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FroYo: Download + Play Flash Games?

We've always been able to download .swf flash game files, but with Flash 10.1 I was hoping we could put them on the sdcard and play offline.
Anyone know how to do this? (For cataloging / playing Flash games when there's no connection.)

HAH! Idea: what about storing an html page that just launches a SWF? What's the least amount of code in a page that would do that?

Paul22000 said:
HAH! Idea: what about storing an html page that just launches a SWF? What's the least amount of code in a page that would do that?
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Hahaha funny you say this, I tried it earlier after reading your message and no go.
For starters, no way to access local file from native browser (others may support it but native doesn't).
Closest I could come was by selecting the html file with astro, then choosing to open it with "HTML Viewer" (built into astro I think?) but it didn't show the embedded flash object.
I think best way to achieve this would be an app that can read a directory on sdcard and generate the html to load into a webview. I was thinking about throwing something together real quick but haven't had time to look and see if something like it already exists.

Damn, that's too bad.
Yeah, I find it very odd that you can't browse local html files.
A long time ago (G1 days) I tried all sorts of //file:/// weird stuff (like Firefox does) and couldn't get anything to work. I can't believe there's no way to browse locally.

Try file explorer in market for local browser.... let me know if it works lol
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gIMpSTa said:
For starters, no way to access local file from native browser (others may support it but native doesn't).
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htmlfileprovider is your friend:
content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/whateverfile.html
(entered in the browser's address bar obviously)

BigDamHero said:
htmlfileprovider is your friend:
content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/whateverfile.html
(entered in the browser's address bar obviously)
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Yeah, I found this in another forum after posting this. Still, would be nicer to have a little interface that scans and builds a little menu out of flash files

BigDamHero said:
htmlfileprovider is your friend:
content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/whateverfile.html
(entered in the browser's address bar obviously)
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Ahh! Finally, first time I see this, thanks!

gIMpSTa said:
Yeah, I found this in another forum after posting this. Still, would be nicer to have a little interface that scans and builds a little menu out of flash files
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V True, if I had anything approaching free time at the moment I'd be tempted to give it a go.

[TIPS] Hulu (yeah yeah..)

On your phone go to hulu.com/widget/player/videos and enjoy!
(make sure user agent is desktop)

Out of curiosity is this hulu allowing us to use their site or is this a workaround?

It says that I am trying to access Hulu using and anonymous proxy tool.. and will not allow me to watch videos in what seemed to be a quite efficient video player.
Is it possibly because I installed the modified Flash.apk that this is happening?

Eclair~ said:
It says that I am trying to access Hulu using and anonymous proxy tool.. and will not allow me to watch videos in what seemed to be a quite efficient video player.
Is it possibly because I installed the modified Flash.apk that this is happening?
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i had that problem at first to, i just swtched my uaer agent to desktop and it worked. great quality to.

DMaverick50 said:
Out of curiosity is this hulu allowing us to use their site or is this a workaround?
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Not sure, possible just a workaround., but it works for now.

MvP77 said:
On your phone go to hulu.com/widget/player/videos and enjoy!
(make sure user agent is desktop)
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nice, works for me. thanks

just for general information: my user agent was already set to desktop, and i still got the proxy message. I hit about:debug / settings / uasring / i re-hit desktop / reloaded page and it worked!
great find!
*side note* Now don't screw this one up for us Engadget!!!

works great, had to re apply desktop setting before it would work though

Beautiful
Using Skyfire as desktop, absolutely perfect. Nice find.

This is simply awesome, hope it doesn't get discovered and ruined!

Sorry for the stupid question, but how do I set my user agent to desktop?
Nevermind, got it!

Re: Hulu (yeah yeah..)
Sorry for the stupid question, but how do I set my user agent to desktop?
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Type about:debug into the stock browsers address bar, then click settings, some more options have been opened up. At the bottom of the list you will find user agent, set to desktop and enjoy Hulu, but be prepared to repeat this process after each time you close the browser...or you could use dolphin or xscope, which give you the option in default settings
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Works like a champ. Gad bless hulu on N1.

works perfect on the Dolphin HD browser
works perfect on the Dolphin HD browser... the iPhoners at work are dying... I can see it all over there faces... they are watching me watch family guy... lol.... steve jobs has got to be pissed...
Thank again...

works great

No longer working for me
Was working fine... now I get a message saying that it looks like I am using a proxy. Anyone else having this issue?

still works for me. you have to re-apply the desktop agent settings then refresh.

Glad everyone likes, now just keep it between us lol.

Yatyas said:
Was working fine... now I get a message saying that it looks like I am using a proxy. Anyone else having this issue?
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Just use Skyfire browser or Dolphin and set it to desktop. Then you don't have to keep typing debug crap every time . Double tap full screen. Works really good.

How do you set the "User Agent" to desktop?
I'm new to this whole thing and I know this is a stupid question so go easy on me. How do you set the User Agent to desktop so I can watch Hulu on my phone? It's an HD2 and I have IE, Opera, and Skyfire.

