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Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client

#1

Post by finspin » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 5:01 PM UTC

Materialistic – Ad free, open source Hacker News client
play.google.com

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#2

Post by hs86 » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 8:40 PM UTC

Its source is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic

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#3

Post by SparkyMcUnicorn » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 8:46 PM UTC

I've been using this for a at least a month now and it's really great, and I'd almost rather browse HN from Materialistic than the site itself.

If there's anything I could change, it would be to add a setting that turns off swiping when I'm inside a story (to switch between comments/article/readability) along with swipe vote/reply for comments.

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#4

Post by thirtyseven » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 8:57 PM UTC

I've been liking this app a lot too, but the scrolling gets very choppy on long comment threads. Is this a common issue?

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#5

Post by mdaniel » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 9:04 PM UTC

Oh, wow, it's beautiful and it uses the firebaseio stream instead of parsing the HTML. Outstanding job!

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Post by mdaniel » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 9:06 PM UTC

SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #3

I've been using this for a at least a month now and it's really great, and I'd almost rather browse HN from Materialistic than the site itself. If there's anything I could change, it would be to add a setting that turns off swiping when I'm inside a story (to switch between comments/article/readability) along with swipe vote/reply for comments.

I could change...

I just cloned the repo, opened it in Android Studio and after a few version tweaks in its Gradle setup, it sprang to life on my Nexus. So I can attest that it's painless to clone and build it, which in my experience with open source is 95% of the battle (where the other 95% is getting the PR accepted :-/ )

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#7

Post by ddavidn » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 9:34 PM UTC

This has been my main HN client for several weeks. It works well.

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#8

Post by finspin » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 9:40 PM UTC

thirtyseven wrote: post #4

I've been liking this app a lot too, but the scrolling gets very choppy on long comment threads. Is this a common issue?

Do you have the navigation animation on? When I turned it off the scrolling got much smoother.

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Post by jordonwii » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 9:41 PM UTC

ddavidn wrote: post #7

This has been my main HN client for several weeks. It works well.

Same. I discovered a setting that brings up a little arrow pad on comment pages, so that I can swipe up/down on it to go to the previous/next comment at that level in the tree, and left/right to go out/in a particular comment thread. It's extremely useful for e.g. skipping over long comment threads I'm not interested in.

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Post by maxpert » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 9:44 PM UTC

Have used it already and it's pretty neat!