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Perfect Viewer is a very fast image/comic viewer. This software is design for viewing image/comic from sdcard.
Features
Support image file format: JPEG,PNG,GIF,BMP
Support archive file format: CBZ/ZIP,CBR/RAR,7Z/CB7(No solid archive)
Image resize method : Actual size,Fit to screen,Fit to width,Fit to height,Manual
Image resample method: Averaging, Bilinear, Bicubic, Lanczos3
Pinch to zoom & Fling gesture supported
Thumbnail browse
Set as wallpaper
Bookmark management
Support left-to-right or right-to-left reading
Cache next and previous page
Split two-page scan into single-page automatically
Known issues
This software requires a lot of memory to open image file. If memory not enough while open image/archive may force close by OS.
Free memory recommend at least 50MB before startup
If file not support will display black screen.
Download
1.Download from Market
2.QR Code
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
3.Download APK directly
Screenshot
Changelog
2011/01/25 Version 1.4.5
Added page transition effect
Added slideshow function
Added backlight control(Need turn off auto backlight)
Image smaller than screen now can scale to fit the screen
Thumbnail can choose full or crop(Need restart)
Tweaked pinch-to-zoom
Added support Tegra2 CPU(No FPU optimize). Need test Tegra2 user please give some feedback
Other minor tweak & bugs fixed
2011/01/11 Version 1.4a
Added option to disable fling gesture
Fixed Show file extensions option
Fixed some device FC problem
2011/01/11 Version 1.4a
Added option to disable fling gesture
Fixed Show file extensions option
Fixed some device FC problem
2011/01/06 Version 1.4
Supported scrolling & flip with fling(swipe) gesture
Supported scrolling with trackball
Supported APP2SD
Added file sort(file name,date,size)
Added show hidden files(Default off)
Added show file extensions(Default off)
Added fullscreen toggle in preferences(Default on)
Move Assign key function to main menu and removed Show screen function
Long tap history or bookmark item can delete it
Added data clean in main menu to clean history,bookmarks & favorites
Other minor tweak bugs fixed
2010/12/18 Version 1.3.2
Changed create thumbnail behavior
Thumbnail cache store as JPEG for reduce memory usage
Thumbnail cache limited to 5MB
Added goto upper folder when open file browser(Default off)
Fixed set as wallpaper not functional
Fixed may cause force close in create thumbnail
Fixed may cause force close in startup
2010/12/11 Version 1.3.1
Added simple file operation(delete,rename) in file browser by long tap item.
New application icon
Fixed Sharp IS01 can't full screen(need test)
2010/12/09 Version 1.3a
Fixed history menu problem
Fixed rotate screen in file browser may cause force close
2010/12/08 Version 1.3
Added support GIF (non animated) and BMP image file
NEON optimized JPEG and PNG decoder, Improved 10 ~ 50% decode speed on ARMv7 CPU
Added thumbnail display in file browser (don't use it if memory not enough)
Added Averaging v2 for image resampling
Added low memory mode, Reduce the memory usage while decoding JPEG file, but it reduces the image quality too
Added wallpaper setting function
Added Quick Setup feature
New file name sort method (sort file name like windows explorer)
Renamed the bookmark to favorites, and added new simple bookmark function
7z file now supports Deflate streaming
History now integrated into the main menu
Minimum require OS version back to 1.6, but multi-touch features still need 2.1+
Other minor bugs fixed
2010/11/12 Version 1.2
All brand new menu interface
Added bookmark management
Added pinch-to-zoom support
Minimum require OS version up to 2.1
Added keep screen backlight on(Need restart)
Added auto rotate screen(Need restart)
Other minor bugs fixed
2010/10/27 Version 1.1b
Fixed auto open last file and history will forward 1 page with archive
Fixed View menu selected item is incorrect.
2010/10/21 Version 1.1a
Fixed auto open last file is incorrect with archive
Minimum require OS version back to 1.6
2010/10/20 Version 1.1
Added support 7z archive file (only lzma format)
Added automatic single-page feature (default off). Split two-page scan into single-page automatically
Added keep touch region position when switch screen orientation
Added shows page/file name (Default off)
Fixed switch screen orientation may cause force close problem
2010/10/06 Version 1.0
Added support ARMv6 CPU
Improved ARMv7 CPU performance
Added show message when busy
Adjust the drag to determine the conditions
Improved Goto function performance
Fixed some action may cause no responding
Added Japanese support
great release paladinlin l thanks
i want to try it!
Edit:
Photo scrolling not work on my Xperia X10!
hmm, i'll check it out. thanks.
Feature Requests:
* Please consider an application icon that reflects the comic-centric nature of this reader.
* Right-To-Left Manga reading was chosen as default, should be Left-To-Right, or have a dialog asking the user what he reads most frequently mangas or US comics, and choose accordingly.
* When going to the next page, please move the page to the top corner, right now it moves to the center of the next page. Same for previous page.
* Option to force screen on all the time while reading
* Option to force screen brightness while reading
* Option to show low battery warning while reading
* Pinch-to-zoom - it's just too convenient and expected by users
* Homescreen Widget 2x2/3x3 - the latest opened comic book/page. Shows the latest opened/read page, and in its corner a smaller thumb of that comic book's cover. Also info about the name and the page number, both optional from widget settings.
* Playlist (Reading Order) management.
* Shortcuts - create Playlist or a Folder into a screen shortcut. When clicked, move to the latest opened comic on it's latest read page from that Playlist or Folder.
Do most of these (Playlist may require more effort but is worth it) and slap a 2.99$ price, and I'll buy it immediately.
raynerape said:
Feature Requests:
* Please consider an application icon that reflects the comic-centric nature of this reader.
* Right-To-Left Manga reading was chosen as default, should be Left-To-Right, or have a dialog asking the user what he reads most frequently mangas or US comics, and choose accordingly.
* When going to the next page, please move the page to the top corner, right now it moves to the center of the next page. Same for previous page.
* Option to force screen on all the time while reading
* Option to force screen brightness while reading
* Option to show low battery warning while reading
* Pinch-to-zoom - it's just too convenient and expected by users
* Homescreen Widget 2x2/3x3 - the latest opened comic book/page. Shows the latest opened/read page, and in its corner a smaller thumb of that comic book's cover. Also info about the name and the page number, both optional from widget settings.
* Playlist (Reading Order) management.
* Shortcuts - create Playlist or a Folder into a screen shortcut. When clicked, move to the latest opened comic on it's latest read page from that Playlist or Folder.
Do most of these (Playlist may require more effort but is worth it) and slap a 2.99$ price, and I'll buy it immediately.
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Thank you for your suggestion.
1.I'm a programmer not art designer. So my art sense is not enough to design a good icon. I'll try to think other design.
2.I make this software is mainly for read Japanese comic(Manga). So I make Right-To-Left as default. Maybe show a dialog to let user choose on first startup is a good idea.
3.Yor may try set page origin to reading direction
Menu -> Browse -> Reading direction
4~7. I'll add these function in future.
8~10. I don't have plan to add these function currently. There is many other function need to add. Maybe I'll consider these when I completed other function.
This app is great, small but powerful, thanks for you work!
paladinlin said:
Thank you for your suggestion.
1.I'm a programmer not art designer. So my art sense is not enough to design a good icon. I'll try to think other design.
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XDA is rife with designer talent that is eager to work for quality projects, so maybe you should just look around and ask for art/theme designers to land a hand or provide assets for backgrounds, etc? You will be surprised just how much your app will be improved with proper artwork.
Very nice app, fast and powerful. I have been looking for a simple sequential image viewer like this since I got my Android phone and I've tried quite a few; this is the best I've seen yet.
What I like:
Fast interface
Customizable touch zones allow quick zooming and navigation
Good format support
Can browse into directories that start with a dot
A few improvements I'd like to suggest:
I like the option to select the resampling method, but nearest-neighbor doesn't look very good and the other options perform too slowly on my phone to be practical. Other image viewers (such as the default Gallery) seem to handle image scaling with a better quality/performance tradeoff. Also it seems like there is an off-by-one error when selecting the sampling method, when I select a method I always get the method just above the one I selected.
It would be nice if there was an option for automatically switching screen orientation when the phone is rotated. Also, when I switch orientation the app steps forward to the next page, I think it should stay on the same page.
I don't see a long-press action, that could be another configurable action. It might be useful to display the touch commands on long press in case you forget some of the less-used commands and need a reminder. Or it could be configured to execute some other action.
The app is not too big currently, but it is larger than some other similar apps. For example ACV is under 300KB.
All in all, great app! Thanks for releasing it and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it in the future.
conejoblanco said:
Very nice app, fast and powerful. I have been looking for a simple sequential image viewer like this since I got my Android phone and I've tried quite a few; this is the best I've seen yet.
What I like:
Fast interface
Customizable touch zones allow quick zooming and navigation
Good format support
Can browse into directories that start with a dot
A few improvements I'd like to suggest:
I like the option to select the resampling method, but nearest-neighbor doesn't look very good and the other options perform too slowly on my phone to be practical. Other image viewers (such as the default Gallery) seem to handle image scaling with a better quality/performance tradeoff. Also it seems like there is an off-by-one error when selecting the sampling method, when I select a method I always get the method just above the one I selected.
It would be nice if there was an option for automatically switching screen orientation when the phone is rotated. Also, when I switch orientation the app steps forward to the next page, I think it should stay on the same page.
I don't see a long-press action, that could be another configurable action. It might be useful to display the touch commands on long press in case you forget some of the less-used commands and need a reminder. Or it could be configured to execute some other action.
