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Ask HN: What Android App do you use to browse HN?

9 points by das_keyboard ↗ HN
Searching for "Hacker News" on Google Play brings up dozens of results. I think there are even more Clients which are not avaiable via Google Play. There are so many and most of them look the same.

What App do you use to browse HN on your Smartphone and why would you recommend this one?

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neeksHN
Materialistic, it's available on both F-Droid, https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialistic/, and the Play Store, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...
letientai299
Second this. It's open source[1] and has a tons of features:

- Offline reading

- Sign in, vove, comment

- Reader more

- Open in external browser

- Integrate with Pocket.

- Font and theme

I've not found any better app for iOS yet. The name (Materialistic) is irrelevant to HN, though, which make it hard to look up on Play Store.

[1] https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic

Edit: formatting

testb
Thirded - Very responsive to (sane) feature requests
limeblack
It doesn't appear to notify you of replies which is my most desired feature.
enigmalord
ya it lacks that imp feature, but you can export the articles you have saved to text file saved in your mobile storage card. Ofcourse there is no completely article saved offline... its just the list of URL's to the article you have saved.
neeksHN
Wasn't aware! I use it mainly as a "reader" and usually only comment on desktop. Nice to know though, thanks for pointing that out!
joshuabezaleel
For me, it lacks the ability to sync the saved post into one account. Any idea for this?
enigmalord
ya it lacks that imp feature, but you can export the articles you have saved to text file saved in your mobile storage card. Ofcourse there is no completely article saved offline... its just the list of URL's to the article you have saved.