Panda for Hacker News

1.2.2

Elliot Murray

4.72

53 reviews

1,000+
Downloads

Free

Panda is a modern gesture based Hacker News Client

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About Panda for Hacker News

Panda for Hacker News was a social app developed by Elliot Murray. It was removed from Google Play Jan 18, 2025 and is no longer available for download.

Download Statistics

Panda for Hacker News had been downloaded 2.3 thousand times before it became unavailable.

User Ratings

Panda for Hacker News was rated 4.72 out of 5 stars, based on 53 ratings.

App Information

Panda for Hacker News was free to download. The APK download size was 14.27 MB. The last available version was 1.2.2. The last update was on July 13, 2020.

Technical Requirements

Panda for Hacker News required Android 5.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app had been available on Google Play July 2020.

Description

Welcome to Panda, the new ad-free Android app for browsing hacker news on your phone.

More data about Panda for Hacker News

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	2.3 thousand
Rating	4.72 based on 53 ratings
Version	1.2.2
APK size	14.3 MB
Number of libraries	32
Designed for Android	5.0+
Maturity	Medium Maturity
Ads	NO ads

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Google Play Rating history and histogram

Downloads over time

Panda for Hacker News has been downloaded 2.3 thousand times.

Changelog of Panda for Hacker News

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Comments on Panda for Hacker News for Android

★★★★★ Great UX! It just works, which sadly enough can not be said about most of the other hacker news clients. Many of the other hn clients crash, comments sometimes fail to load, and the ease of switching between comments and the article is usually a couple buttons away. This app is so much more intuitive, and it works the way you expect it to. Even the animations for the article to move to the bottom make it obvious that you can scroll up for comments. Thank you for this!

★★★★★ I wish every app was as fast and responsive as this one. In the future I'd love to see a login feature and a light mode alternative theme.

★★★★★ My favorite Hacker news app at the moment. Actively updated. Clean, easy to use UI. Ability to change fonts/themes would be great to see in the future. Would be nice to be able to distinguish which articles I've already viewed also. 11/01/21 - Glad to see this back on the play store. Looking forward to updates.

★★☆☆☆ Really wanted to like - was looking for a HN client with a similar interface to Relay for Reddit, and this was the closest I found - but it kept crashing on me when I tried to swipe back to the main page.

★★☆☆☆ "Try swiping left on one of the stories below." aaaand it crashed. Seems unusable for me.

Technologies used by Panda for Hacker News

Panda for Hacker News is requesting 5 permissions and is using 32 libraries.

Permissions

Network communication

view network connections, full network access, receive data from Internet

System tools

prevent phone from sleeping

Extra

com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE

Ad network libraries

None found

Social libraries

None found

Development tools

Android Jetpack core

Android Architecture Components

Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable Android Jetpack Annotations Android Library Icon

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Firebase

Android Jetpack Widgets Android Jetpack AppCompat Android Library Icon

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AndroidX Activity Android Activity Saved State Android Library Icon

Android Activity Saved State AndroidX Loader Android Library Icon

AndroidX Loader Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) Android Library Icon

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)

Android Transition Support Library Kotlin Android Library Icon

Kotlin

Android Support Library collections

Android Support VectorDrawable

AndroidX Legacy: Support Library core utils AndroidX Cursor Adapter Android Library Icon

AndroidX Cursor Adapter

AndroidX Local Broadcast Manager

Android Support Library Print Google gson Android Library Icon

Google gson

Android Support Library Document File AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 Android Library Icon

AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 Okio Android Library Icon

Okio

JetBrains Annotations IntelliJ IDEA Android Library Icon

IntelliJ IDEA Retrofit Android Library Icon

Retrofit

ReactiveX

Dagger

Reactive Streams Timber Android Library Icon

Timber

ReLinker

Realm

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