Make the mobile website work well instead. Diff view is unusable, as are many other views. I'd much rather have a working web version than an app for GitHub (and almost all other services). Their UI is all document retrieval and matches the web model really well.
I do a surprising amount of development on my phone these days. I was using GitHub's mobile website for this but I've recently started using Working Copy on iOS.<p>CI means I can even ship a change as a branch, open a pull request, wait for the tests to run and merge the branch.<p>Not being tethered to my laptop in order to ship small, safe changes is really nice.
I really wish they'd replace the commit feed with a PR comment feed. I honestly don't care who committed what. I don't need to know about it until I'm reviewing a PR. The unit of review is the PR, not the commit.<p>I need to know when there are new comments on PRs I'm participating in. I need to know when a PR of mine fails the build. I need to know when a review is posted.<p>I don't give a shit when someone else commits to the repo. It's noise, not signal.
How odd! GitHub Mobile used to exist, and was abandoned. PocketHub is the continuation of that old project: <a href="https://github.com/pockethub/PocketHub" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pockethub/PocketHub</a>
I've used Fasthub for Android before which was great. There is also a fully libre / FLOSS version that has the paid features added in (which you can do since the entire app is GPL). I remember a Github issue where the creator was mad about it, but well, if you pick GPL you should know what you're getting into.<p><a href="https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub</a>
<a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fastaccess.github.libre/" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fastaccess.github.libre/</a>
GitHub has one of the better implementations of a separate mobile website.<p>- it's optimized for the smaller screen / touch interface
- it's provided for the majority of github's features
- it allows easily getting to the "full" desktop site<p>I'll probably continue to the website unless they stop development in favor of the app. What features do you really need an app for here? Or will this allow me to browse my repo offline?
I got an invitation to test the iOS app, but cannot use it because my account was flagged as spam [1], which is weird because I have a long record of reputable open-source contributions. The only suspicious thing I did in recent days was reporting several spammers in a public Gist that contains instructions on how to crack SublimeText which is clearly illegal. It seems that GitHub’s anti-spam system mistakingly flagged my profile just because I reported these accounts, and now I am unable to use my account for anything relevant.<p>So much for being a good samaritan <i>(sigh)</i>.<p>[1] <a href="https://i.imgur.com/ZdYiEuo.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/ZdYiEuo.png</a>
I’m assuming the iOS app is based heavily on GitHawk (<a href="https://github.com/GitHawkApp/GitHawk" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/GitHawkApp/GitHawk</a>) as its developer, Ryan Nystrom, moved to Github last year. Looking forward to getting in the beta!
Honestly, why wouldn't GitHub build a PWA version so the offline experience is fantastic. In fact, that's how Linus built Git. The saga is building app after app is getting ridiculous. It also frees developers to focus on building server-side functionality rather than 3x client app effort (web, iOS, android).
I'm loving Working Copy and found it from a recommendation on HN (<a href="https://workingcopyapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://workingcopyapp.com/</a> not affiliated in anyway)
I've been waiting years for a mobile version of Github. I'm still on the beta waitlist to judge how good the working-version actually is, but at least the company is finally doing something to improve the mobile side.<p>So far, my go-to way of accessing Github on mobile is just Requesting Desktop Site from a mobile browser and dealing with it that way. I've tried a few of the third-party Github "mobile-version" apps, but they still don't beat just being able to go to "github.com" in Chrome/Safari on mobile and have what I want available to me directly from the source.
If you want to edit Jekyll blogs stored as repos in GitHub from your Android phone, you can use my app: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EditorHyde.app" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EditorHyde...</a><p>It's the equivalent of the Wordpress app, but for Jekyll blogs.
(slightly off topic)<p>Strange that /mobile is a landing page for the mobile app, but /desktop is the desktop org, and desktop.github.com is the landing page.<p>I guess that means no one can make an org called "mobile" (pretty ok with this), but does it also mean this won't be open source?
I'm curious what the feature scope is here. From the screenshot it seems like it has Issues, Notification, and Feed support?<p>I can't imagine this would be used for code reviews/PRs.
The only really usable "GitHub for Mobile" is <i>FastHub-Libre</i>[0]<p>[0] <a href="https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.fastaccess.github.libre?repo=main" rel="nofollow">https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.fastaccess.gith...</a>
I wonder if the apps are native or if they're using some cross-platform framework. I would assume Xamarin, but I could also see them using React Native because their desktop app is Electron and React.