Reader 1.1 Changelog

We’re going to be submitting Reader 1.1 to Apple today, which means it should hopefully be on App Store by Friday.

Here’s what’s changed since 1.0:

• Improved updating speed & performance
• Reader is now useable while updating
• Added Favorite Feeds & Feed Items
• Added App Settings:
  
  • You can turn auto update on/off
  • Show/Hide Homescreen Badge
  • Show/Hide Feed Icons
  • Hide old items from Overview panel
• Intelligent feed updating checks for changes before downloading data
• Improvements for offline support
• Fixed crashes caused by feed icons
• Fixed bug that cleared out all feed items
• Added updating indicator throughout entire app
• Improved handling of non-US characters
• Improved overall application performance
• Fixed Category new item count
• Updated reload behavior:
  
  • Pressing reload on “Feeds” tab will reloads all feeds
  • Pressing reload on Overview tab with All Items selected reloads all feeds
  • Pressing reload on Overview tab with a category selected will only reload feeds in that category
  • Pressing reload in Favorites will only reload the favorite feeds
• Improved feed parsing support to handle non-standard dates and descriptions
• Prevents feed icons from loading while feeds are updating to avoid performance slow down
• Added more locations to check for feed icon
• Only checks for feed icon once per session
• Fixed crash when updating too many feeds at one time
• Changed Overview and feed settings interface icons

Be sure to check out this post on our developers blog for a detailed description of how we improved the performance of feed updating.

Hopefully we’ve addressed the majority of your concerns and issues with Reader in this update, if we haven’t be sure to email us at support@enormego.com or drop by our support chatroom to let us know what we missed.