The app is not too big currently, but it is larger than some other similar apps. For example ACV is under 300KB.
All in all, great app! Thanks for releasing it and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it in the future.
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Thank you for your suggestion.
1.You can choose Averaging method it's have normal image quality and fast.
And you found a bug I'll fix it soon.
2.Automatically switching screen orientation will be add in future. You found another bug I'll fix it soon.
3.I don't have plan to add long-press action currently.
4.Because this app is use native c++ library(libpng,libjpeg etc.) to handle image&archive files so will be a little bigger
Can you make the app show thumbnail's of the jpg/png (not the comic book files)? This way, I can finally get rid of the android gallery app. I will gladly donate if this feature can be done.
INeedYourHelp said:
Can you make the app show thumbnail's of the jpg/png (not the comic book files)? This way, I can finally get rid of the android gallery app. I will gladly donate if this feature can be done.
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Thumbnail browse is already in roadmap. But the time schedule is after other function(bookmark etc.)
paladinlin said:
Thumbnail browse is already in roadmap. But the time schedule is after other function(bookmark etc.)
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Thank you.
fantastic app!
lol, i think i've been using this more than any other as of late.
just wish it would render a little faster on anything other than 'averaging' and 'nearest-neighbor' as the quality of the others are much better, but don't think there's much you can do about that.
again, awesome!
Hello,
I apologize in advance because English is not my native language.
I try to use your program in a tablet, SmartQ V7, with these features:
Android 2.1
600MHz ARM11 CPU
Memory 256MB DDR II RAM
Virtual Cache 128MB
The problem is that when you open the comic book closes automatically.
I tried the following:
Close all aplicaiones to free memory, free memory getting about 80 MB,
Turn off cache in settings
I would love to test your application as it is highly recommended.
Thank you very much
picard1974 said:
Hello,
I apologize in advance because English is not my native language.
I try to use your program in a tablet, SmartQ V7, with these features:
Android 2.1
600MHz ARM11 CPU
Memory 256MB DDR II RAM
Virtual Cache 128MB
The problem is that when you open the comic book closes automatically.
I tried the following:
Close all aplicaiones to free memory, free memory getting about 80 MB,
Turn off cache in settings
I would love to test your application as it is highly recommended.
Thank you very much
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If you got force close while open archive file, You can try to open a image file.
If image file is worked maybe you can send me the archive file for test.
paladinlin said:
Changelog
2010/11/12 Version 1.2
All brand new menu interface
Added bookmark management
Added pinch-to-zoom support
Minimum require OS version up to 2.1
Added keep screen backlight on(Need restart)
Added auto rotate screen(Need restart)
Other minor bugs fixed
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Version 1.2 is a great improvement, the new UI is very smooth and has a profesional feel to it.
Still, there's one minor annoyance that's fairly easy to fix and will greatly improve my experience with your comic viewer. I like the slide command where instead changing the page, the screen slides down the page until it reaches the bottom, then changes the page. What I find annoying however is that the distance the screen slides is not configurable. It would be great if we can change the screen slide distance. The slide distance can be a value that chan be changed with a slider, or presets based on fractions of the page height, i.e. 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, and 1/2.
Thanks a lot.
I have Android as the operating system in my tablet (10" Eken M006). Before knowing Perfect Viewer, I would prefer my images in PDF, despite some problems, but now I have changed my mind. Your application has some interesting qualities (that Documents-To-Go lacks when opening PDF files):
1. It fits the image no matter the size of the previous one.
2. It remembers last viewed page.
3. The page does not rotate automatically, what is a bless. I suffer a lot when the page rotates by itself. It would be great if you added a "page rotating" function.
Page orientation is not the problem. I read many Western reading books, and pressing the screen on the left or the right side is indifferent.
The application will be even better if it could open other image formats, like GIF and BMP. If you could include PDF files, it would end up simply perfect.
Thanks a lot for the great job.
raynerape said:
Version 1.2 is a great improvement, the new UI is very smooth and has a profesional feel to it.
Still, there's one minor annoyance that's fairly easy to fix and will greatly improve my experience with your comic viewer. I like the slide command where instead changing the page, the screen slides down the page until it reaches the bottom, then changes the page. What I find annoying however is that the distance the screen slides is not configurable. It would be great if we can change the screen slide distance. The slide distance can be a value that chan be changed with a slider, or presets based on fractions of the page height, i.e. 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, and 1/2.
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Thank you for your suggestion. But currently I have no plans to add this function. Maybe I'll consider it after complete other function.
Sergio Nova said:
I have Android as the operating system in my tablet (10" Eken M006). Before knowing Perfect Viewer, I would prefer my images in PDF, despite some problems, but now I have changed my mind. Your application has some interesting qualities (that Documents-To-Go lacks when opening PDF files):
1. It fits the image no matter the size of the previous one.
2. It remembers last viewed page.
3. The page does not rotate automatically, what is a bless. I suffer a lot when the page rotates by itself. It would be great if you added a "page rotating" function.
Page orientation is not the problem. I read many Western reading books, and pressing the screen on the left or the right side is indifferent.
The application will be even better if it could open other image formats, like GIF and BMP. If you could include PDF files, it would end up simply perfect.
Thanks a lot for the great job.
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"page rotating" is already have. it call "Switch screen orientation" in main menu.
GIF and BMP support is in roadmap, But currently I have no plans to support PDF file.
Installation problems
paladinlin said:
"page rotating" is already have. it call "Switch screen orientation" in main menu.
GIF and BMP support is in roadmap, But currently I have no plans to support PDF file.
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Every time I try to install the last version from the market, I receive a message saying the download failed. Do you know what is the problem?
Sergio Nova said:
Every time I try to install the last version from the market, I receive a message saying the download failed. Do you know what is the problem?
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You can download from here
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Maxthon Mobile Browser
Current Version 2.2 build 2782
We recently launched our mobile browser, and would love to hear what you guys think about it. I believe if our app will NOT achieve any success if we do not pay very very close attention to our users. We have to thank all of the wonderful folks here at XDA who provided many great suggestions to our product. The suggestions/comments are extremely useful and valuable.
Features:
- Sync to the Cloud - Your bookmarks/favorites travel with you from desktop to mobile.
- Theme/Skin - Ever-growing collection of skins that can customize your browser the way you like it
- WWW/WAP switch - Switch between www and WAP versions of the web at your fingertip
- RSS reader widget - Find, manage and read your favorite content quickly and easily
- Speed Dial - Quick access of the best sites on the web.
- Download Manager - Makes it easy to sort, schedule and grab the downloads you need: wherever, whenever.
- Super Gesture - Use touch screen commands to surf with your fingertips.
- Tab browsing - Powerful tab management that puts your mobile screen to maximum use.
- Amazing speed - Get websites super fast.
- Powerful personalization - Avatars and more.
Build 2782 adds the following features & improvements:
+Added brand new add-ons framework
+Three new add-ons: Bookmark Backup, Webpage Snapshot, Task Killer
+Added search button in homepage toolbar
*Provided better tips/messaging in address bar
*Fixed unable to cancel gesture bug
*Fixed other crash related bugs
[known issues] !=known X=fixed
X clear history and cache when exit
[feature requests] +=accepted X=rejected
+ options to set your own gesture
+ flash support
- user definable cache size/memory usage settings
- user bookmarks available for quick access selection (already available in PC version)
- ad block
- load page in “overview” default but have user disable button
- menu button brings back url window, tabs and buttons
- user customizable themes
- enable/disable floating buttons
- needs finger friendly text selection (Miren)
- allow for multiple account syncs (google, aol, yahoo, etc)
- new tab “+” needs to be next to current tab
- enable/disable input box zoom
- user definable “double tap” zoom percentage
Special thanks to Lokifish Marz (Russ) for helping out with the template of this page, as well as many, many suggestions related to this product.
can't sign in to google, i always end up on http://https://signin.google.com/... after entering my login data with 2-way-auth enabled (and yes, i tried removing one of the protocol identifiers)
@XlAfbk, are you trying to access http://signin.google.com/ ?
Or you are trying to sign into any Google service? By the way, I was able to sign into Gmail...
Please let us know, thanks alot =)
I dont understand the gestures. Is there a way to set your own? Is there a way to just go back or forward with a screen swipe? I see the yellow line but I dont see any settings for it.
Other then that, its passed my 10 minute test. Ill try it longer. Haven't tried flash yet, or sharing links, copy and paste. Cool ui though. Very miren.
@irish22022, thanks alot for your feedback.... we'll thinking of adding gestures setting in future releases.. =) Please stay tuned, and let us know any other feedback after more testing,,, thanks alot again Irish22022.
maxthon said:
@XlAfbk, are you trying to access http://signin.google.com/ ?
Or you are trying to sign into any Google service? By the way, I was able to sign into Gmail...
Please let us know, thanks alot =)
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I'm trying to signin to any google service, e.g. mail, reader, directly from homepage, ...
problem prolly exists with 2-way-auth only, make sure to enable that for testing. I just confirmed the issue in SDK emulator, it's definitly a bug in your browser, doesn't happen in any other
@XlAfbk， thanks for reporting..... it's confirmed, and we're looking into it... =)
Hi,
Been using this for past couple of days.
Good points.
1 Fast but not the fastest
2 Instant back
3 RSS doesn't seem to auto start any more
4 Nice layout
Bad points
1 Uses way too much memory, only had Maxthon running with one tab but it was using over 95mb & between 0 & 60% of CPU
2 No real way to customise search engines, always searches google.com & not google.co.uk
3 Start page with the collapsible links looks like Miren & again doesn't seem to allow changing or editing the links
All in all a lot better than v1 but still some room for improvement, suffice to say uninstalled dolphin mini to use this as backup browser as Xscope Pro is main browser.
