Hews for Hacker News

Leav Jenn

About this app

• 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.

Ratings and reviews

Love the app. One of the best HN reader apps I've found for Android. My only complaint is that the app doesn't have option to export bookmarks. So if I switch to a new device, all my bookmarks will be lost. Dev , please add the ability to share/export out bookmarks to Google drive or other cloud storage providers.

Great app. One thing that should be fixed. When the ilapp no goes into the background and then comes back into the foreground, I lose where I was and goes back to the main news page. So if I'm reading a long comment thread, I lose it and have to find the story again and scroll back to where I was.

I can browse articles fine enough, but I can't easily review comments I made or responses to them. There's also a decent chance that after I've typed out a comment, it just fails to post for no reason. I then copy the text, log directly into HN in my browser, and post it just fine.

What’s new

Feature:
-- Export bookmark as csv file.
-- New version announcement.