AI summary
Ad-free, open-source Hacker News client built with Flutter. Browse stories, comments and user profiles; vote, reply, and submit posts. Features collapsible comment trees, advanced theme customization, and no telemetry. New in 2.8.0: optional navigation drawer, expanded pure background theming, and tighter story layout padding.
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About this app
Glider is a Hacker News client that takes user opinions into account. Ad-free, open-source and truly important news.
● Client features ○
• View stories, comments and user profiles • Find out and search for stories from any time period. • Log in with an existing or new Hacker News account. • Vote for your favorite stories and comments. • Write responses and submit new stories (experimental) • Collapse comment trees • No ads, no telemetry • Advanced customization of the app's themes • Reasonable default settings
Uses the official Hacker News API hosted by Firebase and the Hacker News Search API provided by Algolia.
< DEVELOPMENT >
Glider is built using the latest beta version of Flutter. Code that can be generated is not included in the repository. Generate it by running build_runner: flutter pub run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs
¤ Changes ¤
• Implemented avatars matching "HN Avatars in 357 bytes" • Added menu option for selecting a post's text
Open source: https://github.com/Mosc/Glider If you have bugs / problems, you can go here: https://github.com/Mosc/Glider/issues
What's new
- Added setting to change navigation bar or rail into navigation drawer
- Improved pure background setting to apply to more UI elemeents
- Changed padding between story title and metadata to be a bit tighter
About this version
- Version
- 2.8.0 (49)
- Size
- 31.08 MB
- Requires Android
- 5.0
- Target SDK
- 21
- Downloads
- 173
- Updated
- Mar 15, 2024
- Package
- nl.viter.glider
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