Are there any good RSS readers for Android?

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Re: Are there any good RSS readers for Android?

Post by Falna » 2023-08-13, 12:45

I'm currently using Handy News Reader (aka Handy Reading) on Android. It's GNU GPL licensed (a fork of Flym, which was a fork of Sparse RSS) and downloadable from F-Droid, GitHub or Google Play. I don't normally run it with notifications turned on, but it's possible to do that and - just tested it - they appear to work.

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Re: Are there any good RSS readers for Android?

Post by athenian200 » 2023-08-13, 23:42

Falna wrote: ↑
2023-08-13, 12:45
 I'm currently using Handy News Reader (aka Handy Reading) on Android. It's GNU GPL licensed (a fork of Flym, which was a fork of Sparse RSS) and downloadable from F-Droid, GitHub or Google Play. I don't normally run it with notifications turned on, but it's possible to do that and - just tested it - they appear to work.
That reader looks interesting, but I actually can't get it to work with the forum's feed at all. Out of curiosity, I tried adding it and got this:
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Which reminds me of a problem I had with IFTTT claiming the feed isn't valid. In other words, a lot of the stricter feed readers seem to reject the forum's RSS feed as invalid. And from what I gathered on the W3C's validation service, the main thing these feed readers are freaking out about is the fact that the feed doesn't specify a time zone, and won't default to Zulu time if "Z" isn't used like in most other standards. Or maybe I configured the feed wrong, I have no idea... with the others it just loaded. I do like the fact that this one has a lot of options to tweak, though.
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Re: Are there any good RSS readers for Android?

Post by Falna » 2023-08-14, 20:37

athenian200 wrote: ↑
2023-08-13, 23:42
 from what I gathered on the W3C's validation service, the main thing these feed readers are freaking out about is the fact that the feed doesn't specify a time zone
You're right - this forum's feed doesn't validate - it has 3 'RFC-3339 date-time' errors.

I can subscribe to phpBB RSS feeds on other sites, so I guess that Pale Moon is running a problematic version of the software / RSS extension, or maybe there's a configuration issue that can be fixed...

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● Add-ons Inspector ● Auto Text Link ● Copy As Plain Text ● Copy Hyperlink Text ● FireFTP button replacement ● gSearch Bar ● Navigation Bar Enhancer ● New Tab Links ● Number Tabs ● Print Preview Button and Keyboard Shortcut 2 ● Scrollbar Search Marker ● Simple Marker ● Tabs To Portfolio ● Update Alert ● Web Developer's Toolbox ● Zap Anything

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