Freetime News

Freetime News is the native Android client for reading Freetime news and blog content without relying on a traditional WebView-only experience.

Repository: FreetimeMaker/Freetime-News

Goals and features

• native Android news reading
• Material 3 / Material You interface
• content and category filtering
• API-backed content
• Markdown article rendering
• device-language-aware content where localized metadata is available
• F-Droid-friendly open-source distribution

Current Android stack

The project currently uses Kotlin 2.4.20, Android Gradle Plugin 9.4.0 and the Compose BOM 2026.09.00. Networking is based on Retrofit 3 with Moshi, while Markdown content is rendered with Markwon.

The content source is integrated with the Freetime web/API ecosystem.