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Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client

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Re: Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client

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Post by MartinodF »

First of all, thank you for creating this app. A couple of years ago you've finally put an end to my decade of looking for a decent HN client for Android and I haven't looked back. I actually run Harmonic in Windows Subsystem for Android and on ChromeOS to use it as my primary way of browsing HN on all devices!

That said, if you have any spare time to dedicate to it, it would be great if you could open some issues on GitHub to express what you have been wanting to do but didn't manage to. I don't have any gripes with the app as-is (other than adding Material You support, but that's likely to require some large changes) and it would be great to have some guidance on what would be useful to contribute.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client

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Post by swesnow »

dlojudice wrote: post #22

Thank you for building Harmonic. It's been my HN client for years. I will definitely take a look on the code and try to contribute.

You're very welcome! Always nice to hear that someone has been happy with the app for a long time. Would be very cool if you could make some form of contribution. Again I apologize for the code being somewhat of a mess - it was not made with open source in mind but if you have any issues I'll try to help you out :)

Re: Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client

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Post by swesnow »

MartinodF wrote: post #51

First of all, thank you for creating this app. A couple of years ago you've finally put an end to my decade of looking for a decent HN client for Android and I haven't looked back. I actually run Harmonic in Windows Subsystem for Android and on ChromeOS to use it as my primary way of browsing HN on all devices! That said, if you have any spare time to dedicate to it, it would be great if you could open some issues on…

Wow I never thought anyone would be so hardcore as to actually run Harmonic on windows subsystem and Chrome OS - I figured not a lot of people don't use the big screen mode and I mostly made the tablet changes for when I bought myself an Android tablet a couple of years back to use Harmonic more comfortably in the couch.

The GitHub issues is a very good point! I have a long Google Keep list with things I've been meaning to do and hadn't even thought about opening issues to guide to help. I'll try to get some of those up tomorrow :)

Re: Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client

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Post by CuteDepravity »

I tried it for a few minutes, I really like it But the lack of widget support is a deal breaker for me I usually just unlock my phone, see top stories directly and then click on one of the to open Materialistic (HN app, haven't been updated in a few years do it got delisted from the play store)

Re: Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client

#60

Post by Mystery-Machine »

Awesome! Been using it for about a year now. (I'm writing this from Harmonic)

There's one functionality of another HN app that I really liked that Harmonic doesn't have - mark topic as visited when I scroll past it in the topic list view. I loved this feature and I really miss it because it allowed me to quickly see all the new topics that I haven't seen before. All the topics that I scrolled past I either visited or are not of my interest.

I'll see if I can add this functionality to the app and a preference for enabling/disabling it.

Thank you so much for building such a beautiful app!

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