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comment by tony
tony  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Mobile Apps

I am 32 (not a teen). I desperately want an android app. I wish I could code Android apps. I may learn how to if an API is provided.





user92  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So what functions are we looking for in an API? Much of the functionality may be had with some crafty parsing.

tony  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How hard would it be to take something like this and adapt it to hubski?

user92  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Considering there's no API for Hubski, pretty hard.

tony  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So let's build an API. how hard could it be?

user92  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, since we don't have access to the backend databases, pretty hard. It would involve lots of screen-scraping and any time the HTML/theme changes our API might break. And that's assuming we could even get authenticated actions to work (like voting and posting.)

tony  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Can we get some dev input here? Is an API in the works?

baltoli  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hi! I'm a developer, and I've had a quick chat with mk about the API. I'm going to be working to design an API for mk to implement. So, yes, there is an API in the very earliest stages of development.

Dabboo  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Awesome! I'm more excited about an Android app than anything else. However, an m.hubski.com site would be great.

user92  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  
tony  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ideally, everything you can do through the website. Initially, I would be happy with browsing, posting, replying, and voting.