I think I've said this before, but I'm just so happy with @readeck right now! Wish I had tried it earlier and not waited for Pocket to shut down, it's so much better and switching would've saved me from a considerable amount of annoyance and frustration.

#pocket #readeck

Just uploaded another preview APK with ~50 color schemes from the flex_color_scheme package and a few hundred fonts (all predefined fonts from the google_fonts package) to pick from. If you always wanted to read all your news like it's a 90s homepage on geocities, now's your chance.

Eventually *someone* should reduce the font selection to a few good ones because vast majority of them is pretty shit for reading, but who am I to judge.

https://codeberg.org/gollyhatch/eckard/releases/tag/v0.02

#eckard #readeck

Added a few more things since the last post:

– Basic search that uses only the main search field as of now, doesn't support any of the other search options/filters.

– Collections are listed below the search form and can be opened from there. Might move them somewhere else in the future but since they're basically just saved searches I think it's a good fit for now.

– Label suggestions/auto completion.

– Share button for articles (can't demonstrate that in the screen recording because Android shows private contacts there).

– Save reading progress and jump/scroll back to where you left when opening an article again. Reading progress is also shown in the bookmark lists below the title.

Some of the stuff is a bit glitchy, e.g. after reading an article for a bit you gotta reload the article list to get the progress bar updated. That's because no article data is stored on device as of now, all changes are directly sent to the Readeck API so in some views it needs to re-fetch the changes from the API to make them visible. Downloading/synchronization for offline reading will be the next big thing to work on and should fix these problems.

BTW if anyone's interested in an APK for testing (it's very usable already, in fact I use it all day) let me know. I haven't offered one before because I personally wouldn't install an APK from a random weirdo on social media, but if you're desperate or just don't care I can upload one somewhere. ;) Or you can just fetch the source and build an APK yourself if you got Flutter and all that Android stuff set up. Either way I'd be happy to get some feedback from testers.

@readeck

#eckard #readeck #android #flutter

Slowly getting there. There's still a bunch of stuff I'd want to add, but all the basic features I need in day-to-day use are covered, so guess I'll clean up the source a bit so it's not too embarrassing and post it on codeberg.org for others to fool around with.

@readeck

#eckard #readeck #android #flutter

Pretty happy with how smooth everything is, but that's 100% thanks to @readeck being so incredibly fast, you really don't notice it's fetching all that stuff live from the API. Next up gotta add caching/downloading bookmarks for offline reading, labels, archiving and all that stuff. Again I spent most of the time today trying to make the material thingy less ugly instead of adding useful stuff, eventually ended up just adding some 3rd party theme library as dependency to take care of it. Also cleaned up the code a bit now that I understand Dart a bit better (still not a fan though), then noticed I'm operating on some bleeding edge development branch of Flutter and spent some time trying to downgrade to stable. Will make the code public sometime soon once I consider it not too embarrassing.

#readeck #android #flutter #dart

Still not looking pretty but I can already fetch articles from @readeck and actually read them, which is about 90% of the functionality I'd expect/need. I should've spent more time on adding functionality I guess but instead wasted hours trying to make that material deaign thingy generate a color scheme that doesn't suck, and it's still not exactly great. Oh well.

#readeck #android #flutter #dart #material3

What to use instead of #Pocket? #Karakeep? #Readeck? #Wallabag?

I want offline saving of entire articles.

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