HackerWeb
A simply readable Hacker News app for iOS and Android.
Read about the story here: Building HackerWeb for iOS.
Preview
iOS
Android
Development
Requirements
- React Native
- React Native Package Manager
- Node.js
- Xcode
- iOS 9
- Android SDK API 23 (minimum support: 21)
Getting started
npm install- Install all dependenciesrnpm link- Linking all native dependencies
Implementations
- Alt - the Flux thing
- htmlparser2 - for parsing the comments HTML
- url-parse - for extracting domains out of story URLs
- iOS
- react-native-safari-view - the reason why iOS 9 is the minimum requirement
- Android
- react-native-chrome-custom-tabs - same as SafariView for iOS, but for Chrome
- react-native-android-share - for sharing
Components
LoadingIndicator- inspired by react-native-activity-indicator-iosHTMLView- inspired by react-native-htmlview, react-native-htmltext and react-native-html-render- react-native-cache-store - for local caching
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License
MIT.