I know several of you have been looking for a easy way to navigate to a specific location. Hopefully this makes that easier. An unintended aspect of this feature that works very well on high end phones (as of this writing I am using a Droid 2) is the ability to get a full scrollable overview of an entire web page/document by searching on empty text.
The new view really doesn't look that much different from the old view other than the blue link text that enabled you to touch and long click to open a new url. Under the hood it is entirely written from scratch. Most of the time spent on it was getting it to function properly to lay out text, handle orientation changes, etc in the same manner as the original view did in Version 1.0. This was necessary in order to add custom functionality not available the standard text view the api provides. The short version is, expect to see new view enhancements in future releases, this is just a start.
I am not entirely sure what will be in the next release, but some ideas I am considering for the next release...
- Configuration panel - Not sure what all to put in this, what kind of custom settings would you like to see? Off the top of my head I can think of font size/style/color.
- Favorites - When you go to select a data source, you would be able to pick from recent, favorites, unread, saved, etc. These would not be simple links but actual stored copies on your device similar to how it currently remembers the last thing you were reading and where you were.
- Bookmarks/Tag/Notes - Whatever you want to call them, the ability to label a piece you are reading so you can return to it later.