Cheers,
Banzi.
1. If you open a secure link from another app (say my friend sends me a Facebook link, https://Facebook.com...) then it puts HTTP:// in from of the already existing protocol designator. That should be fixed.
2. It still has the issue where sometimes on opening it it will reopen links that I've clicked before in a new tab and I have to close it.
3. You should definitely get flash options working (e.g. always on, click to play, etc) because A. flash ads are annoying and mess with mobile formatting and B. they use a lot of memory.
4. It would be really nice if we could choose what the default page is, like bookmarks or a new tab page or something. I never use the home page with all those links, I'd like to be able to open the browser straight to whatever page I want.
5. This isn't an issue, just personal preference... I love that you guys got themes working, but I don't really like glossy gradients, like on the tab. I think it would look better if it were just a dark gray to medium gray from the bottom to the top of the tap to give it a shadowy look instead of shiny. (that's on the gray theme of course but the same principle would apply.)
All in all, great work and you guys have really improved this browser.
Sent from my MIUI SCH-i500
@BanziBaby, thanks for trying it out. It is the bad points that we pay extra attention to. The bad points are great great suggestions...
@sageDieu, thanks much for taking the time to give us these comments.
Yes, we're aware of the issue with secure links. =(
Also, we LOVE the default page suggestion from you......
maxthon said:
@BanziBaby, thanks for trying it out. It is the bad points that we pay extra attention to. The bad points are great great suggestions...
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I believe one good way to conserve memory would be to have flash click to play as I suggested. I've noticed very major memory spikes when even a couple of simple flash ads are loading on a site. And on some music blogs and things that have a lot of little flash players (like up to 20 on a page) it becomes almost unusable.
you're welcome btw, glad to help. I love beta testing and bug reporting
Sent from my MIUI SCH-i500
Nice work guys, just downloaded and tried out:
I would have few notes for first sight
1. When you drag the page and try to scroll up/down there is at about 5-7 millimeters of finger-move when nothing happens. Scrolling shoud be instant and not laggy. BTW at the same time for basic scrolling movements (r/l/u/d) appears the yellow line too, which is useless as far as it's not a gesture.
suggestion: no line for scrolling gestures
try to find cause of that lag
2. When I enter an URL and the page appears i like to have an overview of the whole page first in order to find the interesting part easily.
suggestion: It would be good to have page overview as default page loading method or at least a switcher in the settings for it.
3. Entering URL during browsing is not comfortable.
-there's no possibility of that in fullscreen mode
-in normal mode you have to scroll to the top, but the url bar is still not there, THEN u grab the page again and pull it down: now u can see the bar.
suggestion: easiest would be when u push the menu button the url bar appears too, or at least a button for the menu for new page; both in normal/fullscreen mode
Thx, it's a really good start
edit: forgot to mention - Samsung Galaxy S
Another bug found. When posting in forums (this one for example) you are unable to attach files. This is not an issue with the stock browser, Firefox Mobile or Miren.
Also. What's the word on flash content floating above the browser UI and a "Desktop UI" option?
(Having the two threads is a little confusing. Hopefully this is the right thread for 2.0.)
@marcedli,
suggestion 1) is very very nice, and we're aware of this now
suggestion 2) what do you mean by the page overview?
suggestion 3) I am seeing the addressbar when I browser, are you referring to a particular page when you browse and you dont see the addressbar?
Thanks for all the great feedback.... =)
@Lokifish Marz, thanks for reporting the bug of not able to attach files
"What's the word on flash content floating above the browser UI and a "Desktop UI" option?", i know that you dont mean by UA strings, but can you elaborate a little more?
Also, what do you mean by two threads? You mean I have two threads for Maxthon Mobile in XDA? Thanks much =)
maxthon said:
@Lokifish Marz, thanks for reporting the bug of not able to attach files
"What's the word on flash content floating above the browser UI and a "Desktop UI" option?", i know that you dont mean by UA strings, but can you elaborate a little more?
Also, what do you mean by two threads? You mean I have two threads for Maxthon Mobile in XDA? Thanks much =)
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If you guys get the file upload and flash/iframe issue fixed you'll be ahead of everybody else. Only the stock browser has file upload, proper flash/iframe binding and flash playback.
Examples of a "Desktop UI" As far as the feature set, it's covered in the linked thread. If you have more questions or need more specific details then feel free to PM me.
The only problems I have is it closes your tabs now when you try to goto another app and come back
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
Some other observations,
Opening a boo0kmark always opens in a new tab even if open in new tab isn't ticked in options.
As the poster above says if you use the built in task switcher on galaxy S the browser always seems to open another tab that replicates one that is already open.
Can't seem to find a way to use speed dial as main page rather than the links page there is the now or is that the speed dial page?
On demand option for flash is needed badly as all the flash ad's slow down browsing.
More themes or support for user themes (the gray theme is more blue than grey & a black theme would be nice)
Keep up the great work, damn fine browser you have made.
Cheers,
Banzi.
@BanziBaby, thanks for all the great feedback.
On demand flash and flash playback is already in the works..
the speed dial page is the page when you open a new tab...=)
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Features
- Tabs and incognito tabs in same activity
- Adblocking, popup blocking
- Add custom urls to adblock list
- Intercept and download videos on playback
- Desktop mode, Reading mode and Night mode
- 3 different layout mode, Side drawers, Bottom drawer, Cards
- Built in file manager
- Drag and drop bookmarks and tabs
- And tonnes of other features
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
New Features
- Check for updates and share can be added to overflow menu via Display Settings > Edit overflow menu
- Keep page running in background (page info menu)
- Intercept page redirects and ask for permission (page info menu)
- Reorder and edit overflow menu
- Improved search suggestions look
- Save to external storage directory
- Floating window mode for tablet layout (beta)
- Tablet mode with chrome style tabs at top
- MinSDK now API 16 - Jellybean 4.1+
- Intercept all videos and option to open in external player
- Copy link text
- Automatically download favicons for imported bookmarks
- Pull down to refresh
- Import bookmarks from chrome (bottom drawer)
- Block popup dialogs
Full Changelog Below
Download (Build 5.7.5)
I'll be maintaining and adding features to this app whenever I have time, let me know what you guys think and feel free to leave suggestions.
Bugs
- Window mode bugs
- Sync history broken
- Fullscreen mode buggy
- Orbot proxying not available
- There maybe other bugs I am unaware of
Work in Progress Features
- Option to scroll to top on url box click
- Download manager service with multi threaded downloading
- Sync history and bookmarks with chrome
Help - Tips and Tricks
Open link in foreground:
If you have open links in background checked then you can open a link in a new tab and show it immediately by long pressing either "open in new tab" or "open in incognito tab". If you have open links in background unchecked you can do the reverse by long pressing either of those options.
Reopen closed tab:
Simply long press the new tab button (not in overflow menu) and it will be reopened.
Share link:
You can add this option to the long click popup dialog from Display Settings > Edit link dialog menu
Undelete or Unmove bookmark:
Long press back button (not hardware or onscreen back)
Open bookmark in new tab:
Long press the bookmark without moving it to show the menu
Incognito bookmark folder:
Long press plus button when viewing bookmarks to show hidden folder. You can delete it and it will still be kept, but if you rename it and delete it the folder will be replaced with an empty one.
Use Hardware Rendering (Advanced Settings)
This enables hardware rendering for webviews and should only be enabled if you're experiencing very bad performance. It might help, or it wont make a difference in which case leave it off. This will use additional resources and RAM - it might also use more battery so you shouldnt enable this if the webview is rendering and scrolling fine.
Maximum performance
The most efficient layout is the bottom drawer layout, it only has 2 immediate children: the webview and the the toolbar. The bottom drawer is only made visible once you click the tab counter or when you touch at the bottom of the screen, this lets the UI avoid any additional layout calculation for the drawer. Scrolling is noticeably smoother with the bottom drawer and it most likely uses less battery in comparison to the other layouts. You can also turn off the pull to refresh to reduce the touch logic albeit for an insignificant gain. Disabling the adblock and manually adding urls as needed drastically reduces the amount of RAM the adblocker takes up and I would definitely recommend this.
Permissions
GPS - For websites that want to use location
Storage Access - Downloading files, crash logs, and for the built-in file manager
Network Access - Have a guess
Read/Write Bookmarks and History - Speed needs to be able to import bookmarks from chrome
Draw Over Apps - Floating window for tablet mode so Speed can draw over apps
Credits
This project would not be possible without the amazing work ACR development so huge thanks to Anthony! You can find the Lightning Browser repository and source code here: https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser
I'd also encourage everyone to try out lightning browser (play store)
Since Speed is a fork of lightning, parts of Speed that contain lightning browser source code are licensed under Mozilla Public License 2.0
You can find the source code for Speed here: https://github.com/fusionxr/Speed-Browser
Additional classes and layouts that do not contain lightning code are not required to be disclosed under the MPL 2.0 hence why I've ommited them and the build will fail.
Special thanks to @beemgee, @IAmLucky, @Mrxyzl, @ratbags, @60nine for their early beta testing and continued help in improving Speed
Also huge thanks to everyone for all the support and for putting up with and reporting bugs.
