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https://github.com/lwindolf/newsagain

WIP prototype for a backend-less PWA feed reader replacing Liferea
https://github.com/lwindolf/newsagain

android atom feed-reader pwa rss

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WIP prototype for a backend-less PWA feed reader replacing Liferea

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# NewsAgain



![NewsAgain Icon](icons/web/icon-192.png)



WIP prototype for a backend-less PWA feed reader replacing [Liferea](https://lzone.de/liferea)



Can be used as an



- Electron app

- Android app



While NewsAgain is technically a PWA as a feed reader it cannot be run in

a normal browser as most websites do deliver feeds without permissive CORS

headers causing a PWA to be unable to download them due to security errors.

Electron/Android apps do not have this limitation.



## Compile



    npm install

    npm test

    npm run build

    npm run build -- --release



Note that aside from all the NPM dependencies if you want to compile for Android you need:



- Android SDK with runtime v33.0.2 installed

- env variable set for Android SDK e.g. `export ANDROID_HOME=~/Android/Sdk`

- gradle 4.4.x



## How to run



Run Electron app



    npm start electron             # Run Electron app

    npm start electron --nobuild   # Run without rebuild (much faster)



Run Android app on mobile in developer mode



    npm start android --device



Run Android app in virtual device in Android Studio



    cordova emulate android



Simple Cordova browser debug environment



    npm start browser



## Feature-Completeness



As NewsAgain will be a successor to Liferea it needs to roughly match the most important

features and provide a desktop migration path. Here is the status of the features. Note that

a 🛑 means the feature won't be ported.



### Parsing 



- [x] Atom 1.0 / RSS 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0

- [x] Dublin Core RSS namespace support

- [x] media namespace support

- [x] Favicon discovery

- [x] Feed auto discovery 

- 🛑 RSS 0.9x support

- 🛑 Atom 0.3 support



### Web Scraping



- [ ] HTML5 extraction

- [ ] AMP extraction

- 🛑 Local script support



### Network



- [ ] TTL Support

- [ ] Etags/last-modified

- [ ] RSS Syn Namespace

- [ ] User defined update intervals

- [ ] HTTP 429

- [ ] HTTP 410

- [ ] Basic Auth

- [ ] Secret Management

- 🛑 Proxy Support



### Online Source Support



- [ ] Google Reader API (Miniflux, FreshRSS, ...) 

- [ ] TinyTinyRSS

- [ ] InoReader

- [ ] TheOldReader

- [ ] Reedah

- [ ] OPML Import

- 🛑 local OPML sources



### UI Navigation



- [x] Feed list

- [ ] Hierarchic feed list folders

- [ ] Search folders

- [x] Item list

- [x] Item view

- [x] Desktop mouse selectionchuba

- [x] Middle click behaviour

- [x] Launching external browser

- [ ] Launching internal browser

- [ ] Drag&Drop

- [ ] Keyboard navigation

- [ ] XDG Integration (URI schema, desktop icon)



### UI Layouts



- [x] 3 pane view (wide)

- [x] 1 pane view (mobile)

- [x] Automatic switching

- [ ] Reader Mode

- [ ] Dark Mode

- [ ] Custom Theme overrides

- 🛑 3 pane view (email like)



### UI Tools



- [x] Simple Subscription Dialog

- [ ] Advanced Subscription Dialog

- [ ] Update Monitor

- [ ] Plugins Support (JS instead of Python)

- 🛑 Tray Icon



## Icon



Simple icon done by icon.kitchen:



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