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Materialistic Nouveau

com.growse.android.io.github.hidroh.materialistic

Material design Hacker News client for Android

Latest documented releasev4.0.901 Oct 2026 · 3.2 MB→
⬇ Download APKv4.0.9 · 3.2 MBPublisher site ↗

01 / Overview

Is Materialistic Nouveau safe?

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 a…

Developer
Andrew Rowson
Category
Forum
Earliest archived version
02 Sept 2026
License
Apache-2.0 (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

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…

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v4.0.6

Predictive back gestures now properly close the drawer, exit fullscreen video, and prompt to save drafts instead of being silently ignored. Saved stories refresh their comments on pull-to-refresh, offline saves now download the whole comment tree, and failed comments are easier to retry. Bumped…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDcom.growse.android.io.github.hidroh.materialistic
Latest APK SHA-256ae33ffbb46ffd9e9b840a1dcea200f9305bad1c47c8cee8828d3019cb66c770e
Signing certificateC4:B0:81:79:91:1B:33:66:5A:52:EC:A6:4A:2A:7A:A1:52:E8:B8:51:6D:28:B7:0D:C2:00:4F:C8:70:5E:4E:02
MIN ANDROID23TARGET37ARCHITECTURE

04 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest v4.0.6 (02 Sept 2026), latest v4.0.9 (01 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between v4.0.6 and v4.0.9.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL
VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture
v4.0.923+→v4.0.623+→

06 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexNo ads or tracking flagged by the source
IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source
SourceBinary repo · fdroid
Permissions11 declared · 1 sensitive
Signaturepresent
Anti-featuresNonFreeNet
Sensitive accessGET_ACCOUNTS

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATEandroid.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTSandroid.permission.GET_ACCOUNTSandroid.permission.INTERNETandroid.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONSandroid.permission.READ_SYNC_SETTINGSandroid.permission.VIBRATEandroid.permission.WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGScom.growse.android.io.github.hidroh.materialistic.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSIONcom.growse.android.io.github.hidroh.materialistic.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTScom.growse.android.io.github.hidroh.materialistic.permission.SYNC_ITEM

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

07 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