I'm not sure what took GitHub so long to _finally_ implement a mobile view for the site, but thank you. I have been waiting for this to happen for years, quite literally.<p>Edit: It's worth noting I've heard plenty of counter arguments to using GitHub from my phone. But I will say, sometimes I want to check out a project and possibly browse source and lo and behold I'm not at my desktop. For this reason alone, a mobile GitHub makes sense. Glad to see it at long last.
I'm sad to see this didn't come with a responsive design for the main site. You get horizontal scrollbars everywhere if your window is thinner than ~1000 pixels, making it impossible to have code + GitHub side by side on a laptop without some serious annoyance. The repo redesign made it worse, as now all the in-project links (issues, pulls, wiki...) are offscreen.<p>I'd happily work around this by using the mobile view from my desktop browser (as you can do on Wikipedia and many news sites), but GitHub doesn't seem to have made that possible, either.<p>If any GitHubbers are reading, please make the design (at least a little bit) responsive!
I've been hoping this would happen for a long time. Most of the views look really good, but I'm not very excited about the code view. The font on the code is bigger than necessary, in my opinion, and the word-wrap on the code text just makes it really hard to read.<p>Displaying code on a narrow window is difficult, but I'm not convinced that this is the right solution. I'd prefer to be able to zoom out.
Fun fact: years ago I started building an ipad app for Github, but it was rejected multiple times by Apple because users could use it to create a new account but then Apple wouldn't get any commission.<p><a href="https://github.com/oscardelben/GithubBrowser" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/oscardelben/GithubBrowser</a>
Interesting that they decided not to do a responsive design. Instead, it serves up different HTML if you send a phone user-agent. I've been trying to decide if this is a good idea for my own project.
I started an experiment of writing my blog purely on an iPhone via github web UI. (<a href="https://github.com/ontouchstart/blog" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ontouchstart/blog</a>). Since the mobile view doesn't have the EDIT option, I have to switch to desktop version to edit my posts.<p>I believe I am a minority in github users. :-)
From Windows Mobile 8, I see a blue border around images that are linkable [1].<p>[1] - <a href="http://i.imgur.com/bglIKU5.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/bglIKU5.jpg</a>
Seems not fully deployed yet or not a full feature. The overview page if you're not signed in, as well as all profiles don't seem to have ombile versions. Same with the news feed.
Are there updates coming for the Android apps also, or is the focus on mobile web? The Android app doesn't support the one thing I could reasonably do on my phone - reviewing pull requests.
Looks like Github used Angular.js. Would be interesting to hear how they settled on that. I've been using it for a side project and so far have had a positive experience.
Mostly pretty great, but it'd be nice to see a couple of controls that have now disappeared.<p>I can't close or reopen issues anymore, which is something that's super useful to be able to do on the go.<p>Also there's no way to edit files from the mobile view. Again, something I've often found really useful for quick docs fixes, or adding contributors to the credits after merging a pull request.
"Our phones, on the other hand, aren’t great for creating things but they’re perfect for browsing and reading content."<p>Tell that to Instagram, Vine, Twitter, or Smule. Mobile phones are amazing creation tools.
WOOOOOO! This has been driving me insane. Trying to read issues and repositories, and I'm there pinching and panning around getting lost and frustrated. Thank you GitHub <3
I remember they didn't go with a full client side app for the desktop version, instead opting for something like pjax.<p>What did they do there, media queries?
This is by far one of the best updates GitHub has made recently. Using the current GitHub on a mobile device is difficult and slow. Really pleased to see this done!
wow, finally! this comes very welcome. although i suppose i must now bid farewell to another one of my repositories :) <a href="http://github.com/catshirt/github-mobile" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/catshirt/github-mobile</a>