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Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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Post by BrokenPipe »

mikeevans wrote: post #19
BrokenPipe wrote: post #17

Why does it need permission to read my identify? Sorry, uninstalled.

Do you mean Read phone state or Access network state? Those are for the Ads and Analytics.

It requires two permissions:

-Phone calls Read phone status and identity

-Network communication Full network access

I can understand the latter, in particular if in android you can't specify exactly what hosts you need to access but the former I can't understand, or better, I can't stand. I do not want to give every app my identity, not for ads, not for money.

Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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Post by mikeevans »

LVB wrote: post #22

Good start, though the feature I've found essential in this type of application is being able to share an article via a long press on the main page. I send dozens of articles to Pocket every day that way.

Good suggestion. Right now you have to go to the comment/article and there will be a share button. I can add something like that to the main page though.

Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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Post by vibragiel »

astoltzf wrote: post #16

The app looks excellent; the best design for an Android HN app I have seen to date. Unlike others, I haven't experienced any crashing issues. I only have one small piece of input: A night-mode (white on black) for the main menu and comments would be an excellent addition.

+1 to the "night mode", which is very relevant to users with AMOLED screens.

Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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Post by richardwhiuk »

mikeevans wrote: post #19
BrokenPipe wrote: post #17

Why does it need permission to read my identify? Sorry, uninstalled.

Do you mean Read phone state or Access network state? Those are for the Ads and Analytics.

You shouldn't need phone state to identify a device - see http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/identifying...

Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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Post by RossM »

veeti wrote: post #24

Two problems with rotation: 1) The article list scrolling position is reset. 2) On my Nexus 7, going from landscape to portrait while viewing comments closes the comments.

Rotation issues are usually to do with the activity being recreated (i.e. onCreate is called again) as the screen size has changed. There is a config to disable this however: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-...

Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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Post by veeti »

RossM wrote: post #27
veeti wrote: post #24

Two problems with rotation: 1) The article list scrolling position is reset. 2) On my Nexus 7, going from landscape to portrait while viewing comments closes the comments.

Rotation issues are usually to do with the activity being recreated (i.e. onCreate is called again) as the screen size has changed. There is a config to disable this however: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-...

If you mean configChanges, I would strongly recommend against it because it is a bad practice and it probably wouldn't work in this case anyway (no activity recreation = no multi-panel layout on a 7-inch landscape screen).

Re: Show HN: My first Android app - Hacker News reader

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Post by StavrosK »

BrokenPipe wrote: post #17

Why does it need permission to read my identify? Sorry, uninstalled.

I've been wondering about this. What exactly does the "READ PHONE STATUS AND IDENTITY" permission entail, and why do developers need it?

What exactly am I giving them access to when I allow it?

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