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Re: Show HN: Hacker News reader for Android tablets

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post #10

When I try to install it tells me that "the item you are trying to purchase cannot be found". I've not seen that before. is there an apk on the net somewhere?

Hmm, the market is notoriously flaky. Try rebooting your device. Also verify your credit card info. For some reason that helps, even if you're not buying anything. If you're still have problems, let me know and i'll throw the apk up on a server somewhere.

Thanks, neither suggestion worked. My tablet is the viewsonic G-Tablet with a modded version of honeycomb. I assume that's the problem, flaky describes the whole thing. I doubt this is a big problem though, I can see why you'd want to keep all downloads through the market for tracking.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News reader for Android tablets

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post #13

Very nice. A few suggestions in case you intend to develop this further: - The "Y" button for hiding/showing the list is maybe a bit too subtle. I only found it by randomly mashing everything on the screen on the theory that surely the functionality had to be somewhere. I think the problem is that it doesn't look at all like an active UI element. - Going directly to comments doesn't seem to be possible. I guess you c…

Hey Thanks! - My thinking was that since in portait, clicking on any post will hide the list and make it pretty obvious how to get it back, I didn't need to add a button for it. But I think you're probably right. - Yep, thats on my list. - Also on my list. - Good suggestion. I'll look into adding this.

Ah, I see. The reason I ran into this is that when switching from landscape to portrait the list doesn't auto-hide. And this will probably be a common operation when commenting on posts, since due to the stupid 16:9 aspect ratio of Honeycomb tablets landscape is the only comfortable way to read, and portrait is the only comfortable way to enter text.
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