nextcloud / nextcloud/news-android
enable use of image proxies
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Hi,
I love this great app. Also thumbs up 👍🏼 for you fast reaction to the security incident fixed in the last release.
As to my personal understanding this app downloads images straight from their (external) sources it would be a great improvement in terms of UX to me personal to be able to use an image proxy. (say `images.weserv.nl` or `external.duckduckgo.com`, or a self hosted server etc. ...).
That would increase privacy and might also decrease bandwidth usage. (say by using `webp` output instead of original `png` or `jpg`).
It should only take an additional user preference and a format string in [`DownloadImageHandler.java`](https://github.com/nextcloud/news-android/blob/d4ddf854107cde9d7e3efaa62f7057c12713f971/News-Android-App/src/main/java/de/luhmer/owncloudnewsreader/async_tasks/DownloadImageHandler.java#L50).
The user would enter e.g. `https://weserv.images.nl?url=%s&output=webp`.
Looking forward to your feedback.
Regards, Petra
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