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GitHub for Mobile

332 points by smoser 7y ago

minimaxir 7y ago
I'm curious what the feature scope is here. From the screenshot it seems like it has Issues, Notification, and Feed support? I can't imagine this would be used for code reviews/PRs.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  It seems like you can leave general review comments on pull requests.
- monkey_slap 7y ago
  You can leave a comment-only review on the iOS beta that we released today, but we are committed to adding line-by-line commenting for Pull Request reviews before we launch broadly. I originally didn't think that it would work until our engineers built a prototype and changed my mind. And since review comments are saved to the server as pending, you can even start a review on your phone, then finish on your computer (and vice versa).
windsurfer 7y ago
How odd! GitHub Mobile used to exist, and was abandoned. PocketHub is the continuation of that old project: https://github.com/pockethub/PocketHub https://github.com/pockethub/PocketHub
- mavsman 7y ago
  Fully agreed. Weird that they dropped it then picked it back up again, though I'm guessing it's because it was dropped pre-MS and picked up as a part of MS. It'd be interesting to see an old link announcing it being dropped as context.
  - windsurfer 7y ago
    I found the old link from 2012 with their original release: https://github.blog/2012-07-09-github-android-app-released/ https://github.blog/2012-07-09-github-android-app-released/
  - giancarlostoro 7y ago
    Better funding lets them work on an app. Definitely an app is useful especially if you're all in on GitHub.
jackbrookes 7y ago
More info, videos: https://twitter.com/github/status/1194675248047616000 https://twitter.com/github/status/1194675248047616000 https://twitter.com/github/status/1194676541243813888 https://twitter.com/github/status/1194676541243813888
jason_slack 7y ago
My hope is this can help me with issues and PRs while on the go.
- josteink 7y ago
  There were numerous third party Github clients for Android which helped me with exactly this. I’ve really been missing it since moving to iOS.
dbingham 7y ago
I really wish they'd replace the commit feed with a PR comment feed. I honestly don't care who committed what. I don't need to know about it until I'm reviewing a PR. The unit of review is the PR, not the commit. I need to know when there are new comments on PRs I'm participating in. I need to know when a PR of mine fails the build. I need to know when a review is posted. I don't give a shit when someone else commits to the repo. It's noise, not signal.
- dharmab 7y ago
  I usually sort PRs by recently updated.
- ldavison 7y ago
  Agreed. The closest I've found is using: https://github.com/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+user%3AYourOrg+sort%3Aupdated-desc https://github.com/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+... I just add "-repo:org/repo-name" for the repos in my org I want removed from the results. Plus, it tells me what I need to review. As long as you don't open email notifications about PR activity this page will show a blue indicator so you know which ones have been updated since you last viewed them.
benburleson 7y ago
Eek -- this seems to be a step in the wrong direction from work/life balance.
- paulie_a 7y ago
  Don't use it after hours. You can also ignore slack if it's after 5. (or whatever your expected hours are)
  - benburleson 7y ago
    That's easy to say. The reality is for most of us, when we're tagged on some issue, our reaction is to at least check it out and assess the priority, etc.
    - peruvian 7y ago
      Then turn notifications off. Depends on your workplace culture, but I receive no work-related notifications or emails after work hours and it's fine.
    - paulie_a 7y ago
      It's really easy to do too. notifications should be turned off outside of work hours. If it is a major emergency I expect a call. Stuff like this isn't ruining work life balance. They employee is by engaging and allowing the behavior outside of work
  - bassman9000 7y ago
    This. Uninstalled all my MS work apps (for other reasons, mainly the fact that it gives work admins permission to nuke my entire phone), and now I have a proper cut-off time. Not necessarily 5-6PM, but when I decide it's over, it's over.
    - paulie_a 7y ago
      I don't mind going above and beyond under extreme circumstances. But I'm not letting a company take over my phone. They can provide me one in that case. And I'm still going to pay little attention to it after normal work hours. Extremely important issues don't come up that frequently. So I'll be the judge of whether I need to deal with it now or it can wait and be on the docket first thing in the morning
nixpulvis 7y ago
GitHub has one of the better implementations of a separate mobile website. - it's optimized for the smaller screen / touch interface - it's provided for the majority of github's features - it allows easily getting to the "full" desktop site I'll probably continue to the website unless they stop development in favor of the app. What features do you really need an app for here? Or will this allow me to browse my repo offline?
- Semaphor 7y ago
  I hate the GitHub mobile site. When I land there, I usually follow a link. What I see is part of the readme, and none of the links I’m used to (and want) from the desktop site. There is an option to always choose the desktop site, but guess where I’m logged in: On the desktop.
  - giancarlostoro 7y ago
    I absolutely abhor it. Instead of having responsive CSS to restyle everything, I have to go out of my way to request the desktop version where I can see everything, every single time. The worst part is sometimes it doesn't render the full README. Some README's aren't useful till halfway through.
