Hm..is it me or there's no way to switch branch using the mobile view..
GitHub's on your phone
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Re: GitHub's on your phone
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 rel…
iOctocat for iOS is also open source - though they charge in the App Store (depending on how you feel about supporting the organization as a whole).
Re: GitHub's on your phone
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Likely a coincidence, but I'm a little bummed they didn't mention it if they knew it was coming. ;)
Secrets! We test things like that for quite some time before we release it. We know it's good when coworkers start asking, "Wait, this isn't shipped yet? Why not?!"
Re: GitHub's on your phone
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was recently the feature of a blog post: https://github.com/blog/1557-github-flow-in-the-browser
Even with the ability to CRUD files from the browser I don't think github would fit non dev audience with well. Most normal people use word processor or a spreadsheet program, those files aren't well suited for git and you can't edit them on github
I bet they're not far off though. .docx and .xlsx files are (mostly) just zipped XML files: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
Re: GitHub's on your phone
#75Fun 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
I have an iPhone app in the store (been there for a while) and it has yet to run into approval issues. FWIW, I don't allow sign-ups from within the app (or direct users to their website to sign up) - I expect users to already have an account.
Re: GitHub's on your phone
#76I'm sad to see this didn't come with a responsive design for the main site. You get horizontal scrollbars everywhere if your window is thinner than ~1000 pixels, making it impossible to have code + GitHub side by side on a laptop without some serious annoyance. The repo redesign made it worse, as now all the in-project links (issues, pulls, wiki...) are offscreen. I'd happily work around this by using the mobile view…
If it was responsive, all they would be doing is "hiding or relocating stuff", but the size (in KB) of each page would be the same for mobile and desktop.
That would make it unusable on a mobile. They NEEDED to do different pages for each, and make it much lighter for mobile.
Re: GitHub's on your phone
#77Mostly pretty great, but it'd be nice to see a couple of controls that have now disappeared.
I can't close or reopen issues anymore, which is something that's super useful to be able to do on the go.
Also there's no way to edit files from the mobile view. Again, something I've often found really useful for quick docs fixes, or adding contributors to the credits after merging a pull request.
Re: GitHub's on your phone
#78I remember they didn't go with a full client side app for the desktop version, instead opting for something like pjax.
What did they do there, media queries?
Re: GitHub's on your phone
#79Looks like Github used Angular.js. Would be interesting to hear how they settled on that. I've been using it for a side project and so far have had a positive experience.
I don't see any sign of angular - what makes you think that they did?
Yes, definitely not angural.js. It would be still interesting to see their mobile webapp stack.
Re: GitHub's on your phone
#80I'm sad to see this didn't come with a responsive design for the main site. You get horizontal scrollbars everywhere if your window is thinner than ~1000 pixels, making it impossible to have code + GitHub side by side on a laptop without some serious annoyance. The repo redesign made it worse, as now all the in-project links (issues, pulls, wiki...) are offscreen. I'd happily work around this by using the mobile view…
If it was responsive, all they would be doing is "hiding or relocating stuff", but the size (in KB) of each page would be the same for mobile and desktop. That would make it unusable on a mobile. They NEEDED to do different pages for each, and make it much lighter for mobile.
Couldn't this be somewhat mitigated by using progressive enhancement versus graceful degradation?