Greed II: A Full version

I just released a new version of Greed, with some updates.

First off, Greed is now a paid application. I experimented with the idea of supporting Greed's development through donations, reasoning that people that liked it would be inclined to donate, and people that didn't care too much wouldn't donate. That worked, but I think the conventional approach of making it a paid application works better. Greed is now called "Greed Full", and will co-exist on your phone alongside the original version. Why you would want to do that is anyone's guess, but the ability is there in any case.

As for actual new features:

The main new feature off-line caching support. You can now long-touch a feed and cache its articles to the SD card in your phone, so you can read the articles off line. The next thing I want to do is add support for caching the actual articles. I held off doing that in this release, since I wanted to iron out the question of how to download a bunch of content in the background without dragging the phone down. Having gotten that to work well, I think it's going to get more interesting now, since downloading the content to the phone will make things like the Media player work better for podcasts and such.

Also new is a new article viewer with cool controls that fade into view when you touch the screen, and fade out after a while. There's also a "Friends' Shared Items" option on the main menu, some optimizations in the way feed lists are displayed, and some other minor bug fixes.

The next version will have the aforementioned offline support, and also a series of pop-up windows that ask you if you're sure you want to do X (where "X" is pretty much anything that requires internet access). I'm going to call it "Greed Vista Ultimate."