    - tenryuu 7y ago
      Even worse is when the they have been pages adaptive. There are features missing from pages solely based on your viewport width. This is completely different from the mobile site, so if you leave the mobile site and land on one of these pages, there's just not much you can do but complain
  - james_s_tayler 7y ago
    Yup. And then it also missing the feature I want. Why not include everything? I don't get it. I'm always disappointed somehow when I _try_ to use their mobile site.
- ocdtrekkie 7y ago
evanwalsh 7y ago
I wonder if the apps are native or if they're using some cross-platform framework. I would assume Xamarin, but I could also see them using React Native because their desktop app is Electron and React.
- The_rationalist 7y ago
  React native is an inferior product to IONIC when you want to have your own UX style which github probably want. CSS is unmatched that's as simple as that. Moreover, they would be able to reuse far more code.
  - saagarjha 7y ago
    > when you want to have your own UX style I don't want you to have your own UX style.
- jbigelow76 7y ago
  There is some grousing[1] that a cross platform technology, including Microsoft's own Xamarin, wasn't used and that fully platform native development is a waste. Was it mentioned somewhere specifically (maybe during GH the keynote that I didn't watch) that SwiftUI was used? That would be the only way to square the tweeter's statement that only 20% of mobile users would be able to use it, he must mean only those on iOS 13, but not totally sure. Hightlighting Dark Mode and a good iPad version would play into SwiftUI's narrative but the framework still seems a bit new for an app of this caliber. [1] https://twitter.com/ThomasBurkhartB/status/1194683781195673602 https://twitter.com/ThomasBurkhartB/status/11946837811956736...
  - mnem 7y ago
    iOS 13 adoption is much higher than 20%.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  I haven't played with it for too long, but the app seems reasonably native.
polutropos 7y ago
I’m assuming the iOS app is based heavily on GitHawk (https://github.com/GitHawkApp/GitHawk https://github.com/GitHawkApp/GitHawk) as its developer, Ryan Nystrom, moved to Github last year. Looking forward to getting in the beta!
- saagarjha 7y ago
  Considering this video has his picture in it, I'd assume so: https://twitter.com/github/status/1194676541243813888 https://twitter.com/github/status/1194676541243813888
- rhodysurf 7y ago
  Thats great news, GitHawk has been one of my favorite apps since I found it a couple months ago
- monkey_slap 7y ago
  That's me! Lots of lessons influenced our decisions on GitHub for mobile.
  - jzelinskie 7y ago
    Are ya'll using SwiftUI?
    - monkey_slap 7y ago
      Nope, just vanilla UIKit for the iOS app.
satvikpendem 7y ago
I've used Fasthub for Android before which was great. There is also a fully libre / FLOSS version that has the paid features added in (which you can do since the entire app is GPL). I remember a Github issue where the creator was mad about it, but well, if you pick GPL you should know what you're getting into. https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fastaccess.github.libre/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fastaccess.github.libre/
- maple3142 7y ago
  I am using that too, but sadly it hasn't update their app for a long time, and many things are broken now.
  - coolreader18 7y ago
    v5 is supposedly coming soon; it was supposed to be ready by the end of October[0]. [0] https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub/pull/2599 https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub/pull/2599
    - dreamer_soul 7y ago
      I was invited by the dev to test v5 but for some reason he got busy with work and slowed the development down.
simonw 7y ago
I do a surprising amount of development on my phone these days. I was using GitHub's mobile website for this but I've recently started using Working Copy on iOS. CI means I can even ship a change as a branch, open a pull request, wait for the tests to run and merge the branch. Not being tethered to my laptop in order to ship small, safe changes is really nice.
- monkey_slap 7y ago
  Working Copy is an amazing app! The GitHub iOS app works really well with Working Copy.
- dharmab 7y ago
  Mobile is certainly fine for many changes such as updating documentation!
- throwGuardian 7y ago
  What kind of development is feasible on Mobile? I hope it's on hobby projects though
  - pm90 7y ago
    You can certainly do reviews via mobile. I kinda prefer to read code rather than twitter when staring at my screen in a bar. This makes doing that easier. Me Gusta.
  - madiathomas 7y ago
    Most of the maintenance involves making small changes that can be done even on a phone. E.g., if app is crashing because there is a piece of code which isn't doing array bounds checking, you can add that code quickly and push changes. Another example is small changes like fixing typos or changing labels.
- tedmiston 7y ago
  I do real dev on my phone and iPad too, also shipping the code to a CI that builds, deploys, etc. Working Copy is one of my favorite iOS apps as well. It's well worth the price.
saagarjha 7y ago
Signed up for the iOS beta. I wonder when invites are going to be sent out?
- tomschlick 7y ago
  I just got mine, so relatively quickly for only signing up an hour ago.
  - saagarjha 7y ago
    Yup, just got mine as well.
izend 7y ago
I'm loving Working Copy and found it from a recommendation on HN (https://workingcopyapp.com/ https://workingcopyapp.com/ not affiliated in anyway)
The_rationalist 7y ago
I hope they'll use a cordova framework such as IONIC instead of reinventing their code.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  This looks like a native app.
