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Re: Are mobile web apps slow?

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Post by girvo »

thekingshorses wrote: post #6

Hacker news webapp for mobile - http://hn.premii.com I wrote this client. It is as fast as most other native HN mobile apps, but mine works on iOS, Android browser, and windows phone 8. It also works on regular browsers. I have wrapped this in hybrid app using phonegap, but only submitted to Google play. One day I will submit it to Apple too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn But it is not a…

Hah! I recently switched to your app in Google Play. I thought it was native. That's how fast it is!

Re: Are mobile web apps slow?

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Post by gruturo »

thekingshorses wrote: post #6

Hacker news webapp for mobile - http://hn.premii.com I wrote this client. It is as fast as most other native HN mobile apps, but mine works on iOS, Android browser, and windows phone 8. It also works on regular browsers. I have wrapped this in hybrid app using phonegap, but only submitted to Google play. One day I will submit it to Apple too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn But it is not a…

That thing is astonishing. The world needs more code by people like you :)

Re: Are mobile web apps slow?

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Post by revorad »

thekingshorses wrote: post #6

Hacker news webapp for mobile - http://hn.premii.com I wrote this client. It is as fast as most other native HN mobile apps, but mine works on iOS, Android browser, and windows phone 8. It also works on regular browsers. I have wrapped this in hybrid app using phonegap, but only submitted to Google play. One day I will submit it to Apple too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn But it is not a…

It's a cool app but it's hung up my iPhone in a very strange way.

I installed the app by saving to the home screen. Then I opened it and was browsing around, but all of a sudden, all my buttons got disabled and so now I'm stuck inside the app looking at an HN thread. There's no back button once you click through to an external url. So I can't even get back to the app's UI.

So now I just have to wait for my phone battery to die.

http://i.imgur.com/Q1p1FVb.png

Re: Are mobile web apps slow?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

revorad wrote: post #33
thekingshorses wrote: post #6

Hacker news webapp for mobile - http://hn.premii.com I wrote this client. It is as fast as most other native HN mobile apps, but mine works on iOS, Android browser, and windows phone 8. It also works on regular browsers. I have wrapped this in hybrid app using phonegap, but only submitted to Google play. One day I will submit it to Apple too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn But it is not a…

It's a cool app but it's hung up my iPhone in a very strange way. I installed the app by saving to the home screen. Then I opened it and was browsing around, but all of a sudden, all my buttons got disabled and so now I'm stuck inside the app looking at an HN thread. There's no back button once you click through to an external url. So I can't even get back to the app's UI. So now I just have to wait for my phone batt…

Do a hard reset (on iPads this requires holding power + home for 10 seconds, don't know about iPhones, but there definitely is a way; pretty much any normal computer/phone/tablet can be powercycled by holding power button for ~10 seconds).

Re: Are mobile web apps slow?

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Post by revorad »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #34
revorad wrote: post #33

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It's a cool app but it's hung up my iPhone in a very strange way. I installed the app by saving to the home screen. Then I opened it and was browsing around, but all of a sudden, all my buttons got disabled and so now I'm stuck inside the app looking at an HN thread. There's no back button once you click through to an external url. So I can't even get back to the app's UI. So now I just have to wait for my phone batt…

Do a hard reset (on iPads this requires holding power + home for 10 seconds, don't know about iPhones, but there definitely is a way; pretty much any normal computer/phone/tablet can be powercycled by holding power button for ~10 seconds).

Why thank you! I totally forgot hard reset is power+home and was trying each of them individually instead :-p

Re: Are mobile web apps slow?

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Post by kbanman »

revorad wrote: post #33
thekingshorses wrote: post #6

Hacker news webapp for mobile - http://hn.premii.com I wrote this client. It is as fast as most other native HN mobile apps, but mine works on iOS, Android browser, and windows phone 8. It also works on regular browsers. I have wrapped this in hybrid app using phonegap, but only submitted to Google play. One day I will submit it to Apple too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn But it is not a…

It's a cool app but it's hung up my iPhone in a very strange way. I installed the app by saving to the home screen. Then I opened it and was browsing around, but all of a sudden, all my buttons got disabled and so now I'm stuck inside the app looking at an HN thread. There's no back button once you click through to an external url. So I can't even get back to the app's UI. So now I just have to wait for my phone batt…

Or you could close the app. Double-click the home button and hit the red badge.

Re: Are mobile web apps slow?

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Post by revorad »

kbanman wrote: post #36
revorad wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a cool app but it's hung up my iPhone in a very strange way. I installed the app by saving to the home screen. Then I opened it and was browsing around, but all of a sudden, all my buttons got disabled and so now I'm stuck inside the app looking at an HN thread. There's no back button once you click through to an external url. So I can't even get back to the app's UI. So now I just have to wait for my phone batt…

Or you could close the app. Double-click the home button and hit the red badge.

I couldn't close the app because my home button was disabled. So was my power button and I couldn't even slide down the notifications panel to try and jump to another app.

But the hard reset suggested by TeMPOraL worked.

Re: Are mobile web apps slow?

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Post by Nux »

thekingshorses wrote: post #6

Hacker news webapp for mobile - http://hn.premii.com I wrote this client. It is as fast as most other native HN mobile apps, but mine works on iOS, Android browser, and windows phone 8. It also works on regular browsers. I have wrapped this in hybrid app using phonegap, but only submitted to Google play. One day I will submit it to Apple too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn But it is not a…

Works super fast on Firefox OS, too! Good job.

On Opera Mobile or Nokia Xpress it's unusable though, as expected; luckily the HN site works just fine in these browsers.

Re: Are mobile web apps slow?

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Post by bdash »

thekingshorses wrote: post #22
mkhalil wrote: post #16

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By far the best web app I have ever used. Period. How did you manage to make it so fast? Also most web apps I pin to my home screen (not many) open in safari. how did you manage to get this to open it is own 'app'. It's not a part of safari, it has it owns icon in the app switcher. +1000 KUDOS I WILL be using this app a lot. edit: More kudos for being a Wolverine like myself. Go Blue!

Thanks, I am not using any framework, and using vanilla JS as much as possible. If you add these meta tags, it will open as app. And this for icon

After adding the site to the home screen there doesn't seem to be any way to get back to your site after following a link to the full version of an article. Known issue?

Other than that issue, I'm very impressed with the site. The design and performance are excellent.

Re: Are mobile web apps slow?

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Post by Ecio78 »

thekingshorses wrote: post #6

Hacker news webapp for mobile - http://hn.premii.com I wrote this client. It is as fast as most other native HN mobile apps, but mine works on iOS, Android browser, and windows phone 8. It also works on regular browsers. I have wrapped this in hybrid app using phonegap, but only submitted to Google play. One day I will submit it to Apple too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn But it is not a…

I've just installed it on my ol' Nexus S, it seems to work well, but I'm missing (or I haven't found it?) the native possibility to share articles/HN comments on Android.
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