• I spent the last few days creating a Greasemonkey Javascript script that would simulate the experience of using ebook readers. The script removes everything but the heading and article and redisplays it using an “accessible” stylesheet. It will not work on all pages. HTML5 pages with the recommended usage will display fine. Most mobile websites and sites that dump everything on webpages will fail. On old installations, this new JS file will be installed only if the edit_page.js will is deleted. (This triggers mass copying of all built-in CSS & JS files.) This JavaScript will be available as an independent GreaseMonkey script soon.
  
  

  The new “book reader” or “article view” mode in Subhash Browser.

• The download manager has stop (pause) and start (resume) menu options for individual downloads. I don’t know when I added these options. They seem new.
• A bug in the creation of internal RSS files for All India Radio and AP news was fixed. These feeds will have to be removed and added again.
• Deleting an old feed does not lock up the app, as it files are deleted in a background thread.
• When Javascript is disabled, the Feeds and the new Book View button will also get disabled.
• Feeds button will display an error message if the page does not have any feeds instead of displaying a perplexing empty list.
• Desktop browser disguises have been updated newer UA strings. Twitter displays the mobile page even on desktop browsers if the version is a few years old.
• The title of a loading page appears much earlier than it used to. There is an onReceivedTitle event which I did not think of using earlier and waited for the onPageFinished event to display the title.
• RDF feed support became missing after I added support for Techtree’s broken RSS feed. Now that it is fixed, Techtree will now be broken. Their RSS not only lacks an XML tag, it has two root tags!!!
  

Like All India Radio (AIR), Associated Press (AP) also removed their RSS feeds.

Not that I follow this wire service but some people do. So, like my previous update which generates an internal RSS feed for All India Radio, this update generates an RSS feed for AP. This page has a JSON file with all the data and image files but I ignored it. AP is rather a scrappy news agency and they have gone after people who linked to their stories. I don’t want Subhash Browser to scrape their data too much. Hence, no images. I also discovered an bug in AndroidWithoutStupid library, which I had to fix to make it working.

http://www.vsubhash.com/subhash-browser-and-rss-feed-reader-app-for-android.html

Subhash Browser reads the AP news page and generates an internal RSS feed.

In the previous update, I added support for All India Radio news. However, the RSS newsfeed for it was generated internally by the app rather than retrieved from the AIR website (where none exists). On a new install of the app, AIR News was one of the built-in RSS feeds. Old installations had no way of installing it. In this update, an option for that has been added to the feed reader.

The download manager now plays a “download failed” audio file if a download fails. This feature was available earlier but got removed when a dedicated download manager screen was added.

The default set of news feeds have also been updated.

http://www.vsubhash.com/subhash-browser-and-rss-feed-reader-app-for-android.html

Believe it or not, I used to listen to All India Radio news using my app every day. A few months back, they removed the RSS feed after of course a site redesign. So, I added the ability to generate RSS feeds for this website in Subhash Browser. Subhash Browser also gains the ability to load RSS data from files in local storage memory. I don’t know who stores RSS data on files like that but if there is a use case, rest assured that it is now supported. In the Address field, the file location must be prefixed with “file://”. For example, “file:///sdcard/rss-file.xml”

Subhash Browser generates an internal RSS file for All India Radio news.

If the Language setting of Subhash Browser is changed to Malayalam, Tamizh, Kannada, Hindi or Urdu (before loading the feed reader), then a filter will be added to the AIR news feed for that language. Otherwise, the feed will be unfiltered and each update will bring news in more than a dozen languages. Unfortunately, Modi government has removed Urdu news. I have added the filter in the hope that it will be available in future. I read Hindi with difficulty so support for Hindi news in the RSS feed can be expected in the distant future.

Going as far back as Donut or Android 1.6, which have been crippled by Google.

As mentioned in the intro page of Subhash Browser:

Subhash Browser is meant for casual browsing. It is not recommended for secure browsing, financial transactions, business activities or mission-critical operations

Another new feature is in the feed reader. It usually hides deleted articles. If you want to permanently articles, you hold the delete button for a while.

Download APK installer from

http://www.vsubhash.com/article.asp?id=126&info=Subhash_Browser_Feed_Reader_app