Droidstack for Android - now with chat support!

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Get Droidstack

To get Droidstack, either:

• Search the Android Market on your phone for "Droidstack"
• Go to the Android Market page
• Open the URL market://details?id=org.droidstack on your phone
• Download an .apk from the downloads section of the google code site and install it via adb
• Scan this QR code:

Developers!

Integrate with Droidstack! Check out how.

Changelog

1.0-10

• Chat support!

1.0-9

• UI improvements: internalized and improved drawables
• Usability: Don't load all sites anymore, instead provide a sites picker
• Bugfix: Make notifications actually work (sorry about that)
• Other code improvements

1.0-8b

• Small UI improvements: headers for question & answer lists
• Bugfixes & improvements

1.0-8

• New icon again (people complained it was not representative of the app)
• Sites list now lists all available sites, with the possibility to "bookmark" some of them (pic)
• Share question feature
• Some improvements & bugfixes

1.0-7

• New users activity, similar to stackoverflow.com/users
• Picking a user is much simpler, you don't have to know your user ID anymore
• More intents available for developers! You can use Droidstack to have the user pick a certain question, answer, tag or user and use it in your app! Check it out

1.0-6

• New icon courtesy of androidicons.com
• Clickable tags everywhere
• Better search UI, autocomplete for tags
• New menu option in question lists that allows you to filter questions by tags
• New tags activity, similar to stackoverflow.com/tags
• New button when viewing a question that allows you to open it in the browser

1.0-5

• View user profiles & rep changes [pic]
• Improved UI: much faster screen orientation changes, some polishing here & there
• View all of a user's rep changes
• The two new activities: user profile and user rep changes can also be invoked by other apps. Check out the Intents wiki page

1.0-4b

• Rep change notifications!! [pic1 & pic2]
• Preferences: page size (number of items to load at a time) and font size
• The eternal bugfixes

1.0-3b

• Couple bugfixes
• Improved question display (author rep is properly formatted and you get to see when a question / answer was posted)

1.0-3

• Bugfixes, performance improvements
• Awesome landscape viewing of questions

1.0-2

• Adds searching!!
• Can be used by other apps through intents
• Some bugfixes & improvements (thanks to whoever reported the force close)

1.0-1

• First version released on the Android Market
• All, Unanswered, User, Favorite questions, user answers, full question viewing.

About

Droidstack is an Android app that allows you to browse StackExchange websites in a very cool, native kind of way, while keeping a stackoverflow-like look & feel. The API functionality is powered by StackWrap4J. The awesome icon is created by the talented folk at androidicons.com.

Screenshots

I'm updating this imgur album with fresh screenshots every once in a while: http://foghina.imgur.com/droidstack

License

GPLv3

Platform

In case it wasn't already clear, Android.

Contact

I'm the only one currently working on this app. You can contact me here (comment/answer) or get my email address from here.

Code

The app is built using Java. Tools: Eclipse & Android SDK (and a bit of GIMP and Inkscape) on Linux. The project is hosted on Google Code.

Answer 1

On the legal stuff,

Looking at your screen shots, your application looks good to me.

The purpose of the guidance in StackApps is to encourage people to diversify their apps and make them really kick ass on their platform. I know the issue is confusing but we are trying to steer people away from "I'm just gonna clone the website" or "I'm going to write the OFFICIAL Stack Overflow Android browser."

No reasonable person would look at your application and think "this is the Stack Overflow website I am looking at!" or "this must be an OFFICIAL Stack Overflow app!"

That's what we are looking for. Your app looks awesome. Good job!

Answer 2

Love it... the one thing that'd really kill it would be to have openid integration to be able to log in.

Answer 3

It is the best Stack Overflow Android app I've seen. Would it be possible to support notifications whenever someone comments on or answers one of your questions?

Normally, on the website there is a little red circle with a number in it that shows you the number of unseen messages and answers.

Nice work Felix.

Answer 4

Very nice app.

Some of my gripes are: - searching for "scala" does not return anything - no way to set "interesting tags"

Answer 5

Generally a nice app. What I was missing was a way to set the user globally on all sites. Instead you have to set the active user for all the sites. I don't see the usefulness in being able to set different users on different sites... The best way would be to be able to log in, but you commented elsewhere that this is not yet supported by the API. I would see this to be the first priority when (if) it does!

I like the rep notification, but if you have active both the main site and the meta site for one site, you get 2 rep notifications for each rep increase on the main site. The rep on the meta site does not have a rep on it's own, it just showing the rep on the main site (except SO Meta which has its own). You should not trigger for the meta site on rep changes, unless you monitor the internal rep within the meta and not the rep number shown on the user profile.

I also noticed that YouTube links in the "Musical Practice & Performance" site were replaced with large placeholders for the video, but no video. See this answer.