HNews, an android HN client that tries to not suck

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gabriele.hnews

by ga2arch • 15 years ago

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ecaron• 15 years ago

I love the HNDroid app - https://github.com/amir/HNdroid - which is open source and community-driven.

For $1.15, I'll download this and compare the two. But I'm certainly biased in favor of improving existing services and apps vs. recreating the wheel since its easier than collaborating (plus improving existing is certainly the road less traveled.)

ga2arch7• 15 years ago

maybe i should just set it free and make it opensource ? i don't see anyone buying this :S

let me know, it's my first app and i don't have any experience at all, ( i'm an 18 years old )

yogeshn• 15 years ago

If you want people to suggest improvements and still learning coding apps, I recommend you set it free and open source it. let people explore! :-)

I just wish something like this existed for iOS.

Looks good btw.

ga2arch7• 15 years ago

i got inspiration for this one looking at http://newsyc.me it is also opensource :D

SkyMarshal• 15 years ago

There are several competitors already, have you tried them all and found shortcomings? Is that what you're alluding to with the comment about not sucking? (I have, just wondering if you had the same experience)

Suggestion: Make use of android's press-and-hold feature, where if you hold a button or link for a second or two, it can pop up a menu. Put your upvote link there. Check out the opensource 'Reddit is fun' Android app, it's really good and might give you some more ideas as well.

ga2arch7• 15 years ago

yes, i have tried them all ( i think ) and i haven't found any of them good enough ( at least for me ).

but the "tries to not suck" also stands for "i hope my first app will get positive comments :D"

ga2arch7• 15 years ago

ok, understood, gonna set it free, and upload it on github. hope the community would get interested in it and give me some advice :D

ga2arch7• 15 years ago

ok, it's now free

Niten• 15 years ago

Great app, I really like the way it deals with nested comments. Just a couple suggestions:

* Maybe you could visually distinguish the "headline" item in any given view from the items under it? E.g. when you're looking at a story and its comments, they're all displayed like visually identical items in a single list. Maybe the story (or the top comment, if you're reading a thread) could be made to stand out somehow?

* An icon to jump directly to stories from the home page?

* You could register the app with an intent filter for urls under http://news.ycombinator.com/ (like e.g. Reddit Is Fun does for their app – see the app manifest in their GitHub repo for details)

ga2arch7• 15 years ago

1) and 3) are in the TODO :D

i don't understand the 2), in what way the "home" button is different ?

EDIT: now i understand the 2) -.-' yeah, i was thinking about implementing a gesturehandler to handle a swipe and open the link :D

ga2arch7• 15 years ago

https://github.com/ga2arch/HNews :D

that's the source code, it's ugly i know, but it's the best i can do for now :S

HNews, an android HN client that tries to not suck

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