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I wrote this HN mobile client in less than 3 weekends. it works on Android, iOS and wp8. Also works on all desktop browsers. It took less than 2 weekends, but n
by thekingshorses 13y ago
I wrote this HN mobile client in less than 3 weekends. it works on Android, iOS and wp8. Also works on all desktop browsers. It took less than 2 weekends, but new chrome on android is a big pain in the ass. Had to rewrite part of it to make it work on latest android chrome.
http://hn.premii.com http://hn.premii.com
Also, available on android app store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn
It's not easy, but I think you can write very good mobile web app using HTML5 that works on all major platforms.
Just don't use any frameworks/libraries. They are quite slow on mobile devices.
- AdamTReineke 13y agoI'm on Windows Phone 8 and that is beautiful, thank you! Very nice work. How are you getting the articles in your UI? Also, is there no meta tag to designate a WP8 tile image when pinned to the start screen?
- thekingshorses 13y agoI have favicon, and tile for windows 8 and neither works for wp8. I googled it but couldn't find anything regarding wp8 website tile.
- _lex 13y agoI used it in my desktop (mac chrome) browser, and it's a better UI than the HN website itself - much less pain from context switching. The biggest issue for me is that it's really hard to read text - mainly because there's too much on the page, and the formatting makes it all unremarkable. Even the comment indentation is unremarkable, and easy to miss. Improve readability and make comments easier to access (perhaps inline them after the article text), and you've created something amazing.