[APP] Ken - A Magazine for programmers

mlakkadshaw · Jul 23, 2013

App Updated

The latest update include:
1. New Black Theme / Night mode
2. Bug Fixes (Fixed bug pointed out by xda member blazingwolf)
3. Fixed the bug which was causing crashes on some articles
4. Performance improvements.

Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammedlakkadshaw.ken
APK: Check the attachment

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Hi Guys,
I have developed an app called as Ken, it is a magazine for programmers, you have to select your interest e.g (Node, Python, Javascript, Android etc.) and it will show you all the latest news, tutorial, articles etc. related to them.

Currently Topics:

Android
Javascript
Python
PHP
Ruby
Java
UI/UX (Mobile and Web Design)

Features

Ability to Zoom-in and Zoom-out
Share Articles
View in browser

Tell me how did you like the app and how could I improve it, thanks!

Download Links
Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammedlakkadshaw.ken
APK: Check the attachment

deathblade · Jul 23, 2013

mlakkadshaw said:
Hi Guys,
I have developed an app called as Ken, it is a magazine for programmers, you have to select your interest e.g (Node, Python, Javascript, Android etc.) and it will show you all the latest news, tutorial, articles etc. related to them.

Currently Topics:

Android

Javascript

Python

PHP

Ruby

Java

UI/UX (Mobile and Web Design)

Features

Ability to Zoom-in and Zoom-out

Share Articles

View in browser

Tell me how did you like the app and how could I improve it, thanks!

Download Links
Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammedlakkadshaw.ken
APK: Check the attachment

Nice very simple and bright ui following the Google card design very well organized love that the different "interests" are just a wipe away from each other rather than all jumbled up together very nice

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mlakkadshaw · Jul 23, 2013

deathblade said:
Nice very simple and bright ui following the Google card design very well organized love that the different "interests" are just a wipe away from each other rather than all jumbled up together very nice

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Thanks! Do you feel that the loading time is very slow? I am loading the title of all the topics at start, if you feel that it takes a lot of time to load then I will do a section wise loading, It will load only when the user moves to that e.g If the users is at javascript and moves to android then at that time it will load android.
Should I do it like that?

Thanks

deathblade · Jul 23, 2013

Runs great on at s3, though I would like to suggest having tabs for the different categories within each interest, if you like I can see about getting a pic of what I'm talking about together and upload it

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valliance · Jul 23, 2013

Nice app.. Complete topics.. Especially UI and UX..
Thanks.. Looking forward on this..

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mlakkadshaw · Jul 23, 2013

deathblade said:
Runs great on at s3, though I would like to suggest having tabs for the different categories within each interest, if you like I can see about getting a pic of what I'm talking about together and upload it

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Yea sure, I would love to see the pic, and what categories do you suggest should I put there?
Thanks

deathblade · Jul 23, 2013

They will be in the pic, I will follow the current theme for it too however I would like to also post a pic of a darker theme for it as well for your consideration of course it will be just a modified pic and I would not be doing any edits to the app it's self

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deathblade · Jul 24, 2013

i was thinking something like this maybe, thought the catagories i have showing are just more or less place holders or if you perfer examples

Sid Droid · Jul 24, 2013

sounds interesting..........download right away!!!

mlakkadshaw · Jul 24, 2013

deathblade said:
i was thinking something like this maybe, thought the catagories i have showing are just more or less place holders or if you perfer examplesView attachment 2138628

Thanks! I will implement that in the next update, I am planning to implement machine learning on the server side to classify articles based on the type (e.g App, Tutorial, News etc.)

Dovidhalevi · Jul 26, 2013

Looks cool, will give it a try.

Actually, I could use a version for a Desktop. I use Pulse there more than on the phone.

mlakkadshaw · Jul 26, 2013

Thanks!
I am working on a webapp version, which will allow you view this on your desktop/laptop.

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dream707 · Jul 26, 2013

great app!

some issues:

1. there are some duplicates in all feeds.
2. need more hi-res icon. current looks blurry.
3. sometimes chashes => asks for my feeds again and again

herousr · Jul 26, 2013

nice

I like it. It's a nice app great UI love Holo design. I did notice you aren't decoding the characters in the titles when you display them. Apostrophe's and quotes come out as url encoded. Also if you have the time I'd like to see a dark theme. Personally I just like reading text on a black background better than white. Keep up the good work :]

also +1 for the hi-res icons and filtering duplicates. I hate seeing reposts from blog to blog and such.

blazingwolf · Jul 26, 2013

Trying out the app and I ran into an issue. I tried to open an article on my Verizon GS4 and Ken crashed. What I saw was a black screen for a little bit (about 5 seconds or so) and then Ken reloaded and showed the headers. I have attached the pertinent information for the logcat in the code box.

