Awesome! Now I want a good one for the iPad, please!
Combinator v1.1 - A simple Hacker News client for Windows Phone.
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Re: Combinator v1.1 - A simple Hacker News client for Windows Phone.
#22Looks nice, really very nice, but it has the same fundamental problem as other HN apps - too few items per page. I really want 20-30 headlines in teenie-tiny, but legible font. Content density is the main visual property of the original site and no mobile client has reproduced it faithfully yet. Still waiting... ;)
Re: Combinator v1.1 - A simple Hacker News client for Windows Phone.
#23I don't own a windows phone and don't use any of these kind of apps, but doesn't the own existence of web site related apps represents a failure of said website to provide a decent web interface to mobile platforms? I'm not referring in particular to hacker news or to this app, but websites in general that "need" a mobile app to properly or easily use it.
http://ihackernews.com/ is an excellent Hacker News mobile website. It also provides the third-party Hacker News API used by Combinator.
The problem is that Windows Phone doesn't allow users to pin website icons to their start screen (you can pin a static web page preview but it doesn't look very good). Fortunately, http://www.web2tile.com solves this issue, but not enough people are aware it exists. I may try to build a native app for it, but I'm not sure Microsoft would allow it.
Re: Combinator v1.1 - A simple Hacker News client for Windows Phone.
#24Hi Miguel, you beat me to it :-). I just released my app today: http://www.windowsphone.com/nl-NL/apps/c7c617bb-689b-476d-a3... Working on comments....
Damn, your app looks great (and very similar to Combinator v1.0).
Comments are tricky, I'm also working on them.
Re: Combinator v1.1 - A simple Hacker News client for Windows Phone.
#25How was your experience with Caliburn Micro?
Not so good. MVVM is fairly new to me and I find hard not to just use code-behind.
I think I prefer MVVM Light, mostly because of design-time data.
Re: Combinator v1.1 - A simple Hacker News client for Windows Phone.
#26App looks very nice. Just one issue: How can I see comments? This is a major point for me and a better interface would help, it's impossible to read comments on a small screen via the web interface. The scrollbar could also use more visibility.
For the moment, you can read posts using iHackerNews (that's the quick solution I came out with). I'm working on native comments but it will take some time (don't expect it this month, I'm too busy).
Thanks for the feedback.
Re: Combinator v1.1 - A simple Hacker News client for Windows Phone.
#27Hi Miguel, you beat me to it :-). I just released my app today: http://www.windowsphone.com/nl-NL/apps/c7c617bb-689b-476d-a3... Working on comments....
To be honest, I think I prefer your app to my app :P Just move the about section somewhere else (and link to it from the application bar menu). You should also sync the details animations.
Where do you get your data from? Do you use data scraping?
Re: Combinator v1.1 - A simple Hacker News client for Windows Phone.
#28I don't own a windows phone and don't use any of these kind of apps, but doesn't the own existence of web site related apps represents a failure of said website to provide a decent web interface to mobile platforms? I'm not referring in particular to hacker news or to this app, but websites in general that "need" a mobile app to properly or easily use it.
http://ihackernews.com/ is an excellent Hacker News mobile website. It also provides the third-party Hacker News API used by Combinator. The problem is that Windows Phone doesn't allow users to pin website icons to their start screen (you can pin a static web page preview but it doesn't look very good). Fortunately, http://www.web2tile.com solves this issue, but not enough people are aware it exists. I may try to bui…
I own a Windows Phone and I use ihackernews daily for browsing. web2tile looks interesting, though I seem to have a preference of not pinning websites (I just bookmark them).
Re: Combinator v1.1 - A simple Hacker News client for Windows Phone.
#29Looks nice, really very nice, but it has the same fundamental problem as other HN apps - too few items per page. I really want 20-30 headlines in teenie-tiny, but legible font. Content density is the main visual property of the original site and no mobile client has reproduced it faithfully yet. Still waiting... ;)
20-30 headlines on a phone? On my 1400x900 laptop screen, I only see 23.