Materialistic Nouveau

Materialistic Nouveau

Material design Hacker News client for Android

Andrew Rowson Forum News

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Description

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.

What’s new (v4.0.9)

Fixed F-Droid not picking up new releases. If you're updating from F-Droid, this also includes everything from 4.0.7 and 4.0.8: a new System theme option that uses Android's Material You wallpaper colours, the toolbar now hides completely when scrolling instead of getting stuck under the status bar, comment links are much easier to tap, the About screen links to this fork, and the What's New screen now shows the release notes. Also includes dependency updates.

Anti-features

Properties of this app that are worth knowing about before installing.

  • NonFreeNet

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
v4.0.9 current
ae33ffbb46ffd9e9…
2026-10-01 3.2 MB API 23
v4.0.6
91462e91268ed5e0…
2026-09-02 4.1 MB API 23
v4.0.4
9e23e976fd35c41f…
2026-06-24 3.6 MB API 23

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • NotificationsShow notifications.
  • AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS
  • Accounts on the deviceRead the list of configured accounts.
  • Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
  • Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
  • Sync settingsRead synchronisation settings.
  • Change syncTurn synchronisation on and off.
  • VibrationControl the vibration alert.
Show 3 more permissions
  • permission.SYNC_ITEM
  • permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS
  • materialistic.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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