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Re: Android Text Newsreader?

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aytimothy <aytimothy@aytimothy.xyz> Wrote in message:

> Short of remote desktoping into my own remote computer or using a web-based Newsgroup Reader like https://newsgrouper.org/, are there any text-based native Newsreaders left for Android?
> [snip]

I'm using 'PiaoHong Mod' which is derives from NewsGroup Reader in
 your list. (There was originally a free and a 'pro' (ad-free)
 version of PiaoHong's app, with slightly different names and
 logos - Newsgroups and NewsReader IIRC.) Piaio Hong was the
 developer - I corresponded with him years ago. It stopped working
 many versions of Android ago - version 2 never worked properly
 and I suspect was produced by somebody else. PiaoHong Mod was
 built by 'Alfio' who posted it on it.tlc.cellulari.android. I
 summarised it on news.software.readers:
<https://csiph.com/group/news.software.readers/a/uo41vk%24124mn%242@dont-email.me>

I think the link to download Mod 17 at the end of that thread
 still works. If not it's posted regularly in the Italian NG
 above. Mod versions produced by Alfio derive from the free app
 and all AFAIK still have one-line adverts. (I think he and others
 in the Italian NG use an ad-blocker.) The app has faults -
 filtering is poor - but it's quite usable. 

I use it on an Android 13 tablet. I think it works in 16. But it's
 old and can be tricky to install; it needs some extra permissions
 IIRC.
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