- wilg 7y ago
  That's a first!
bla3 7y ago
Make the mobile website work well instead. Diff view is unusable, as are many other views. I'd much rather have a working web version than an app for GitHub (and almost all other services). Their UI is all document retrieval and matches the web model really well.
- smoser 7y ago
  Still need an iOS app for push notifications.
  - saagarjha 7y ago
    I'd think that emails can serve that purpose quite well, but now that there's a native app I'll see if it's any better.
  - neilsimp1 7y ago
    PWAs can do push notifications though. And then it's one codebase and not one for Android, one for iOS.
    - aecorredor 7y ago
      Do PWA push notifications already work on iOS browsers?
      - wilg 7y ago
        No
      - thosakwe 7y ago
        Nope, and it wasn't on the list of WebKit goals that was on the front page this week.
        toxik 7y ago
        And thank god for that. Such a bad idea imo. I only get those from annoying sites, like a dark pattern. Ugh.
siruncledrew 7y ago
I've been waiting years for a mobile version of Github. I'm still on the beta waitlist to judge how good the working-version actually is, but at least the company is finally doing something to improve the mobile side. So far, my go-to way of accessing Github on mobile is just Requesting Desktop Site from a mobile browser and dealing with it that way. I've tried a few of the third-party Github "mobile-version" apps, but they still don't beat just being able to go to "github.com" in Chrome/Safari on mobile and have what I want available to me directly from the source.
guessmyname 7y ago
I got an invitation to test the iOS app, but cannot use it because my account was flagged as spam [1], which is weird because I have a long record of reputable open-source contributions. The only suspicious thing I did in recent days was reporting several spammers in a public Gist that contains instructions on how to crack SublimeText which is clearly illegal. It seems that GitHub’s anti-spam system mistakingly flagged my profile just because I reported these accounts, and now I am unable to use my account for anything relevant. So much for being a good samaritan (sigh). [1] https://i.imgur.com/ZdYiEuo.png https://i.imgur.com/ZdYiEuo.png
- microcolonel 7y ago
  Yeah, I don't put any eggs in that basket, as nice as GitHub is. When you need permission to exist on a platform, and they have no obligations to you, gotta be ready to lose it.
  - microcolonel 7y ago
    P.S. I just wish GitLab were more like GitHub. GitLab has always been more clumsy; don't differentiate on what's good about GitHub, GitLab has so much to offer.
- zrobotics 7y ago
  Why would you want to crack Sublime Text anyway? The only things it does is shows (unregistered) in the title bar and pops up a nag dialog on saves (not sure the timing, maybe 4th save after launching). I didn't pay for a separate license for my lab pc, since I don't really tend to develop much at my electronics bench and mostly just need to occasionally check code. Why would anyone want to bother cracking it? I can understand a student not being able to afford $70, but as-is there's no real loss of features. I just don't get it. (edit) I thought I'd add, the reason I know it's useful w/o registering is that I got through school using ST. Bought a license with my first paycheck out of school.
  - minhazm 7y ago
    I actually emailed them about discounted prices for students and their suggestion was to just use it in unregistered mode.
bassman9000 7y ago
I assume main reason for this is MS wanting to datamine the succulent mobile market via app.
SimplyUseless 7y ago
Honestly, why wouldn't GitHub build a PWA version so the offline experience is fantastic. In fact, that's how Linus built Git. The saga is building app after app is getting ridiculous. It also frees developers to focus on building server-side functionality rather than 3x client app effort (web, iOS, android).
- saagarjha 7y ago
  Because PWAs aren't great on iOS. And no, that's not just because you think Safari breaks them.
  - symlinkk 7y ago
    > And no, that's not just because you think Safari breaks them Why then? Safari straight up refuses to implement tons of PWA functionality. It's Apple being greedy, plain and simple.
    - SimplyUseless 7y ago
      Apple does not have his shit together yet on PWA. https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-on-ios-12-2-beta-the-good-the-bad-and-the-not-sure-yet-if-good-a37b6fa6afbf https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-on-ios-12-2-beta-the-good-the-...
    - dmitriid 7y ago
      Apple is being careful with implementing rushed, poorly specced standards.
xrd 7y ago
If you want to edit Jekyll blogs stored as repos in GitHub from your Android phone, you can use my app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EditorHyde.app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EditorHyde... It's the equivalent of the Wordpress app, but for Jekyll blogs.
mikewhy 7y ago
(slightly off topic) Strange that /mobile is a landing page for the mobile app, but /desktop is the desktop org, and desktop.github.com is the landing page. I guess that means no one can make an org called "mobile" (pretty ok with this), but does it also mean this won't be open source?
rcarndrums 7y ago
Did ICE ask for this?
app4soft 7y ago
The only really usable "GitHub for Mobile" is FastHub-Libre[0] [0] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.fastaccess.github.libre?repo=main https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.fastaccess.gith...
lifeisstillgood 7y ago
Just a shout out to "Working Copy" app on which I have two nearly finished books and a coupe of websites

