Isn't that called a web browser?
App all the websites!
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IPad app for Stack Overflow
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Re: IPad app for Stack Overflow
#12Nice looking UI.
I think it's interesting and fairly ironic that using stock UI widgets in an iOS app is becoming more and more the mark of the amateur.
Re: IPad app for Stack Overflow
#13Interestingly, this seems like one of those concepts that just doesn't make sense as an app. Perhaps I'm missing a use case, but personally, all of my coding is done at a computer... with a web browser... where Stack Overflow already exists, just milliseconds away. I couldn't see myself using this app as an effective replacement. My workflow goes like this: code > hit a problem > google it > open first result (usuall…
Totally agree with that. The only time I would use an app to interact with SO is when I go out on weekend or vacation and I just want to check if someone answer a question I left there or to check if someone reply to an answer/comment I left.
Re: IPad app for Stack Overflow
#14Interestingly, this seems like one of those concepts that just doesn't make sense as an app. Perhaps I'm missing a use case, but personally, all of my coding is done at a computer... with a web browser... where Stack Overflow already exists, just milliseconds away. I couldn't see myself using this app as an effective replacement. My workflow goes like this: code > hit a problem > google it > open first result (usuall…
Agreed. However the biggest pain point is copying code between workstation and another device. (This is an issue for those who work in offices where sites like SE are locked down.) If this app can make it easier, then great.
Re: IPad app for Stack Overflow
#15Interestingly, this seems like one of those concepts that just doesn't make sense as an app. Perhaps I'm missing a use case, but personally, all of my coding is done at a computer... with a web browser... where Stack Overflow already exists, just milliseconds away. I couldn't see myself using this app as an effective replacement. My workflow goes like this: code > hit a problem > google it > open first result (usuall…
Agreed. However the biggest pain point is copying code between workstation and another device. (This is an issue for those who work in offices where sites like SE are locked down.) If this app can make it easier, then great.
What kind of stupid office has developers writing code and blocks StackOverflow?
Re: IPad app for Stack Overflow
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. However the biggest pain point is copying code between workstation and another device. (This is an issue for those who work in offices where sites like SE are locked down.) If this app can make it easier, then great.
What kind of stupid office has developers writing code and blocks StackOverflow?
The same offices that live in fear about data security and therefore block absolutely everything.
The few individuals that can access anything don't have a need for it.
Re: IPad app for Stack Overflow
#17Interestingly, this seems like one of those concepts that just doesn't make sense as an app. Perhaps I'm missing a use case, but personally, all of my coding is done at a computer... with a web browser... where Stack Overflow already exists, just milliseconds away. I couldn't see myself using this app as an effective replacement. My workflow goes like this: code > hit a problem > google it > open first result (usuall…
Replying and helping people from your couch :)
Re: IPad app for Stack Overflow
#18Interestingly, this seems like one of those concepts that just doesn't make sense as an app. Perhaps I'm missing a use case, but personally, all of my coding is done at a computer... with a web browser... where Stack Overflow already exists, just milliseconds away. I couldn't see myself using this app as an effective replacement. My workflow goes like this: code > hit a problem > google it > open first result (usuall…
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Have to agree with you on this one. Some portal's should not be ported to an app. This is one of them.
I cannot see the use case.
Re: IPad app for Stack Overflow
#19Interestingly, this seems like one of those concepts that just doesn't make sense as an app. Perhaps I'm missing a use case, but personally, all of my coding is done at a computer... with a web browser... where Stack Overflow already exists, just milliseconds away. I couldn't see myself using this app as an effective replacement. My workflow goes like this: code > hit a problem > google it > open first result (usuall…
Replying and helping people from your couch :)
It appears to be a read-only experience application. Plus, writing code on iPad would be awful whether from a couch or not.
Re: IPad app for Stack Overflow
#20Nice looking UI. I think it's interesting and fairly ironic that using stock UI widgets in an iOS app is becoming more and more the mark of the amateur.
Which is very unfortunate. A common set of UI widgets, used for within the right context, are what I like about iOS. I don't want to re-learn how a widget works with every new app.