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Minor Theme Update
Changelog
5.7.5 - 05/05/2016
Bugfix:
- Cards layout now stable and with incognito tabs
- Fixed navigation bar overlapping fullscreen videos
- Fixed edit overflow menu dialog getting cut off at bottom
5.7.4 - 04/05/2016
New Features:
- Keep page running in background (page info menu), works with videos/youtube
- Check for updates and share can be added to overflow menu via Display Settings > Edit overflow menu
- Added changelog viewer (click on Build Version from About Settings)
Bugfix:
- Fixed serious memory leak
- Fixed visual bugs in Cards layout
- Fixed overflow menu crash on 4.1 devices
- More code cleanup
5.7.2 - 03/05/2016
New Features:
- Intercept page redirects and ask for permission to load
You can add url to adblock list from this dialog
Bugfix:
- Fixed Cards layout random text showing up over tab and touches passing through.
- Fixed download force close and added popup message to be shown if download folder is invalid or download start fails.
- Fixed adblock manager deleting/editing force close.
- Fixed new folder/delete file crash in file chooser dialog.
5.7.0 - 02/05/2016
New Features:
- Floating window for tablet layout
- Save to external storage
- Reorder and edit overflow menu
- Search suggestions look improved with ability to copy text to search box
- Code cleanup and lots of small improvements
Bugfix:
- Rewritten cards layout with performance optimisations and bugfixes (still no incognito)
- Card thumbnails work properly when restoring tabs from coldboot
- Crash when choosing external storage location
- Crash when opening adblock manager
- Touches passing through left drawer
24/04/2016
Bugfix:
- Cards layout improvements and bugfixes - beta ready
Still some bugs which I will try to fix in next release
- Bottom drawer with bookmarks and file manager in cards layout
- Tablet mode tabs resize according to available space
- Fullscreen mode bugfixes and scrolling improvement (still buggy though)
- Side drawer file explorer removed
- Side drawer bookmark import/export menu now more obvious
- Other tweaks and code cleanup
22/04/2016
New Features:
- Tablet mode with chrome style tabs at top
- Option to disable pull refresh
Bugfix:
- Save File as dialog
- Link/Image dialog opening on drawer swipe
12/04/2016
New Features:
- Min SDK now 16 - Jellybean 4.1+
- Option to open videos in external player
Bugfix:
- Cards layout improvement
- Bottom drawer optimisations and listview bugfixes
10/04/2016
New Features:
- Copy link text
- Intercept all videos for all webviews
Bugfix:
- Dark theme
- File manager file/folder edit
- Search suggestions logic improvement
- GPU overdraw fixes and layout structure cleanup
- Bookmark settings bugfix and code cleanup
- Video download dialog showing twice
09/04/2016
New Features:
- Edit files from bottom drawer file manager
- Card layout improvements (still beta)
- Check for updates (About Settings)
- Auto update notification for some devices
- Fullscreen mode
- Option to enable window resizing to prevent textbox being hidden by keyboard (display settings)
Bugfix:
- More bugfixes and code cleanup
- Crash on start bugs
- Bottom drawer crashes
- Import from chrome now working
- Bookmark icons bugs
- And other smaller bugfixes/improvements
03/04/2016
New Features:
- Automatically download favicons for imported bookmarks
- Pull down to refresh
- Import bookmarks from chrome (bottom drawer)
- Search the web for selected text
- Google doodles now show on homepage
Bugfix:
- Swipe tabs crash
- Pull to refresh not working on new tabs
- Bookmarks in side drawer not working
- Default download location not working
- Homepage selection not working
- Cardview threading bug
28/03/2016
Bugfix:
- History page bugs
- File manager icons
- Intercept Videos option works on most sites
- Database indexing issues
27/03/2015
New Features:
- Intercept video playback and offer to download
- Add custom urls to adblock list
- Rewritten adblocking logic, pages now load twice as fast
- Dark theme now working
- Export bookmarks fro bottom drawer
- File explorer in bottom drawer
- Threading manager for UI fluidity and efficient resource management
Bugfix:
- Crash on start
- Back button not working
- Dark theme fix
- Page source crash
- Other misc bugfixes
23/03/2016
New Features:
- Slide up bottom drawer
- View page source
- Bookmarks in bottom drawer
- New threading manager for improved performance
- Heavy performance optimisations
- Simplified drag & drop logic
Bugfix
- More layout optimisations
- Rewritten progress bar logic to reduce unecessary computation
- Crash on start
- Bookmark icons disappearing
- Bookmark and history icons now show up
- Adblock not working
- Nightmode applies to all tabs
- Images not being downloaded
- Privacy settings not sticking
13/03/2016
New Features
- Bottom toolbar mode
- Hardware rendering option in advanced settings
- New bottom drawer layout with option to toggle between card view and list view
- Option to turn off swipe tabs
- Heavy layout optimisations and performance improvements
- Option to open bookmarks in new tab by long press without drag
Bugfix
- Other bugfixes
- Card view mode not being remembered
- Tabs in right drawer not working
- Dark theme link dialog
- Incognito bookmark folder disappearing
- Bookmark buttons not working on start
29/02/2016
Bugfix
- Fixed dark theme and scroll performance
- Fixed crash when link tries to open new tab
26/02/2016
New Features
- import bookmarks from file manager via 3 dot menu
- open files from file manager
- option to open links in background or show immediately
Bugfix
- Rename bookmarks
- Text reflow
23/02/2016
Bugfix
- Fix small memory leak and reduced file explorer memory consumption
- Clear history dialog defaults with all boxes ticked
- Fixed history not clearing via clear history dialog
- Fixed crash on last tab close
22/02/2016
New Features
- file explorer
- Rendering options in menu
- remove single history item
- Swipe tab button in omnibar to switch between tabs
- Import bookmarks from chrome
- Export/Import bookmarks (long press bookmark/star icon to pull up menu)
- Redesigned history page
- Option to keep browser open on last tab close
Bugfix
- Fixed bookmark rearrange/drag drop
- Clear browsing data dialog remembers previous options
- Reduced cpu activity on activity resume
05/02/2016
Bugfix
- Fixed omni swipe for incognito tabs
- Tab animations working now
- tabs switch faster
- changed app id to avoid overwriting lightning browser
- fullscreen mode working (slightly buggy)
- fixed desktop mode only for current tab
- fixed crash on restart after low memory kill
- fixed bookmarks not saving on low memory destroy and recent menu clear
- fixed dark theme toolbar coloring
30/01/2016
New Features
- Drag and drop tabs functionality
- Swipe to dismiss tabs
- Incognito tabs in same drawer
- Drag and drop bookmark folders
- Undo delete or move bookmark item/folder
- Redesigned find in page
- Added desktop mode option
15/11/2015
Material design theme
Improved Adblock
New tab and navigation buttons in drawer
Incognito tabs alongside normal tabs
Performance tweaks
Good and Fast!
I'm using it on Xperia J with Seraphic Season 7 ROM! Only 4.7Mb, very fast, nice graphic and no lags (I get a lot of freeze on Chrome and it use 80Mb )
Xp3r14J said:
I'm using it on Xperia J with Seraphic Season 7 ROM! Only 4.7Mb, very fast, nice graphic and no lags (I get a lot of freeze on Chrome and it use 80Mb )
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I'm glad it works for you! As you mentioned, chrome takes up a lot of ram on my galaxy s3, and I'm pretty sure most people face that problem with 1gb of ram, hence my reason for making this app.
I'm thinking of publishing this app on the Google play marketplace if I get enough good feedback.
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Updated app.
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Updated app.
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Is development dead? I'm not finding it there anymore
I'm back and with a huge update.
New features :
- Material design
- Enhanced adblock and popup blocker: sites can still open new tabs in the background so long as they aren't ads
- New tab and navigation buttons in drawer
- Incognito tabs alongside normal tabs
- Performance tweaks
I'll be maintaining and adding features to this app whenever I have time, let me know what you guys think and if you've got any suggestions.
edit: for some reason I cant attach files
edit: okay finally found manage attachments, download and screenshot in first post
New version released! Updated first post with video demo.
Just installed and totally amazed
Super light and pretty fast
Swipe to access tabs and bookmarks are great
Somethign for you to improve : when changed to dark mode the browser is not totally "dark", just tabs and settings and bookmarks are dark. And the 3dots menu icon on the bar is invisible in dark mode
Btw this going to be my default browser
How do I get the border around the address bar dark like in the screenshots you posted?
Phuclun510 said:
Just installed and totally amazed
Super light and pretty fast
Swipe to access tabs and bookmarks are great
Somethign for you to improve : when changed to dark mode the browser is not totally "dark", just tabs and settings and bookmarks are dark. And the 3dots menu icon on the bar is invisible in dark mode
Btw this going to be my default browser
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Thank you! I'm flattered that this is going to be your default browser.
As requested I've fixed the dark theme and the menu icon coloring in incognito mode. I updated the attached apk in first post.
I'm working on fixing the full screen mode and incognito mode too.
beastonprowl said:
How do I get the border around the address bar dark like in the screenshots you posted?
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You're using the wrong apk. Use the apk attached in the first post. Hope you like it!
Hey guys when I download something does the browser have a download manager
Just encountered an issue here
If the browser is killed because of low memory, when i re-opened it, it crashed and then all bookmarks and tabs are erased
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Hey guys when I download something does the browser have a download manager
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Unfortuneately no. Net yet. I am working on this.
Phuclun510 said:
Just encountered an issue here
If the browser is killed because of low memory, when i re-opened it, it crashed and then all bookmarks and tabs are erased
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Fixed bookmarks not saving, updated apk. When you refer to tabs do you mean incognito tabs?
Fusionxr said:
Unfortuneately no. Net yet. I am working on this.
Fixed bookmarks not saving, updated apk. When you refer to tabs do you mean incognito tabs?
