Happy new release today! 🥳
It’s been about two weeks since I’ve sent out a new beta release on TestFlight - which is a little bit longer than what I wanted 😉
This release first started out as a rework on OPML importing. I wanted to provide a new screen that showed the progress of the imports along with any errors that occured. Half way through I got discovered iOS 14 Widgets. After Widgets I discovered Shortcuts. After that I realized I needed to finish up the improved OPML importing 😇
But it’s finally ready today! There are still improvements I want to make on the importing screen but this should be a good starting point.
New Import Screen
Importing OPML files previously showed a progress spinner next to the “Import” button the the settings screen. It worked okay but not for large OPML files that take more than a few seconds. This version introduces a new import screen that shows the progress along with errors. This might get upgraded later to deselect feeds that you don’t actually want to import 🤷♂️
Widgets
WIDGETS WIDGETS WIDGETS! This first widget is the “Unread” widget which shows the number of unread articles and the number of feeds that have unread articles. You can optionally select a specific folder in the widget configuration!
Do you have any idea for a different widget type? Let me know! I’d be happy to add more widgets 😀
Shortcuts
Making widgets lead to some unplanned shortcut development 🙃 Right now there are four shortcuts:
- Discover Feeds
- List Folders
- List Feeds
- Refresh Feed
- Subscribe Feeed
There are three example of how to use these shortcuts here