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A free Hacker News app for Android

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It's in the Market. It's my first Android app, so I'd be grateful for feedback.

A misleading title, a shameful tease.

Not available for HTC G1. I believe most Android phones out there in the wild are 1st generation, be sure to let us know when you release a version for us early adopter-types..

(Edit) I didn't intend to sound so snarky here, I just really wanted your app, its very beautiful.. Thank you for building it.

Ok. Maybe even tonight.

Thank you, you are speedy.. I bookmarked your homepage and I'll keep checking.

I just republished, for Android 1.6 (G1)

Wow! This is great, in the time it took me to go see 'Avatar' in Imax3D you iterated your way right into taking up permanent real estate on my G1's homescreen!

Thank you very much Mr Trager, I like what you did. I have been using another Icombinator IPhone/Android App but yours is more pleasing to the eye.

One concern, it seems I have a choice of running the Op's links or the comments? But not both at the same time? In this respect the other Fella's mobile App seems like a better UI..

Thanks again..

Is there a way you could send me a screenshot that illustrated what you mean?

Email sent..

An offtopic here, but I just wanted to say I was pleasantly surprised with how blazing fast your blog is (including leaving comments).

I was even more surprised when I saw what it was running on: http://www.dotnetblogengine.net (because I'd never heard of it and not because it's .NET - the speed actually makes sense now).

Note to all Android app makers: Please include a QR code. If the Weather Channel is hip enough to show their QR code on-air (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/03/weather-channel-distribut...), you can put your own on your website.

Oh good. There was still a little time left in my day that wasn't being sucked away by Hacker News.

That takes care of that!

I just uploaded a newer version to the market that should work with Android 1.6 (G1). However, I couldn't compile for 1.1 and 1.5. The compiler complained about my "res" folder. If folks want to point me in the right direction, how to learn more about this stuff, how to handle versioning with Android and the Market, I'm open.

Fantastic! HN does not scale well at all to the Droid/Nexus resolutions. Thanks for doing this.

Maybe I'm the only one, but I much prefer reading black text on a white background. The inverted color scheme is hard on my eyes.

According to the following the white-on-black display uses less power. Also, I found that once I altered a little bit of the default color scheme I had to alter ALL of it somehow, like changing the background and text color would mess up the border and highlighting color. It's an area where I need to do some more learning.

http://blog.javia.org/nexus-one-display-and-subpixel-pattern...

Where is the App? How do I get it? One of those barcode things would be nice.

as the article says, "Just search for Hacker News". There's a search bar in the Android Market app -- type it in there and press enter.

edit: I think it may only be available for Android 2.x systems, so if you have a G1 like me, you're out of luck

Hacker News is one of the best looking sites on my G1.

For some reason I have never been able to post comments from the phone. I have to go pull up a full browser to post. Any ideas why? Is it just me?

Logging in from a G1 is broken, I've seen the same thing.

I can log in and post from both my G1 and my Nexus, but I run Cyanogen on my G1, if that makes any difference.

Looks very nice, but where are the vote counts / buttons?

Voting would require allowing you to login, a whole 'nother degree of difficulty, especially given the architecture of going thru the proxy at heroku.

If enough people seem to care, I might attempt supporting logging in. And charge 99 cents for it....

This should be in the iPhone app soon.

I saw your app before I started working on mine. You did a nice job. You set the bar pretty high!

Why?

my not-as-smart nokia running opera mobile reads hacker news and I can even vote via ajax (sans page reload).

That said. Your app looks good.

The real question is not why, but why not?

(I've been meaning to do this for a while but I'm still awaiting delivery of my round tuit, so thank you to the submitter.)

On Android too, if you use the browser on Android, you can interact with Hacker News same as usual, login, vote, etc. But you'll find yourself zooming and panning a lot. The rest of this comment is off topic: Speaking of voting, here are two people asking about voting at Hacker News, but yesterday was an election in Illinois with Obama's old senate seat at stake, and not one of about two dozen co-workers I talked to bothered to vote. There's more interest in voting for a Hacker News article than for a US Senator?

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