Materialistic - Hacker News was a news & magazines app developed by Duy Trung Ha. It was removed from Google Play Feb 9, 2022 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Materialistic - Hacker News had been downloaded 220 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Materialistic - Hacker News was rated 4.09 out of 5 stars, based on 3.4 thousand ratings.
App Information
Materialistic - Hacker News was free to download. The APK download size was 3.58 MB. The last available version was 3.3. The last update was on March 30, 2019.
Technical Requirements
Materialistic - Hacker News required Android 4.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app had been available on Google Play January 2015.
Description
Ad free, open source Hacker News client, designed for both phones & tablets, with optimized speed & network usage.
Features: - Browse top stories, best, newest, show HN, ask HN, jobs & user profiles - Submit story, comment & vote, multiple HN accounts supported - Catch up with best stories from past day, week, month or year - Search, share stories, save for offline reading
The project is open source at https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic. Public APIs are provided by Hacker News, Algolia and Readability.
All articles and comments in the app are displayed as is, provided by Hacker News, and not owned by the publisher of this app.
Recent changes: Long overdue update for major bug fixes and app upgrades.
Known issues/announcements: - Readability mode will stop working on April 15 2019 due to API sunset, an alternative is being worked on. - Certain websites don't load or show up blank in-app, disable in-app ad blocker may help. Please also file a feedback with the faulty website/article so it can be fixed!
Major bug fixes: - Fix saved story export - Fix broken search/catch up - Fix HTTP articles not loading in-app on Android P
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Comments on Materialistic - Hacker News for Android
★★★★★
Great UX, but a lot of articles need to be opened in the system browser as they just display as black in the in app browser.
★★★★★
Thanks for your work, but I can't read article in many sites that only display a blank page. And sometimes the background of the comment page changed to black while I set it to other color.
★★★★★
Best stories feature is underrated. Only gripe is HN links from comments want to open in browser.
★★★★★
Definitely worth recommending. There is one issue though: some websites doesn't load in app for some reason. I need to open link in web browser then.
★★☆☆☆
Articles do not load on internal browser. Not worth having the app if it can't do that.
★★☆☆☆
Warning: this app's "saved stories" does not translate to "favorites" on the site. All this time I thought I was saving my stories to the site and now I have to write a script to favorite every article from the export. If I had changed apps or lost this data on my phone, I'd lose all my reading history on hacker news
★★☆☆☆
Menu font is way too huge, I'm not sight-impaired. Viewing self comments opens a horrible UI that isn't the same when viewing a thread, annoying. Crashes. Built-in browser views can't be disabled. No downvote option.
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