Text based browser, like Lynx, for Android?

Hey guys - I know this has been asked before, but I've been unable to find a decent answer:
Is there any Lynx-like browser for Android? I don't mind if it runs in the terminal or whatever, but I reckon it would do my limited data quota a massive favour.
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why don't you just disable the downloading of images?

NEUR0M4NCER said:
Hey guys - I know this has been asked before, but I've been unable to find a decent answer:
Is there any Lynx-like browser for Android? I don't mind if it runs in the terminal or whatever, but I reckon it would do my limited data quota a massive favour.
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Have you tried Opera Mini? If you are worried about your data usage, I think you'll love its server-side compression technology. Well, depending in what are your feelings about your browsing privacy.

I know I can disable images, and yes, I tried a couple of browsers with server-side compression, but I was really hoping for the plain simplicity of a Lynx-like app. Thanks for the replies so far!
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i second this
lynx it's so cool for reading some heavy news websites that i ssh to home and use lynx from there

Hm, SSH to your home pc eh? Tell me more.
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The other thing you might consider is RSS. I read a lot of websites like this. Most major news websites now support RSS. Good luck. Lynx is hard to read and manage as it was designed for an earlier implementation of the web.

I wonder if it isn't easy to do since 1) it's all open source and 2) it should be a textbook JNI port...

xaffron said:
I wonder if it isn't easy to do since 1) it's all open source and 2) it should be a textbook JNI port...
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There are some instructions here, in chinese. If anyone does get a working binary, let us know;
http://www.embedu.org/Column/Column294.htm
Update: I followed the instructions, and it works. Here are the results:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16050683

I read through the instructions... Very nice and detailed directions there! However, they're not even using the NDK, they're compiling an ARM executable for Lynx (so if we go that route, the result would be a binary that has to be run from terminal emulator).
Food for thought...

Binary compiled successfully!
Done it!
I just followed the instruction from the chinese professor, and it works fine for me. I have created a tread for it at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16050683
The zip file is there, along with the instructions. Enjoy!

You can also try this one
TextOnly browser for android which displays only content from the article by stripping ads,scripts and images
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.spacenext.textonly

There was something i used to do when i was browsing using an old Nokia dumbphone that might help.
Type the following into your address bar:
http://www.google.com/xhtml
Now search for the site you want to visit, i.e xda-developers, and click on the link. You should now be seeing it in a low data format. It's not pretty but it works pretty well on a mobile browser.
If you want you can then bookmark the site as it is, so that it will still have that formatting when you return to it next. Obviously, for every site you want to visit you have to go through the above, but if you also bookmark the xhtml version of google you can always start your browsing session from there and just bookmark all your reformatted favourites as you go.

For that mobile view you can just use the "mobile view (GWT)" option in Dolphin Browser HD

new android browser "Lynx Browser"
You may also want to have a look at the new android browser "Lynx Browser" at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weejim.app.lynx&hl=en

v0.1.16 now comes with "Light" theme support
singa76 said:
You may also want to have a look at the new android browser "Lynx Browser" at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weejim.app.lynx&hl=en
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[email protected]:/ $ /data/local/lynx
Error opening terminal: screen.
1|[email protected]:/$
Wrong terminal app?

All Text Browser
NEUR0M4NCER said:
Hey guys - I know this has been asked before, but I've been unable to find a decent answer:
Is there any Lynx-like browser for Android? I don't mind if it runs in the terminal or whatever, but I reckon it would do my limited data quota a massive favour.
Sent from my CM6.1 HTC Dream using XDA App
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NEUR0M4NCER said:
Hey guys - I know this has been asked before, but I've been unable to find a decent answer:
Is there any Lynx-like browser for Android? I don't mind if it runs in the terminal or whatever, but I reckon it would do my limited data quota a massive favour.
Sent from my CM6.1 HTC Dream using XDA App
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Little Web Browser is pretty similar to Lynx. Free, but a HUGE fee if you want to get rid of the ads.

It is amazing how you'll always have at least one idiot in almost every forum who has no clue to what the correct answer might be but instead of shutting his ugly mug he tries to be a smart-ass and suggest a retarded "solution" that the OP had already discarded even before he asked. "Eh, why don't you disable images on Opera? (monkey squeaks)" ... well no ****tard, that's not a solution not even a proper answer to the question.

internetbrowser only showing mobile versions

Hello dear people
i just got my HTC sensation and im getting a really nasty problem:
my phone shows only internetpages in mobile view and even i chance settings not to show up mobile view, it does it though!!
has anybody the same Problem oder can anybody help me out with this issue?
Help is greatly appreciated!

While I am still using my Nexus One, as the release of the sim-free Sensation is almost a full month in the future - and therefore can't say if there is a settings toggle that would solve your problem:
Dolphin HD is a great alternative to the default browser, it allows for changing the user agent which will allow you to view all sites in default desktop-view: https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser&feature=search_result
Most mobile versions of popular websites really are rubbish, and many of them miss the basic functionality of efficiently switching to their sites desktop view.

