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 dependencies
rnpm 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-ios
HTMLView - inspired by react-native-htmlview, react-native-htmltext and react-native-html-render
react-native-cache-store - for local caching

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