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Show HN: Trilby for Hacker News – An Elegant Way to Experience HN on Android (play.google.com)

29 points by hackerlytest ↗ HN
Fellow HNers, I just published a brand new Hacker News client for Android. This is my first mobile app ever, and I worked on this for the last two months.

It features / lets you: Browse and read Hacker News - view popular and latest articles. Beautiful design and typography. Login to Hacker News, post new stories, comment and interact with others. Powerful search powered by Algolia, filter to get your desired results. View yours and others' profiles: see bio and latest activities. In-app web view when you don't want to leave the app. Personalize the app the way you want - select your favorite fonts. Compact Mode when you don't want any distractions. Meticulously crafted skins and comment themes, auto dark mode. Open native HN links within the app - look for the Orange links. Keep track of your read articles. View single comment threads. Preview your comment before posting/ ...and countless more.

Your opinion matters the most to me, so feel free to reach me. The iOS version should be coming soon.

I wish you a nice weekend.

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deftnerd
Many of The HN clients that I use have their own bookmark system that doesn't actually trigger the bookmark feature on the website. It makes bookmarking a totally local client feature.

Does your client support site based bookmarking?

hackerlytest
Thank you for your input. I was also thinking about implementing bookmarking feature locally. But seeing HN has its own 'favorite' feature, I decided to skip it.

This can be doable. Since HN doesn't provide an API for it, I have to parse the webpage and collect the ids for the favorited stories from there. If I get more users, I will certainly implement more features like this.

My end goal is to have maximum feature parity with the website. :)

errantmind
Would be nice to post a link to the apk for those who use Android without Google services. I imagine this is higher than average on HN.
GekkePrutser
Yeah or put it on F-Droid, even better.

I'm currently using glider which is there, it's pretty great. But I'm always interested in checking out other options.

TheMatten
+1 for Glider. It's FOSS, on F-Droid, has smooth experience and looks great.
hackerlytest
I may put the apk on apkmirror, as for f-droid, I'm not yet ready to make it OSS. But possibly in the future as I clean the code a bit.

I hope you also give Trilby a try. I hope you like it. I'm always open to feedback and criticisms. :)

hackerlytest
I will think about it. Maybe posting it on apkmirror is a good way to do it? As for f-droid, I am not yet ready to OSS it, but it's definitely not off the table.

I wish you give my app a try. :)

errantmind
Yea, that would work. I'll try it if you post the link
phelipetls
Looks great. Didn't expect it to be developed with React Native. I was thinking of doing the same for learning purposes.

By the way, I can't scroll in the Credits screen.

hackerlytest
I come from JS world, so React Native was the first option that came to mind.

I forgot to wrap that screen in scroll view as I thought it wouldn't be too long. I will fix it in the next version, thanks :)

cinntaile
The regular website works nicely on mobile, I'm somewhat surprised people prefer an app.