332 points by smoser 7y ago

I'm curious what the feature scope is here. From the screenshot it seems like it has Issues, Notification, and Feed support? I can't imagine this would be used for code reviews/PRs.

saagarjha 7y ago
It seems like you can leave general review comments on pull requests.
monkey_slap 7y ago
You can leave a comment-only review on the iOS beta that we released today, but we are committed to adding line-by-line commenting for Pull Request reviews before we launch broadly. I originally didn't think that it would work until our engineers built a prototype and changed my mind. And since review comments are saved to the server as pending, you can even start a review on your phone, then finish on your computer (and vice versa).

windsurfer 7y ago

How odd! GitHub Mobile used to exist, and was abandoned. PocketHub is the continuation of that old project: https://github.com/pockethub/PocketHub https://github.com/pockethub/PocketHub

mavsman 7y ago
Fully agreed. Weird that they dropped it then picked it back up again, though I'm guessing it's because it was dropped pre-MS and picked up as a part of MS. It'd be interesting to see an old link announcing it being dropped as context.
- windsurfer 7y ago
  I found the old link from 2012 with their original release: https://github.blog/2012-07-09-github-android-app-released/ https://github.blog/2012-07-09-github-android-app-released/
- giancarlostoro 7y ago
  Better funding lets them work on an app. Definitely an app is useful especially if you're all in on GitHub.

jackbrookes 7y ago

More info, videos: https://twitter.com/github/status/1194675248047616000 https://twitter.com/github/status/1194675248047616000 https://twitter.com/github/status/1194676541243813888 https://twitter.com/github/status/1194676541243813888

jason_slack 7y ago

My hope is this can help me with issues and PRs while on the go.

josteink 7y ago
There were numerous third party Github clients for Android which helped me with exactly this. I’ve really been missing it since moving to iOS.

dbingham 7y ago

I really wish they'd replace the commit feed with a PR comment feed. I honestly don't care who committed what. I don't need to know about it until I'm reviewing a PR. The unit of review is the PR, not the commit. I need to know when there are new comments on PRs I'm participating in. I need to know when a PR of mine fails the build. I need to know when a review is posted. I don't give a shit when someone else commits to the repo. It's noise, not signal.

