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There is no official HN app, for any OS. People have made multiple unofficial ones, using the API, though.

And many kinda work but are no longer mantained. Such is the fate of the iOS app previously mentioned and of Materialistic (Android)

I use Materialistic. Is there a better one?

I'm currently using Harmonic for Android after Materialistic irritated me too many times and while it's definitely got some issues, it works well enough for casual use

I would be completely happy with Harmonic except for 3 issues and I'm not sure if the one can be resolved because every Android HN API using app I have tried has the same issue.

The first issue is that long comments are difficult to type because the text box doesn't scroll the content. You end up typing blind. I'm already doing so now.

The 2nd is that you can you can copy part of a comment.

The 3rd and the one that I've experienced across clients is that dead comments are displayed. I would like to not see dead comments.akimg this a setting would be fine.

Yeah I've faced both of the first 2 issues. I'd also like to add that it has no options for searching which makes it useless since I want recent results, not something years ago

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