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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 ...
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Existing applications for Android? Simply browse the android tag here.
As for writing an Android app yourself, I recommend the following Java library, which has been tested on the Android:
StackWrap4J
Others can be found by browsing the android+library tags together, like so:
http://stackapps.com/questions/tagged/library+java
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Version 1.3 (new features!)
Posting update here so it's more visible.
A lot more user control - number of questions, sorting, tags.
Long press on questions to save them to favourites.
By default you will receive notifications when favourites get new answers.
Pressing question will take to you StackMobile version of site for improved mobile browsing.
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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.
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You need to have a data filter for the activity that you call the authentication url in the manifest like below
<data android:host="stackexchange.com" android:pathPrefix="/oauth/login_success" android:scheme="https" />
The activity also needs to override the onresume function for you to parse the url and get the access token from the uri.
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Stack Exchange's implementation of OAuth 2.0 is modeled after Facebook's.
While I haven't used Scribe, presumably their Facebook example is the relevant.
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Use implicit OAuth flow. Load the specified URL with necessary query parameters into a webview and when authentication is done you can get the access_token from the redirect_uri. You can have the webview handle the redirect_uri by setting a custom webview client.
Example:
private class ExampleWebViewClient extends WebViewClient
{
@Override
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I have been looking for the same today, and from what I see, no current apps in Google Play seem to optimised for tablets, but couple come close:
Stack Remote : the way it shows selected stack QA sites list on to a single screen, you may find it convenient to browse it on a tablet screen.
Stack Anywhere : the answer reading is a bit annoying (since it ...
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