I tried this and I get te following error after trying to sync: sqlite3.operationalError: database is locked

Any ideas?

There may be an orphaned sync process running in the background. Turning your device off and then on again should clear it (not just a sleep, a full reboot).

This is (hopefully) fixed in the latest version (0.3.13)

you HAVE to make folders/tags in order for them to work. if a subscription does not have a tag associated with it you can't download it. so just create a tag on google.com/reader under settings then make new folder on the right side of the subscription you can make a folder (also i think what people are calling a tag) and that will then appear in the GriS program under the feeds when you sync the feeds section. then you can sync all your subscriptions.

There are 7 buttons at the top of the screen when you read an article. Two of them are for going forward and back. One of them is for returning to the feed list. Another is for forwarding an article to someone via email. What are the other three for (the circle, the star, and the RSS symbol)?

the others all borrow from other UI elements around the place. The cirle is "keep unread", like iPhone mail (it's more obvious when you press it, as it goes blue). The star and rss icon borrow from google reader, and are "star" and "share" respectively.

My version comes with an Instapaper sync. Is this working for anybody? It's not for me.

Instapaper integration seem to be broken for me since the last update.I'm using the free version and it works fine in Safari, etc.

Is there a way to make it sync automatically on startup?

@tjgartner: nope. Would you really want this? It takes quite a while to sync...

First of all, fantastic app - first thing I grabbed after jailbreak ;-)

Only immediate thing I wonder might be nice option - show dividers/headings between different feeds - rather thn lump all articles from different feeds with same tag in one long list ..?

Also just remembered - it seems to stop syncing when my touch screen times out / and also feels like it redownloads everything (taking some time) on subsequent complete syncs, i.e. when I do a sync then another = no real change in feeds etc ..?

lilactimes: good idea to show dividers between feeds. I'd thought of showing a second-level set of folders for each feed (within a tag), but there's a lot more work to that. The headers might be a good first step.

The re-sync process will still download all of your feeds' text content. The main optimisation is that it won't bother to re-format the text or download contained images for items that it has already downloaded. For image-heavy feeds this is very noticeable, but not for text-heavy feeds.

(also, if you happen to have broken images in your feeds, gris will try to download them each time in case they have started working. This could well slow things down, but isn't really gris' fault)

InstaPaper? integration update: Still broken on my install. Thanks for the great app.

jbinfrisco, what kind of broken? Can you submit an issue and send some logs? (/var/mobile/GRIS/.log)

I would love to run a cronjob that syncs just before I wake up. Any way I could achieve that?

Another idea - don't think it's been mentioned before .. show difference between read/unread count on main page - or at least have option to just show unread count (unless it's me, seems to show total count even when items read, esp. if you have to show unread items).

Also, any thought to hing item#/total at the top- so you can see this when you have a long article (instead of having to scroll all the way to the bottom) ..?

PS occasionally crashes out - seems to be when fetching feeds I've not read much, i.e. with lots of items still unread. No time yet for more info/recording any conditions etc for this behaviour, so no issue officially reported - unless it sounds familiar/you've come across this already ..?

Cheers ..!

PS glad you liked the divider idea ;-)

Also, auto sync seen elsewhere here seems rather complicated - any reason why this isn't just a simple option/setting within the app - and either way, do you have to have GRIS actively running to have auto sync work in its current state (does it still run in the background or as a sep. process) ..?

Again (sorry) .. occasionally noticed issue when initially setup to show only unread items then I over-eagerly move onto next item - but decide to go back (which I can't). As such, go back to feed options and switch back to "show read" only category which has no unread items has gone altogether (as original setting) and doesn't come back with switch - so can't go back to overlooked item .. make any sense ..??

pletzer: 'fraid not, I don't know much about crontab. Once you have cron installed on your device (I'm not even sure if it already is), you would just need to configure it to run (as the user "mobile"): python /var/mobile/GRiS/sync/main.py --output-path=/var/mobile/GRiS

lilactimes: autosync is not a simple option because it's not really tested, nor terribly well supported. I don't use it and have no reason to (on an ipod touch), so there's not much incentive or even opportunity for me to test it out.

Great application! Is it possible to change the layout e.g. font, size, foreground and background color?

not currently. If (as I assume) you just mean for the reading screen, it's technically very simple - It would only require swapping CSS files. If there's a need for it, it can be done. If you want to make sure I don't forget, you should file a feature request: http://code.google.com/p/gris/issues/list

Yes I mean the reading screen. Can you give a hint which CSS files one have to change. TIA ...

Currently the only relevant file is /var/mobile/GRiS/template/style.css, and I can't see that changing any time soon. Note however, that if you make modifications to this file it will be overridden when you update - it's best to make a backup of your modifications outside ~/GRiS just in case.

on that note, if you send me your modifications (you can post attach them to a feature request), it'll make it easier to offer these as alternative styles.