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

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Post by pulpfictional »

darnir wrote: post #65
wantguns wrote: post #15

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 :)

Others have mentioned Materialistic and Glider. Both are great options that I used for a few years. However, I've recently changed to Hacki. It's also in the core F-Droid repo and works great for me as a HN client. Since it will even try to notify you of replies

I love it, releases on GitHub to so I can avoid F-Droid builds. Dev is nice and receptive too and the app is feature filled. Finally replaced Materialistic for me.

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

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Post by TomasBaneUK »

I'm banned from github. These Reddit Sync features are also great if someone want to add them:

- Mark as read on scroll

- Title customization I don't like the font weight

- On thread view an option to hold a comment to hide its child comments. I think sync moved to single tap for the other actions

- E-ink friendly options like pagination instead of scrolling

Great app thanks for open sourcing it

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

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Post by mmanfrin »

ejj28 wrote: post #19

Cobbled together or not, the app is functional, has an awesome UI and I love that I don't have to leave the app to actually read articles. Awesome work!

Conversely I love that I can set it to use the system browser, I absolutely loathe in-app browsers.

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

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Post by TheHumanist »

swesnow wrote: post #50
ejj28 wrote: post #19

Cobbled together or not, the app is functional, has an awesome UI and I love that I don't have to leave the app to actually read articles. Awesome work!

Thank you! I agree that those are for sure the most important things. Glad it does the trick for you :)

It really is very sleek and beautifully minimalistic. Don't downplay your achievements! It's a great app.

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

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Post by darnir »

pulpfictional wrote: post #81
darnir wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Others have mentioned Materialistic and Glider. Both are great options that I used for a few years. However, I've recently changed to Hacki. It's also in the core F-Droid repo and works great for me as a HN client. Since it will even try to notify you of replies

I love it, releases on GitHub to so I can avoid F-Droid builds. Dev is nice and receptive too and the app is feature filled. Finally replaced Materialistic for me.

I'm glad you liked it. But I'm curious, why would you want to avoid f-droid builds?

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

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Post by swesnow »

cudder wrote: post #75

I've had Harmonic on my phone for maybe two years now. Best UI out of all the HN reader apps I've tried. Still I go through perioids of using the app to read HN and then switching back to the website in mobile Chrome. I like to skim through the headlines, open interesting articles and comments in new tabs and then go through them after I've read through the front page headlines. No app really supports that, and I'm n…

Hey thanks for the kind words! About the "tabbing" behavior; I know Sync for Reddit on tablets introduced a version of this a while back but as you say getting the UX of this correct on phones is very challenging but it is an interesting design challenge.

I get automatic reports on crashes and about 99% of them are WebView crashed in native code. I've Googled this a bit and am under the impression that these are unavoidable but I definitiely do not understand it. My impression is that they are due to bad performance but it is unclear if anything can be done from the app side to mitigate the issue.

The actual Java crashes (i.e. crashes in the Harmonic code) are relatively few according to the console data I have and mostly non-deterministic but if you have a crash you can replicate I'd appreciate if you can describe it so I can see if I can get the same behavior on my side.

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

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Post by swesnow »

t0rb3n_ wrote: post #78
swesnow wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Thank you for your answer. I uploaded a screenshot to Imgur of what it looks like on my screen [0]. 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. [0] https://imgur.com/a/m7SFKqT

Oh I see, yeah on Android 9 you are getting a fallback color for when automatic theming is not available. I would recommend using the regular light theme as this has a green accent which I think is nicer on the eyes. I'll add a note to change to light material you fallback color because that does not look nice.
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