[Release]-I-Phone RSS Application
~I-Phone / I-Pod Touch MPGH.NET RSS Reader
What Is RSS?
Originally Posted by WhatIsRss
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
Currently, Not much, it is in the alpha stage of development, it has a few bugs and is far from being a full featured app (more explained below on both counts)
This app currently allows you to view the updated RSS feed from mpgh.net. It also allows you to view a specific sections RSS as well.
(more explained in the brief tutorial)
I-Phone web App Vs. I-Phone Native App
It used to be...I-phone native apps were the cream of the crop, but shortly after a group of developers released JS extensions for which will allow you to use ajax to hijack these controls and use them with a web application, so now we can have a web app that can control all the features a native app can.
The other issue is, native apps can run without a internet connection, and again that is no longer the case, we can now run a web application with stored procedures and by reloading information and storing it in Lite Sql which will allow some (if not all depending on features) of the applications functionality.
One major benefit of web apps is that I (or any developer) can bypass the need for the App Store (without having a jail broken I-phone) and also using a web app allows us developers to offer updates pretty much on the fly, no need to update, when the application has changes your App will update almost dynamically.
Where/How can I get this application.
This is not a download, You can grab this application by navigating to
http://utilityupdates.com/mpgh/
{Warning} This application is still in the earliest of the development stage, though it is functional, I still ask users are safe. Backup everything in I-tunes.
after you navigate to the URL above from your device.
Click the Plus symbol on the bottom of the browser to add the webapp to your homepage.
Once you do this, it will automatically assign a Icon and a title. Click add.
Now run your application for the first time, You will be greeted by a [Loading]Splash Screen
When the application loads for the first time it will load the standard MPGH Feed.
However I gave you the ability to change this by entering a different URL into the URl field, this way you can take advantage of other sections and/or new posts (check future ideas below)
To access the standard RSS Feed set the MPGH feed url to
(type without below spaces)
Code:
http:// www. mpgh. net/forum/external.php?type=RSS2
(type without below spaces)
Code:
http: //www. mpgh. net/forum/external.php?type=rss2&forumids1486834
Updates:
- None at the moment, everything is listed above.
Bugs:
I noted one so for.
Once during some testing my device locked up , I had to turn it off and back on. I have not experienced the issue again, I believe it was do to Firmware 4 beta (it happened when it was adding it to the list of multi tasked items)
Please Report any bugs you find
Future Plans:
- Attempt to add a SMS style with Post and Get to VM
- Private Message Retrieval
- Pull Down (Roller) for choosing a section instead of having to type in URL
- Open to suggestions
