New York Times Slidescreen Plugin

Since I wanted to get a little experience doing something real in Android and I am a user of Slidescreen AND a developer at the New York Times, I created this plugin that puts nytimes.com homepage articles into Slidescreen.

This is still a strictly beta version of a plugin for a beta product. Thus, no guarantees for everything. Also, although I am a developer at the New York Times, this is in no way an official product of the New York Times. Use at your own risk.

Caveats

• Currently it just fetches the main feed. Future versions might allow you to pick a different feed or multiple feeds.
• This does not support breaking news alerts. If you want those, get the official New York Times application.
• If you have the NYTimes Android application, that will be launched if you long or short press the T icon.
• I couldn't really get a hollow version of the T icon to look good, so it's filled solid for now. If you can do better, let me know.
• I still have yet to create a detail view page for an individual story. Currently, clicking them goes right to the mobile website.
• Better integration with the official NY Times Android application might be possible, I should probably go ask them.

Credits

Inspiration and code stolen directly from the Slidescreen Buzz plugin.

Feedback

If you are using this plugin and love it or hate it, you have some bug reports, or you'd like to help out, please feel free to contact me. Thank you.

Jacob Harris - @harrisj on twitter - jharris at nytimes dot com