Materialistic[0] effectively does this (minus the screenshot part), not intentional I think (I belive it makes the webview as tall as the requested page and then uses the OS native scroll widget to add a scrollbar for it). The problem I regularly encounter with this is sites that have a vertically centered popup (cookie banner, newsletter, etc.), with a backdrop that obscures the whole page. You first have to scroll down quite a bit (half the size of the article) to be able to click the popup away.
[0]:https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
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materialistic
A material-design Hacker News Android reader
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What it is
A material-design Hacker News Android reader
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Yes I love Materialistic as well. The link problem is also the only annoyance I have. Sadly it looks like many issues have been opened for the bug but I don't see any…
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Materialistic for Hacker News
Material design Hacker News client for Android, uses official HackerNews/API, Dagger for dependency injection.
Setup
Requirements
JDK 11
Latest Android SDK tools
Latest Android platform tools
AndroidX
Dependencies
Official Hacker News API, user services (e.g. login/create account/vote/comment) rely on redirect requests to Hacker News website
Algolia Hacker News Search API
Mercury Web Parser API
[Android Jetpack]: appcompat-v7 / recyclerview-v7 / design / cardview-v7 / preference-v7 / customtabs
Square Retrofit / OkHttp / AssertJ / Dagger / LeakCanary
RxJava & RxAndroid
PDF.js
Build
./gradlew assembleDebug
Build with LeakCanary on
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pleak
Grab your Mercury Web Parser API key here if you want to connect to Mercury.
Articles
Supporting multiple themes in your Android app (Part 1)
Supporting multiple themes in your Android app (Part 2)
Building custom preferences with preference-v7
Hacking up an ad blocker for Android
Bottom sheet everything
Screenshots
Contributing
Contributions are always welcome. Please make sure you read Contributing notes first.
License
Copyright 2015 Ha Duy Trung
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
30 sourcesNot much love for Android, so here's and Android option;
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
In A feature-rich Hacker News clientthis is the one i use and has widget as well https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
In Show HN: Android Hacker News Widget and AppAnyone know what's happened to the Materialistic HN reader? It was definitely the best Android reader around, and now it's sadly suddenly disappeared.
The Github still exists at https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic.git.
Has anyone forked it or can it be resurrected at all?
In Materialistic HN Reader Gone?I believe it is because their app was not updated in 2 years, and was auto delisted from Google Play.
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic/issues/1464
It is still up on F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...
In Ask HN: Why was Materialistic (HN client) removed from Play Store?Ask HN: Recovering my HN account from FOSS Materialistic app?
Hello there, HN, I need your help. I registered and only ever accessed this account using the Materialistic app from F-Droid, but don't remember my account details. The app seems to be discontinuedas there have been no updates since 2019, but still works fine. Could anyone help me? If needed, I can post some contact info of mine here, since I don't even remember which e-mail I used (pretty sure it was my old spam gmail account)
source:
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
screenshot of me signed in:
https://i.imgur.com/ZlyIyqh.jpg
1 points · Open discussionMaterialistic – A material-design Hacker News Android reader
1 points · Open discussionHN downweight political stories, what you need is this:
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
Particularly the 'Catch up' section.
In Ask HN: How to see the top HN stories ranked without flags?https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
hasn't been updated in two years though
In Offline Hacker News Android App?I use Materialistic - Hacker News on Android [0]. It's suitable for my needs, reading the stories and comments. This is an open source app. You can find the source code here [1].
[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...
[1]: https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
In Ask HN: What iOS/Android do you use for Hacker NewsAs a workaround, I have been using Materialistic to browse HN from my Android phone. It has a nice dark theme, which I use by default.
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
In Ask HN: Please Dark Mode for HNYes I love Materialistic as well.
The link problem is also the only annoyance I have. Sadly it looks like many issues have been opened for the bug but I don't see any discussion on the tickets: https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...
In A curated list of FOSS tools to improve the Hacker News experienceMy favorite FOSS Android HN client is Materialistic-
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
Available on f-droid-
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...
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