GitHub's on your phone • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Post by ville » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 10:05 PM UTC

holman wrote: post #20

daegloe wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zach, what was the reasoning behind using such large text for the code view? Will there be a zoom in/out option? Or a text size preference?

To make it easy to read code. :) It feels pretty comfortable- squinting isn't fun. We tend to avoid user preferences. If it ends up being a problem, we'll lower the text size at some point.

Speaking of the code view, any plans on adding code commenting capability on mobile? This has been a bit difficult to use on a phone because the click target is so small on the desktop version.

I can't resist doing code reviews even when I'm away from keyboard :)

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Post by oscardelben » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 10:08 PM UTC

Fun fact: years ago I started building an ipad app for Github, but it was rejected multiple times by Apple because users could use it to create a new account but then Apple wouldn't get any commission.

https://github.com/oscardelben/GithubBrowser

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Post by orta » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 10:26 PM UTC

cleverjake wrote: post #38

kmfrk wrote: post #26

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Perhaps the move to a wide, non-developer audience finally did it?

could you elaborate?

It was recently the feature of a blog post: https://github.com/blog/1557-github-flow-in-the-browser

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Post by CoryG89 » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 10:28 PM UTC

oscardelben wrote: post #42

Fun fact: years ago I started building an ipad app for Github, but it was rejected multiple times by Apple because users could use it to create a new account but then Apple wouldn't get any commission. https://github.com/oscardelben/GithubBrowser

What do you mean Apple wouldn't get any commission? For creating new GitHub accounts? Am I missing something?

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Post by jakebellacera » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 10:30 PM UTC

CoryG89 wrote: post #44

oscardelben wrote: post #42

Fun fact: years ago I started building an ipad app for Github, but it was rejected multiple times by Apple because users could use it to create a new account but then Apple wouldn't get any commission. https://github.com/oscardelben/GithubBrowser

What do you mean Apple wouldn't get any commission? For creating new GitHub accounts? Am I missing something?

I think what ocscardelben meant was that Apple wouldn't get any commission off of new, paid, GitHub accounts.

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Post by oscardelben » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 10:39 PM UTC

jakebellacera wrote: post #45

CoryG89 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean Apple wouldn't get any commission? For creating new GitHub accounts? Am I missing something?

I think what ocscardelben meant was that Apple wouldn't get any commission off of new, paid, GitHub accounts.

YES

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Post by k-mcgrady » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 10:40 PM UTC

CoryG89 wrote: post #44

oscardelben wrote: post #42

Fun fact: years ago I started building an ipad app for Github, but it was rejected multiple times by Apple because users could use it to create a new account but then Apple wouldn't get any commission. https://github.com/oscardelben/GithubBrowser

What do you mean Apple wouldn't get any commission? For creating new GitHub accounts? Am I missing something?

Apple wants devs to use in-app purchase to sell things in apps . If you don't they don't get their 30% cut of all sales. It's the same reason Amazon can't sell books in the Kindle app, they have to direct users to the website.

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Post by gcb0 » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 10:54 PM UTC

llambda wrote: post #6

I'm not sure what took GitHub so long to _finally_ implement a mobile view for the site, but thank you. I have been waiting for this to happen for years, quite literally. Edit: It's worth noting I've heard plenty of counter arguments to using GitHub from my phone. But I will say, sometimes I want to check out a project and possibly browse source and lo and behold I'm not at my desktop. For this reason alone, a mobile…

indeed. bitbucket has about a dozen. bitbeaker is pretty decent.

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/12/21/mobile-apps-for-bitbuck...

maybe bitbucket is just open-er?

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Post by Splendor » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 10:57 PM UTC

llambda wrote: post #6

I'm not sure what took GitHub so long to _finally_ implement a mobile view for the site, but thank you. I have been waiting for this to happen for years, quite literally. Edit: It's worth noting I've heard plenty of counter arguments to using GitHub from my phone. But I will say, sometimes I want to check out a project and possibly browse source and lo and behold I'm not at my desktop. For this reason alone, a mobile…

Maybe it's a coincidence but this was a sticking point during a discussion between a couple folks at GitHub and Scott Hanselman on the HanselMinutes podcast episode aired on June 14th.

Link: http://hanselminutes.com/375/on-culture-and-remoteness-at-gi...

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Post by martey » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 11:06 PM UTC

gcb0 wrote: post #48

llambda wrote: post #6

I'm not sure what took GitHub so long to _finally_ implement a mobile view for the site, but thank you. I have been waiting for this to happen for years, quite literally. Edit: It's worth noting I've heard plenty of counter arguments to using GitHub from my phone. But I will say, sometimes I want to check out a project and possibly browse source and lo and behold I'm not at my desktop. For this reason alone, a mobile…

indeed. bitbucket has about a dozen. bitbeaker is pretty decent. http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/12/21/mobile-apps-for-bitbuck... maybe bitbucket is just open-er?

Github has had mobile apps for a while:

http://mobile.github.com/

Their official Android app was released a year ago, and is open source:

https://github.com/blog/1187-github-android-app-released https://github.com/github/android

Both the comment you replied and Github's blog post are about them making their website mobile-compatible. The fact that Bitbucket has a dozen unofficial mobile applications is not really relevant, and does not tell us anything about how "open" either of the two companies are.