Title: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on September 29, 2015, 02:56:38 AM Update: v0.6 Release
The next version of the app, v0.6, has been finished Today I am announcing an Android App for the Forum that I have been writing. It is not complete yet and still has a few bugs to be worked out. The app will allow you to do everything you could do on the website but in an easy-to-read and mobile friendly format.Notable changes:
The release can be viewed on Github: https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/releases/tag/v0.66 Current Features
Upcoming Features
Contributing You can contribute to this project in many ways
Source Code The source code can be browsed at the Github Repository (https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum) Installation Once the app is finished, it will be released onto the Google Play store. The APK files will also be available in the Releases section of the Github repository (https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/releases) Direct APK Download: https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/releases/download/v0.60/com.achow101.bitcointalkforum.apk Bugs If you happen to find a bug in the app, please open a new issue if there isn't already an issue in the issue tracker on Github (https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/issues). The issue tracker page also lets you submit feature requests. Everything marked with the "TODO" label on the issue tracker is something that I am currently working on or plan on working on in the near future. License The app is open source and released under the GNU General Public License Screenshots
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: avatar_kiyoshi on September 29, 2015, 11:10:47 AM This is great, i'm looking for app for this forum on android.
how about the signature? it will can show on the app? can the notification appear when i close the app? so i can open it for quickly. i'm watching on this project. Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on September 29, 2015, 11:36:41 AM This is great, i'm looking for app for this forum on android. Signatures will not be displayed. They don't display well in the app. If a lot of people want it, I will add it, but it doesn't look very good.how about the signature? it will can show on the app? can the notification appear when i close the app? so i can open it for quickly. i'm watching on this project. When I add the notifications in, I will make sure that they can be displayed even when the app us closed. Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: mj2121989 on September 29, 2015, 11:42:23 AM I usually access Bitcointalk from my phone browser. I will definitely try this app out. :)
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: tiggytomb on September 29, 2015, 11:44:53 AM Nice looking app, I also use my phone browser a lot and an app which tidies things up would be great. it is a shame about the signatures not looking good when they show up.
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: medUSA on September 29, 2015, 11:53:39 AM I actually don't have any problems using my phone browser to access bitcointalk. This app is looking great, may try it in the future. Can I suggest grabbing the latest message from bitcointalk's twitter account. So when bitcointalk is down, user knows what's going on.
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: Mitchell on September 29, 2015, 11:59:01 AM Signatures will not be displayed. They don't display well in the app. If a lot of people want it, I will add it, but it doesn't look very good. If you start displaying signatures, could you please add an option to turn it off as well? The app looks nice (even though it could use some design work) and I'll try it out, once I've read the source code.When I add the notifications in, I will make sure that they can be displayed even when the app us closed. Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: bitwarrior on September 29, 2015, 12:03:00 PM This will be a great app for android, I am sure a lot of guys are looking for this kind of app. Good luck to your project and hope to see it finally released soon.
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: FruitsBasket on September 29, 2015, 12:03:13 PM That is an amazing app that you made knightdk. Those sreenshot come from a Huawei phone, I also have that phone, I love it. But back to the app, u will get credits for this, such a good work for the community. Send me a PM with the bugs and mayby I can help/solve the problems.
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on September 29, 2015, 12:06:20 PM That is an amazing app that you made knightdk. Those sreenshot come from a Huawei phone, I also have that phone, I love it. But back to the app, u will get credits for this, such a good work for the community. Send me a PM with the bugs and mayby I can help/solve the problems. I'm actually not using a huawei, it is a nexus 5.Take a look at the issues page. I put some of the bugs that I found there. Maybe you can help with those. Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: FruitsBasket on September 29, 2015, 12:14:10 PM That is an amazing app that you made knightdk. Those sreenshot come from a Huawei phone, I also have that phone, I love it. But back to the app, u will get credits for this, such a good work for the community. Send me a PM with the bugs and mayby I can help/solve the problems. I'm actually not using a huawei, it is a nexus 5.Take a look at the issues page. I put some of the bugs that I found there. Maybe you can help with those. Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: shorena on September 29, 2015, 12:24:45 PM That is an amazing app that you made knightdk. Those sreenshot come from a Huawei phone, I also have that phone, I love it. But back to the app, u will get credits for this, such a good work for the community. Send me a PM with the bugs and mayby I can help/solve the problems. I'm actually not using a huawei, it is a nexus 5.Take a look at the issues page. I put some of the bugs that I found there. Maybe you can help with those. AFAIK thats just how android lollipop looks, no matter the hardware. Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: Mitchell on September 29, 2015, 12:32:39 PM I cannot import the project into Android Studio. Gradle is cussing at me for missing something. Is there anything special I need to do to get it working?
