stet/keith question or whoever is in charge of code these days

hi, I have a problem that only comes up on my Android phone. When I log into ILX in the Android Chrome browser, my Bookmarks do not sync with any other browser/device, so it looks like I have a million threads that I haven't read. Can't figure out how to get it synced up with my actual ILX activity. I haven't ever had this problem on any other browser or any other device. Is it a cookies issue?

caek "stet" at this site dot com does the trick.

Moodles: someone else mentioned that, but I can't think why it would be. Bookmarks are stored server-side against your user account.

cn i have an ilxor dot com email addr plz

tilde.club before it was cool

maybe like a "see last 30" or 50 or whatever threads that have been updated instead of just "updated within the last <time> ago". This would be useful for browsing boards that don't have a lot of active threads

Yeah I've already done that. I think it'll do the last 200 or so. I just haven't deployed it.

cool!

Yeah, neat! I tried to browse old Aeon Flux Top Level threads and couldn't even find out how to view them

My trick has been to search for "a" (no quotation marks) in thread titles for the board in question.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/RecentQuestionsControllerServlet?boardid=59&offset=0

nice

I started one as an into to android programming until I realised how much work it was going to be and how much easier it would be just to change the stylesheet to alleviate all my niggles - stuff like making the bookmark link bigger and easier to hit, fixing the tiny text box and menus...

I'm probably biting off more than I can chew but let's say I wanted to do this ... pointer to get started? like for example, is there a way to get an output format other than html?

?xml=true...

ty!

anything special with auth?

(if I'm asking dumb questions that are answered somewhere already, please let me know)

i don't think there was anything special with login. i appear to be using plain text POST requests, albeit to an odd page.

use wireshark or something to grab a login request from your browser and it should be obvious (LoginControllerServlet, j_security_check). i'm not entirely sure what i did here, lots of commented out code...

aight

Login is a right pain in the ass. There are three different things you have to do, depending on whether you just want to sign in, want to add a post, or want to bookmark.

Suggest you start with logged-out functionality first, as it all works exactly the same whether or not you are logged in, in terms of displaying the boards and loading the threads. If you get all that done then you'll know you're going to get somewhere and it'll be worth considering the auth pain. I'll send you the zing code to help if you get that far.

As for the API, start with the "mobile device interface" link on the front page. For each of those URLs, just remove the ?stylesheet=mobile.xsl to get plain XML.

hey lookit that, didn't know about that link

whatever it's the web it's irrelevant, AAAAAPS

maybe a "view in context" link for search results which takes you to a page with the previous 10 and next 10 posts

http://ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?xml=true&boardid=41 is :( for me

oh i see it's just spitting out a character that browser XML parsers don't like. who cares.

it breaks zing

what are you using that feed for lukas?

I am slowly plugging away on this Android app

You know the problem I had a couple of years ago, the last time I changed my phone? It's back with my new phone.

It keeps a completely different state to every other login on the same account. Bookmarks not updating but only on this device.

Last time it got fixed because there was a phone fault and I replaced the device itself. Not sure they'll accept "ILX doesn't update properly" as a defect this time.

Okay, I now have an Android app that does All The Things that you can do logged-out. Want to add a couple things, like starring boards a la Zing Touch, but it's probably worth having other people look at this now. It is, uh, very reminiscent of Zing, except buggier and not as pretty.

Anybody have an Android device and willing to take it for a spin?

apk me bro

Sure, I will.

I also fixed said problem above this weekend finally, by doing maybe the 10th cache clear since I got the phone. Just weird.

theporouscity.com/app-release.apk

or http://theporouscity.com/app-release.apk

you'll have to have enabled apps from unknown sources in settings -> security

other things not finished: name, icon

this is really nice!! perfectly happy with how it looks, minimal and loads super fast just like ilx should be. plz never to change font to century gothic or w/e

havent found a trace of a bug yet. will definitely use once login happens (which i'm sure involves all the really hard stuff)

haha also you can keep 'flagging' too

pull-to-refresh would be a good addition

if i was really picky about the looks then the titlebar could stay white, or v pale grey. nothing wrong with navy but it compresses the page

Whoo, congrats! Let me know if you need help with any of the interactions. The login code is an absolute bastard to reverse-engineer, I can talk you through it when you get there.

xpost thank u for your feedback. you can hit that link again for one that has swipe to refresh on the threads list. lemme experiment with title bar colors.

thanks stet! I guess now's as good a time as any to dig into that. hopefully make progress before work gets crazier. lukasb at google's mail thing.

new version at that link with nicer toolbars, swipe to refresh thread (from bottom)

nice ty

shouldve said earlier "will definitely use" means "will happily pay for" btw!

still not encountered any bugs (what are the known ones?), u could/should probably take it to ile and get more eyes on it

will have a couple more cosmetic suggestions after everything else is sorted but they're totally nbd

oh yeah - links to specific posts don't work, just loads at the end of its thread per normal

Toolbars? I just see it as a reader (a very nice one though).

sorry aldo, I meant title bar.

oh that link problem makes sense, thanks. no other known bugs but this is my first Android app and I'm verrry rusty at coding. all suggestions very welcome.

Thanks for fixing the YouTube embed issue!

Also, maybe this has been discussed before, but any thoughts about making ILX an https site? Is that tough to do?

It's a little bit tough, but that's no excuse. It's on my list of things to do. I'm currently updating the sandbox with the latest versions of the code, and if it all looks OK, I'll send it to the real site soon

Thanks stet.

^^^^

the s in https stands for stet

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