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The quality of content on HackerNews has always been top-notch. What I also like about HackerNews is the minimalism and the promise to show the relevant content and nothing more than that. But the experience of reading HackerNews on phone is not that great, hence I took it upon myself to make a reader app which delivers a similar experience on mobile.

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HN Reader is a modern, fast and a minimal app for reading HackerNews on iOS. The app keeps the original experience of distraction free reading, making it easier to use it on mobile with custom iOS experience like gestures, swipes and folding content.

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A minimal app for HackerNews, focussed on giving the best reading experience.

Distraction free reading, beautiful comment layout, visual threads and comment folding with gestures.

 
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Swipe through sections  and stories in beautiful typography.

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  • Swift 5

  • Storyboard, programmatic constraints, Autolayout

  • UICollectionView, UITableView, UITableViewDiffableDataSource

  • MVVM

  • Native URLSession

  • Custom network layer

  • Sqlite

 
 
 
 

Copyright © Alok Karnik 2020

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