Show HN: Android Hacker News Widget and App

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  • hackernews-api

    Scraper for HN to SQLite DB and Python API returning topics

  • 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 the widgets and the main app support a number of color schemes based on user preference.

  • materialistic

    A material-design Hacker News Android reader

  • this is the one i use and has widget as well https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic

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  • hackernews-app

    Android App for Hacker News and Widget

  • 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

  • Hacki

    A feature-rich Hacker News client.

  • Didn't try it, but I'm pretty happy with Hacki on Android : https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki

  • Glider

    Glider is an opinionated Hacker News client. Ad-free, open-source, no-nonsense.

  • harmonic

  • I looked it up and I couldn't figure out where the git forge for it was located. The best I could find is [0], which returns a 404 error.

    [0]: https://github.com/streambinder/harmonic

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