My free Android conspiracy aggregator application

Hmm....

Looks interesting. I'm currently working on something like this, but browser based. Do you only use A.T-S and GLP for now?

thats nice app, get the other sites onboard.

Yeap, but it is easy to add from others too. The most difficult is creating the icons, since I am not that a good of an artist :)! I've created a custom drawn view that slides horizontally. I've also wanted to use NLP in order to detect keywords that had some meaning but I would have to port existing NLP Java libraries (which wouldn't be so hard I guess) but it would be a killer for the size of the app.

I'll do it. It's not difficult but it is in a trial for the moment. It would be better to kill any code bugs first and then add more features.

That would be over the top I think.

I'm working on a personal daily starting page and its basically parsing RSS Feeds and put it in a nice overview. Currently collecting interesting feeds to add.

Yeap, mine uses RSS feeds too. I download them as streams and feed them into a custom XML reader (I believe there is native support for RSS from Android, but I did it with custom code mostly as an exercise). Trying to include non RSS sources would be a nightmare, especially in cases that they are not using a standard forum/CMS engine and ultra-custom code would have to be written. Of course in that case, a small change from their side could "break" the program.

Well we have come a long way so we finally have such standards. If they break it, fuck 'em.

LOL, you are right! We should only include the best, like GLP! :)

I will also add some news and fun sites ;)

All I can get is it's. How do I get GLP? Do I put in glps website on top? Duh

GLP entries are in the top of the list with the pinned ones being in the top. Entries from other sites follow. I will add more sources in the future. Of course you will get an update notification from Google Play when that happens.

what happens when your run into ip ban?

To tell you the truth, I don't know if the RSS feed of GLP is accessible when there is an IP ban. I hope they are not blocking it, since it is read-only by it's nature.

You may have noticed that for sometime now in GLP it shows only a few of the pinned ones. That is a problem in the RSS feed format. Unfortunately, there are some illegal characters in one of the pinned thread titles that causes a malformation to the RSS feed. Even Firefox cannot read the whole of the RSS feed. It will get fixed when the causing thread gets unpinned.

Edit. Found the problem:
It is actually from the thread "BREAKING!!! CYPRUS FORCED to find EXTRA €6BN for BAILOUT !!!" and the problem is probably caused by the "£" that should display the GBP symbol and not displayed as it is.

Last Edited by Z80 on 04/11/2013 11:11 AM

You may need to set a proper UTF-8 encoding

Unfortunately, it is not that. If you press on the RSS feed with Firefox, you'll see that FF has this problem too.

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I've run it in debug mode and it gives errors with the XML parser. It seems that the problem is caused by the HTML escape character for pound which is not displayed in the Cyprus thread.
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For whats worth it:

If you are logged into your account, the RSS feed will only list feeds according to your account. This means, if you use the feature "unpin all" from your acount, you will receive the latest active threads in the RSS feed only. It also gives you the personal pins atop. So I assume, a ban would not give you any RSS. You may need to Pokemon exception handle this :)
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According to your problem: Yes, makes sense to me.
If we assume that RSS == XML, the "&" needs to be XML encoded as "&"
A simple str_replace() (or whatever it is in java/android) should do the trick. As I do not know your exact code, I can't tell you how to proceed from this, but it should help to prevent the parser from bugging out, if you do the replace before parsing.

Last Edited by Face Palmer on 04/11/2013 04:29 PM

LOL, they've unpinned the problematic thread and it's OK now. I've kept the actual feed with the problematic thread as an XML file and I'll investigate.

I've added two more site sources and some basic settings. Now the rows can auto-scroll but you have to enable it from the settings and once you have enabled it, you have to tap once the rows in the list without moving your finger for about 1 second in order to cause the scrolling (more like a long click in a way). It should be available as an update soon enough from Google Play

I've released a few weeks ago newer version with more sites