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I've got a strong preference for open source apps, so this is the best news I could get from this app.
Thank you for your great work!
Awesome work! Just discovered this client and instantly fell in love with it! Used it for a couple of minutes and thought "hey, it would be cool to be able to click on the story to get to the comments." Guess what, there is an option for that. One question though. Is it possible to change the accent color when using the Material You (light) theme?
As can be found in/values/themes.xml line 119, the accent color is one of the automatically extracted material you colors. Therefore you could change your wallpaper to change the color but I haven't got any plans to change the material you color used. However I don't use light mode and perhaps it is bad - in that case a change may perhaps be in order.
Love love love Harmonic! I actually stopped using an iPhone because Harmonic was giving me a better experience than Octal on iOS. A couple feature requests! 1. Enable deep linking. Capture the news.ycombinator links on my phone and they auto open in Harmonic 2. Something is broken in the login form that blocks my autofill from working (1password, but it should be the same for any as it's an Android level API)
1. Deep linking used to work a couple years back but I think there was some Android change making it harder meaning you had to verify that you had ownership of the domain. Perhaps this is possible to bypass but I haven't looked into it.
2. This totally slipped my mind; I just found out there's an autofillHints attribute which you can give to text boxes - I'll try to get this fixed. Thanks :)
Aside from that the other thing that makes me go back to Chrome are occasional crashes. Seeing how many people daily drive the app and nobody else has mentioned this, I have to wonder if it's something to do with my setup specifically. I do remember it happening on my previous phone (Samsung Galaxy A40, I think) in addition to my current one (Motorola Edge 20) so I just assumed it was something the app does for everyone. I think it usually happens when the app has been on the background for a while, and then I reopen it and it'll start to fetch the new stories and then crash.
Do you receive some sort of reports automatically from such crashes? I have zero Android app development experience so I don't know where to look for logs or what to try next.
Anyways, fantastic work with the app. I'm using it right now for writing this comment. Thank you for making it available.
Awesome work! Just discovered this client and instantly fell in love with it! Used it for a couple of minutes and thought "hey, it would be cool to be able to click on the story to get to the comments." Guess what, there is an option for that. One question though. Is it possible to change the accent color when using the Material You (light) theme?
Glad you like it and thanks! There's been many feature requests over the years of that nature so I am glad they address the same pain points of multiple people. As can be found in/values/themes.xml line 119, the accent color is one of the automatically extracted material you colors. Therefore you could change your wallpaper to change the color but I haven't got any plans to change the material you color used. However…
Unfortunately I am running Android 9 and this automatically picking color feature doesn't seem to really work since my background is just black with a few blue dots. Not sure about that I am not really into the Android Game.
I usually refrain from installing apps from Aurora Store instead of F-Droid, but Harmonic is the one app for which I oblige. Thanks a lot for open-sourcing it. I wait for the day, where I can finally get a good HN client at F-Droid :)
Other way around is a better choice IMO.