About Hews for Hacker News
• This app will stop being maintained soon. Please try the updated version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leavjenn.hews2 Hews is a Hacker News client focuses on reading experience with some unique featu
• This app will stop being maintained soon. Please try the updated version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leavjenn.hews2
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.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Hews for Hacker News since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-25 17:05:08.
The latest version is 1.9.2 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 18:07:23. See below the changes in each version.
Hews for Hacker News version 1.9.2
Updated At: 2022-09-15
Changes: Feature:
-- Export bookmark as csv file.
-- New version announcement.
Hews for Hacker News version 1.9.1
Updated At: 2019-07-21
Changes: - Add privacy policy link.
- 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.
Hews for Hacker News version 1.9.0
Updated At: 2016-05-21
Changes: 1.9.0:,New feature: support device rotating.,change: show post list in the same order as the official website.,Improve: reduce memory usage.,1.8.0:,Improve: revamp post list UI;,change: follow point order in search and popular post list.
Disclaimer
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