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Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by thekingshorses »

devcpp wrote: post #154
thekingshorses wrote: post #54

I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app. Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN. Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

Any plans to release the source code?

Yes. I got so many emails for source code. I will put it here. https://github.com/premii/hn

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by mahyarm »

thekingshorses wrote: post #160
mahyarm wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the font used for the webapp icon here? http://hn.premii.com/a/icon/ios/Icon-72@2x.png

Sorry, i had to find original PSD to find the font name. Its called Ribbon. I doesn't render like this. I modified in PSD to make it look like this.

Thanks!

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by zio99 »

kevin_p wrote: post #143
zio99 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked on a similar app [1] and it runs as a standalone web app on the iOS homescreen as well. A couple of things that I love about it: 1. I've done away with a lot of the features the OP has - such as comments (unless it's Ask HN), time of post and link. This has made it more lightweight and faster to load on slow mobile networks in my area. 2. Also, it's only updated twice a day since I actually built this for my…

I prefer the way this one preloads the story contents; I take the subway to work so I have a while without internet access. It would be nice to have comment links at least though, so there's the option to read them if it seems interesting. And the 'open all' button doesn't work for me, assuming that's what the '^' in the top right corner is supposed to do.

Hi Kevin, Thank you for your feedback. The '^' was meant to reveal a translation feature that I was working on, but I suppose 'Open All' would be a more worthwhile feature to implement. The markdown on HN makes it a little tricky to render comments (with their nesting), but glad you mentioned it [1]. Anyone second that feature request?

[1] Wasn't sure of how many people read comments before the article, or read them at all - I stopped when I found that it gave me a biased read, especially on the Show HN type posts.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by tjohns »

tjohns wrote: post #99
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #13

Great work! I recommend adding a manifest.webapp file so that Firefox users (and Firefox OS users) can add this as an "app". The manifest file is minimal, and then just a few lines of JavaScript will give you an "install" button. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Apps/Manifest

Ditto for Chrome/CrOS, please: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html Also, please consider adding this to the Chrome Web Store so I can install it on my Chromebook. :)

Update: There's also a lighter-weight API for "hosted" Chrome apps that don't require all the features of a full "packaged" app, which would work too.

https://developers.google.com/chrome/apps/docs/developers_gu...

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by jdmaresco »

songgao wrote: post #103
thekingshorses wrote: post #54

I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app. Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN. Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

Hey, great work! I really like it. I noticed when added into home screen, if I click through the direct link to the article, there's not way to go back. This is probably related to "apple-mobile-web-app-*" meta tags. Is there any tweak that can make it possible to go back from external article page?

I had the same issue. iOS 6 / iPhone 5 Have to quit the app and reopen to get back to main screen

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by thekingshorses »

tjohns wrote: post #99
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #13

Great work! I recommend adding a manifest.webapp file so that Firefox users (and Firefox OS users) can add this as an "app". The manifest file is minimal, and then just a few lines of JavaScript will give you an "install" button. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Apps/Manifest

Ditto for Chrome/CrOS, please: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html Also, please consider adding this to the Chrome Web Store so I can install it on my Chromebook. :)

Added as a hosted app. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news/gdljjm...

Let me know if you can install on your chromebook.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by renke1 »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #13

Great work! I recommend adding a manifest.webapp file so that Firefox users (and Firefox OS users) can add this as an "app". The manifest file is minimal, and then just a few lines of JavaScript will give you an "install" button. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Apps/Manifest

What exactly is a Firefox app? Never heard of that. Good example would be nice.
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