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Show HN: Hacker News Android Reader
Hi,
I have been a lurker for a long time, and had always wanted to see a good reader for HN on the Android platform.
Here is an early screenshot:
http://ravneetg.com/HN/HN.png
I see there are some which are based on scraping the site. I was interested in using the official API by Firebase, and have refreshing capabilities as supported by the APIs.
So I started this weekend on a Android 5.0 App (pre 5.0 support also expected) based on the Firebase Android APIs for connecting with Hacker News data.
I plan to add:
1. Comments reading
2. Auto update as the API pushes the changes
Later:
1. SignIn
2. Post Comments
3. Up/down votes.
Not sure if there is any traction for something like this, with a tasteful UX, so posting here to test the waters :)
Thanks!
Ravneet
- cheeaun 12y agoLooks good. Would love to try it :)
- RavneetGrewal 12y agoI'll get a beta APK out somewhere soon. It will be Android 5.0 only at first though :)
- cheeaun 12y agoNo problem. I'm using Nexus 5 with Lollipop :)