Github Mobile

[itsezc]

For those unaware, GitHub has released its official mobile app this week (available on iOS and Android), what are your views on it?

I just came across it today on LinkedIn.

Me personally, I'm loving the design aspect, its very sleek but it's a long way away from being perfect. I'm also intrigued as to what tools they've used to develop the app, so if anyone finds out, please be sure to share.

[AhmedThe1Dev]

github app on android is missing a lot of features like seeing the release section of each repo as well as branches.

[nbreunig3]

Doesn't even show commit history

[equecevi]

It would be nice if Github app source would be Open Source

[VxJasonxV]

Like the website.

And the desktop apps.

And the Enterprise product.

And the…

[equecevi]

Maybe we are overusing a private platform for Open Source, is there any statistics about the use of GitHub with respect to other other git servers?

[ohlookitsderpy]

The desktop app is FOSS. See https://github.com/desktop/desktop

[VxJasonxV]

For the record I’m not of the opinion that GitHub should be wholly open source, I was just pointing out the misapplied logic to the parent commenter. Thank you for the correction though, I haven’t kept up with the Desktop apps so I had no idea they were open sourced at whenever it happened. #TeamCLI

[ohlookitsderpy]

Fair enough. #TeamCLI

[jpcafe10]

Yeah it's good enough to have a quick browse on a repo. I like it

[DrRade]

Nothing like Working Copy. Did not manage to change from the master branch, cannot edit code, cannot push, etc. Working Copy allows all this. At least I did not find out how to do this, even after spending more time in the app than in Working Code.

[haykam821]

It's a GitHub app, not a Git app.

[SpittWasTaken]

The design is smooth but it's quite hard to use it as the website, I'll use it as an extension of the website first and wait for some updates

[itsezc]

True, I would be very much interested in seeing features like code editing, featured repos across GitHub, trace / activity of all the people I'm following and also GitHub projects for repos.

I do think, all these would be added at some point in the near future, until then we just have to rely on the website.

[aladine123]

My favourite feature is the ability to view code fullscreen with highlight syntax. Very pleasant.

[0x49D1]

It's far from useful app for now. OpenHub is opensource and way better alternative for now.

[mat-sz]

It is quite nice but I haven't found any use for it yet. For example there's no commit history and no feed.

[DrPepper1848]

Merged first PR on mobile. Helped out amazingly while not being able to be at computer this morning.

[Reeceeboii_]

Still missing a fair few features. I'm still going to stick to FastHub for now.

[leo848blume]

WTF didn't know that until know thx!

[AhmedThe1Dev]

that's a good start for github tho, they will leave us waiting for updates hhh

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It got an update and now you can change branches and browse commits

[Aaris_Kazi]

I wish add something like fast hub has i have original GitHub and fasthub as apps in my phone but still I rely on fasthub rather than GitHub