Sismics Reader

What is Reader?

Reader is an open source, Web-based aggregator of content served by Web Feeds (RSS, Atom).

Reader is written in Java, and may be run on any operating system with Java support.

Features

• Supports RSS and Atom standards
• Organize your feeds into categories and keep track of your favorite articles
• Supports Web based and mobile user interfaces
• Keyboard shortcuts
• RESTful Web API
• Full text search
• OPML import / export
• Skinnable
• Android application

See http://www.sismics.com/reader/ for a list of features and benefits.

Downloads

Compiled installers are available here for each new versions: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sismicsreader/files/release/

License

Reader is released under the terms of the GPL license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.

Translations

• English
• French
• Chinese by Ryan H. Wang
• Danish by exaviore
• Italian by Marco Narco
• Japanese
• Korean
• German

How to build Reader from the sources

Prerequisites: JDK 7, Maven 3

Reader is organized in several Maven modules:

• reader-parent
• reader-core
• reader-web
• reader-web-common
• reader-android

First off, clone the repository: git clone git://github.com/sismics/reader.git or download the sources from GitHub.

Launch the build

From the reader-parent directory:

mvn clean -DskipTests install

Run a stand-alone version

From the reader-web directory:

mvn jetty:run

Build a .war to deploy to your servlet container

From the reader-web directory:

mvn -Pprod -DskipTests clean install

You will get your deployable WAR in the target directory.

Build the Android app

Prerequisites :

• Gradle
• Android SDK
• Environment variables pointing to the keystore (see build.gradle)

Then, from the reader-android directory:

gradlew build

The generated APK will be in app/build/apk/app-release.apk