Brief

A Kagi News reader for the Light Phone III, built on the Light SDK.

Pick which categories you care about (everything starts off, so you opt in rather than turning off a wall of categories) and browse the top 3 stories in each — no endless scroll. Citation markers and emoji are stripped from Kite's summaries, and story bodies are broken into paragraphs using Kite's own paragraph breaks for readability on the small screen.

This repo is a standalone extraction of the examples/kagi-news module from the official Light SDK repo, along with the minimum SDK pieces (sdk/client, sdk/ui, sdk/shared, and the build plugin) needed for it to build on its own. It won't automatically pick up updates from the official SDK — for the source of truth, official examples, and full documentation, see lightphone/light-sdk.

Building

./gradlew :app:assembleDebug

Installing on a Light Phone III

There's no app-store install flow for community tools yet, so this has to be sideloaded:

1. Enable Developer Options + USB debugging on your Light Phone III
2. Install adb on your computer (part of Android platform-tools)
3. Connect your phone via USB
4. ./gradlew :app:installDebug, or adb install app-debug.apk if you already have a built APK
5. Launch "Brief" from your phone's app list

Or just grab a prebuilt APK from this repo's Releases page and adb install it directly.

Data source

Story data comes from Kagi News' public kite.kagi.com feed (no API key required). That data is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.