Tell HN: HNdroid, Hacker News android client

Diggin' the app :) My OCD took over and couldn't stand having the simple HN icon in my launcher so I took the pleasure of making one :)<p>I did two variants. One is a bit more traditional, while the other matches the name of the app more.<p>V1: <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/104495/HN/hndroid_app_icon.png" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/104495/HN/hndroid_app_icon.png</a><p>V2: <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/104495/HN/hndroid_app_icon_variant_2.png" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/104495/HN/hndroid_app_icon_variant_2...</a><p>In the spirit of open source, here is the PSD: <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/104495/HN/hndroid_app_icon.psd" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/104495/HN/hndroid_app_icon.psd</a><p>By the way, I've never actually made a production Android app icon before so I don't know if you can just drop it in or not but enjoy :)

Here's the source code: <a href="http://github.com/amir/HNdroid" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/amir/HNdroid</a><p>At the first I thought I'd better clean-up the code, fix some bugs, add features requested here, and add some comments before releasing the code, but I then thought it'd better to release the code as it's in the released build.

Here's a QR code for the APK. You should toss it on the page.<p><a href="http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=5&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fgluegadget.com%2Fhndroid%2FHNdroid.apk" rel="nofollow">http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=5&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2Fglueg...</a>

I concede defeat. gluegadget's app is better than mine: <a href="http://ifdefined.com/blog/post/A-Hacker-News-app-for-Android.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://ifdefined.com/blog/post/A-Hacker-News-app-for-Android...</a>

Great app. Can you please add a "Read later button", that will save it to Instapaper/ Read it later/ Delicious/ download to SD. (the option of where to save could be configurable). Thanks.

Any change one can get to see the source? I am not really happy installing stuff from random locations on the internet and give it my password (no offence, just a rule of tomb).

Seems to work very well! Great job.<p>Btw, 'successfull login :)' should be spelled without the double 'll'.<p>Edit: on second thought, I'd really like to be able to see the amount of comments in the overview. And perhaps even a small visual difference between opened-before and never seen yet articles...

Humbly requesting OpenID support, and BTW here's how you do it:<p>Open a browser view to the login page, wait for the HN cookie to show up, then close the browser and use the cookie to scrape the site.<p>I have all this implemented in a client I was working on. I'll share the code if you're interested.

I added HNdroid to Hacker News's Resourcey page. Please upvote it if you like it: <a href="http://www.resourcey.com/site_details/2/news.ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.resourcey.com/site_details/2/news.ycombinator.com...</a><p>(If you don't know it, Resourcey is a small webapp I made to help keep track of resources like this.)

I'm commenting from inside the app. Nice, clean interface. My only suggestion is better error messaging. I tried to post a comment before logging in, but instead of warning me and/or providing the login form, it just looked as though the comment had posted successfully.

Just what I've been waiting for :) Is the scraping/parsing done on in the app or on the remote end? (i.e., do I just have to count on HN being up for this to keep working?)

Nice app! :) I think I'll end up using it if only because the upvote buttons on the HN website are so ridiculously fiddly to use on a mobile device...<p>One small quirk: I couldn't figure out how to upvote stories after logging in - I could see the menu entry to upvote comments, but there was no menu entry for upvoting on the main screen. Turned out I needed to manually refresh the main story list before it turned up.

Have you submitted this to the Marketplace for the poor, helpless AT&#38;T customers who cannot side-load apps?<p>--signed Poor Helpless AT&#38;T Customer

Cool app, this will be one of my new vices! I tried looking through the sourcecode to do it myself, but I'm not incredibly familiar with Android app structure or if maybe there's some convenient helper methods to do this in Android apps.<p>I was just wondering if you could maybe add the following to the comment text in the Comments view to render HTML elements like &#38;#62; (which should be &#62;) and &#38;#38; (which should be &#38;). Also, maybe do this:<p><pre><code> comment = comment.replace(/\*(.+)\*/,"&#60;i&#62;$1&#60;/i&#62;") </code></pre> Also, I noticed the comments view doesn't space out paragraphs or render preformatted text (inside the &#60;pre&#62; tags, which HN applies to lines that start with two spaces).

My desktop is orange, could you give your icon a solid background colour so that I can see it.

Great work! I love the spartan interface. Btw, any chance of getting a prefetching option?

Allow this application to:<p><pre><code> * read phone state and identity </code></pre> No thanks.

Nice app, just one thing. If you press on an news item and it happens to take some time to load (due to low connection speed) the dialog box saying "Loading, Please wait..." is not cancelable (by pressing the Back button). It might be useful to enable this in one of the next updates.

working pretty well for me. I've been using hn reader but I like that this shows the scores. Makes it easier to filter.<p>Couple things. it appears to be using a non standard input form for comments as none of the typical android auto complete is working. i also tried making a few newlines buts it not showing up in here. also when youre on the comment thread and you hit comment and then flip the screen, it reloads the entire comment thread which is rather annoying on slow connections. otherwise working pretty well. (i stopped manually fixing the things auto omplete normally handles for emphasis. ie 'i' instead of 'I' and youre)<p>Update from laptop: newlines apparently work but don't show up in the comment box. Auto complete and reloading the comment thread are still issues though.

On the HTC Evo running 2.2, the app loads ok but crashes when I click on an individual story.

Cool! I like that you have the source on github. It feels a little poky on my Droid (OC'd to 800'hz) but works great! I also realize I could just fork on github &#38; make it faster, but I haven't much spare time at the moment.

I just noticed the karma widget. I laughed at first and then found myself adding it. What have you done?!<p>I now have a screen on my phone with a handful of karma widgets. Its like a HN leaderboard that will continuously taunt me.

I <i>very</i> much want to pronounce this "Handroid". Am I the only one?

Cool app!<p>Consider adding in settings support for the app. That way you could change account@server. This would be useful for people reading other deployments of the HN source.<p>Perhaps I'll just do it myself ;)

Just gave it a go, very clean, simple and elegant. Just what I needed.<p>Thank you very much for this. Do you have a donations page? I'd gladly give a couple of dollars if this works out.

Ooh, can we have a custom color? You can take it from the HN "topcolor" setting or just a setting in the options.<p>Also, it'd be nice if the karma widget opened the app.

On a related note, what's the best HN app for iPhone?

Been waiting for this! :) (sent from my phone)

Nice app!!! Keep up the good work! Would love to have custom colors though so looks like the original HN Reader ...

I can't open the "Coming Home to Vim" link, from the app. It just crashes. I have it setup to open the comments.

Hello from the app! Works great, thanks!

Good job!<p>Opening the menu crashes the app on my Samsung i7500 / Android 1.6

This app is amazing! Will it support HN's OpenID login?

I still like ihackernews.com on my android.

I already have a client. It's called Browser and has this great ability to open other pages on the interwebs.