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Materialistic Nouveau

Material design Hacker News client for Android
Materialistic Nouveau is a material design Hacker News client for Android. It's a fork of https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic

Features:
- Browse the top, new, best, ask, show and jobs stories on Hacker News
- Read and post comments
- Search stories using Algolia Hacker News Search
- Save stories and comments for offline reading
- Multiple themes including light, dark, and AMOLED dark
- Read article content via built-in web view or Mercury Web Parser
- Share stories and comments
- Supports Android custom tabs for opening links

Uses the official Hacker News API. User actions such as voting, commenting, and submitting stories require a Hacker News account.
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  • Version v4.0.3 (4003) suggested Added on Jun 18, 2026

    This version requires Android 6.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • android.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS
    • find accounts on the device
      Allows the app to get the list of accounts known by the phone. This may include any accounts created by applications you have installed.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • read sync settings
      Allows the app to read the sync settings for an account. For example, this can determine whether the People app is synced with an account.
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • toggle sync on and off
      Allows an app to modify the sync settings for an account. For example, this can be used to enable sync of the People app with an account.
    • com.growse.android.io.github.hidroh.materialistic.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
    • com.growse.android.io.github.hidroh.materialistic.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS
    • com.growse.android.io.github.hidroh.materialistic.permission.SYNC_ITEM

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