dharmab 7y ago
I usually sort PRs by recently updated.
ldavison 7y ago
Agreed. The closest I've found is using: https://github.com/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+user%3AYourOrg+sort%3Aupdated-desc https://github.com/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+... I just add "-repo:org/repo-name" for the repos in my org I want removed from the results. Plus, it tells me what I need to review. As long as you don't open email notifications about PR activity this page will show a blue indicator so you know which ones have been updated since you last viewed them.

benburleson 7y ago

Eek -- this seems to be a step in the wrong direction from work/life balance.

paulie_a 7y ago
Don't use it after hours. You can also ignore slack if it's after 5. (or whatever your expected hours are)
- benburleson 7y ago
  That's easy to say. The reality is for most of us, when we're tagged on some issue, our reaction is to at least check it out and assess the priority, etc.
  - peruvian 7y ago
    Then turn notifications off. Depends on your workplace culture, but I receive no work-related notifications or emails after work hours and it's fine.
  - paulie_a 7y ago
    It's really easy to do too. notifications should be turned off outside of work hours. If it is a major emergency I expect a call. Stuff like this isn't ruining work life balance. They employee is by engaging and allowing the behavior outside of work
- bassman9000 7y ago
  This. Uninstalled all my MS work apps (for other reasons, mainly the fact that it gives work admins permission to nuke my entire phone), and now I have a proper cut-off time. Not necessarily 5-6PM, but when I decide it's over, it's over.
  - paulie_a 7y ago
    I don't mind going above and beyond under extreme circumstances. But I'm not letting a company take over my phone. They can provide me one in that case. And I'm still going to pay little attention to it after normal work hours. Extremely important issues don't come up that frequently. So I'll be the judge of whether I need to deal with it now or it can wait and be on the docket first thing in the morning

nixpulvis 7y ago

GitHub has one of the better implementations of a separate mobile website. - it's optimized for the smaller screen / touch interface - it's provided for the majority of github's features - it allows easily getting to the "full" desktop site I'll probably continue to the website unless they stop development in favor of the app. What features do you really need an app for here? Or will this allow me to browse my repo offline?

Semaphor 7y ago
I hate the GitHub mobile site. When I land there, I usually follow a link. What I see is part of the readme, and none of the links I’m used to (and want) from the desktop site. There is an option to always choose the desktop site, but guess where I’m logged in: On the desktop.
- giancarlostoro 7y ago
  I absolutely abhor it. Instead of having responsive CSS to restyle everything, I have to go out of my way to request the desktop version where I can see everything, every single time. The worst part is sometimes it doesn't render the full README. Some README's aren't useful till halfway through.
  - tenryuu 7y ago
    Even worse is when the they have been pages adaptive. There are features missing from pages solely based on your viewport width. This is completely different from the mobile site, so if you leave the mobile site and land on one of these pages, there's just not much you can do but complain
- james_s_tayler 7y ago
  Yup. And then it also missing the feature I want. Why not include everything? I don't get it. I'm always disappointed somehow when I _try_ to use their mobile site.
ocdtrekkie 7y ago

evanwalsh 7y ago

I wonder if the apps are native or if they're using some cross-platform framework. I would assume Xamarin, but I could also see them using React Native because their desktop app is Electron and React.

The_rationalist 7y ago
React native is an inferior product to IONIC when you want to have your own UX style which github probably want. CSS is unmatched that's as simple as that. Moreover, they would be able to reuse far more code.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  > when you want to have your own UX style I don't want you to have your own UX style.
jbigelow76 7y ago
There is some grousing[1] that a cross platform technology, including Microsoft's own Xamarin, wasn't used and that fully platform native development is a waste. Was it mentioned somewhere specifically (maybe during GH the keynote that I didn't watch) that SwiftUI was used? That would be the only way to square the tweeter's statement that only 20% of mobile users would be able to use it, he must mean only those on iOS 13, but not totally sure. Hightlighting Dark Mode and a good iPad version would play into SwiftUI's narrative but the framework still seems a bit new for an app of this caliber. [1] https://twitter.com/ThomasBurkhartB/status/1194683781195673602 https://twitter.com/ThomasBurkhartB/status/11946837811956736...
- mnem 7y ago
  iOS 13 adoption is much higher than 20%.
saagarjha 7y ago
I haven't played with it for too long, but the app seems reasonably native.

