About Hews
Hews is a Hacker News client focuses on reading experience with some unique features. And it's open source.
Basic features
• Clear nested comments with two-way collapsing
• Four themes: light, sepia, dark and AmoLED black
• Browse Top, New, Show HN and Ask HN stories
• Browse popular posts by any date range
• Login hacker news account, upvote and reply to post/comment
• Search by any date range, with popularity/date sorting
• Post bookmarking
• Open hacker news links by this app
• Open post in build-in or external browser
• Check User's HN profile (long press)
• Share comment link/content (long press)
• Material design
• Open source (https://github.com/leavjenn/Hews)
Unique features
* Highly customizable typography
10 distinct fonts, easy to fine-tune font size and line-height, for the best reading experience.
Video demo: https://youtu.be/gGyW0LxO9wg
* Two-way comments Collapsing
Not only collapsible children comments (press comment content), it can also collapse comments between itself and it's parent (press comment info bar).
Video demo: https://youtu.be/FT4aFFUzFIo
* Scroll-down floating button
Scroll down the page by pressing or draging the big floating button, swipe no more.
Video demo: https://youtu.be/kuffdR2GCqU
* Post summary (TL; DR)
Distill the summary (tl; dr) of a post from it's comments, save yourself from clickbait title. Notice that this feature is still in test.
Video demo: https://youtu.be/Yrr4OiqGf7U
DISCLAIMER
Hews is an unofficial Hacker News Android app, and it is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Y Combinator.
Hews 1.9.2 Update
-- Export bookmark as csv file.
-- New version announcement.
Requires Android: Android 5.0+
Screen DPI: nodpi
SHA1: cb4c20437a0c4da2fc9d2a67b9b0298be30b6b41
Size: 4.93 MB
What's New:
-- Export bookmark as csv file.
-- New version announcement.
Requires Android: Android 4.1+
Screen DPI: nodpi
SHA1: a822c8522df247eaf812c5b1ad883c19b8fa4b0d
Size: 4.13 MB
What's New:
- Add feature to watch comments' replies. Get reply notification of watched comments. (This feature not fully tested, may not stable)
This app hasn't been updated for a long time. I plan to rewrite it in Flutter. Thanks for all your support.
Requires Android: Android 4.1+
Screen DPI: nodpi
SHA1: b8aeb48908cf82183ecf96b94410c426eadc4196
Size: 4.07 MB
What's New:
New feature: support device rotating.
change: show post list in the same order as the official website.
Improve: reduce memory usage.
By the way, the latest version is applied MVP architecture, don't panic if any cute bug occurs~
1.8.0:
Improve: revamp post list UI;
change: follow point order in search and popular post list.
Requires Android: Android 4.1+
Screen DPI: 160-640dpi
SHA1: 70ca07758742ad326d66a351e47c76a3195437a3
Size: 4.03 MB
What's New:
Improve: revamp post list UI;
change: follow point order in search and popular post list.
1.7.0-1.7.7:
New feature: posts bookmarking;
New feature: AmoLED black theme;
New feature: scroll up/down by clicking volume/page button;
New feature: downvote comment (need karma > 500);
Improve: add text to floating scroll down button;
Improve: less network fetching;
Bug fix: a bunch of lovely bugs.
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Update Date:
2022-09-15
Latest Version:
1.9.2
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Available on:
Requirements:
Android 5.0+
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