We are sorry for the inconvenience, but there was a packaging issue in our latest 1.7.0 package, which may cause your project to fail building.
This was a problem in our NUSPEC file, and has been fixed in 1.7.2 package (it took 2 tries) and is now uploaded.
Upcoming update includes operations so you can access machine learning features.
There are also many internal updates not mentioned here. See the store listing when the update comes out.
We have updated the theme to Twenty-Twenty, the latest WP theme, utilizing their “blocks” technology for editing content.
Everything is now in a single column, which should be more mobile-friendly.
Just letting everyone know we are back in active development of this package.
The next release has some new components, and some implicit animation enablement of existing components like ValueAxisGrid. There is also a breaking change regarding Legends, if you have implemented any custom Series.
It sure took a long time, but we finally pushed 1.6.0 out to Nuget.org. We even managed to fix a recently-found defect; the rest of it was just languishing already done for many months.
If you have cloned the repository (and there are many clones out there) please feel free to give back with a Pull Request, it would be much appreciated!
The upcoming 1.6.0 nuget release has an important new feature: enabling implicit composition animation!
We are supporting this through the UWP Community Toolkit, which has extensive support in the form of attached properties. Now it’s a simple matter of updating a Style or Data Template to set things in motion.
There was tons of hard work internally to make this happen; in particular we had to tweak the rendering transforms for all the series types, so the implicit animations would kick in (implicitly). There’s nothing for Line and Pie series types, maybe in the future.
These changes, along with the incremental update changes, now provides smoothly-scrolling chart elements with minimal effort.
Watch the version badge below; when it hits “1.6.0” it’s here!
It is our chart component for UWP XAML. If you build applications for Windows Universal Platform, you just might need this!
The reason we built it: not much out there that works out-of-the-box.
We are in active development, currently hosted on github.
Packages are available on nuget.org, please have a look!
Now on Windows Store!
An exciting update is coming to Dictator for UWP!
We are adding support for OneDrive to store dictations. Now you can have universal access to your dictations from any device you have it installed. Soon you can literally “dictate to the cloud and back!”
We enhanced Audio Help navigation for the keyboard-less.
We are finishing up Shake support. It becomes another event trigger.
You can find Dictator for UWP in the Windows Store.
Oh Happy Days!
For whatever reason, the Internet Archive has resumed serving OPDS on their catalog endpoint. Reader Feeder continues to work for that very important entry.
Everyone may resume their downloading…
Meanwhile, we are working on a Windows Universal Platform edition of Reader Feeder. If you are using Windows 10, stay tuned here, and on Windows Store.
We are pushing this one out-the-door soon, and it was a wild ride!
To recap, Reader Feeder is a tool for downloading e-books. It has a special feature: extract the audio file links embedded in Librivox‘s audio book EPUB files for you to download and listen to.
The good news is you have full access to the “chapter” markers embedded in the MP4 files from Librivox and others. Big thanks to our open-source project IsoSax for making this possible!
The (not-so) bad news is we built in audio playback, providing the transport controls for seeking to “chapters”. The detours associated with this, and storing publicly-accessible media files on-device, caused some undue delays in release.
We made an effort this time to use features from newer versions of Android. In particular, the we completely rewrote the HTTP stack, because Google deprecated that part of the system . The rewrite also ties into the system better, for usage reporting etc.
Google also changed access to external storage and run-time permissions. On newer devices, RF asks you to enable this, so you can save downloaded content and access it from your other apps (Media Player, e-book Reader).
Permissions are minimal: Internet, Wake Lock, and Write External Storage.
Watch the event calendar for the release announcement, so you can start enjoying the tons of free audio books on The Internet Archive!