Code:

E/AndroidRuntime(22461): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): java.lang.RuntimeException: PARAGRAPH span must start at paragraph boundary
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.setSpan(SpannableStringBuilder.java:600)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.setSpan(SpannableStringBuilder.java:588)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at android.text.HtmlToSpannedConverter.convert(Html.java:461)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at android.text.Html.fromHtml(Html.java:138)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at com.mohammedlakkadshaw.ken.DetailActivity.renderArticle(DetailActivity.java:183)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at com.mohammedlakkadshaw.ken.DetailActivity$LoadArticle.onPostExecute(DetailActivity.java:326)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at com.mohammedlakkadshaw.ken.DetailActivity$LoadArticle.onPostExecute(DetailActivity.java:1)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:631)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at android.os.AsyncTask.access$600(AsyncTask.java:177)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:644)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5328)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1102)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:869)
E/AndroidRuntime(22461): 	at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

First time loading an article took quite some time and there was no way to tell if Ken was working or had crashed again. So I would suggest a loading symbol if it takes a bit to get the article.

Some articles are truncated. There might be nothing you can do about this but there is no link to the full article (I've noticed this in the Java category) so I can't read the rest of the article and have no idea where the article is coming from. On the articles that are truncated the full screen of the device is not used to show the article. So, if I zoom in on the text I can fill up about half of the screen and then the article gets cut off.

Please add a dark theme. I think that will look much nicer with your chosen color.

Thanks for making the app. Really good idea and something I will use quite often.

mlakkadshaw · Jul 26, 2013

blazingwolf said:
Trying out the app and I ran into an issue. I tried to open an article on my Verizon GS4 and Ken crashed. What I saw was a black screen for a little bit (about 5 seconds or so) and then Ken reloaded and showed the headers. I have attached the pertinent information for the logcat in the code box.

Code:

E/AndroidRuntime(22461): FATAL EXCEPTION: main E/AndroidRuntime(22461): java.lang.RuntimeException: PARAGRAPH span must start at paragraph boundary E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.setSpan(SpannableStringBuilder.java:600) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.setSpan(SpannableStringBuilder.java:588) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at android.text.HtmlToSpannedConverter.convert(Html.java:461) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at android.text.Html.fromHtml(Html.java:138) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at com.mohammedlakkadshaw.ken.DetailActivity.renderArticle(DetailActivity.java:183) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at com.mohammedlakkadshaw.ken.DetailActivity$LoadArticle.onPostExecute(DetailActivity.java:326) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at com.mohammedlakkadshaw.ken.DetailActivity$LoadArticle.onPostExecute(DetailActivity.java:1) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:631) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at android.os.AsyncTask.access$600(AsyncTask.java:177) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:644) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5328) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1102) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:869) E/AndroidRuntime(22461): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

First time loading an article took quite some time and there was no way to tell if Ken was working or had crashed again. So I would suggest a loading symbol if it takes a bit to get the article.

Some articles are truncated. There might be nothing you can do about this but there is no link to the full article (I've noticed this in the Java category) so I can't read the rest of the article and have no idea where the article is coming from. On the articles that are truncated the full screen of the device is not used to show the article. So, if I zoom in on the text I can fill up about half of the screen and then the article gets cut off.

Please add a dark theme. I think that will look much nicer with your chosen color.

Thanks for making the app. Really good idea and something I will use quite often.

Thanks for pointing out the errors, I will fix them asap. I found a way to prevent the truncation, but for that I'll have to switch to EC2, I will do it in a couple of days, and then you can see all the articles in full view.
You can try "view in browser" to view the truncated article for now.

Thanks again.

mlakkadshaw · Jul 26, 2013

herousr said:
I like it. It's a nice app great UI love Holo design. I did notice you aren't decoding the characters in the titles when you display them. Apostrophe's and quotes come out as url encoded. Also if you have the time I'd like to see a dark theme. Personally I just like reading text on a black background better than white. Keep up the good work :]

also +1 for the hi-res icons and filtering duplicates. I hate seeing reposts from blog to blog and such.

I will add the dark background in the next update, and I will look into the decoding errors. Thanks

Y.G. · Jul 26, 2013

No T-SQL love?

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ohraii · Jul 26, 2013

Working well on my S4! I like the way it's set up. Thanks, dev.

+1 on darker theme!

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madman · Jul 28, 2013

Any possibility of 2.3 support ?

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