smartRSS... a new RSS reader made by the iGuideTV team

[burdell1]

do you have a link for that one?

[asmodeus_dhoine]

it's kinda useless without ability to import feeds from opml. Users who know what a feed is know what's opml and have their feeds on their computers already. How are they supposed to transfer them to iPhone?
I really hope you'll include this feature in the very next ver.

[romeo0119]

It's a good app but the developer need bugfix and come out with a new ver, and please add the ability to delete feeds. For now I'm sticking with MobileRss

[mcdj]

I'm still waiting for an app that can read my current iPhone feed bookmarks. It's 2008...why are we still typing URLs?

[mazor]

Try "Feeds" it loads up and syncs with Google reader!!! Amazing.

Also if you can get it to work stable the old RSS reader does load up OPML files

MAzor

[jakaj]

Here are my beefs with SmartRSS 1.0.

GUI design guidelines "violations":
- Wrong arrow type in feed list and entry list views (should be the small grey one, because it's action is the same as the entire row)
- Wrong startup image (should reflect the running app and not be used as splash)
- Non-standard list item delimiters ("shadow") in lists
- Non-standard animations (They're fancy for the first 10 minutes of use but then they get annoying and slow. An option to disable them would be great.)

Other GUI annoyances:
- Non-standard program icon in the feed list view (which I don't know yet if I like or not)
- Inconsistent app name capitalizataion: SmartRSS vs smartRSS
- "Want a branded version?\n SmartRSS version 1.0" tag footer? No thanks I don't mind if it's shown once per app update, or in the About box, but it's just wasting space there.
- In "feed entry view" the ">>" arrow takes you to the older entry (some might reasonably expect the next/newer entry). Perhaps up and down arrows would be better, to better reflect the relationship with the previous view (entry list view/feed view)?

Inefficient screen realestate usage in some places:
- do we really need the entire bottom Refresh/Ad/About bar in the feed view?
- and what about the the Safari button in the entry view (can't the title of the entry just be clickable?)

Too much graphics/icons:
- Is "Today" badge really needed in entry list? Wouldn't it be nicer if the date field just handled "Today" and "Yesterday" specially
- Similarly, is the "RSS" badge in the feed list really needed?
I propose having just a "new" symbol (asterisk or something) next to entries and next to feeds (if they contain a new entry) instead of all the badges.

Missing features:
- feed list import
- feed categories (hierarchical or single-level? not sure)
- automatic refresh in background with a badge

Otherwise SmartRSS is way way way better than MobileRSS!

Also, I hope it gets open source'd, in which case I promise to donate $20 :P

[istorm]

SmartRSS wont open on my 1.1.4 iphone. I already set the smartrss.app folder and all single files inside with 0777 permission, but still crash when it try to open. Sometime I got "Unexpected quit: Continue or Reset" I clicked both then it went back to springboard.

Any ideas? Thanks

[kiji]

SmartRSS wont open on my 1.1.4 iphone. I already set the smartrss.app folder and all single files inside with 0777 permission, but still crash when it try to open. Sometime I got "Unexpected quit: Continue or Reset" I clicked both then it went back to springboard.

Any ideas? Thanks

I got the same thing earlier so I had to reset the SmartRSS and there is one other thing I would like to point out in this program. When you click on a RSS that is new it seems to take forever to open to be able to read the whole story/thread/post. I have had this problem for about an hour now and it can be quite annoying.

[blatz]

is it possible to edit the RSS Feed list manually on the PC (or Mac)? I donīt want to type the "extra" long feeds (more then 50 cryptic characters) with the iphone keyboard

i searched the .app folder for the config file but there is nothing to edit with the feeds

thanks

[jwsk81]

i could translate to german if u want me to

[ajnakata]

SmartRSS wont open on my 1.1.4 iphone. I already set the smartrss.app folder and all single files inside with 0777 permission, but still crash when it try to open. Sometime I got "Unexpected quit: Continue or Reset" I clicked both then it went back to springboard.

Any ideas? Thanks

i got the same problem in my 113 ver iphone. what is the cause of this!!!