[Video] New Magazine View in EspressoReader: Your Google Reader feeds never looked so pretty

I am pretty proud of the new version of EspressoReader that was released yesterday. While the build included numerous bugfixes, the biggest change in the app is a much improved Magazine View that is centered around the images in a feed. Here is a screenshot +video of the new view:

The view is fully navigable via the keyboard via the directional keys which makes going through a bunch of feed items really easy. Â By the way, I will be releasing the core library that does the image fetching under an Open Source license in my next post so stay tuned for that. In the meanwhile, if you are a Google Reader user, go download EspressoReader from the AIR marketplace and give it a shot.

Author: Arpit Mathur

Arpit Mathur is a Principal Engineer at Comcast Labs where he is currently working on a variety of topics including Machine Learning, Affective Computing, and Blockchain applications. Arpit has also worked extensively on Android and iOS applications, Virtual Reality apps as well as with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML and Ruby on Rails. He also spent a couple of years in the User Experience team as a Creative Technologist. View all posts by Arpit Mathur

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Lobo7922 says:

November 2, 2010 at 11:18 pm

¿You know what I would like? To be able to sort my feeds acording to how many people liked it or shared it.
That’s what feedly does for me and that’s why I like it.

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1. arpit says:
  
  November 3, 2010 at 3:29 am
  
  @Lobo,
  Thanks for the feedback, I am looking into some kind of popularity index on feeds, will look at what Feedly is doing.
  
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  1. Lobo7922 says:
    
    November 3, 2010 at 3:47 am
    
    I have shared this software with my followers in twitter, and some of them
    are very happy 🙂
    I been trying to rate you in adobe marketplace, but they make it hard 😦
    
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    Revisa mi Blog!: http://lacuevadellobo.blogspot.com/
    
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  2. arpit says:
    
    November 7, 2010 at 7:17 am
    
    @Lobo,
    Thanks :). Yeah I am pretty disappointed with the Adobe AIR Marketplace. The site is pretty slow in general and not very engaging. I think I’ll have to move the installer to my own site soon.
    Thanks for all the support.
    
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Martin Kuehnert says:

January 25, 2011 at 3:17 pm

I love this App. The only problem i have: at work i’m behind a proxy and cant define it anywhere. So all it say’s that it is offline. Could you maybe fix that?

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1. arpit says:
  
  January 25, 2011 at 11:50 pm
  
  Martin, thanks for the feedback. I thought Adobe AIR uses the system proxy. Can you log in to Google Reader on the browser?
  
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