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Published a Hacker News app for Android (ICS and above only). Feedbacks?

by dkd903 on 8/6/12, 8:17 PM with 12 comments

  • by abraham on 8/6/12, 9:11 PM

    Feedback:

      * I love how smooth the scroll is.
  * The loading more UI is lacking and isn't polished like the rest of the UI
  * Crashed the first time I signed in.
  * I miss seeing the domain (and subdomain) of the linked article
  * I don't like having articles open in a web view. Would much rather have them open in the default browser instead.
  * The comment UI has an odd white stripe on the left of the screen.
  * The extra prompt asking to open comments or article is annoying. Maybe have The middle half of the screen open the article and the right quarter open comments.
  * Maybe support flagging or downvoting by swiping a post or comment off the screen. Similar to clearing a notification.
  * Notification of replies to my own comments would be a nice addition.
    Great start and I hope you continue to develop it.

  • by jamesprudente on 8/7/12, 1:48 AM

    Please remove the intermediate popup menu when clicking to read an article.

    Clicking the title should just go to the article.

    The "10 comments" TextView should be clickable to take me to the comments activity.

    You could add more clickable margin and bump the font size on that comments text if you feel it's to small to click.

    The fact that I have to click twice to read anything will prevent me from using the app. I love the speed and the rendering, so I'd love to use this app, but right now I can't get past the fact I have to click twice every time.

  • by thekillingtree on 8/6/12, 11:41 PM

    I really like this app. My only suggestion would be to add a "Refresh" button or option in the menu. I minimized the app and went back to it about 20 minutes later and it was bringing me to the wrong article comments and then it gave me a 'network error' (guessing the page expired) when scrolling. Closed the app via recent apps vs minimizing it and restarted it, worked fine.

    Aside from that, I truly like it.

  • by puivert on 8/6/12, 9:01 PM

    Please make the apk available for those of us who don't gave the proprietary market app or choose not to link a Google id to the phone.

  • by kfullert on 8/6/12, 8:57 PM

    Commenting with it too as was unhappy with the HN app I was using - took a minute to work out how to reply though :-)

  • by MatthewPhillips on 8/6/12, 10:37 PM

    Please charge for this. It's obviously very well done and you deserve to be compensated for your hard work.

  • by OoTheNigerian on 8/6/12, 8:47 PM

    I'm actually commenting with it. It feels great.

    However, it crashed when I tried to sign in. when I opened the app again, I was signed in.

    I am using the Asus Transformer with ICS