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on September 29, 2015, 12:38:14 PM I cannot import the project into Android Studio. Gradle is cussing at me for missing something. Is there anything special I need to do to get it working? Did you install the SDK? You need the latest version for Android M.Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: Mitchell on September 29, 2015, 12:40:47 PM Did you install the SDK? You need the latest version for Android M. I have the SDK, but not the latest version. I'll update and see if that works. Haven't developed for Android in a while.Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on September 29, 2015, 12:44:59 PM Did you install the SDK? You need the latest version for Android M. I have the SDK, but not the latest version. I'll update and see if that works. Haven't developed for Android in a while.Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: phishead on September 29, 2015, 03:52:13 PM Awesome looking app! :o
Are you planning on making a version for iOS? Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on September 29, 2015, 04:06:22 PM Awesome looking app! :o No, I don't know how to write ios appsAre you planning on making a version for iOS? Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: bloods-n-cryptos on September 30, 2015, 06:01:43 PM Today I am announcing an Android App for the Forum that I have been writing. It is not complete yet and still has a few bugs to be worked out. The app will allow you to do everything you could do on the website but in an easy-to-read and mobile friendly format. Current Features
Upcoming Features
Contributing You can contribute to this project in many ways
Source Code The source code can be browsed at the Github Repository (https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum) Installation Once the app is finished, it will be released onto the Google Play store. The APK files will also be available in the Releases section of the Github repository (https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/releases) Direct APK Download: https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/releases/download/v0.4/com.achow101.bitcointalkforum.apk Bugs If you happen to find a bug in the app, please open a new issue if there isn't already an issue in the issue tracker on Github (https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/issues). The issue tracker page also lets you submit feature requests. Everything marked with the "TODO" label on the issue tracker is something that I am currently working on or plan on working on in the near future. License The app is open source and released under the GNU General Public License Screenshots
Apologies if this has been asked, but any plans on an iOS version? Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: ZonedOutSpace on September 30, 2015, 06:13:11 PM Looks good!
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: Ceizer54 on September 30, 2015, 06:16:02 PM Nice Idea but i would like to point out something that i noticed from screenshots..
The login page is custom build and many people (including me) can't just trust some page and enter the login information..I know you have provided the source code but still i advice you to alteast make users login directly to original page at bitcointalk.org in your app and then redirect them to your custom app pages for other purposes..This will make your app look more awesome and genuine ;) Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on September 30, 2015, 06:26:54 PM Nice Idea but i would like to point out something that i noticed from screenshots.. I know that is a concern, which is why I made it open source. Even so, logging into the original page on bitcointalk probably won't work too well and it would still have the same issues with logging in through the login firm in the app. After all, it would still go through the app and that opens it up to attack by the coder.The login page is custom build and many people (including me) can't just trust some page and enter the login information..I know you have provided the source code but still i advice you to alteast make users login directly to original page at bitcointalk.org in your app and then redirect them to your custom app pages for other purposes..This will make your app look more awesome and genuine ;) What I will be trying to do is actually deterministic builds, just like what bitcoin core does. That way you can verify that the binary was built from the source I punished. Unfortunately there is no easy way to do deterministic builds for Android yet, but I will be working on that. The guardian project (Android tor apps) managed to do it so I will try to mimic them. Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on September 30, 2015, 11:17:28 PM Apologies if this has been asked, but any plans on an iOS version? No, there are no plans for an ios version. I currently am not capable (I neither have the knowledge, money, nor a mac) of writing ios apps. Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: bitwarrior on October 01, 2015, 12:43:55 AM Is there any ETA yet for the release of your App in the market? Will this be free or it needs to be purchased instead?
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on October 01, 2015, 12:59:35 AM Is there any ETA yet for the release of your App in the market? Will this be free or it needs to be purchased instead? No ETA yet. The app will be free.Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: darkagentx on October 01, 2015, 01:13:15 AM Wow nice app for the forum, too bad it does not go with IOS and it only works for android.
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: Zombier0 on October 04, 2015, 07:43:06 PM I will surely test as long as it runs on htc
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on October 04, 2015, 08:14:59 PM I have completed the next version, v0.5, of the app. You can now post new replies to topics. There are no shortcuts for styling (smileys, code, quotes) and the additional options drop down does not exist. Styling will still work if you do it by hand, but there are no shortcuts for them.
You can download the apk at https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/releases/tag/v0.5 Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on October 19, 2015, 12:17:19 AM The next version of the app, v0.6, has been finished
Notable changes:
The release can be viewed on Github: https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/releases/tag/v0.66 Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: Hugroll on October 19, 2015, 12:44:53 AM The next version of the app, v0.6, has been finished that link doesnt seem to be working im getting a 404 error also hey great job on the app so far, and is it just me or does the app take a fairly long time to load up threads, im talking about in the range of ~20-30secondsNotable changes:
The release can be viewed on Github: https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkForum/releases/tag/v0.66 Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: everaja on October 19, 2015, 12:47:48 AM A suggestion!! Add splashscreen to app , or let me know if you want me to do it !! :P
Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on October 19, 2015, 12:59:52 AM A suggestion!! Add splashscreen to app , or let me know if you want me to do it !! :P If you can do it, go ahead. Submit a PR and I will have a look.Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: BitTalkyy on October 19, 2015, 08:29:54 AM Hey, knightdk! if you want, I can publish your app to Google Play, I have developer access.
Also, I think I'll make the UI look better Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on October 19, 2015, 11:02:55 AM Hey, knightdk! if you want, I can publish your app to Google Play, I have developer access. I have developer account as well. It is not ready for publishing yet, it will be once I iron out all of the bugs and add the remaining features.Also, I think I'll make the UI look better If you can make the ui look better, please do. Submit a pull request to the Github and I will take a look. Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: darkagentx on May 22, 2016, 12:33:27 AM Any coming updates for this App? How was the experience on using this? Any plans for iOS?
Btw Dev, if you are still active, you had experience on making android wallets? Thank you. Title: Re: [ANN] Bitcointalk Android app Post by: achow101 on May 22, 2016, 04:23:18 AM Any coming updates for this App? How was the experience on using this? Any plans for iOS? This project is pretty much dead. I have stopped working on it due to my inexperience with and lack of care for GUIs.Btw Dev, if you are still active, you had experience on making android wallets? Thank you. |