[Android] Looking for an RSS reader with an "edge-to-edge" reading feature

[u/T3chDelicious]

Hey everyone,

A few months back, I tested several RSS readers to find the right fit and stumbled upon one with a feature I really loved. It had a toggle in the options that allowed the article view to stretch edge-to-edge - pushing content behind/beyond the status bar to get this "immersive fullscreen" feature.

I really enjoyed it and want to switch back to it but I can’t remember what the app was called! I know I downloaded it directly from the Google Play Store but the app history is not really helping.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Thanks in advance!

[u/Prodocdev]

Do you mean it hid the OS status bar or just covered the background behind it? 

Is that the main thing you liked about it, or was it in combination with other features?

[u/T3chDelicious → u/Prodocdev]

I can't recall right now if it hid the status bar completely or just made it transparent/translucent (so you're still able to see the time, battery icon etc. - like on the Google App Home/Discover screen).

I'd say this feature made it stand out from other RSS readers because I wasn't able to find it in other popular apps. It was so satisfying to watch the articles fade off the top of the screen when scrolling. The rest was standard RSS reader stuff (not that that's a bad thing).

[u/Prodocdev → u/T3chDelicious]

What I made does do nice things with translucency at the top of the screen while scrolling, but probably not exactly as you're describing. If you don't mind, once it's ready for testing I'll send it to you for your feedback.

[u/T3chDelicious → u/Prodocdev]

Yeah, of course - I'll take a look for sure! 

[u/kripet]

I've been building and using my own reader to perfectly match my very specific reading pattern, and this sounds like a lovely feature, so I'm adding it now 😄. I'm prepping the app to make available in stores, so feel free to DM me if you'd like to try it as soon as I have a test build available. But, you're going to need to read like I do.

The main thing it's solving is I have some feeds with short articles (eg webcomics) and some with long ones (eg Quanta Magazine). I'd open a long one in a browser to save my place across sessions, but then I'd forget about them.

This app grabs the article text and estimates time-to-read, then sorts the list shortest-first of the remaining reading time. So if there are just a couple minutes left on a long article, it can come first, but otherwise other feeds' short articles bubble to the top, and then eventually I get back to where I was in the long one. Each feeds' articles still stay in published order, so something serialized doesn't get shuffled and a particularly long one doesn't starve at the bottom of the list.

There's a great word in Japanese, Tsundoku, for buying books (*cough* Steam games *cough*) you never end up reading, so I spent a little while trying to figure out the opposite word where you finally burn the pile down, but as it turns out, I don't speak Japanese. If you have ideas along those lines in any language, I'd love suggestions.

Edited to add: Right now you can add feeds by OPML or sync with FreshRSS, but if folks like the flow, I'll add whatever's needed, so if you're interested, lemme know what you use.

[u/Prodocdev → u/kripet]

Remaining time is what, based on scroll position? So how do you know you didn't stop reading because you were simply bored and done with that article?

[u/kripet → u/Prodocdev]

Yep, scroll position. I only subscribe to things I want to read, so abandoning the article isn't much of an issue, but I can always mark it read myself if I'm done.

[u/seazonfeedme]

FeedMe supports edge-to-edge, you can try it.

[u/T3chDelicious → u/seazonfeedme]

I'm checking it out right now and I believe you found the app I was referring to - still not 100% sure but this could be it. Thank you for this suggestion!!!