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No i mean the previous process ( websites) that i opened before
You say fixed does it mean there are no crashes or just the bookmarks saving ?
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Ok the bookmark problem is solve but crashes still exist
Can you do sth with that in future updates ?
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[/COLOR]Ok the bookmark problem is solve but crashes still exist
Can you do sth with that in future updates ?
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Found the bug! All fixed now.
My gosh so quick
It's actually solved
You are the best
Love this so far. Could we have the option for the stack of tabs to come down from the top rather than build from the bottom of the screen?
Great use of material design - looks really clear. When will be released to google play?
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Love this so far. Could we have the option for the stack of tabs to come down from the top rather than build from the bottom of the screen?
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Option added! Updated apk in first post. Also full screen is working (slightly buggy and some pages will not display properly).
rebelionx123 said:
Great use of material design - looks really clear. When will be released to google play?
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I might release it on google play once its a bit more polished. Maybe in march?
Other changes:
- Contextual actionbar when highlighting text now overlays search bar
- find in page overlays toolbar as well
- drawers resize according to toolbar visibility in fullscreen mode
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Text Aide started out as a simple Xposed module called Text Xposed to add 3 options (Define, Search and Share) to the Contextual Action Bar when some text was selected while typing.
But now it has a lot of features which do not require Xposed at all.
• Define Picking up from xDictionary by @perseus0807, this displays the definition of the selected word as a pop-up. Ideal when you are reading an e-book or a news article and find it rather distracting to open a dictionary app again and again.
There are two ways to do this without Xposed
• First is to activate a feature called "Copy to define" from the settings. As the name suggests, you just have to select some text and hit the copy button.
It can be easily paused from the notification when you don't need it.
Enabling the + button shows you a pop-up with the copied text, which is useful in apps like WhatsApp where a word can't be selected singularly from the chats
• Second is to share the text and select Define
• Third is to use the homescreen widget
• For Play Books you can also use "Web search" feature. And for Moon+, FB Reader dictionary feature choose "ColorDict"
• Offline definitions available in 5 languages currently: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
• For more languages you can use my app Dict Aide which supports StarDict dictionary packs
• Online thesaurus with a list of synonyms and antonyms
• In addition to that, you can quickly switch to Wikipedia for additional information and Wiktionary for languages that currently do not have offline access. You can do this in any language! Just modify it in the settings.
• Expand This gives you system wide text expansion. You can define a macro (shortcut) like @addhome to type your full home address! Very useful if you type something often.
Just set a shortcut and let Text Aide do the rest!
• Search You can add a list of your favourite search engines and access them quickly from a sidebar. Also includes a floating browser
• First way is to use Copy Aide and enable the search button from the notification.
• Second is to share the text and then select 'Enhanced Search' from the dialog
• Third is to use the search button in AOSP (based) browsers or apps like Wikipedia.
• It can also be done using the homescreen widget
• Share You can do the following things by sharing text
• Copy - As the name suggests, you can copy it from the share menu
This will also be shown in browser selection menu (when you tap on a link).
• Dial You can use the shared text to place a call.
• Open As URL - This allows you to open the selected text in the web browser as a URL/link (if it's valid).
• Speak Using this feature, you can make (almost) any text on your device speak using TTS engine.
This can be very useful if you're learning a new language!
Please watch the video for a good demo on how to use it.
Xposed gives you additional control. You can double tap a TextView (which means fields like WhatsApp chat bubbles, YouTube comments, Play store description,etc) to force selection.
This, however, has some limitations and might not work in all apps.
You will also get all the five buttons (Define, Dial, Search+, Share & Speak) in the contextual action bar on selecting some text in most apps.
For Chrome, you can use my module called Chrome Selection Patch
Browsers like Dolphin, Opera, etc are not supported
Installation
Download from Play Store or Xposed repository and install as any other app
Known Bugs
Overflow button gets camouflaged if the background of action bar is white (Android bug)
Selection handles and paste button overlap the overflow menu
Anything else? Let me know
To Do
HTC Compatibility
Add more search engines
Upload to Github for translations, etc
Browser support
Thesaurus
Update dictionary
More ideas are welcome
Credits
A BIG thanks to DHM47 for all the support and encouragement. Wouldn't have been possible without him!
@perseus0807 for xDictionary code
@mikmitch for Macro Expansion code
@rovo89 obviously for the brilliant Xposed framework
@MohammadAG and @zst123 for some of their code
And all the amazing people at StockOverflow
Contribute
Text Aide is completely free without any ads and/or locked features.
If you can afford and would like to support development, please consider to donate using in-app purchase
XDA:DevDB Information
Text Aide, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
PunchUp, PunchUp, DHM47
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 6.6
Stable Release Date: 2015-11-21
Created 2015-01-05
Last Updated 2015-11-23
Changelog
5.1
- Reorder cards in Expand & Search by dragging up & down
- Misc fixes
5.0
- Enhanced Search - Shows a sidebar with your favorite search engines - copy/share the text or click the search button in AOSP (based) browsers
Xposed users can click on Search+
- Added Search to homescreen widget
- Fixed background crashes while using Expand
[Xposed]
WebView support. Works in apps like Wikipedia, Lightning etc.
Firefox - WIP
Chrome - bit.ly/ChromeSP
Dolphin, Opera etc. won't be supported
4.5
- Added a new feature called Expand (based on Macro/Text Expansion module)
- 'Speak' now works in background without blocking the screen
- Fixed double tap blacklist
4.0
- Rebranded the app to 'Text Aide'
- Added new features called Dial & Speak
Speak uses TTS engine to utter selected text (Please watch the video in the OP or Play store for a demo)
Dial lets you place a call using the selected text
- Added a home screen widget
- Define can be now disabled from Share menu
- Fixed the master switch for Copy in Share settings
- [Xposed] Fixed double tap and blacklist on many devices. Please contact if it's still a problem
- Misc bug fixes
3.7
- UI crash fix 4.0.x ICS devices
- [Xposed] Small bug fix in enforce action item dialog
3.6
- Support Moon+, FB Reader etc. (Choose ColorDict in settings)
- New locales - Korean, Portuguese(BR) thanks to SDKoongchi & Parallaxis
3.5
- Links are now active. Clicking on the underlined word will take you to it's definition. (Translations don't work)
- Thesaurus added. Activation instructions available under Define>Thesaurus
- Spanish locale thanks to Artista Y
3.2
- Clicking on notification opens the app
- A new feature called "Enhanced selection" to supplement "Copy to define"
This is useful in apps like WhatsApp where you can't select a word singularly from the chats. Just enable this feature using the "+" button in notification and then copy the message. You'll get a pop-up with the copied text from which you can select and define the word you want.
For Xposed users, this is useful in apps like Google messenger where double tap doesn't work.
3.1
The app is now free on Play Store. To donate, please use in-app payment.
- A new feature called "Copy to define." Just copy the word to get it's definition. Enable it from the settings.
- Support for Play Books. Use "Web Search"
- [Xposed] Enforce action item to prevent overflow menu
- [Xposed] SystemUI blacklisted by default, to prevent interference
- Some other minor enhancements
3.0
- Much awaited WebView support is here. Xposed is not needed but an option is planned for future. Just use the Share button and hit Define. Works in browsers, news apps, e-book readers, etc
- Wiktionary added. Default language can be set as needed.
- Two new utilities for sharing.
Copy which will show up in Share and Browser complete action menus
and Open as URL which can open the selected text in a browser
2.8
- Added Wikipedia (requires internet permission)
- Pop-up is now an activity. In other words, you can change any settings without requiring a reboot. It might also fix incompatibility issues with some Samsung and LG devices (not tested. Please report on the thread)
- You can now select the views you'd like to keep. Default is set to English and Wikipedia
- Wikipedia's langauge can be changed according to your needs. Default set to English (en)
- Blacklist added for double tap feature as it has been problematic in some apps
- Some other minor changes
2.7
- Double tap to make TextView selectable. Works in most apps! Exceptions found so far are Tapatalk, Google messenger, CyanogenMod MMS app. Could be more but works fine in WhatsApp, Xposed installer logs, YouTube comments/description, etc
- "Test Define" option inside settings to preview all the settings without rebooting again and again!
- Custom font to maintain consistency across all devices.
- Font size mechanism changed. Lesser steps but more (and better) control
- Other miscellaneous changes
2.6
Quick fix update
- Fixed the font colour being camouflaged in pop-up language selector window (for some devices). Thanks to @Bajanman for reporting
2.5
Lots of additions to Define
- 4 more languages added. French, German, Italian and Spanish.
- Ability to quickly switch languages from the pop-up itself
- Default font size can now be set according to personal preference
- Added gravity customisation to display the pop-up at top, center or bottom
- Popup is now default. Browser search has been removed
- Misc improvements to the pop-up dialog
- Material design
- Edit fields in Chrome browser patched (Define not available)
- French translation thanks to @Micks29
2.1
Quick fix update
- Improved pop-up: Smaller size and better padding. Must look much better now
2.0
Major Release!
The Define framework has been revamped completely!
It was previously based on xDictionary's code, and hence used "WordNet" database for definitions. Unfortunately, it lacked many words, as you must have experienced.
Now, Text Xposed has switched to Livio's Dictionary Provider code.
Advantages
- The most obvious advantage is that the module's size has shrunk to ~50 KB.
- The defintion is now displayed using WebView, so you can pinch to zoom and select text inside it to copy or share
- Livio's dictionary is very comprehensive. You can even search for small words like is, that, etc. And it gives you etymology, synonyms, translations, etc along with the defintion!