polutropos 7y ago

I’m assuming the iOS app is based heavily on GitHawk (https://github.com/GitHawkApp/GitHawk https://github.com/GitHawkApp/GitHawk) as its developer, Ryan Nystrom, moved to Github last year. Looking forward to getting in the beta!

saagarjha 7y ago
Considering this video has his picture in it, I'd assume so: https://twitter.com/github/status/1194676541243813888 https://twitter.com/github/status/1194676541243813888
rhodysurf 7y ago
Thats great news, GitHawk has been one of my favorite apps since I found it a couple months ago
monkey_slap 7y ago
That's me! Lots of lessons influenced our decisions on GitHub for mobile.
- jzelinskie 7y ago
  Are ya'll using SwiftUI?
  - monkey_slap 7y ago
    Nope, just vanilla UIKit for the iOS app.

satvikpendem 7y ago

I've used Fasthub for Android before which was great. There is also a fully libre / FLOSS version that has the paid features added in (which you can do since the entire app is GPL). I remember a Github issue where the creator was mad about it, but well, if you pick GPL you should know what you're getting into. https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fastaccess.github.libre/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fastaccess.github.libre/

maple3142 7y ago
I am using that too, but sadly it hasn't update their app for a long time, and many things are broken now.
- coolreader18 7y ago
  v5 is supposedly coming soon; it was supposed to be ready by the end of October[0]. [0] https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub/pull/2599 https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub/pull/2599
  - dreamer_soul 7y ago
    I was invited by the dev to test v5 but for some reason he got busy with work and slowed the development down.

simonw 7y ago

I do a surprising amount of development on my phone these days. I was using GitHub's mobile website for this but I've recently started using Working Copy on iOS. CI means I can even ship a change as a branch, open a pull request, wait for the tests to run and merge the branch. Not being tethered to my laptop in order to ship small, safe changes is really nice.

monkey_slap 7y ago
Working Copy is an amazing app! The GitHub iOS app works really well with Working Copy.
dharmab 7y ago
Mobile is certainly fine for many changes such as updating documentation!
throwGuardian 7y ago
What kind of development is feasible on Mobile? I hope it's on hobby projects though
- pm90 7y ago
  You can certainly do reviews via mobile. I kinda prefer to read code rather than twitter when staring at my screen in a bar. This makes doing that easier. Me Gusta.
- madiathomas 7y ago
  Most of the maintenance involves making small changes that can be done even on a phone. E.g., if app is crashing because there is a piece of code which isn't doing array bounds checking, you can add that code quickly and push changes. Another example is small changes like fixing typos or changing labels.
tedmiston 7y ago
I do real dev on my phone and iPad too, also shipping the code to a CI that builds, deploys, etc. Working Copy is one of my favorite iOS apps as well. It's well worth the price.

saagarjha 7y ago

Signed up for the iOS beta. I wonder when invites are going to be sent out?

tomschlick 7y ago
I just got mine, so relatively quickly for only signing up an hour ago.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  Yup, just got mine as well.

izend 7y ago

I'm loving Working Copy and found it from a recommendation on HN (https://workingcopyapp.com/ https://workingcopyapp.com/ not affiliated in anyway)

The_rationalist 7y ago

I hope they'll use a cordova framework such as IONIC instead of reinventing their code.

saagarjha 7y ago
This looks like a native app.
wilg 7y ago
That's a first!

bla3 7y ago

Make the mobile website work well instead. Diff view is unusable, as are many other views. I'd much rather have a working web version than an app for GitHub (and almost all other services). Their UI is all document retrieval and matches the web model really well.

smoser 7y ago
Still need an iOS app for push notifications.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  I'd think that emails can serve that purpose quite well, but now that there's a native app I'll see if it's any better.
- neilsimp1 7y ago
  PWAs can do push notifications though. And then it's one codebase and not one for Android, one for iOS.
  - aecorredor 7y ago
    Do PWA push notifications already work on iOS browsers?
    - wilg 7y ago
      No
    - thosakwe 7y ago
      Nope, and it wasn't on the list of WebKit goals that was on the front page this week.
      - toxik 7y ago
        And thank god for that. Such a bad idea imo. I only get those from annoying sites, like a dark pattern. Ugh.

