How to fix "Download Error"

Last night there was a bug in Android Market server that caused "Download Error" for people who downloaded version 13.4 of NubiNews. In most cases, if you just download the latest version (13.5 of this writing), you will be able to upgrade successfully.

However, in the worst case (it actually happened to me during testing), your Android Market app will be stuck in a state where it keeps saying "failed to download" NubiNews.

The only solution is go to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications. Choose "Android Market". The Choose "Clear Data" and "Clear Cache".

This is a bug in the Android Market server. I am sad to say I had nothing to do with this and can't do anything about it.

If you have problems, please write to nubinews@gmail.com.

新版离线下载使用说明

大牛新闻12.9版起增强了定时下载功能，可以让你把常看的新闻频道都定时复制到手机里，你在任何地方，就算没有网络，都可以看到你要看的新闻。

首先浏览到你要下载的频道，点击右上角的下载图标

第一次使用下载功能时，你会得到自动提示，请你设置离线阅读的选项。这里你可以选“预设配置”来设定每次下载的流量（也可以每一项自己慢慢去设定）

另外，要是你的2G/3G服务不是无限流量的话，请不要选择“用2G/3G网络下载”的选项，否则你会为你当地的无良运营商带来一笔可观的收入。

请选择“启用背景下载服务” -- 这样可以保证在离线下载的时候，你还可以继续用大牛新闻阅读线上的新闻

设置完成之后，就可以下载了。在对话窗口里可以选择下载页数：

点击“确认”后，下载会开始。要是你这时想继续用阅读线上的新闻，请按“后台下载”

下载的时候，“大牛新闻正在离线下载”的图标会出现在系统状态条上。把状态条往下拉，再点击大牛的图标就可以检查下载的状态。

下载完毕后，系统状态条上的大牛图标会变成“离线下载完成”。把状态条往下拉，再点击大牛的图标就可以显示你已经下载的所有新闻：

你已经下载的所有新闻：

在已下载的新闻标题旁边会出现灰色的页面图标（见下图左上角）：






定时下载功能

大牛新闻的定时下载功能，可以让你把常看的新闻频道都定时复制到手机里，你在任何地方，就算没有网络，都可以看到你要看的新闻。

定时下载还有一个好处是显示速度极快 -- 已下载的新闻，就算有多个图片，在一两秒以内就可以完全打开，比在PC上读新闻还要快，所以大牛新闻作者他本人已经很久没用PC读新闻了。

这里晒一晒作者手机里已下载的新闻，我设置的储存上限是80MB，在家里和公司里都有WiFi，每个频道设定在半小时一次，经过一段时间使用后，每个频道都下载了几十到数百条新闻，要看一天也看不完!





闲话休提，这里解释定时下载的用法

首先浏览到你要定时下载的频道，点击右上角的下载图标



在对话窗口点击“定时下载”



在下一个对话窗口点击“...”的按键



这里可以选择周期性的下载








或者在指定时间下载（比如设定在早上出门前把最新的新闻下载到手机里）





所有定时下载的频道都会出现在你的书签里，要是你需要编辑定时下载的时间，请点击菜单里的“书签”选项





再点击书签右边的齿轮图标就可以更新定时下载的设定。



就是这样咯！

Testing your scripts in NubiNews.net

Info TBD

Apparently people really like the cow

OK, some users hate it, but recently we get a flurry of petitions to keep the cow.

So, the cow stays ....

Pre-announce NubiNews.net

NubiNews.net is the next generation of NubiNews.

The ".net" here means we will support "Community Sources" -- anyone can publish "enhancement scripts" for displaying their favorite web sites in the streamlined NubiNews style. This is very similar to greasemonkey, which has a large number of scripts available from http://userscripts.org/. So hopefully instead of the 50 or so web sites that NubiNews 7.x used to support, we will soon see hundreds of web sites ....

Also, NubiNews.net will no longer bundle a large number of enhancement scripts. This will allow the NubiNews author concentrate on their favorite tasks, such as improving the offline reading capabilities.

People wake up

Here's a response to the "NubiNews falls victim to political pressure" comments in Android Market.

Not everything is about politics. We stopped distributing HK/Taiwan/US news because an HK publisher threatened to sue us. We have too little money and too little time to fight them in court.

Most non-mainland-China sites were already blocked by the Chinese firewall. There was no point for the Chinese government to take on NubiNews, as NubiNews does not have any firewall-breaking capability. Plus, NubiNews developers all live outside of China so we don't really care what the Chinese government thinks.

So here it goes. If you need to find someone to hate in this incident, pick the lawyers.

It's time to stop being too simple, sometimes naive.

P.S., we are working on a solution to separate (a) NubiNews the reader app, and (b) the contents. This will allow 3rd party developers to post their favorite sites onto NubiNews. Hopefully this will be done in a few weeks. In the mean time, please be patient and feel free to explore other wonderful readers out there :-)

关于繁体与英语网站

其实这件事跟ZF的某些政策完全无关，而是版权的问题：

大牛新闻本身并没有任何服务器，所有内容都是直接从新闻网站下载到用户的手机，然后通过手机本地的JavaScript把HTML简化再显示。这种做法跟桌面电脑常用的GreaseMonkey是同一原理。

我们相信大牛新闻这种做法完全没有违反中国内地的任何法规，因为大牛新闻提供的只是JavaScript，而没有提供或转载任何新闻的内容。

可是我们对境外的法规不了解，并在最近遭到一些境外新闻供应商的干扰，在有充分法律意见之前，一切在版权方面有疑问的网站一律取消提供JavaScript。很不幸所有的繁体与英语网站都在此列。（还有一个简体的受害者是Engadget）

问题就是如此，希望大家不要对号入座，与最近发生的乱七八糟事件做过多的联想。

如有xd能提供境外法律援助（含港台美），请发mail到nubinews@gmail.com。谢谢！

Help us diagnose problems

If you see a weird problem with NubiNews, you can help us diagnose the problem by sending us the "Log File".

• Install an application called SendLog from the Android Market.
• Start NubiNews. Proceed until your problem occurs.
• Go back to the Home Screem and launch SendLog.
• Tap on the "Send" button
• Choose e-mail address nubinews@gmail.com
  

Thanks!

中文：可以在Android Market安装一个叫SendLog的程序，然后跑大牛新闻，问题出现之后启动SendLog，点“Send”，发送到我们的邮箱 nubinews@gmail.com

谢谢

More todo items

For better organization, the bugs/feature/todo list is moved to the google.code web site:

http://code.google.com/p/nubi/issues/list

Please file or vote for your favorite bugs!