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You might want to do test this again on a tablet. I only found one or two apps that used dual panes - IMHO a key feature for reading on a tablet.

kjemperud 14y ago
Good idea. Which ones looked good on tablets? I don't have an Android tablet at the moment :(
- SCdF 14y ago
  I have a Prime, and I remember going through all the available apps ~6 months ago and uninstalling them all. They were either bad apps in general or were potentially nice phone-sized apps with no optimisation done for tablets. When I say optimisation I'm referring to both the UI layout and the general rendering performance. For some reason (I'm not an android dev) certain apps have performance issues that scale with your pixel count (I guess they are hand-rendering things themselves and simply Doing It Wrong) and make them unusable. I can't remember which though, so I'll install your top two when I get home (~8-10hrs) and report back.
  - kjemperud 14y ago
    Thanks! Looking forward to hear your results. If any of them works well on your Prime, could you email me some screenshots? thomas at kjemperud dot net
    - SCdF 14y ago
      Gah! So, I tried your top three and im sorry to report it's a trifecta of failure: Hacker News Beta renders really s owly, Hacker News Android performs well but doesn't support landscape (it stays in profile) and Hacker News Droid performs Ok, rotates in landscape but without a useful or optimised layout, and as you state doesn't let you log in.
      - kjemperud 14y ago
        Okay, thanks for the update! I'll see if I can get my hands on an Android tablet and make a follow-up test :)
- duck 14y ago
  HackerNews HD+ is a great one.
CodeMage 14y ago
Another thing to test is whether the app respects the portrait/landscape orientation. I use Ricky's app to vote and post, but I'll stick with Manuel's reader for everything else: it respects the page orientation, displays comment nesting clearly and allows me to collapse comment threads. Plus, it has a button to let me refresh what I'm reading, in case I want to do it more often than it already does automatically.
quinndupont 14y ago
I just did a very similar review, focusing on Nexus 7 compatibility. We came to similar conclusions (so, evidently, a well designed Android app works for multiple screen sizes): http://www.iqdupont.com/blog/2012/11/10/finding-a-good-hacker-news-android-app.html http://www.iqdupont.com/blog/2012/11/10/finding-a-good-hacke...

kjemperud 14y ago

Good idea. Which ones looked good on tablets? I don't have an Android tablet at the moment :(

SCdF 14y ago
I have a Prime, and I remember going through all the available apps ~6 months ago and uninstalling them all. They were either bad apps in general or were potentially nice phone-sized apps with no optimisation done for tablets. When I say optimisation I'm referring to both the UI layout and the general rendering performance. For some reason (I'm not an android dev) certain apps have performance issues that scale with your pixel count (I guess they are hand-rendering things themselves and simply Doing It Wrong) and make them unusable. I can't remember which though, so I'll install your top two when I get home (~8-10hrs) and report back.
- kjemperud 14y ago
  Thanks! Looking forward to hear your results. If any of them works well on your Prime, could you email me some screenshots? thomas at kjemperud dot net
  - SCdF 14y ago
    Gah! So, I tried your top three and im sorry to report it's a trifecta of failure: Hacker News Beta renders really s owly, Hacker News Android performs well but doesn't support landscape (it stays in profile) and Hacker News Droid performs Ok, rotates in landscape but without a useful or optimised layout, and as you state doesn't let you log in.
    - kjemperud 14y ago
      Okay, thanks for the update! I'll see if I can get my hands on an Android tablet and make a follow-up test :)
duck 14y ago
HackerNews HD+ is a great one.

CodeMage 14y ago

Another thing to test is whether the app respects the portrait/landscape orientation. I use Ricky's app to vote and post, but I'll stick with Manuel's reader for everything else: it respects the page orientation, displays comment nesting clearly and allows me to collapse comment threads. Plus, it has a button to let me refresh what I'm reading, in case I want to do it more often than it already does automatically.

quinndupont 14y ago

I just did a very similar review, focusing on Nexus 7 compatibility. We came to similar conclusions (so, evidently, a well designed Android app works for multiple screen sizes): http://www.iqdupont.com/blog/2012/11/10/finding-a-good-hacker-news-android-app.html http://www.iqdupont.com/blog/2012/11/10/finding-a-good-hacke...