# hidroh/materialistic

A material-design Hacker News Android reader

Repository: https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/materialistic
Homepage: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: android, java, hacker-news, news-reader, robolectric, dagger, rxandroid, rxjava
Last push: 2024-05-08T04:25:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4241, "days_push": 847, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2334, forks 510 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:37.976585+00:00)

## What it is
Materialistic is a material-design Hacker News client for Android built in Java. It uses the official Hacker News API, Algolia search, and Mercury web parser to browse, search, and read articles.

## Use cases
- read hacker news on android
- browse hacker news with material design
- search hacker news stories
- read article text offline
- login and comment on hacker news from mobile

## When to choose
- you want a native Android Hacker News reader with material design
- you want an open-source HN client you can customize

## When to avoid
- you need an iOS or desktop client
- you need a general-purpose RSS or news aggregator

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, search-engine, web-scraping
- domain: android-tools, social-media, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: hacker-news, material-design, news-reader, java, rxjava, dagger, android

## Member repositories
- hidroh/materialistic (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.976585+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:37:45.923723+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.976585+00:00, sha 9abafdf62942)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.