Tips

• If Reader X appears to be slower to launch or sync after regular use over days or weeks, please perform "Optimize database" (in the settings popover)

The Screen

Feeds and Folders

• Reader X presents to you a wallpaper of all your feeds and feed-items
• Feeds are displayed as horizontal stripes
• Newest articles are on the left
• Swipe horizontally to browse through all headlines of articles
• Swipe vertically to browse through your feeds

Colors and their meaning

• Unread items … are blue
• Starred items … are yellow
• Read items … are grey

Time Shading

• Newer items have a more saturated color
• Older items are gradually faded
• In Settings you can adjust the time frame from 1 hour to 48 hours

Unread Count

• Unread count per feed and folder are shown at the right of the screen
• To mark all items read in a feed or folder, tap the unread count button

Zoom into one Feed

• Instead of swiping horizontally to see all items of a feed, tap on the feed title on the left
• You will then zoom into all items of that feed
• Scroll vertically if more items are available than fit to the screen
• To zoom out, tap the feed title again

• On the top right corner the unread count of the feed is displayed
• Tap on it to mark all items as read and automatically zoom out

Articles

Tap to preview

• Tap an article box to get a popover showing the summary / content of the item
• The exact date is shown here
• The summary / content is scrollable

• Tap the circle to keep the item unread
• Tap the star to mark item starred
• Tap the enlarge button to see the full original webpage of the item

Readability, Instapaper and ReadItLater View

• Besides the standard preview you can choose to see an extract of the chosen article generated by Readability, Instapaper or ReadItLater services
• For most feeds this will enable you to read the full content of an article in the preview popover already, without the need to open the full web page
• Just tap on the book icon and select your preferred service
• Your selection is being remembered for that feed, so the service will be used, whenever you preview an article of that feed

Sharing

• Share the current website shown
• For account based services you need to log in at first time use

Full view web page

• Left: Navigate to previous page
• Right: Navigate to next page
• Reload: Reload web page
• Circle: Toggle read status
• Star: Toggle starred status
• Book: Select Service for better readability
• Plus: Show sharing popover
• X: Close webview

• Hide / show the toolbar with one/finger tap on the web page

Readability, Instapaper and ReadItLater View

• You will see the original web page on default
• For better legibility, you can choose to see the web page rendered by Readability, Instapaper services
• Just tap on the book icon and select your preferred service
• Your selection is being remembered for that feed

Sharing Popover

• Share the current website shown
• For account based services you need to log in at first time use

Toolbar I

Toolbar II

Settings

• Show badge
  Show unread count badge on the home screen
  
• Reload automatically
  ON: Reader X automatically syncs with Google Reader when you start the app or bring it back from the background after 15 minutes
  OFF: Sync occurs only manually
  
• Pre-fetch webpages in background
  ON: Webpages begin to load as soon as you open a preview popover. When you then decide to open the full page, the page is already partially / fully loaded
  OFF: Webpage begins to load, when you open the full page
  
• Show preview
  ON: A preview popover is shown when you select an article. You can then decide to open the full web page
  OFF: By selecting an article the full web page is immediately shown
  
• Optimize database
  • Usually there should be no need to optimize the database of the app
  • Though, if you experience any performance decline using Reader X after a while, optimize the database
  • Database optimization can take several seconds
• Logout
  Logout from current account and re-login

• Color fading: Time frame in which items get from saturated to fainted colors

• Format of boxes: Decide whether you want to have more squared or wider boxes
• Size of boxes: Increase or decrease size of boxes
• Size of font: Increase or decrease font size
• Select font used for the wallpaper: Choose your preferred font type
• Select font used in preview popover: Choose preferred font type and size

Further Questions?

• Please visit our website for Reader X for further info
• We love to hear from you
• If you have any comments or questions please contact us: ReaderX@getfineapps.com

Credits

• Reader X includes the following frameworks. We would like to thank the developers for their excellent tools
• FMDB by Gus Mueller
• RestKit by the RestKit Project
• AQGridView by Alan Quatermain
• SFHFKeychainUtils by Buzz Andersen
• MBProgressHUD by Matej Bukovinski
• ShareKit by Nate Weiner