Hews for Hacker News

Name: Hews for Hacker News
Rating: 4.38 (373 reviews)
Author: Leav Jenn

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A Hacker News client provides great reading experience and unique features.

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Total installs: 47,556
Installs / day: —
Rating: 4.4★
Released: 10 Jul 2015
Last update: 15 Sept 2022
Countries: —

Install history

exact counter from Google Play

30dAll

Installs per day · last 90 days

Change timeline

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

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We estimate where downloads come from using the app’s position in Google Play’s top charts in about 140 countries. This app is not in any chart we have collected yet; the estimate appears as soon as it is.

Top chart positions

Not in any tracked top chart.

App manifest

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Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play

No data shared with third parties
No data collected

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

6 in 3 groups

4 Sensitive0 Notable2 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage
Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storage

Photos/Media/FilesSensitive2

Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device

Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

StorageSensitive2

Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage

Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

OtherRoutine2

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description

• 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.

What's new

Feature: -- Export bookmark as csv file. -- New version announcement.

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