Dimple

Minimal Hacker News reader with material design.

Simple Hacker News reader I started working on. Lot of features yet to be implemented. (But it's fairly usable and IMO beautiful.)

If you like to try the newest features first, please join this community : https://plus.google.com/communities/118167818139031156233

How to use:

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1. Normal click on title or thumbnail open the article in device browser

2. Long press on title or thumbnail opens share dialog

3. Click on row below the title to open the respective Hacker News page with comments, in device browser

Features:

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Uses official HN API :https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/

Thumbnails for articles

Share articles

Infinite(all the articles provided through API. ex :up to 500 "top" items) scroll

Recycle view

Indicate read items (until doing a refresh)

Remember where you left

Open each links in default application of the device (eg :Chrome, Firefox, Twitter, etc)

Material design

Issues :

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Each read Item fades(Marked read) only after recreating the item in list.

To do :

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Fix the above issue

Implement article extraction

Open article view within app

Implement search

Implement login to hn

Implement voting, commenting

Implement coffee making

Permissions :

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full network access : to make API calls to HN API