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jazzychad
Hi all. Hacker New Full allows you to login, vote up/down, and comment on threads. It has been plagued by loading errors for a while because I was using the ihackernews api (which returned a lot of errors), but I finally wrote my own HN api service which uses heavy caching to play nice with HN. I'm really sorry it took so long to get updated, but please give it another try if you gave up on it because of the errors!
cheeaun
Any chance for this API service to be open sourced or public?
jazzychad
maybe in a while after i'm sure it is stable and doesn't run afoul of request limits...
w1ntermute
Any chance you could update it to follow Android 4.0+ UI guidelines? You still have the old style menu and no overflow button.
jazzychad
maybe... I don't have any 4.0+ devices to test on, and the large majority of users are still on 2.x
w1ntermute
You can always use the AVD, it has 4.0 and now even 4.1.
zrgiu_
make it open-source and I'll do that for you. You can then update the app with the new design if you'd like.
w1ntermute
I'd be willing to help out as well. I'd really like to see a good HN site browser for Android.
patrickmclaren
I think any updates to the UI would be appreciated at this stage. The rest of the app seems to be working just fine, now all that's missing is a nice interface.
donniezazen
I agree. UI does need improvements. Specially for bigger screens like Nexus 7.

Overall. I like it a lot. I might stop visiting HN in browser and start using your app.

SideburnsOfDoom
Nice. Now where in can I find the data about my comments - e.g. what's at http://news.ycombinator.org/threads?id=SideburnsOfDoom
jazzychad
not there yet because nobody has ever requested that feature :) i'll add it to the todo list
SideburnsOfDoom
If we're on features, I should also be able to do that wherever a user name is shown on screen - i.e. click on it and go to the profile & comment history.

Also you may prefer white on black, but I strongly prefer to read in black on white. Option for colours?

jazzychad
agreed about being able to do it for all usernames (i might just have them go to a profile view, from there you can view their threads). also added color/theme option to todo list.
dmooray
The app works great, I think it would be nice to also have a "light" color theme.
mootothemax
Excellent, I'm writing this comment using the new version :-)

One request: when viewing comments from the ask hn section, it doesn't display the text from the question. Is this a pain to fix?

jazzychad
oops, yes this moves to the top of the todo list
mootothemax
Awesome, thanks!
jazzychad
should be fixed now.. was an api issue, the app should handle it correctly without and update :) some items might still appear to be broken if they were cached, but will reset automatically upon expiry
ck2
Not to critique the effort, but couldn't this be done with an (aggressive) alternate stylesheet for the main site? (ie. via stylish)
skeletonjelly
I really wish Reddit News could support HN. It's has such an intuitive design (loading comments and the article simultaneously in a split pane so you can swap between) as well has a nice comment navigation (buttons to navigate by submitter, navigating top level comments with a button, highlighting recent comments).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=reddit.news