Ask HN: Suggestions on a New Hacker News App for Android?

2 points by graghav 11y ago ↗ HN

There are dozens of apps for Hacker News available in Play Store already. Being a newbie to Android app development, I thought it would be better to develop a minimalistic app for Hacker News using their API on Firebase.

I had already completed the basic pages and looking forward to release the app in Play Store in a week. I thought it would be better to get some suggestions on the design from the HN Community before releasing the app.

The design can be found at http://i.imgur.com/UVfxEEs.jpg

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kpgx 11y ago ↗

Looking good. Does the search function work? Because Firebase API doesn't seem to have a search function. You can add pull to refresh and hide the action bar when scrolling if you haven't already.

graghav 11y ago ↗

Thanks for the feedback. The Search API for HN is provided by Algolia. The action bar is of course hidden when scrolled. Noted down to add the pull to refresh function.