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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 apu »

tsm wrote: post #18
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.

Also, iHackerNews has links to 'viewtext' on the article, which works on about 75% of articles that I've tried, and saves a lot of badnwidth/cpu/ram.

The viewtext service is also incredibly awesome for printing out articles on paper -- I've found it to be much better than even the custom "print" versions of many articles, and certainly better than readability, etc.

Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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Post by ch0wn »

kjemperud wrote: post #8
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.

This looks pretty good. However, is there a way you can view the New category in this?

I don't think there is. One could open a feature request on the Github page[0], though.

[0] https://github.com/cheeaun/hnmobile/issues

Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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Post by kjemperud »

SCdF wrote: post #20
kjemperud wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Thanks! Looking forward to hear your results. If any of them works well on your Prime, could you email me some screenshots? thomas at kjemperud dot net

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Post by cheeaun »

aw3c2 wrote: post #19
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).

You mean it happens on Opera desktop browser or on Android? And which version?

Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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Post by duck »

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 :(

HackerNews HD+ is a great one.

Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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Post by quinndupont »

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.

I just did a very similar review, focusing on Nexus 7 compatibility. We came to similar conclusions (so, evidently, a well designed Android app works for multiple screen sizes): http://www.iqdupont.com/blog/2012/11/10/finding-a-good-hacke...
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