- The module and dictionary app complement each other really well. You have a different UI to search for words, when Text Xposed is not accessible.
- You get proper and direct updates for the dictionary from Play store and I don't have to worry about maintaining the dictionary.
- Livio provides more dictionary packs for Italian, French, German and Spanish. Support for these will be added eventually, but low priority for now.
If there are many requests, I might do it earlier though.
Other Changes
- Toast is now gone. Although, it is possible to extract a part of the definition, I felt the main chunks were still too big for a toast.
- I will, however add a time-out option for the pop-up.
- HTC compatibility implemented. Need some more feedback though
- Code Cleanup
TL;DR - Just tell me what to do
- Ok so first of all, delete the "xdictionary" folder. It is no longer needed.
- Then you need Livio dictionary. Either download from here, or press the Define button after a reboot. It will show you a dialog with the link
1.1
- Fixed Define for some devices
- Changed toast for dictionary data copy confirmation
- Other minor changes
1.0
- Initial
Chrome Selection Patch
This an add-on module which allows you enable Search and Share in edit fields of Chrome
AND Search in Incognito mode.
If Text Aide is installed as well, Define, Dial & Search+ will also be available.
Available in Xposed repository
Uhhhh.. what is this?? Also should be posted HERE not in apps & games.
JoeFCaputo113 said:
Uhhhh.. what is this?? Also should be posted HERE not in apps & games.
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Yikes sorry! I have no idea how that happened. Pretty sure that I started off in the Xposed section
Anyway it has been moved to it's proper location now :good:
Congratulations my friend for you're module
Midomad said:
Congratulations my friend for you're module
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Thanks a lot!
thanks for working on it this is that way i searching from last 2 month
Sent from my Q710
Glad you liked!
Wohoo!!!
PunchUp, you rock!
Thank you very much!
Great
I love this.. But I've used xdictionary and it pops up real good. This doesn't but I love the idea. Keep it up. if you can make the define to come up even in browsers, it be really cool.
Thanks
Define function does not work
first of all thank you so much for the great work , but for some reason the Define function does not work not so ever .tried it every where on every single app SMS Whats app etc . the only place i have seen it working is when you try it with in your app other wise the search and the share function are working perfectly .
P.S. i don't have xdictionary installed on my phone but when i download it ur app the 33mb of xdictionary were installed successfully on my phone & 1 more thing i tried pop up and the toast option just in case .both working with in ur app but not anywhere else .
thanks and good luck
Kirrrr said:
Wohoo!!!
PunchUp, you rock!
Thank you very much!
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You're welcome
dRsleeky said:
I love this.. But I've used xdictionary and it pops up real good. This doesn't but I love the idea. Keep it up. if you can make the define to come up even in browsers, it be really cool.
Thanks
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By “pops up” you mean next to the paste button?
And yes web view needs define option. Added to my to-do list! But some browsers use custom action bars. Might not work with those
satan77 said:
first of all thank you so much for the great work , but for some reason the Define function does not work not so ever .tried it every where on every single app SMS Whats app etc . the only place i have seen it working is when you try it with in your app other wise the search and the share function are working perfectly .
P.S. i don't have xdictionary installed on my phone but when i download it ur app the 33mb of xdictionary were installed successfully on my phone & 1 more thing i tried pop up and the toast option just in case .both working with in ur app but not anywhere else .
thanks and good luck
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Works fine for me everywhere. Screenshot in the banner is from WhatsApp.
Which device do you use? ROM? Android version?
Also, please upload the Xposed log. I'll have a look
And thank you all for the appreciation. Glad you liked it!
Error log
Thanks for the quick reply I am using Nexus 4 stock , android 4.4.4 xposed installer v2.6.1 . i am attaching the xposed log for u to take a look . about the screen shoot i don't know what exactly u want me to capture since as i told the define function work perfectly within ur app . but no where else .i do see the option in sms app and whats app i can use the search and the share function but when i click on define nothing appears to happens . i hope u will find the problem and a fix .
i f u need anything else just let me know & i'll try to to reply asap .
thanks again
PunchUp said:
You're welcome
By “pops up” you mean next to the paste button?
And yes web view needs define option. Added to my to-do list! But some browsers use custom action bars. Might not work with those
Works fine for me everywhere. Screenshot in the banner is from WhatsApp.
Which device do you use? ROM? Android version?
Also, please upload the Xposed log. I'll have a look
And thank you all for the appreciation. Glad you liked it!
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Great MOD. works like charm..... Thanks.
satan77 said:
Thanks for the quick reply I am using Nexus 4 stock , android 4.4.4 xposed installer v2.6.1 . i am attaching the xposed log for u to take a look . about the screen shoot i don't know what exactly u want me to capture since as i told the define function work perfectly within ur app . but no where else .i do see the option in sms app and whats app i can use the search and the share function but when i click on define nothing appears to happens . i hope u will find the problem and a fix .
i f u need anything else just let me know & i'll try to to reply asap .
thanks again
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I meant the screenshot in my first post. The app I'm using there is WhatsApp. And since you have a Nexus, it should work without any problem.
I'll take a look at your log
Were the dictionary files copied properly. You should've seen a “Done” toast appear?
screenshots
here some screen shots just in case
i did say successfully installed ,it is 33mb 9 files . and i can define the word test within ur app .
PunchUp said:
I meant the screenshot in my first post. The app I'm using there is WhatsApp. And since you have a Nexus, it should work without any problem.
I'll take a look at your log
Were the dictionary files copied properly. You should've seen a “Done” toast appear?
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satan77 said:
i did say successfully installed ,it is 33mb 9 files . and i can define the word test within ur app .
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Oh yes you did mention that. I'm sorry. Very late here and I'm sleepy
And I don't think there are any errors related to this module in your log. Will have a look again in the morning.
No problem . tomorrow is another day . hopefully we'll find out what went wrong . thanks a lot & good night.
Hi,
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I've been an official developer on the Chromium project and WebKit in 2007 and 2008 (paid by Google as part of Google Summer of Code).
Since the feedback has been positive, I'd like to interact with the XDA community to get feedback, ideas, or just give help.
I'm a big fan of CAF Browsers, but unfortunately, they are not updated anymore and this is one of the biggest reason I've started the work.
This is *not* a variant of an existing project. The codebase varies significantly but it's conceptually inspired by CAF.
The browser is still very much work-in-progress, so I really appreciate feedback and ideas. I'm working 4 hours per day on the browser and I use it myself every day so decent stability is expected.
This is a hobby project, and I'm looking for feedback here, so I'm cool with any kind of critics.
I can only answer outside of daytime (Europe timezone) as I have to work during the day to buy food for my cats.
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Kiwi Browser
What is Kiwi Browser ?
- Kiwi Browser is a Chromium Canary that includes performance improvements and adblock.
- What's this browser for ?
Imagine a grumpy grand-pa, and that's how the browser should be. The browser should be forgotten and not go in your way.
No flashing stuff, no annoyances, Fast & Quiet.
If you want to add a search engine, just go on the search engine website, then the search engine will appear by itself in settings.
Features:
* Support for Chrome Extensions
* Speed improvements
I've added lot of crazy hacks inside WebKit (Blink) to get it running faster.
* Night mode
* Move address bar to the bottom
* Cookie acceptance
Automatically accepts lots of "Please this is GDPR, and cookie, and blablabla" messages.
It's not perfect yet, as many websites have added GDPR messages lately.
* Notifications blocker
Blocks notifications.
* Cryptojacking blocker
Saving battery and prevents phone from heating.
Try it on http://www.coinhive.com (you can re-enable cryptomining in chrome://flags if you really like it for some reason )
* Extensions support
Supports real Google Chrome extensions.
* Popup-blocker
This is not the usual popup blocker, there is an heuristic inside to browser to determine whether the new window should be opened or not.
* Adblock & Tracking protection
The browser offers much better privacy protection than Chrome and Brave. It blocks also lot of ads. Not really because ads are bad, but mostly to make the browsing fast.
* Android 4.1+ support for both ARM and X86
Note: On certain Android versions, when you uninstall an app, Android also removes your downloads.
Keep it in mind if you manipulate Kiwi (to backup bookmarks file) or transfer to another device.
Important things to know about privacy:
- No tracking SDK
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/search/com.kiwibrowser.browser/
- No in-app tracking / metrics
- No history collection
- Self-funded
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Release notes
Version Quadea (October 07, 2019)
This version improves stability and add 2 new functionalities, in Main Menu, Settings, Accessibility:
- Always Desktop.
Useful if you are a tablet user, and you prefer Desktop version of websites.
- Toolbar always on screen
If you have a large screen, and want to keep the address bar always handy without having to scroll.
The toolbar is always on by default if you have Accessibility services. You can change that using this option.
Version Lena (September 28, 2019)
This version contains new speed optimizations and fixes minor issues.
The support of shortcuts (special keywords with the exclamation mark symbol) is now extended to all countries and to all search engines. Type: !bangs in the address bar to learn more.
- Fix: Reverse image search and certain cases where the browser was showing "(f).txt".
- Fix: Keyboard buttons (example: on Android TV, or hardware arrow buttons).
- Updated interface when you have > 100 tabs open.
Translations updated in 10+ languages.
- (New) This version improves stability on Adreno GPUs (Galaxy S8/S9+)
Version Impala (September 12, 2019)
Kiwi releases are back!
This version includes fixes (Google Translate language detection, images on the new tab page) and minor changes.
Added support for bangs (shortcuts in the address bar starting with !) in 'US', 'CA', 'GB', 'UK', 'FR', 'DE', 'ES', 'IT', 'IN', 'BR'.
