2 days (20min each) of using Newsblur on Android it already 200mb used by just browsing through my feeds.
I don’t know if it is related to this, but I have to constantly (after viewing maybe 10 articles) go back to All Stories and back again for it to let me access 10 more articles. Each time I get the spinning wheel and have to wait. So I guess it is constantly loading, even though it already loaded everything on startup.
We could probably do a better job of emptying that cache. I’m dealing with this now on iOS and I’m thinking about removing the cache of read dstories about 24 hours after they are read. We might want to have something similar on Android, even if it isn’t as accurate and just removes the read story cache data once every 24 hours or so, which means half the content would be older than 12 hours old and half younger.
Try the NewsRob OSS ( MIT Licensed ) Beta 6 which works with Newsblur backend,
You can get it from the News group …
http://groups.google.com/group/newsrob
You can set it up to download articles on WiFi and peruse them whenever.
That is not the issue here. The feeds I view are not image heavy at all.
For comparison: 1 average day use with greader for example will eat up around 35mb (with images).