Almost done with a new iOS plugin, inspired by the "Yahoo Digest" app. Here's a demo video: http://youtu.be/UTP_wOuvCa0 Is this something you'd use? What should I call it?

Digest Plugin or Yahoo Digest plugin. KISS

Screen swipe, anyway to ad an arrow to the right part of screen, or bottom, etc ? I'm not sure that the average user would know he can swipe screens with touch actions, up and down ok he knows, right-left, not sure.

Its a slider. Page Slider?

Can't wait to try it out lol. Looks very slick

@Paddy - how about something like this? http://youtu.be/azgiBLdyoXk @AlanMac - you can think of it that way.

Yes, Chris, thats looks good :)

I love the parallax view. I can't wait to see how you accomplished that.

Neat Chris! Neat!

Now I've just got to get that voting plugin of mine released.

@Red Dog - it's now in the market for you to check out :)

@Thomas - you're just holding out to get #100, aren't you? :)

Nice! I really like that you used sliding Left-Right to switch to the next-previous (really intuitive). Up-Down for more info on the current topic. Count me in as soon as it is released! - Wait you said it is in the market. So I'm glad I added credits last night ;)

OK - I got it. A few questions before working with it later tonight ;) 1) Recommended image dimension size(s) for Page Image Item? 2) Can the text have an embedded <CR> to break up text? 3) Any way to change text and text background color? 4) "angleView" and "descriptionText" Page Items seem to be missing from Control Panel. Or is it assumed that it will always be loading from JSON data? Is there a simple readme that might cover some of these or other tips and hints? Thanks! PS- Have you thought of adding a third option for "angleView" like horizontal?

Hi Chris any news on the pm I sent you?

@NCbuzz - angleView should be in the "Plugin Properties" section of the control panel. "descriptionText" is accessible when you click on a child item you added. For images, they are scaled to screen width x 75% of screen height. I'll work on support for text color in the future. Background color is harder - there's an image mask that is used to create part of the effect. That image is white, so you would need to both create a new version of that image with the desired color, as well as apply the color to the rest of the view.

@Mysps - I haven't switched gears to Android quite yet, but will soon

Impressive, Chris! Cheers! -- Smug

Chris - Thanks for all the info above it works great! So my only remaining question is there anything I can include in the text descriptions that will force line break(s)?

You should be able to enter "\n" in your description for a line break;

Thanks "\n\n" gave me the break and a blank line.

@Chris1... I'm not wiring for #100, although it would be nice. I'm just waiting to get my final snippets of code done!

Great job, Chris, congratulations! Quite beautiful and many possible uses. A little downside, though: images shouldn’t be scaled to screen width x 75% of screen height but only to screen width, to avoid anamorphosis! (I’ve tested it on iPhone 4 and 5 and on iPhone 2.) Cheers Jack

It needs to be scaled to look properly with the angled mask. You don't want it going above the mask or it will look funny. I could make it extend well beyond the screen borders, I suppose, cutting off the edges but keeping the perspective. Some people won't like that either though.

Bad news, but thanks anyway, Chris! ;-) Workaround: use Jake's Launch Screen and 3 different Screen Digest occurrences to accommodate all devices... Between iPhone 4 and 5, the anamorphosis is already noticeable, but on iPad it gets really too obvious... Did you calculate ideal image size ratio for the 3 screen proportions? Would be helpful! Or do you see any way of having image-scaling automatically done by the plugin according to the different screen device sizes? Cheers Your devoted plugin tester - Jack

I agree with Jack . V2, baby! :-)

Dammit Chris1. You ruin my life….with these fab plugins. Keep it up!

Currently the plugin loads all page header images prior to displaying the first page. This can cause a considerable lag between the the menu screen tap and when the first page is displayed. Chris- How would either of the following be implemented: a) EDITED: display the animated showProgress icon. - Code is currently already using showProgress, however it does not appear when the MewsDigest is doing the initial load?? - Is this a BTv3 item? Not sure if (b) is a good idea: (probably not based upon two many user interaction variables) b) is it possible to load page 1 image, then present the digest and then resume loading the remaining pages. Note: Currently my app has 5 pages with the Page Image headers loaded from URL. (but will grow)

Where does the data at the bottom come from? Like a rss link or a text field? Thanks, Jack

It's plain text entered in the control panel, or you can feed the pages dynamically using php and a dataURL

This is a great plugin. If "\n" will give me a line break in the description text, is there a way to drop some images amongst that text? Thanks...