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noinnion / newsplus

News+ is a simple, fast and intuitive feed/rss reader for Android, featuring beautiful themes, podcast support and full offline support.
http://noinnion.com/newsplus
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Extension for Firefox Live Bookmarks #2

Closed sschuberth closed 11 years ago

sschuberth commented 11 years ago

I think it's very convenient to manage RSS / Atom feeds as Live Bookmarks in Firefox (in conjunction with the LiveClick add-on). Although Firefox is available on Android, too, it would be nice to have a more lightweight solution to read Live Bookmark feeds. Thus, a News+ extension that uses an existing "Firefox Sync" account (under Settings -> Accounts on Android) to read the synced bookmarks and parse them for Live Bookmarks in order to display the feeds would be great.

noinnion commented 11 years ago

I don't really know if it works? It is possible to sync with Firefox?

sschuberth commented 11 years ago

Well, it's possible to sync bookmarks with Firefox, and Live Bookmarks (aka RSS / Atom feeds) are just a special kind of bookmark, so I think it should be possible. See the Storage API docs for an overview. In more detail, Live Bookmarks are a special kind of Storage Object called Livemarks. Also Mozilla's source code for the Background Services for Firefox for Android probably is useful. However, from a first glance I did not find an API to mark a Live Bookmarks as read on the server side. I guess one simply needs to track this on the client side based on the Live Bookmark's expiration time.

noinnion commented 11 years ago

If someone has any experience about it he could do it as an extension.