Show HN: Curiosity, a context-aware Wikipedia reader for iPhone

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Post by jeffd » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 4:15 PM UTC

Show HN: Curiosity, a context-aware Wikipedia reader for iPhone
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Re: Show HN: Curiosity, a context-aware Wikipedia reader for iPhone

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Post by kenhaggerty » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

Very cool. At some point I'll have to get a Watch to see what it's like having it on my wrist, but the iPhone app itself is a fun time killer.

What was the most interesting / surprising / difficult part about making the Watch portion of this app?

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Post by grinich » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 4:33 PM UTC

Is this built with Swift or Objc-C?

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Post by wingerlang » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 4:35 PM UTC

Cool, although I really wish it was free and with an iAP to unlock it. Or a lite version. I want to give it a go for some days to see if I really use it.

How do you get the items by location?

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Post by thehoff » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 4:44 PM UTC

Great idea, I even went to the store and purchased it (I'm that guy, the one that never buys apps).

Alas, the app won't open, it keeps crashing upon startup (6s+) so I can't even play with it.

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Post by jeffd » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 5:12 PM UTC

grinich wrote: post #3

Is this built with Swift or Objc-C?

It's 100% Swift, with some Obj-C libraries.

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Post by jeffd » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 5:13 PM UTC

thehoff wrote: post #5

Great idea, I even went to the store and purchased it (I'm that guy, the one that never buys apps). Alas, the app won't open, it keeps crashing upon startup (6s+) so I can't even play with it.

Bummer, I'll try and hunt down the crash logs and see what's happening.

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Post by jeffd » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 5:16 PM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #4

Cool, although I really wish it was free and with an iAP to unlock it. Or a lite version. I want to give it a go for some days to see if I really use it. How do you get the items by location?

I thought about doing some sort of free version of the app with IAP, but it was very hard to find a way to do it that didn't make the app feel too restricted. I might toy with the idea in the future, are there any good examples that you like?

I get the items using the GeoData extension of the MediaWiki API: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData

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Post by thehoff » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 5:17 PM UTC

jeffd wrote: post #7

thehoff wrote: post #5

Great idea, I even went to the store and purchased it (I'm that guy, the one that never buys apps). Alas, the app won't open, it keeps crashing upon startup (6s+) so I can't even play with it.

Bummer, I'll try and hunt down the crash logs and see what's happening.

After a phone restart all is well now. Nice clean app that will definitely a new go-to when trying to kill a few minutes (ie. waiting in a line).

I thought it would be cool if you could go to other cities and see what article pop up there, but then noticed you have that already!

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Post by jeffd » Tue, Dec 08, 2015, 5:20 PM UTC

thehoff wrote: post #9

jeffd wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bummer, I'll try and hunt down the crash logs and see what's happening.

After a phone restart all is well now. Nice clean app that will definitely a new go-to when trying to kill a few minutes (ie. waiting in a line). I thought it would be cool if you could go to other cities and see what article pop up there, but then noticed you have that already!

Weird that it worked after a restart. iOS ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Glad you found the location search feature, let me know if you think anything else would be cool.