About Dimple for Hacker News
Simple Hacker News reader I started working on. Lot of features yet to be implemented. (But it's fairly usable and IMO beautiful.)
If you like to try the newest features first, please join this community : https://plus.google.com/communities/118167818139031156233
How to use:
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1. Normal click on title or thumbnail open the article in device browser
2. Long press on title or thumbnail opens share dialog
3. Click on row below the title to open the respective Hacker News page with comments, in device browser
Features:
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Uses official HN API :https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/
Thumbnails for articles
Share articles
Infinite(all the articles provided through API. ex :up to 500 "top" items) scroll
Recycle view
Indicate read items (until doing a refresh)
Remember where you left
Open each links in default application of the device (eg :Chrome, Firefox, Twitter, etc)
Material design
Issues :
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Each read Item fades(Marked read) only after recreating the item in list.
To do :
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Fix the above issue
Implement article extraction
Open article view within app
Implement search
Implement login to hn
Implement voting, commenting
Implement coffee making
Permissions :
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full network access : to make API calls to HN API
Download and install
Dimple for Hacker News version 0.9 on your
Android device!
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Android package:
com.kasungamlath.hackernews, download Dimple for Hacker News.apk