• 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.