NewsFlash

A SwiftUI RSS Reader + Push App

NewsFlash is an RSS newsreader for iOS that allows you to tailor your newsfeeds to your choosing. You can follow those feeds you truly love and read articles the way you're used to reading them: Your web browser! With this app, you can:

Archive articles to read them later.
Add tags to articles to manage your categories of interest.
Search for articles to find the exact one you're looking for
Blacklist keywords to hide unwanted articles.
See at a glance all the articles you've already read.
Send push notifications via HTTP POST requests to your device! Add a preview to your message using HTML.

Screenshot of the NewsFlash app. Overview of the app's newsfeed.

Screenshot of the NewsFlash app. Preview of a opened article.

Screenshot of the NewsFlash app. The app's configurability.

Custom Push Notifications

Push notifications can be sent via POST requests to https://mich312.com/api/push.php. The following set of parameters must be set for the notification to be delivered.

device_token	The device token, which can be copied in the settings of the app on your device.
message_sender	Source label of the Notification (e.g. my WebApp)
message_thread_id	Group ID of the Notification. Notifications are grouped together by iOS using this key (e.g. Technology).
message_push_url	The URL destination the app will open if the Notification is clicked.
headline	Notification content preview. The text that will be shown in the notification if it has not been expanded.
message_body	The detailed Notification content is shown when expanding a Notification (via longpress or dragging the notification downwards). The content can be formatted via HTML and CSS.
interruption_level	Send the message with time-sensitive as argument to send a time sensitive notification.

Push Notification Playground

The following form can be used to send testnotifications to your device. Simply fill out all parameters and hit send.