About

This is a Google Chrome App that consumes Google news RSS feeds for easy viewing of new stories. It supports localization and will automatically detect the users language settings providing feeds from the source that best matches their language.

Getting Setup

To run this Google Chrome App you will need to have the latest Google Chrome Canary installed with a few of the options changed. Open the chrome://flags/ page and enable the following settings:

Browser Plugin (set to "Everywhere")
Experimental Extension APIs
Enable platform apps

Open extension settings (select the Chrome wrench tool > Tools > Extensions) and Check "Developer mode".

To load the application click the "Load unpacked extension..." button in the extension settings and brows to the "app" folder within the codebase. Finally open a new tab and you should see the application icon on the home screen, click it to launch.

Documentation

The main readme is available at http://abstraktion.github.com/Google-Chrome-News/. Each source file is documented inline with the code using Paige.js.

Source

The source code for this project is available on Github at https://github.com/Abstraktion/Google-Chrome-News

Building the application

The app comes ready to run, if you wish to rebuild the templates or documentation you will need a working node.js installation along with the Jake package which can be installed using

npm install -g jake

To see a list of tasks run jake -T. To build the documentation you will need Paige.js installed

Testing

Currently Rake is used to run the test suite so ruby 1.9.3 will need to be installed with ruby gems and bundler. Then run rake jasmine to get the Jasmine server running.

Credits

This Google Chrome App was developed by Jamie Dyer http://kernowsoul.com and Chris Garrett http://abstraktion.co.uk

Application overview and structure

The application is built using backbone.js and generally follows the conventions from Backbone patterns. The following application structure is used

app/                    # this is where the applications code lives
  _locals/              # contains all of the localization files
  javascripts/
    lib/                # library code including the Google new feed parser
    models/             # backbone models and collections
    templates/          # underscore template source files
    vendor/             # external libraries required by the application
    views/              # backbone views
    app.js              # defines the application namespace and other application level code
    background-setup.js # code to initialize the background process
    background.js       # this launches the main application
    settings.json       # settings requires for the application to run
    setup.js            # application initialization code
    templates.js        # the compiled underscore templates
  stylesheets/          # stylesheet files
  main.html             # html file that runs the application
  manifest.json         # this is the file that Google Chrome uses to install and run the application
spec/                   # the Jasmine test suit
tasks/                  # code for jake tasks

Reference

Libraries used in this project

Testing libraries

## Build and task libraries

jake
rake

Information on Google news feed parameters

Google Feed uri's

Languages supported by Google news feeds

Asia

au - Australia
in - India
en_il - Israel
en_my - Malaysia
nz - New Zealand
en_pk - Pakistan
en_ph - Philippines
en_sg - Singapore
ar_me - العالم العربي (Arab world)
ar_ae - الإمارات (UAE)
ar_lb - لبنان (Lebanon)
ar_sa - السعودية (KSA)
cn - **版 (China)
hk - 香港版 (Hong Kong)
hi_in - भारत (India)
ta_in - தமிழ்(India)
ml_in - മലയാളം (India)
te_in - తెలుగు (India)
iw_il - ישראל (Israel)
jp - 日本 (Japan)
kr - 한국 (Korea)
tw - 台灣版 (Taiwan)
vi_vn - Việt Nam (Vietnam)

### Europe & Africa

nl_be - België
fr_be - Belgique
en_bw - Botswana
cs_cz - Česká republika
de - Deutschland
es - España
en_et - Ethiopia
fr - France
en_gh - Ghana
en_ie - Ireland
it - Italia
en_ke - Kenya
hu_hu - Magyarország
fr_ma - Moroc
en_na - Namibia
nl_nl - Nederland
en_ng - Nigeria
no_no - Norge
de_at - Österreich
pl_pl - Polska
pt-PT_pt - Portugal
de_ch - Schweiz
fr_sn - Sénégal
en_za - South Africa
fr_ch - Suisse
sv_se - Sverige
en_tz - Tanzania
tr_tr - Türkiye
en_ug - Uganda
uk - U.K.
en_zw - Zimbabwe
ar_eg - مصر (Egypt)
el_gr - Ελλάδα (Greece)
ru_ru - Россия (Russia)
sr_rs - Србија (Serbia)
ru_ua - Украина (Ukraine)
uk_ua - Україна (Ukraine)

North & South America

es_ar - Argentina
pt-BR_br - Brasil
ca - Canada English
fr_ca - Canada Français
es_cl - Chile
es_co - Colombia
es_cu - Cuba
es_us - Estados Unidos
es_mx - México
es_pe - Perú
us - U.S.
es_ve - Venezuela

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