Re:Show HN: Hacker News reader for Android tablets
by jasonostrander on Saturday September 03, 2011 @10:28PM
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Hey Thanks!
- My thinking was that since in portait, clicking on any post will hide the list and make it pretty obvious how to get it back, I didn't need to add a button for it. But I think you're probably right.
- Yep, thats on my list.
- Also on my list.
- Good suggestion. I'll look into adding this.
Re:Show HN: Hacker News reader for Android tablets
by jsnell on Sunday September 04, 2011 @08:26AM
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Ah, I see. The reason I ran into this is that when switching from landscape to portrait the list doesn't auto-hide. And this will probably be a common operation when commenting on posts, since due to the stupid 16:9 aspect ratio of Honeycomb tablets landscape is the only comfortable way to read, and portrait is the only comfortable way to enter text.
- The "Y" button for hiding/showing the list is maybe a bit too subtle. I only found it by randomly mashing everything on the screen on the theory that surely the functionality had to be somewhere. I think the problem is that it doesn't look at all like an active UI element.
- Going directly to comments doesn't seem to be possible. I guess you can just tap the list item and then show comments really quickly, but I would have expected tapping the comment count to do that.
- Would be nice to see which stories / comment pages I've already viewed.
- Would be even more awesome to see in the main list how many new comments were added since I last viewed the comment page of a story. - Is it really not possible to view more than the top 50 items?