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Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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Post by CodeMage »

joelhaasnoot wrote: post #11

You might want to do test this again on a tablet. I only found one or two apps that used dual panes - IMHO a key feature for reading on a tablet.

Another thing to test is whether the app respects the portrait/landscape orientation. I use Ricky's app to vote and post, but I'll stick with Manuel's reader for everything else: it respects the page orientation, displays comment nesting clearly and allows me to collapse comment threads. Plus, it has a button to let me refresh what I'm reading, in case I want to do it more often than it already does automatically.

Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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Post by tsm »

CrazedGeek wrote: post #15

It's not a native app, but I've enjoyed http://ihackernews.com for some time now.

I tried three native apps and had problems with all of them. I recently switched to ihackernews, and everything's been great. The hidden killer feature is that you can use browser-provided tabs.

Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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Post by aw3c2 »

ch0wn wrote: post #3

I actually prefer http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ over any native app on my Android. It's fast, pretty and hasn't let me down yet.

Warning, above link breaks the back button to an infinite redirection loop. Longclick it to skip more than one page backwards (at least in Opera).

Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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Post by SCdF »

kjemperud wrote: post #12
joelhaasnoot wrote: post #11

You might want to do test this again on a tablet. I only found one or two apps that used dual panes - IMHO a key feature for reading on a tablet.

Good idea. Which ones looked good on tablets? I don't have an Android tablet at the moment :(

I have a Prime, and I remember going through all the available apps ~6 months ago and uninstalling them all.

They were either bad apps in general or were potentially nice phone-sized apps with no optimisation done for tablets. When I say optimisation I'm referring to both the UI layout and the general rendering performance. For some reason (I'm not an android dev) certain apps have performance issues that scale with your pixel count (I guess they are hand-rendering things themselves and simply Doing It Wrong) and make them unusable.

I can't remember which though, so I'll install your top two when I get home (~8-10hrs) and report back.

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