Type !bangs in your address bar to learn more about it (only if you use "Default search" in Settings).
Added support for X64.
Better support for foldable phones.
Version Genie (June 28, 2019)
This version supports text rewrap / reflow (adapt text based on zoom level).
+ Interface and animations are really improved
+ Better performance (new GPU driver and 64-bits engine is now in stable!)
New settings:
+ Google Translate, Yandex and Baidu (Settings, Translator)
+ Possibility to add exceptions / whitelist in content filter
+ Support for external download managers
+ Show extensions first
+ Protect incognito windows
Remember to activate Hide annoying ads in the main menu if you want faster browsing.
Version Eden (May 26, 2019)
This version resolves issue of extensions unloading.
On some devices (in particular Xiaomi), extensions may be unloaded by the system when the device wants to optimize memory.
During the optimization, the device (Android) chooses what processes to disable.
In this new release of Kiwi: Kiwi indicates to Android that if Android wants more memory, it should try to avoid disabling the current active tab and the extensions.
If the extensions are disabled by Android, Kiwi will try to reload them.
Version Deneb (May 23, 2019)
This version includes very significant performance improvements (especially when scrolling, pinching, zooming) and minor fixes.
On some older devices the difference can be very visible.
Version Centaurus (May 19, 2019)
Better stability, more performance improvements, correcting "Sandboxing not allowed" error messages.
Version Betelgeuse (May 17, 2019)
This version fixes Craigslist and adds support for Import / Export on the new tab page.
It also bring performance improvements and fixes an issue with the Search Widget in Night Mode/Black theme.
Support for extensions has been improved as well (chrome.tabs.onCreated/onUpdated/onRemoved).
Version Andromeda (May 10, 2019)
- Fix news on the homepage (can be showing NULL from time to time)
- Fix some crashes when using a tab manager extension
- Fix crash on Quick Tapping in WebView
- This build provides better protection against Omnibox spoofing (address bar) and a much better experience in the Chrome Web Store
- Improve cross-domain management with translator (can resolve some cases where translator was not working)
- Fixing crashes related to Windows Management and one in the Omnibox
- Improved extensions UI
- Improve chrome.tabs API
- Improvements to Video Playback Battery usage (+/- 10% less)
Version Pollux (May 8, 2019)
The bad news: Background play is now disabled on YouTube (request of Google).
XDA users are smart and may find better software for this in these forums and the most technical may even find way to mod the browser but I won't provide any support or help for this.
The good news:
- This version has better performance
- New content filters
- Better extensions support
- Introduces a Diamond Black theme and the homepage is compatible with Dark Reader.
Version Phi (April 19, 2019)
This version includes stability improvements and better extensions compatibility.
An issue with downloading PDF files has been resolved, and another issue where the extension window was sometimes connected to the incorrect tab.
You can now import .crx/.zip files and also user scripts (.user.js!) directly on chrome://extensions.
If you want to use or write your own filters, the extensions Nano Defender/Adbl# offer the best compatibility with Kiwi at the moment (according to the community).
Version Upsilon (April 16, 2019)
This is the 1-year anniversary release of Kiwi Browser.
This version adds support for (real) Chrome Extensions.
Learn more at: https://www.xda-developers.com/kiwi-browser-google-chrome-extensions-android/
Version Sigma (March 6, 2019)
This version includes the latest security improvements from Chromium (including the FileReader bug CVE-2019-5786)
- Fix for news feed
- Hindi and Chinese Traditional translation
- Minor fixes (ex: view-source: )
Version Omicron (March 3, 2019)
This version includes performance and stability fixes.
Most of the changes are behind-the-scenes, this is work to optimize the core of the browser.
- Homepage loads much much much faster
- Fixed crash "Aw Snap!" that happens on some rare configurations.
- Improved stability on Xiaomi devices (GPU crashing)
- Smoother animations and user experience.
Version Lambda (February 27, 2019)
Introducing Reachability: (only if the bottom toolbar is enabled).
When you press the Hand icon, it brings the top of the page into reach (the top of the page slides down).
You can enable or disable the option in Settings, Accessibility.
The function is similar to the iOS "Reachability" function.
+ TLS 1.3 final support
+ Faster homepage loading
+ Faster tab closing
+ Better battery usage
+ Improved ad blocker, popup blocker.
+ Added StartPage in search engines (new installs only)
Version Kappa (February 15, 2019)
- Fix: Issue with the news date on the home page
- Improv: Content filters
Version Iota (February 12, 2019)
- Change: Slightly refreshed UI (icons / rounded corners)
- Improv: Javascript engine is 10% faster than Chromium (try on V8 Benchmark)
- Fix: Touch not taken into account (in particular at the bottom of the screen)
- Change: Night Mode is default to 100% for new installs
- Improv: 101% Night Mode is now White text with differentiated links
- Improv: Automatically follow AMP links to non-AMP version if anti-AMP is enabled
- Improv: Better memory usage
- Improv: 400KB less
and minor bugfixes
Version Eta (January 30, 2019)
This version adds new gestures and improves the homepage.
You can now go back/next, just by swiping left or right on the edge of the page.
This can be enabled/disabled in Settings, Accessibility.
- Feature: Edge swipe to navigate history
- Feature: Improved news system (and can change news region)
- Fix: Improved content filters
- Fix: Bottom toolbar blinking
- Change: Swipe-up to open tab switcher is off by default (configurable in Settings)
Hint: You can switch tab by swiping on the toolbar.
Version Gamma (January 20, 2019)
This release includes improvements to Night Mode and major stability fixes for Android 8.0+
- Improv: Speed and stability
- Improv: Settings in Night Mode are now dark
- Improv: Responsiveness when searching or changing page
- Change: Contextual Search is disabled by default
- Fix: Crash on Android 8
- Fix: Simplied View setting is now functional
- When bottom toolbar is enabled, action buttons are now located
at the bottom (to be reachable with fingers)
Version Zucchini (December 19, 2018)
[+] Feature: Exit browser when last tab is closed (Settings, Privacy)
[+] Improv: Changing the Home page also changes the New Tab Page.
[+] Fix: Crash on Samsung devices
[+] Fix: Czech and Croatian translations
[+] Fix: Annoyances and cookie messages
[+] Feature: Integration with DuckDuckGo and Bing (some users only)
Tip: You can now switch back to the classic
New Tab Page by setting chrome://newtab as homepage in Settings
Version Yuzu (December 12, 2018)
You can now add and remove tiles/websites on the homepage.
Also, I completely removed analytics and Facebook SDK :highfive:
[+] Manage tiles on the homepage
Long-press to move or delete the tiles.
Important, to remove the news, just click on the cross (it's not deep in Settings anymore).
[+] Added Finnish translation
[+] Uses less data
[+] TLSv1.3 (better security)
[+] Improved content filter
[+] Improved privacy: Removed metrics / analytics SDK (0 tracking!)
The next step is to deliver lot of fixes and extensions.
Version Watermelon (October 23, 2018)
Good news! New release is already here, with Night Mode 2.0!
Thanks to the Kiwi community and contributors
[+] Added Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese
[+] Significant improvements to Night Mode
[+] Better compatibility with Android P
[+] Much better filter against intrusive ads
[+] Resolved issue with reCAPTCHA
Pro-tip: in Settings, Accessibility you can choose the Contrast level.
You are welcome on Discord (chat) for feedback.
Version Voavanga (October 15, 2018)
Happy release! Next release on 30th Oct
[+] Added Croatian, French, Italian and Spanish (thanks to contributors!)
[+] Improved privacy (new hosts in blacklist, user-agent same as Chrome)
[+] Fix Custom Tabs bottom bar
[+] Fixed Yandex, PayPal Communities, and more.
[+] Minor improv. to night mode
[+] Improved stability on Samsung
[+] Support for latest emojis
[+] Experimental: For 5% of the users, you can now use shortcuts, like !gt for Google Translate and try a minimalistic version of search.
Version Tangerine (October 3, 2018)
Thanks to everyone! You can join the Kiwi Dev community on Discord application: https://discordapp.com/invite/XyMppQq (hold and press "Open with external app").
Next release will arrive around 15th Oct.
- Fix: Bottom toolbar could get stuck in the middle of the screen
- Feature: Import and Export Bookmarks from a file
- Feature: Swipe-up to show Tab Selector
- Feature: Long-press on Back button to view history
- Feature: At the bottom of Accessibility preferences, you can enable/disable the simplified Tab Switcher
+ Cosmetic fixes
Version Raspberry (x86 only) (July 16, 2018)
Resolved stability issues on x86 devices
Version Macadamia/Orange/Papaya/Quenepa (July 14, 2018)
Thank you for spreading the word about Kiwi! More surprises, features and fixes to come.
This new release contains really significant speed improvements, uses less battery and videos continue to play in the background.
- Improv.: Browsing is very fast
- Improv.: Stability & battery usage
- Improv.: Background videos now autoplay when screen is locked
- Improv.: Adaptive icon
- Change: All top toolbar buttons are displayed when Duplex is on
- Fix: Content filter (Disqus login, and more)
Version Kumquat/Lychee (July 4, 2018)
This new release includes a bottom address bar and the translate functionality.
- Upgraded to Chromium 69.0.3477
- Feature: Bottom address bar (Settings, Accessibility, phone-only)
- Feature: Translate (Main menu)
- Feature: Clear data (Main menu)
- Feature: Kiwi can be moved to SD Card (on some devices)
- Improvement: Video player
The next release is planned in 10 days and will include bug fixes.