siruncledrew 7y ago

I've been waiting years for a mobile version of Github. I'm still on the beta waitlist to judge how good the working-version actually is, but at least the company is finally doing something to improve the mobile side. So far, my go-to way of accessing Github on mobile is just Requesting Desktop Site from a mobile browser and dealing with it that way. I've tried a few of the third-party Github "mobile-version" apps, but they still don't beat just being able to go to "github.com" in Chrome/Safari on mobile and have what I want available to me directly from the source.

guessmyname 7y ago

I got an invitation to test the iOS app, but cannot use it because my account was flagged as spam [1], which is weird because I have a long record of reputable open-source contributions. The only suspicious thing I did in recent days was reporting several spammers in a public Gist that contains instructions on how to crack SublimeText which is clearly illegal. It seems that GitHub’s anti-spam system mistakingly flagged my profile just because I reported these accounts, and now I am unable to use my account for anything relevant. So much for being a good samaritan (sigh). [1] https://i.imgur.com/ZdYiEuo.png https://i.imgur.com/ZdYiEuo.png

microcolonel 7y ago
Yeah, I don't put any eggs in that basket, as nice as GitHub is. When you need permission to exist on a platform, and they have no obligations to you, gotta be ready to lose it.
- microcolonel 7y ago
  P.S. I just wish GitLab were more like GitHub. GitLab has always been more clumsy; don't differentiate on what's good about GitHub, GitLab has so much to offer.
zrobotics 7y ago
Why would you want to crack Sublime Text anyway? The only things it does is shows (unregistered) in the title bar and pops up a nag dialog on saves (not sure the timing, maybe 4th save after launching). I didn't pay for a separate license for my lab pc, since I don't really tend to develop much at my electronics bench and mostly just need to occasionally check code. Why would anyone want to bother cracking it? I can understand a student not being able to afford $70, but as-is there's no real loss of features. I just don't get it. (edit) I thought I'd add, the reason I know it's useful w/o registering is that I got through school using ST. Bought a license with my first paycheck out of school.
- minhazm 7y ago
  I actually emailed them about discounted prices for students and their suggestion was to just use it in unregistered mode.

bassman9000 7y ago

I assume main reason for this is MS wanting to datamine the succulent mobile market via app.

SimplyUseless 7y ago

Honestly, why wouldn't GitHub build a PWA version so the offline experience is fantastic. In fact, that's how Linus built Git. The saga is building app after app is getting ridiculous. It also frees developers to focus on building server-side functionality rather than 3x client app effort (web, iOS, android).

saagarjha 7y ago
Because PWAs aren't great on iOS. And no, that's not just because you think Safari breaks them.
- symlinkk 7y ago
  > And no, that's not just because you think Safari breaks them Why then? Safari straight up refuses to implement tons of PWA functionality. It's Apple being greedy, plain and simple.
  - SimplyUseless 7y ago
    Apple does not have his shit together yet on PWA. https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-on-ios-12-2-beta-the-good-the-bad-and-the-not-sure-yet-if-good-a37b6fa6afbf https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-on-ios-12-2-beta-the-good-the-...
  - dmitriid 7y ago
    Apple is being careful with implementing rushed, poorly specced standards.

xrd 7y ago

If you want to edit Jekyll blogs stored as repos in GitHub from your Android phone, you can use my app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EditorHyde.app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EditorHyde... It's the equivalent of the Wordpress app, but for Jekyll blogs.

mikewhy 7y ago

(slightly off topic) Strange that /mobile is a landing page for the mobile app, but /desktop is the desktop org, and desktop.github.com is the landing page. I guess that means no one can make an org called "mobile" (pretty ok with this), but does it also mean this won't be open source?

rcarndrums 7y ago

Did ICE ask for this?

app4soft 7y ago

The only really usable "GitHub for Mobile" is FastHub-Libre[0] [0] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.fastaccess.github.libre?repo=main https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.fastaccess.gith...

lifeisstillgood 7y ago

Just a shout out to "Working Copy" app on which I have two nearly finished books and a coupe of websites