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

#91

Post by swesnow »

suddenclarity wrote: post #61

Big fan of the app. One thing that have bothered me a bit though are bookmarks. Is there any way to sync them with the built in HN functionality? I often bookmark threads with 200+ comments to take notes later on the computer but I haven't found a decent way to transfer them without sending links one by one.

Yeah this is something that has been on my mind. It is possible because I know other apps do this but I haven't looked into details of the API. I totally get the appeal and have received many requests to add this.

THere is an option to export bookmarks in the bottom of the settings and technically if you are a very hardcore person you could set up a Python script to import them but of course this is way too hardcore for most people.

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

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Post by swesnow »

Mystery-Machine wrote: post #60

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…

Very nice - I look forward to a PR. Contact me if you have some question about the code and I'll try to help you out :)

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

#93

Post by swesnow »

CuteDepravity wrote: post #59

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)

Yeah a widget is something that would be nice - I don't use them heavily myself so I guess that's a big reason for why they are not there right now. I do remember Materialistic having a OK widget.

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

#94

Post by swesnow »

dguo wrote: post #82

Thank you for your work! Harmonic is one of my most used apps. It's a joy to use, and I love the design (including the logo)!

Thank you very much! I actually made the logo with matplotlib by just plotting a bunch of sines with integer frequencies and put it together in Photoshop and feel like it's held up OK

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

#95

Post by swesnow »

AugurCognito wrote: post #67

Harmonic is my main way to interact with HN.(writing this on Harmonic) Love the ux of just pushing articles down for the articles and was curious how it was implemented and why other applications don't do it. Thanks for creating and open sourcing Harmonic.

Glad that you like it! It is a BottomSheet (https://m2.material.io/components/sheets-bottom) which is a Material design component from Google and they handle a lot of the complexity (although the implementation in the app has a few bugs) which is nice

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

#97

Post by pulpfictional »

darnir wrote: post #88
pulpfictional wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

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

#98

Post by AugurCognito »

swesnow wrote: post #95
AugurCognito wrote: post #67

Harmonic is my main way to interact with HN.(writing this on Harmonic) Love the ux of just pushing articles down for the articles and was curious how it was implemented and why other applications don't do it. Thanks for creating and open sourcing Harmonic.

Glad that you like it! It is a BottomSheet ( https://m2.material.io/components/sheets-bottom ) which is a Material design component from Google and they handle a lot of the complexity (although the implementation in the app has a few bugs) which is nice

Thanks for the reply! Your implementation looks like a very ingenious way to use bottom sheet.

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

#99

Post by pylbrecht »

suddenclarity wrote: post #61

Big fan of the app. One thing that have bothered me a bit though are bookmarks. Is there any way to sync them with the built in HN functionality? I often bookmark threads with 200+ comments to take notes later on the computer but I haven't found a decent way to transfer them without sending links one by one.

Also a big fan here, who would love to have the ability to sync bookmarks to his desktop PC. I'm usually just bookmarking while commuting (or sitting on the toilet), but prefer reading on a larger screen.

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

#100

Post by pylbrecht »

swesnow wrote: post #91
suddenclarity wrote: post #61

Big fan of the app. One thing that have bothered me a bit though are bookmarks. Is there any way to sync them with the built in HN functionality? I often bookmark threads with 200+ comments to take notes later on the computer but I haven't found a decent way to transfer them without sending links one by one.

Yeah this is something that has been on my mind. It is possible because I know other apps do this but I haven't looked into details of the API. I totally get the appeal and have received many requests to add this. THere is an option to export bookmarks in the bottom of the settings and technically if you are a very hardcore person you could set up a Python script to import them but of course this is way too hardcore…

Is there a way of automating the export of bookmarks in the app?

I'm thinking of exporting bookmarks regularly to a network drive and then having a script check for new content in that drive to sync with my desktop PC.

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