thinking of specifically that do left-right nav well?

montechristos commented 1 week ago

Thanks for reaching back. I have been using Flym news reader for many years now. Unfortunately it is out of support, so I am looking for alternatives. Capy is the top candidate for replacing my beloved Flym.

So, the navigation of Flym is great. Please have a look. Some other features that I find great:

left-right navigation between articles
you can completely 'hide' the read articles (so they are not in the way in the lists)
fixed height lists, that make the list look very clean
...

PS: my main reading device is a e-ink android tablet. Let me know if you would like feedback on using capy on it.

jocmp commented 1 week ago

Cool, I'll take another look at Flym. I remember trying it out years ago when it was still supported.

If you have any feedback about e-ink tablets, definitely open a discussion (https://github.com/jocmp/capyreader/discussions) so that others can chime in. I'm interested in this use case since I have a Boox e-reader. I can't promise I'll get to every feature request but I'll do my best as time permits and when they make sense to add.

sozifa commented 6 days ago

Flym is definitely worth a look to get some inspiration - has been my default rss reader till I discovered capy ;-) - as it has been abandoned for years now the ui feels a bit outdated and capy looks more modern and simplified - but still the gestures used in capy for navigation, loading full article,... are still worth another look ;-)

jocmp commented 3 days ago

A small update. I'm very close to adding swipe navigation. I'm working on adding the options to settings now. Here's a demo of how it works.

Default, swipe between articles

I decided to go with vertical pagination instead of horizontal pagination to avoid messing with the Android back navigation as well as keeping parity with the functionality in Reeder and ReadYou.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/948d30c1-87ed-4678-ad88-5e76ee656f96

Option, swipe down to load full content

@sozifa let me know if this is what you've envisioned

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0b11c569-c86c-4977-b501-b330f4204efa

sozifa commented 3 days ago

That's absolutely perfect- many thanks :-)

jocmp commented 2 days ago

This change is live in 2024.09.1050-dev. I'll include it in the next Google Play release in a few days too.

sozifa commented 2 days ago

You're legend - very much appreciated