Dear all Reader HD users,
We've very happy to announce that we've just released the 2.5 version of the application to the Play Store today.
So, what's changed in this version?
First of all, it's the application name. Since Reader HD can run on both tablets and phones now, so we removed "HD" from its name. It's just called Reader from now on.
From 2.5 version, Reader will access Google Reader API via SSL connection. This will help you reading your news safer. You will need to re-authorize the application again. It's inconvenient but we think it's worth to do that just once.
Reader also have a new Black theme. It's completely black. AMOLED screens will consume less battery with this theme.
We added two new home screen widgets to Reader as suggested in our
UserVoice forum: Badge & Ticker.
Magazine layout is now more attractive & cleaner. The following screenshot shows the Magazine layout on the Nexus 7 with the
Using phone UI in portrait view option enabled. To 7" tablet users, we recommend you to check this option to have a better experience.
Other small but useful new features:
- Manually sync tag/feed (long press on a tag/feed)
- Double tap on the article view to toggle Full screen mode
We added a lot of new options for you to customize the application:
- Fast sync option. If your subscriptions are not changed frequently, you can enable this option to improve the sync speed.
- Justify text, Display image caption and Disable swipe gesture options in article view
- Show borders, Maximum items per page, Title font, Summary font option for Magazine layout
- Two new fonts: Roboto Condensed for title and Roboto Light for content. Let try this composition, you will have a very clean article view.
Other improvements:
- Mark all as read speed
- UI of List & Stack widgets
- YouTube videos detecting
- Larger touch area of item actions (starring, mark as read)
- General performance
Reader 2.5 is also translated to Spanish by DISk and Polish by Dawid Wenderski. Thank you so much for your contribution.
Thanks Dan Krjuchkov, Tom Granger, Ricardo Faria, Steffen Anders for helping us updating their translation.
Finally, we fixed bugs found in previous version.
We hope this update is useful for all Reader users! If you have got any problem with this version, please let us known. Thank you so much.
Updated: Version 2.5.1 has been released to fix the crash bug of List widget on 4.2. We're really sorry for this inconvenient.
Have a nice day!
Best regards,