Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by kaushalmodi on Friday September 09, 2016 @10:04PM
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Materialistic is the only way I access Hacker News. But it would be awesome if the developer took some inspiration from the Reddit client Relay (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=reddit.news) too :) Great job hidro!
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Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by hidro on Friday September 09, 2016 @10:09PM
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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?
Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by jray on Saturday September 10, 2016 @04:39AM
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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.airlocksof...
Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by hidro on Saturday September 10, 2016 @04:50AM
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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 :(
Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by kaushalmodi on Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:32AM
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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.
Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by hidro on Saturday September 10, 2016 @10:00AM
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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).
Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by y4mi on Saturday September 10, 2016 @01:53PM
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can't you just utilize the algolia search api for hacker news? https://hn.algolia.com/api
sure, its one more query to run but i think it would be fast enough.
Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by hidro on Saturday September 10, 2016 @08:32PM
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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.
Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by kaushalmodi on Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:33AM
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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?
Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by hidro on Saturday September 10, 2016 @10:02AM
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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.
Re:Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
by pgupta2596 on Saturday September 10, 2016 @02:42AM
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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!