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24 alternatives to Hacker News Android App Open-Sourced
Hey Android Geeks, I open-sourced the Hacker News Droid app and the API. App Download Page: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.glebpopov.hackernews App Source: https://github.com/glebpopov/Hacker-News-Droid-App API Source: https://github.com/glebpopov/Hacker-News-Droid-API Cheers, Gleb
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hacker News Android App Open-Sourced launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1AH
This app and widget and related code is free to use for anyone. This was a side project to learn Android, Kotlin and the many libraries that came along with it. Screenshots in the Google Play link above. app code: https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-app backend api: https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-api There are many Hacker News apps, but this one focused on two features: - Widgets: This app supports dynamic widgets using Compose Glance. The widgets can be themed and set up with one of the three main categories: "New", "Top" and "Best". - Themes: Both…
2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm the developer of one of the most popular Android clients for HN, Harmonic for Hacker News. Over the years I have recieved many requests to open source the app which I am finally doing - sorry about taking so long :) Having been very busy working on my PhD during the last two years - Harmonic has not recieved the attention it deserves. I therefore hope that open sourcing it can give it a new lease on life. I also hope that by posting here many of the nice people who have reached out to me will notice that the app is finally open source. I'm also happy to answer questions about the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News API▲317Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)
2014 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
- 4MF
2013 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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HackerNews reader powered by Algolia's API
2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 6AH
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 7HN
2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 8HN
I was frustrated with current native HN Android apps so I created my own. Very clean. No ads or 'Hire Me' messages. Here's what it does: * Homepage news * Newest * Best * Ask HN * Comments * Home screen Widget * Saving news items for later reading Download here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.glebpopov.hackernews
2011 · market.android.com · its alternatives →
- 9AH
I've been playing around with Android development recently, and made this Hacker News app this weekend: Market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mellort.hackernews ($1) Dropbox link: http://db.tt/jlqIcBg1 (free: if you like it, DL from the market, too!) I used api.ihackernews.com for the data. Unfortunately, some of the pagination from that source is broken, so I can only return one page of results. In the future, I might play around with creating my own API server on App Engine. I'm not sure what my plans are for the source yet, but I'd like to make it open source. If you're…
2012 · market.android.com · its alternatives →
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An unofficial Hacker News client
2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 12HN
2011 · market.android.com · its alternatives →
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We believe the best software is built when devs seriously use the thing they're building. We're a mobile dev tools company (emergetools.com), but we don't actually build & ship "apps"... until now. Excited to share our first open-source app: Hacker News for Android Any feedback/PRs very welcome on the repo. We also wrote about why we built and open-sourced this HN app here: https://www.emergetools.com/blog/posts/open-sourcing-emerge-...
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 14
We at Emerge Tools (YC W21) recently released open source Hacker News apps for both iOS and Android. The apps use the latest SwiftUI and Compose frameworks and are entirely native. Our goal is to help dogfood our products, but more importantly our team just enjoys reading HN every day and wanted an app to hack on and call our own. :) We are still missing some features but should otherwise be pretty solid. And open to any contributions. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-by-emerge/id674092... Android:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 16HN
2014 · hnmobile.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
- 17
I built this site a few years back as an aggregator for sources that I check reasonably often. I bit the bullet and built an Android app for it this year as well[1] Both website [2] and Android app [3] are open-source. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.progscrape [2] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape [3] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape-android
2015 · progscrape.com · its alternatives →
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A Kotlin/Swing desktop application front-end for Hacker News - westoncb/HNDesktop
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is probably the first Hacker News client on AppStore that uses the newly introduced official Firebase HN API. One of the cool features of the new API are updates pushed in real time. There’s...
2014 · hnclient.weebly.com · its alternatives →
- 20AN
2014 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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I create a free HackerNews reader App for iPhone/iPod touch. I have worked really hard 2 months. You can vote / reply the news. I appreciate any feedback, any reviews to me. Thanks very very much. You can download it from: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackernews+-free/id490595576?mt=8 You can download it from: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackernews+-free/id490595576?mt=8
2012 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 23
Open Minis▲91An on-device AI Agent that runs on your phone, open & secure
Aug 2026 · openminis.app · its alternatives →
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A big collection of open-source electronics projects
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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