LateReader is all over the Net ...

I guess many people were waiting for a Read It Later application for Windows Mobile platform. As soon as I released the application, I have seen that the application is mirrored on a number of freeware sites, and mentioned on many blogs, critcs sites etc. Here are a few of them:


http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2010/05/17/read-it-later-list-app-for-windows-mobile.html
http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/latereader-a-winmo-read-it-later-app/
http://pocketnow.com/software-1/read-it-later-app-for-windows-phone
http://www.freewareppc.com/docs/latereader.shtml
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/Late-Reader-101591.shtml
http://my-xda.blogspot.com/2010/05/latereader.html
http://ppcfusion.co.cc/2010/05/19/latereader-v010/
http://opensoftwaresppc.blogspot.com/2010/05/latereader-v010.html

LateReader is on freewarepocketpc.com ....

LateReader is available for download now on http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-latereader.html
 in addition to xda-devs forum. Although this is a very early beta release I receive very positive responses, hopefully we will have a much better app. in the near future.

LateReader v0.1.0 release...

Hello everybody.
I have the first public beta release of LateReader now.
I hope you enjoy it.

You can follow LateReader app progress here and also at xda-developers : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682845

LateReader a WM app for Read It Later

This is my first post about LateReader, a Windows Mobile application for reading your Read It Later lists. Actually this application does (or aims) more than just reading your list. You can search, sort your list. Download pages for offline reading. Share your list items with others. And more.

Let's start with some screenshots, thanks to the wonderfull ShakeAndSave utility.

Current Status ¶

• C# API wrapper for RIL web based API
• Login
• Signup
• Reading List UI
• Page Text rendering (I am doing this from scratch as the .NET WebBrowser component seems to be unusable for me)
• Currently Reading (Remembers what you were reading last time)
• Syncing with the RIL server
• Storing the list and Page Texts for offline viewing
• favicon image display in reading list
• Mark as Read/Unread functionality in the reading list
• Search in reading list
• Sorting in reading list
• Kinetic scrolling in Page Text display
• Currently reading context menu
  • fontsize: tiny, small, normal, large, huge
  • show more/less (depending on the current mode),
  • show full in browser
  • update pagetext (download again)

Planned Features ¶

• Item Title/Tags editing
• Better UI
• Better rendering (more html tag support) in the Page Text display
• Pinch zooming in the reading list and Page Text display
• Application Settings UI
• Image download/display option in the Page Text display
• Better Application icon
• ! Threaded syncing
• Share (twitter, facebook, email)
• ! Paging in currently reading (better memory management)
• Currently reading context menu - share (twitter, facebook, email)
• Shake based URL add (with a translucent form with two buttons: "Read It Later" and "Open Late Reader")
  • for Opera 10
  • for other browsers later
• Archieve
• Tags Chooser (like in blog page tags)
• Delete an item
• Application settings
• Reading bg color/fgcolor selection
• Page transition effects (from main form to reading list, reading list to currently reading)
• check connection state and open upon user approval during
  • sync
  • open in external browser
  • share via email,facebook,twitter
  • update pagetext
• Download/display page images
• Rotate/auto rotate images
• !Get only list as an option
  • Show whether pagetext is available with an icon
  • Let the user marks items for downloading next syncing
  • By default do not download READ item page text
    • Make this an option
• Reading list button animation (Button down effect)
• Kinetic scrolling in reading list
• Store currently reading scrollposition
• SIP auto activate/deactivate when focus enters/exits text boxes
• Performance improvement
  • Optimize justified text rendering
  • Decrease memory usage (easily reaches 5-6 MB currently)

Bugs/Annoyances ¶

• max mode of main form is sometimes hindered with the title bar (especially after a long running sync operation)
• error messages generated by RILAPI are not displayed at all (maybe not generated correctly?)
• favicon is not correctly drawn
• link tag defined favicons are not currently downloaded
• [FIXED]reading list does not update after a sync (at least the sorting is not applied)
• [FIXED]currently reading mode (less/more) is not stored
• [FIXED]When no text is available in Currently Reading Panel a message indicating less mode is shown, but sometimes the same thing happens in more mode as well
• [FIXED]Better rendering of PRE/CODE tags
• Better rendering of long words (words longer than a line should be splitted)
• Every form is displayed as a separate app in task managers, we should have only one item instead
• [FIXED]Some items are displayed twice in All view (maybe read items?)

It's been a while....

Yeah it's been a while since I last posted something here. There has been many things in the mean time. First I was dreaming about Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, then I have the opportunity to buy one, but I choose HTC Touch HD mostly because of the glorious screen :). Then I was in the army, doing my military service. Now I am at home again, and have a shiny bigger, sweeter HTC Touch HD2. OK, enough said about the past, let's talk about the future now...

Lately, I started developing for Windows Mobile as a hobby. Actually, I was planning to do this the whole time, but only now I managed to start doing something.

Currently I am working on a project called LateReader, which is a Windows Mobile application to read and manage your Read It Later (RIL) lists. I will have a post about this project very soon.
I am also very much interested in the following open source projects:

• Freda (WM epub reader)
• Klaxon (alarm application second only to G-Alarm)

After releasing LateReader, I will start working on these sources. I am planning to turn Freda to a very powerful ebook reader that reads many different formats.
Klaxon is already a very powerful app, I will be only fixing some annoyances there.
I have many other projects on my mind, and I am planning to work on them one after another. All projects will be free (at least the versions for up to WM 6.5). Some of the projects I have in my mind include:

• Ebruzen: Ebru (Turkish marbling art) on the touch screen. Check this video to see what Ebru is! It's a wonderfull art.
• Holy Book Reader: Read The Holy Kuran, Bible, Torah on your WM device. I know there are a lot of apps already available for this. But none has the simplicity and feature set I have in mind. You will see what I mean, when I post about this.
• TakWiM : A calendar application that show many info about the current day including, wheather info, prayer times, GPS/CellID integration, Today in history, Name suggestions for the newborn, etc. You know like the old paper calendars with all these information. I miss them so much :)
  

You will be able to follow the status of all these projects here in Vizier's Palace. See you by then.