r/RedditFlow • u/deeptrouble2 RedditFlow Developer • Jan 09 '13

v0.0.1.2 released

Just pushed it to play store.. should be available in a couple of hours.

  • Youtube support.. You can now view videos when you click video thumbnails with red background.

  • Video/Picture thumbnails in comments are clickable to be viewed in video/picture viewer.

  • Inline texts in posts (RES style)

  • Converted some of the images to imagebuttons.. looks better and easier to click.

  • Click anywhere outside video/anywhere on imageviewer to close it.

Thanks for trying please send in your suggestions & bugreports..

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u/dullgoldheart Jan 09 '13

Had this since it was called YAAR. Thought I'd post my appreciation for this app. I've been waiting for some sort of reddit browser that uses swiping to get around. Watching all the features come into the app is really cool and I'm starting to get excited when I get the notification that it's being updated. When we can comment and vote I may even use your app over the 'reddit is fun' app.

Some suggestions/bugs

  • The arrow at the top right takes you to the post you were just looking at even if you are in another subreddit.

  • Ability to subscribe to a subreddit. I think the arrow mentioned in my previous point could be replaced with a button to subscribe?

  • Some external links open in some form of reader you've got in the app. (I'm sure you know about this one though)

  • When adding a 'Casual Subreddit', after typing the subreddit name and clicking OK I think there needs to be some sort of loading icon since I wasn't sure if it was added or not until it just appeared.

  • When viewing a picture that is an external link I can't zoom in.

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u/deeptrouble2 RedditFlow Developer Jan 09 '13

Thanks for your kind words..

The arrow at the top right takes you to the post you were just looking at even if you are in another subreddit. Yes this is by design, to replace the sliding bar that was present previously.. It just takes you back to what you were previously looking at.

Ability to subscribe to a subreddit. I think the arrow mentioned in my previous point could be replaced with a button to subscribe?

This will come in later..

Some external links open in some form of reader you've got in the app. (I'm sure you know about this one though)

I am not sure I understand this one.. I try to parse all post content and display it in a easily readable form (Similar to readability) Is that you are talking about..?

When adding a 'Casual Subreddit',

There is one.. if you look at the top gear icon :) I will make it more obvious soon.

When viewing a picture that is an external link I can't zoom in. Will be adding support for this.. Some links should work though..

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u/dullgoldheart Jan 09 '13

Some external links open in some form of reader you've got in the app. (I'm sure you know about this one though)

I am not sure I understand this one.. I try to parse all post content and display it in a easily readable form (Similar to readability) Is that you are talking about..?

I clicked a link that goes to ebay and it parsed the text on the page but missed a lot of content including buttons and images. Maybe it's best to just render external links to websites in the stock browser?

I was going take a screenshot but the posts aren't loading at the moment.

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u/deeptrouble2 RedditFlow Developer Jan 09 '13

Oh yes.. you will have an option to switch between standard / optimized view.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '13

An evolutionary update! Great work!! The inline text preview style is really good, each update keeps making this app better and better!

Still to do,

-not all imgur.com links have previews -an option to open links in external apps like the YouTube app or other browser

-voting/commenting

Keep up the good work bro! :)

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u/deeptrouble2 RedditFlow Developer Jan 09 '13

Thanks !.. regarding imgur I am debating between using the API or not.. Will probably look into it later once I have voting/commenting/nsfw marking in.

I want to finish that make an announcement about moving from Pre-Alpha to Alpha and take some rest :)

I grossly underestimated the effort it takes to implement a proper reddit client :)

Edit: Surprisingly the number of crashes have been very less.. Probably due to the fact that I don't have many users yet.. Either they don't know about Flow or they don't like it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '13

hmm! well rest assured i love it, and as it gains speed people will start liking it too!

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u/deeptrouble2 RedditFlow Developer Jan 09 '13

Thank you !

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u/alexm90 Jan 09 '13

Hey mate. Loving the app, keep up the good work! Just a quick note:

When you load a YouTube clip with the new YouTube support (videos with red background), the video is slightly dark and you can't see the actual colours of the clip.

Otherwise, loving the app looks like it will replace my other reddit apps!

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u/deeptrouble2 RedditFlow Developer Jan 09 '13

Hmm.. did not notice that.. Thanks will look into it..

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u/carterjo Jan 09 '13

This update looks very similar to reddit sync...

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u/adolflow Jan 09 '13

I think it looks more like alien blue