We at Emerge Tools (YC W21) recently released open source Hacker News apps for both iOS and Android. The apps use the latest SwiftUI and Compose frameworks and are entirely native. Our goal is to help dogfood our products, but more importantly our team just enjoys reading HN every day and wanted an app to hack on and call our own. :)<p>We are still missing some features but should otherwise be pretty solid. And open to any contributions.<p>iOS: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-by-emerge/id6740922950">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-by-emerge/id674092...</a>
Android: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emergetools.hackernews">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emergetool...</a>
From the title, it took me a while from the description to understand what I'm looking at. The readme really needs some more info 1) targeted at end users of an app, possibly just a few screenshots will do, and 2) targeted at developers and the audience of emerge, e.g. concrete interactions that a dev of this app would have with emerge, also including a screenshot or two
Thanks for the app! I am curious about some of the design decisions on the iOS side. In your blog, you mention that “We truly believe a native Android & iOS experience stands out compared to non-native approaches, and we want to highlight that with HN,” but I noticed a few things:<p>- The app does not support Dynamic Type and instead uses steppers for font adjustments, which seem to stop at arbitrary values.<p>- It uses a custom web view for link previews.<p>- In many instances, it ignores safe areas.<p>When you say “native,” do you mean it is written in Swift, or is there more to it?
I’m going to try it out. My first feedback is that links in text posts (like this very post) aren’t clickable and the <a href… tags show up as plaintext (iOS). Also it’s not possible to make new lines in comments on iOS? Also I can only see the comment I’m currently typing in a single line. Otherwise, the app looks nice!
OT:<p>> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.<p>Your last submissions are all about emergetools