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Hacker News App Comparison for Android

thomas.do

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Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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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?

Nope, the normal desktop one. 12.10 Build 1652 on Linux.

Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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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

Gah! So, I tried your top three and im sorry to report it's a trifecta of failure: Hacker News Beta renders really s owly, Hacker News Android performs well but doesn't support landscape (it stays in profile) and Hacker News Droid performs Ok, rotates in landscape but without a useful or optimised layout, and as you state doesn't let you log in.

Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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Mobile version this web page would be better IMHO.

Agree. I've found the web view in Pocket (and probably other apps with built-in web views) to do a better job of displaying HN comment pages than any of the browsers I tried, though. Simply because it wraps the comments at a comfortable line length.

Re: Hacker News App Comparison for Android

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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

Gah! So, I tried your top three and im sorry to report it's a trifecta of failure: Hacker News Beta renders really s owly, Hacker News Android performs well but doesn't support landscape (it stays in profile) and Hacker News Droid performs Ok, rotates in landscape but without a useful or optimised layout, and as you state doesn't let you log in.

Okay, thanks for the update! I'll see if I can get my hands on an Android tablet and make a follow-up test :)
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