Hacker News
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About Hacker News
A simple, open source, HackerNews reader application. Read ycombinator's hacker news on the mobile devices you carry around daily! This application is built for both phones and large tablets, and is designed using Google's Material Design guidelines.
Features:
* Clean UI utilizing Material Design
* Night Mode
* Link and Comments in same view
* Readability
* Comment Collapsing
* Ability to open hacker news links in the application
source here: https://github.com/dinosaurwithakatana/hacker-news-android
You can file issues on the github page, contributions are always welcome!
Comment count issue:
This is due to hacker news sending back the total parent comment count through their API, this is a technical limitation from their end. The true comment count is shown when you drill into a story. Sorry about this!
Features:
* Clean UI utilizing Material Design
* Night Mode
* Link and Comments in same view
* Readability
* Comment Collapsing
* Ability to open hacker news links in the application
source here: https://github.com/dinosaurwithakatana/hacker-news-android
You can file issues on the github page, contributions are always welcome!
Comment count issue:
This is due to hacker news sending back the total parent comment count through their API, this is a technical limitation from their end. The true comment count is shown when you drill into a story. Sorry about this!
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Android app
App History & Updates
What's Changed
Quick hotfix for link color issue on M
Note: if you were on the beta or any release of 5.0 you may have to clear data, sorry! This update **will* downgrade you, as the 5.0 update was having a lot of issues in production.
huge app refactor incoming (read: rewrite), view progress here: https://github.com/dinosaurwithakatana/hacker-news-android/tree/feature/kotlin
Quick hotfix for link color issue on M
Note: if you were on the beta or any release of 5.0 you may have to clear data, sorry! This update **will* downgrade you, as the 5.0 update was having a lot of issues in production.
huge app refactor incoming (read: rewrite), view progress here: https://github.com/dinosaurwithakatana/hacker-news-android/tree/feature/kotlin
Version update Hacker News was updated to version 4.1.2
More downloads Hacker News reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
Version update Hacker News was updated to version 4.1.1
More downloads Hacker News reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
What are users saying about Hacker News
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UX is great, but most times that I go back to read a post I had open, the app refreshes then I have to remember what it was I was looking at, then spend time finding. Please fix that, then it's perfect
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Great app! I like how comment folding works, the colored borders showing comment depth are awesome idea! I would love a history tab, where all HN threads that I actually clicked would be preserved, that would be absolutely neat!
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It's okay, but it does crash a bit more than id like. And you can't login (and thus can't vote or add comments). Looks nice though.
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The font size of titles is too big IMO. Need a better icon also. (Do something with the shades)
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Display old data
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But why is there no option to login?
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Best interface among all HN apps
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Amongst other things I have been looking for a reader that actually lets you open the link in browser. So don't get rid of that. Good stuff!
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ShowHN leads to crash sometimes
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because I want to folder the comments.
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Great interface. Just wish it had the ability to vote and comment.
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Display old data
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Can't login?
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Best interface among all HN apps
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Best HN UI I have seen yet
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Great interface, continued updates, and a solid app. Highly recommended!
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Please add login option.
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Where did all my saves go?!?!
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Pretty pretty pretty good
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Missing voting.
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This app is the only app I am able to use for HackerNews without going slightly insane. Comment arrows are a big example of a feature that can't be found in any other HN app. There are a few bugs, though. Namely: links don't show up in comment sections.
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Does anyone else have problems with seeing the links? To me they are all white on a white background...
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Open source, free, and doesn't require permissions, but lacking ability to login
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Nice app with a clean interface. Hyperlinks aren't showing up for me. The text color matches the background color. I can still click them, but not see them. I'm on a Nexus 5X on Marshmallow
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I can only read comments, not write or reply to them. Design is pretty good though, and most importantly it handles HN links opened from other apps.
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The font size of titles is too big IMO. Need a better icon also. (Do something with the shades)
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Very good, need more improvement when opening page
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It's okay, but it does crash a bit more than id like. And you can't login (and thus can't vote or add comments). Looks nice though.
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Amazing that it's opensource
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Fantastic
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Display old data
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Sidebar doesn't follow material guidelines and isnt wide enough. Comment text size seems too small too
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But why there are no pictures?
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Faizan
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So slow it was unusuable. 11 comments still hadn't loaded in 11 seconds.
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That's the app I'm most comfortable with. The usability can be imroved if the screen returned the same scroll position the user was at when clicking "Back" arrow. Other stuff is good and convenient. Would like to see "Ask HN" category in the menu one day. These two remarks do not make me like this app less. Five stars!
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But why is there no option to login?
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Nice design. Allows you to jump to top level contents which is super helpful. Would appreciate a long press option to go to the comments/open link. Remember that this isn't a client with login support.
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Best interface among all HN apps
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The first app i used that allows me to either share comment link or article link! This is important. I go back and deduct 1 star because whwn you hit back button to see list of articles, it starts off loading every time. It'd be much better if the app can cache it. This wastes time.