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Desktop port

Open realgooseman opened this issue 9 months ago • 4 comments

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App version

2.9.1

Where did you get the app from

F-Droid

Feature or improvement you want

Hi @spacecowboy and contributors,

Will there ever be a desktop port for Feeder ? planned or out of scope ?

Feeder is currently the most complete RSS reader on Android. It looks great too.

As Feeder is using Kotlin which supports multiplatform development, will there be a desktop port in the future, especially on Windows ?

Why should this be added?

  1. The more platforms, the more potential users
  2. Unified multiplatorm experience, more options
  3. Windows has a huge user base

Screenshots / Drawings / Technical details

No response

realgooseman avatar Feb 27 '25 12:02 realgooseman

Hi.

I don't want to say it will never happen. But a limiting factor is that I personally only use Feeder for consuming RSS and I have no desire to use any desktop client - even if that would also be Feeder.

So this would have to be work done by some interested contributor.

spacecowboy avatar Feb 28 '25 14:02 spacecowboy

This would be a very interesting project. What are your thoughts on someone creating a Feeder desktop implementation, with access to the sync server?

Lyndeno avatar Mar 02 '25 20:03 Lyndeno

This would be a very interesting project. What are your thoughts on someone creating a Feeder desktop implementation, with access to the sync server?

I can make some documentation for the sync api.

as for the desktop implementation, I think it would be less work to build it from scratch. as compared to refactoring the android app to be multiplatform and then building a desktop app.

spacecowboy avatar Mar 02 '25 22:03 spacecowboy

Vivaldi web-browser have a built-in rss feed.

https://itsfoss.com/feed-reader-apps-linux/

https://noted.lol/3-of-my-favorite-foss-rss-readers-for-windows/

You can export to opml your feeds from feeder app and can import into others.

summoner001 avatar Mar 10 '25 18:03 summoner001