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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?

by hidro 10y ago

pgupta2596 10y ago
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!
jray 10y ago
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.airlocksoftware.hackernews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...
- hidro 10y ago
  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 :(
kaushalmodi 10y ago
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.
- hidro 10y ago
  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).
  - y4mi 10y ago
    can't you just utilize the algolia search api for hacker news? https://hn.algolia.com/api https://hn.algolia.com/api sure, its one more query to run but i think it would be fast enough.
    - hidro 10y ago
      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.
kaushalmodi 10y ago
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?
- hidro 10y ago
  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.

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

by hidro 10y ago

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

pgupta2596 10y ago

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!

jray 10y ago

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

hidro 10y ago
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 :(

kaushalmodi 10y ago

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.

hidro 10y ago
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).
- y4mi 10y ago
  can't you just utilize the algolia search api for hacker news? https://hn.algolia.com/api https://hn.algolia.com/api sure, its one more query to run but i think it would be fast enough.
  - hidro 10y ago
    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.

kaushalmodi 10y ago

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?

hidro 10y ago
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.