Version Jackfruit (June 17, 2018)
This version is an intermediate release that includes minor fixes.
The video player is not the final version.
- Upgraded to Chromium 69.0.3462
- Fix: Background play
- Fix: Status bar color
- Feature: AMP remover (Settings, Privacy)
- Feature: Open by default in external app (Settings, Accessibility)
- Improvement: Night mode stays on after restart (phone-only)
- Improvement: If you set more than 100% contrast, text becomes more visible in Night Mode (recommended: 101%)
Version Ilama (June 11, 2018)
This version features an improved night mode and unlocks Facebook Messenger.
- Feature: Facebook Messenger is unlocked on https://m.facebook.com
- Feature: Night mode grayscale and contrast setting
A contrast of 100% will turn off black pixels on devices with AMOLED screen.
- Fix: Dark websites becoming white in night mode
- Fix: Images incorrectly displayed in night mode
- Fix: Contextual search not working on Google (english-only)
- Fix: Annoyances and minor content filter issues
Version Hackberry (May 27, 2018)
This version gives you adblock on/off button (site per site) and several usability fixes (over 40).
Thanks to Youssef, Gala, Mickael, Nitin, Sisi, Francois, Gugun, Rasitha, Jd (merci!), Sangkan, 4esterBY and everyone who helped.
- Upgraded to Chromium 68.0.3438
- Feature: Adblock on/off (Main Menu)
- Feature: Exit button
- Improved: New Tab Page
- Improved: Layout on AMP pages
- Fix: Disable News on Homepage
- Fix: Forum threads not displayed correctly
- Fix: Issue with reCaptcha
Version Guava (May 07, 2018)
This version is more responsive and feels faster on many devices.
It also includes "Night mode", a functionality (experimental) to make websites easier to navigate in low light environments.
- Improved: Application responsiveness
- Feature: Night mode (Menu -> Turn on Night Mode)
- Feature: Disable news on Homepage (Menu -> Home page -> News on Home Page)
Version Feijoa (Apr 28, 2018)
* RECOMMENDED UPGRADE *
This version resolves most of crashes from the previous release.
This version is faster (up to 200 ms per every click) so navigation is more responsive.
Also contains:
- Feature: Setting to close all tabs on exit
- Improved: Doesn't ask anymore access to Google account
- Improved: Takes much less space on disk
- Improved: Removed annoyances on Quora, NDTV, Prothomalo, Hamariweb and more
- Improved: Auto-dismiss "Add to Home Screen"
Version Cherry (Apr 15, 2018)
- Upgraded to Chromium 67.0.3395
- Much faster release
- Fix: Clicking on button on websites did not react.
- Fix: "More results..." button from Google Search not visible.
- Feature: Homepage button.
- Feature: Screenshots work in Incognito mode.
- Feature: Delete history older than 30 days.
- Improved: Stability
- Improved: YouTube, Maps now play by default in Kiwi.
- Improved: Search terms in the top bar instead of the full URL.
- Improved: Menu when you long press on an image, or a link.
Version Blueberry (Apr 05, 2018)
Fixed ANR on First Start Screen
Fixed Privacy Policy and Terms of Service link
Downloads
- Direct APK:
ARM version: https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.kiwibrowser.browser
- Play Store link:
All platforms: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser - Play Protect certified
Commit count: 455
List of HTTP queries used in the browser:
- search.kiwibrowser.com tells you what is the closest google.com server (google.fr/google.de/google.it)
http://search.kiwibrowser.com/searchdomaincheck?format=domain&type=chrome
This is a speed reason, if you go directly to google.fr rather than google.com and then google.fr it's faster, and the browser caches this information
- update.kiwibrowser.com is to download the ad blocking list ( http://update.kiwibrowser.com/service/update2 ), yes it needs to download it from somewhere.
Brave downloads it from AWS for example. I do have the same: a text file with a list of filters
- suggest.kiwibrowser.com is a 302 to Google autocomplete (and DuckDuckGo for some users who are beta-testing Bang support)
If you change your search engine, even to the baked Google one, you won't get connected to suggest.kiwibrowser.com at all as far as I know.
At the end of the day, I need to send the query somewhere, there is no choice.
Whether Google, or DuckDuckDuck if you want Suggest, it *has* to ask a server somewhere.
You can turn Suggest off, or send Suggest to your favorite search provider by adding or selecting it.
- chromecontentsuggestions-pa is to download news - http://chromecontentsuggestions-pa.kiwibrowser.com/v1/
Hello !
I'm not reporting any issue, it's just a comment to let you know that I just downloaded and tested the app on 2 different phones, and it works very well !
There is a bit less animations compared to Brave Browser or Chromium (or maybe they're faster), but it is a bit faster on a Honor 5C.
But it seems that the big difference appears on low end devices : on an old KitKat device, it is way smoother than Brave Browser in scrolling...
Otherwise, thanks for this awesome app ! The night mode is very convenient.
Would it be possible to keep it activated after closing the app ?
I mean, the app remembering that the night mode was on for next time you use it ?
Hello,
Thanks for the nice words about the speed :victory:
I totally see what you mean about the night mode.
The night mode resets on relaunch in order to avoid incoherence (half is in night mode, half is in day mode and that looks quite ugly)
I'm sure there is a way to improve that, once it's improved, then I can remove the reset
I'll ping you on progress,
Just tested it for a few minutes on my most visited sites. With adblocking on, theverge.com doesn't show it's site logo and navigation bar. Hope you could fix that. Thanks. Nice and fast browser.
Noted, I'll fix theverge.com during the week and update you (and also remove this horrible cookie box )
Hello, Google fvcked up full screen video on canary. It doesn't work correctly since months on multiple roms. It just fails to hide the nav bar and status bar. This issue is also there on ur browser and even though it's not ur fvck up, I'd like to ask, if u can try to fix it. I have a OnePlus One currently on LOS 15.1 Oreo. The screenshot is from the video that popped up first when I launched YouTube.com but it is like that on any website.
To get even more crazy, is there anyway to bring back the URL bar at the bottom?
I think I know what it is,
Can you go to chrome://flags in the address bar
and set "New Media Controls" (#enable-new-media-controls) to "Disabled" ?
If that works, then I know what to change by default
I closely followed development of these new media controls (I am working on gestures for media playing), and they seem to be very buggy so I wouldn't be surprised if they were the cause of the fullscreen not ok.
Note: maybe it's not related to media controls, but I strongly suspect it.
Let me know if this solves the problem,
Btw, yes of course I want to fix it that's a major thing
The more I read the answer, the less I'm sure it's the cause
Let me know, I'm very curious on that one if disabling the modern media controls solves it.
Otherwise I'll find a way to reproduce.
Extremely fast and nice :good:
I don't know if it's possible, but any way to bring this kind of tabs?
extension support like yandex will benefit
Nice to see another Chromium fork, especially from my own country! ?
I have some suggestions though:
1) Please consider open-sourcing the browser for trustworthiness and copying (the more forks we have, the better they get)
2) Do consider enabling the flags in chrome://flags instead of target arguments, that would bring an easy overview of what is already enabled and what isn't.
3) I'm not sure how much you changed the ad blocking compared to the built-in one, but the menu has an option "Hide annoying ads" - would it be possible to hide all ads instead?
Is there any way to hide the status bar.. As shown in the screenshots of the browser??
I can't begin to express how much I love this browsers. It is fast, really really fast, like puffin fast. I don't know what you did but its too damn good. I have struggled to get a good browsers which offers the perfect blend of speed adblocking and ui and kiwi provides just that. It didn't took 10 min to make me fall in love with it. The adblocking works as charm. I do have adaway for ads but the cosmetic filtering is what i wanted for ages. Really keep up the good work.
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robotkoer said:
Nice to see another Chromium fork, especially from my own country! ?
I have some suggestions though:
1) Please consider open-sourcing the browser for trustworthiness and copying (the more forks we have, the better they get)
2) Do consider enabling the flags in chrome://flags instead of target arguments, that would bring an easy overview of what is already enabled and what isn't.
3) I'm not sure how much you changed the ad blocking compared to the built-in one, but the menu has an option "Hide annoying ads" - would it be possible to hide all ads instead?
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3) hide annoying ads is probably cosmetic filtering, it hides the blocked ad banner its per site option like in brave. Not sure what you mean, are u asking to rename?
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tytfusokhszxc said:
Is there any way to hide the status bar.. As shown in the screenshots of the browser??
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I don't think so, its mostly rom feature called expanded desktop.
prathu30 said:
3) hide annoying ads is probably cosmetic filtering, it hides the blocked ad banner its per site option like in brave. Not sure what you mean, are u asking to rename?
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If it really is what you claim it to be, yes, a rename would make sense too. For example, "hide ad placeholders".
Otherwise I expected it to be Adblock Plus-style where some ads are whitelisted.
LPW00 said:
To get even more crazy, is there anyway to bring back the URL bar at the bottom?
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fvck yeah
I'm working on that at the moment (along with Speed Dial and tons of fixes).
The main reason why it's not done yet is that during the switch from Chrome Home to Chrome Duplex, Google moved the code all over the place and refactored almost everything, so it's not just "reviving" the feature, but really to reimplement it.
It's planned, I have a very big (and slippery) phone, and I broke it because of no Omnibox at the bottom (my phone is more slippery than a soap bar).
khnoizer said:
Extremely fast and nice :good:
I don't know if it's possible, but any way to bring this kind of tabs?
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I have tried, it doesn't render well because the space taken is huge, but it is on the list.
I'll upload some screenshots next week I guess