PartyMango said:
While I am still using my Nexus One, as the release of the sim-free Sensation is almost a full month in the future - and therefore can't say if there is a settings toggle that would solve your problem:
Dolphin HD is a great alternative to the default browser, it allows for changing the user agent which will allow you to view all sites in default desktop-view: https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser&feature=search_result
Most mobile versions of popular websites really are rubbish, and many of them miss the basic functionality of efficiently switching to their sites desktop view.
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Well thanks for this answer, tried the dolphin browser and surprisingly it works on this browser
Think i gonna use this browser in future so problem is basically solved.
Now i got a new problem: all wallpaper which i tried to use wont scroll on the home screen not even those wallpapers which are saved on the phone on standard... can anybody help me out? On my old desire, all wallpapers are scrolling!

some sites force mobile sites automatically no matter what. look on the page for a link to view full site. maybe that'll help?

On some sites there are links for the full site indeed but i dont want to always cklick these links first. On my old desire all pages are displayed in desktop view wenn i disable the mobile view in the browser settings. On my sensation it always shows all page in mobile view whatever i set the option to. But with dolphin browser it works and by the way im starting to like this browser more then the standard one
To my second problem, can anybody tell me why wallpapers wont scroll one the home menu on sensation?

schidddy said:
Hello dear people
i just got my HTC sensation and im getting a really nasty problem:
my phone shows only internetpages in mobile view and even i chance settings not to show up mobile view, it does it though!!
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Try typing the following in the browser: about:debug
Then settings-> UAstring -> choose desktop.
Thats it.

Get in the browser, press menu,more,settings, and the fourth one , mobile view, untick that, and BOOM!! U're ready to go...
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chchang1 said:
Get in the browser, press menu,more,settings, and the fourth one , mobile view, untick that, and BOOM!! U're ready to go...
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As u read in my first post, i did this already. Not helping at all...

bob.zxr said:
Try typing the following in the browser: about:debug
Then settings-> UAstring -> choose desktop.
Thats it.
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Thx, i gonna try this

bob.zxr said:
Try typing the following in the browser: about:debug
Then settings-> UAstring -> choose desktop.
Thats it.
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I have the same issues, I've tried this n still doesn't work,

jpbp said:
I have the same issues, I've tried this n still doesn't work,
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It works apart from engadget as far as I can tell.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

From my experience even if you uncheck mobile in browser settings some sites still come up as mobile. My solutions to this is I type the full web address of the site I want to visit. As In www.wisn.com. Every since I started typing the full web address into the stock browser all sites come up as the full website. When I found this out I uninstalled dolphin. Hopes this helps.
Edit:
Besides the full web address typing, I found some decent info while searching threw Google and posted a thread in general. It might help or it might not. But its something you might want to check out and give it a shot.
Locked & Loaded

bob.zxr said:
Try typing the following in the browser: about:debug
Then settings-> UAstring -> choose desktop.
Thats it.
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This has worked on EVERY single phone I've owned EXCEPT the sensation.

bob.zxr said:
Try typing the following in the browser: about:debug
Then settings-> UAstring -> choose desktop.
Thats it.
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This actually doesn't do anything unless you select the option for Manual UA string and enter the code manually, but either way, it reverts on reboot.

request desktop site

there are some sites i always have to press the request desktop site this is annoying can i make it always that i always request desktop site

Not on stock browser. You can use ICS Browser+.
On CM9 you can change the user agent string on stock browser.

linuques said:
Not on stock browser. You can use ICS Browser+.
On CM9 you can change the user agent string on stock browser.
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where can i download ICS browser+?

Hearmeman said:
where can i download ICS browser+?
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Is this a serious question?

Hearmeman said:
where can i download ICS browser+?
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Try apple store... Oh wait...

what the hell guys?
you said ics browser i didnt realised this is a seperate browser from the stock i thought it a modification

I use the stock browser when i want a mobile site, but if I want the full version I use dolphin or chrome or opera. This is how i've done to work around

dolphin for pad seems to crash when i download something

Hearmeman said:
what the hell guys?
you said ics browser i didnt realised this is a seperate browser from the stock i thought it a modification
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you can get it from the market if you dont know already... though from my experience the request desktop site still not permanent.. i might have missed something.. using dolphin hd now

eugoreez said:
you can get it from the market if you dont know already... though from my experience the request desktop site still not permanent.. i might have missed something.. using dolphin hd now
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It is permanent, but you have to go into settings and change it from there. Simply clicking the "request desktop site" does not save it.

Yahoo refuses to load the desktop page using Opera on my TF by default.
If I do a Google search using Opera & go to a link on the first page. When I try to go back Opera takes me back to main Google search page instead of back to the first page of my original search.
Opera frequently crashes too and I never had any of the issues before ICS.

Best work around I have found for stock browser is to request full site, then bookmark the site and just load from bookmark.
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How exactly
im in the settings nothing about that there