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Description
Kiosk is a Hacker News reader for Android.
It is built around reading, not browsing. Browse Hacker News feeds, search historical stories, read articles in a distraction-free native reader, and keep comments close at hand.
Features:
- Browse Top, New, Best, Ask, Show, and Jobs.
- Search historical Hacker News stories.
- Read articles in a native reader powered by Mozilla Readability.
- Swipe between stories in the current feed.
- Open comments quickly in a bottom sheet.
- Use reader themes, fonts, Speed Reader, and Read Aloud.
- Expand article images and pinch to zoom.
- Open PDFs, X/Twitter, YouTube, and external links in the default app or browser.
Kiosk has no accounts, ads, analytics, tracking SDKs, Firebase, Crashlytics, or Google Play Services dependency.
What’s new (0.1.0)
Initial release baseline:
- Six Hacker News feeds and historical search.
- Native reader with warmed Readability extraction cache.
- Comments, Speed Reader, Read Aloud, and zoomable article images.
- External handling for PDFs, X/Twitter, YouTube, and links.
Anti-features
Properties of this app that are worth knowing about before installing.
- TetheredNet
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Permissions
What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
- Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
- kiosk.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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