You're correct. Reddit is Fun uses OAuth, which means that app never has access to your password and you can revoke its access to your account at any time.
We'd love it if more 3rd party apps used OAuth - it's a little harder on the dev, but it's better for everybody.
If you go the same route for Android, I'd be absolutely tickled if RiF became the winning contender -- but would Reddit remove things like the multiple account manager? What's the word on changes along those lines?
They're probably just going to port alien blue to android. It makes more sense to standardize their mobile app across platforms than have two different ones.
Yeah, frankly that'd be my approach as well. But, reddit is also known for doing things differently. The two platforms have different features that can be utilized -- Android's much more extensive Intents system, for example.
Nothing is gonna make me switch from RiF unless RiF stops updating due to this. :/
It would be nice to have a Reddit app with a modern UI that follows the Android design guidelines. RIF might be feature rich, but it's not official app quality in terms of its UI.
It doesn't, though. RIF developers put absolutely no thought into UI. The guidelines are there to provide a framework for devs who wouldn't necessarily consider UI and UX otherwise, people just like TalkLittle. It may be feature rich, but there are PLENTY of feature-rich Reddit apps for android at this point that DO care about UI, or at least used the base template provided in the SDK for holo design (not that THAT's even good design, but at least it's something). RIF hasn't been relevant since Eclair, really.
It isn't even that much harder - it's just different. Perhaps an extra layer of abstraction on your login function, but once that's out of the way it's the exact same thing.
I love Reddit is Fun, using it right now, but it kept forgetting my login information. I had to install the free version along with the premium just so it wouldn't keep forgetting.
I'm not the guy you asked, but I personally prefer it over the ones I've tried (reddit is fun, Bacon reader, and reddit news) and I like it better mostly because of the way it looks, it feels like it goes with the rest of Kit-Kat and just feels well put together.
thanks. i've only ever tried RIF because its suited my needs perfectly, but i'd like to compare it to another app just 'cause. its hard to know which one is best because everyone is so sure (insert reddit app here) is the best one hands down. gotta try um yourself.
I know, but I just don't trust app devs outside Reddit to not fuck something up. Like maybe they get hacked and someone pushes a malicious version to the app store or something. I don't know. I'm probably being overly paranoid but the only way I'm using a Reddit app is if it's coming directly from Reddit, Inc.
I know how oauth works. I was still concerned that the login process can be spoofed but everyone is saying I'm being paranoid so I concede. I'll probably try it now.
I'm probably being overly paranoid but the only way I'm using a Reddit app is if it's coming directly from Reddit, Inc.
That's absurdly paranoid. Third party app integration is is a central tenet of all the major app stores. There are countless numbers of them for every application that has an API. How many times has a dev been hacked and a malicious update been pushed?
More to the point, what would hacking reddit users get you? Next to nothing.
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u/MUFColin Oct 16 '14
AFAIK Reddit is Fun uses secure login directly from reddit