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Your Broadsheet.ie Android App Is Here

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(Broadsheet bon viveur/code god Karl (top) and the new android app)

Finally, more than two and a half years after my iOS version was released I’ve built an Android app for Broadsheet.ie and it’s available now on the Google Play store (and in the process missed our all too brief summer).

The app doesn’t quite have feature parity with the iOS version but is close enough that it warrants release I will be actively developing it over the summer in step with some updates to the iOS app.

The Android fragmentation issue means I’ve not been able to test it on all platforms, but I’ve made an effort to ensure it works on the top 10 devices that access the website. Hopefully the app won’t look too bad outside of these.

Think you can do better?

As with the iOS version of the app, the code is available on GitHub under the MIT license. I do this not in the hope that someone will come along and fix bugs or improve it but in case someone else finds it useful and wants to use it.

I would, of course, be delighted if someone actually did create a pull request…

And now over to you

The Android-using section of our readership have been very vocal about wanting an app. When presented with evidence of lower engagement on the site from Android the lack of an app has been blamed (an opinion which I don’t subscribe too – it seems more like Android users don’t really use their devices compared to iOS).

The only way developers are going to take Android seriously is if people actually use their phones and download apps. So grab the app today and make this developer a happy man.

Taytos Gonna Tayt

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Apologies for the delay.

The controversial Tayto Chocolate and cheese ‘n’ onion competition.

Runners up:

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Consolation prize (we’re going to have a word about another box):

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And the winner?

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Thanks all.

Thanks Alison Keegan

(Malachy Geelan)

The Buke in Cork

2013-03-20 16.29.51Jackie (left) and Stephanie, staff members of Easons, Patrick Street, Cork, this evening with the buke (the book, like).

Which they hope will help pay for a new ceiling.

Kidding.

Our man in Cork writes:

A fresh box of the buke arrived this afternoon. Jackie and Stephanie said they’re going to have them on display close to the till to catch foreign drunk naive stoned impulse buyers.

Yay.

Previously: We’re IN

The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland edited by Aidan Coughlan (New Island)

Merc-i

You may recall the post this morning about the stolen vintage Mercedes.

Mark Rudden writes:

Police have the car after it was spotted on Broadsheet. Thanks to everyone who shared it, liked it and talked about it! Never thought I’d get it back let alone without much damage (door lock and alarm damaged). Now to see if the people who took it can be caught!

Yay.

To Austerity And Beyond

Happy 2013 to all.

From Karl, Niall, Emily, Aidan, Nat, Moynes, Chompsky (above), Lars Biscuits,, Sibling of Daedalus, Aaron, Ewok, James M Chimney, ‘Preposterous’, Sam D, Not Pancho, Susie, Delboy,  Ciaran & Michael Le Cool, Susie, Bodger, Mark Geary (Australia), Eoin Darby (NZ) and many others.

(All our real names).

Buzz Badyear Leo Varadkar by Dara MacDonaill (Irish Times) via Bryan O’Brien