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Comment by kaushalmodi | Hacker News Reader

Materialistic is the only way I access Hacker News. But it would be awesome if the developer took some inspiration from the Reddit client Relay (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=reddit.news) too :) Great job hidro!

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Thanks! I have incorporated the idea of on-screen navigation button and grouping setting options. What else you think I should consider from Relay?

Great work Hidro, But i prefer 'hackernews 2', why? because the list view is more compact (only 2 lines). Can you add a 'compact view'?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...

Disable card view (which is the default for new installations) + choose smaller text size would achieve more or less the same. I have already gone thru few iterations of compacting the UI and I'm afraid I can't squeeze it anymore :(

Thanks for the reply. I really like the "comment search" feature in Relay based on time (show and jump through comments added in last X minutes), words (jump through comments that contain certain words), jump to comments based on author (OP, me), etc. There are many more comment search parameters, but these are my favorite.

I already have similar request in my backlog. This is gonna be tricky, because I don't have all comments up front as they are loaded on demand (even for saved comments - loaded on demand from cache).

can't you just utilize the algolia search api for hacker news? https://hn.algolia.com/api

sure, its one more query to run but i think it would be fast enough.

Yeah that's one way to go. Probably I'll use Algolia for users that prefer up front loading. It's slower than official API but would do the job.

Also, when someone replies to my comments, I do not get any notification. Can that feature be added? Or is it a limitation of the HN API?

I have something similar in mind but haven't get started yet. It can be done via HN API, but it can only be done at regular interval (polling), as I don't use Firebase but raw web API.

Not op but I use both Relay and Materialistic and I find myself swiping from the left to get back to the main page after reading the comments (muscle memory after using Relay for a long time). It would be great if you could incorporate this into your app. Either way, its a great app!

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