Show HN: Hacker News Android Reader

2 points by RavneetGrewal ↗ HN
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

3 comments

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Looks good. Would love to try it :)
I'll get a beta APK out somewhere soon. It will be Android 5.0 only at first though :)
No problem. I'm using Nexus 5 with Lollipop :)