arunkumar9t2 / lynket-browser

🌐 A better browser for Android using the Custom Tab protocol. Previously called Chromer.

Lynket

Android browser app based on Custom Tabs protocol.

Lynket utilizes Chrome Custom Tab API to create a customized browsing experience while adding innovative features like background loading with floating bubbles, article mode and multitasking using Android's recent menu.

Lynket is available for free on the Google Play Store.

If you have got some time, read the introduction post on my blog or watch intro Video

Features

Features	Demo
Web heads - Floating bubbles to load multiple links and launch them.
Web heads - Intelligently manages background loading of Custom Tabs using Android's overview screen. Uses Lollipop Document API.
Provider - Lynket works with any custom tab compatible browser. This means features like adblock, Google Account sync, data saver are inherited.
Article mode - Filters all unnecessary content and renders web page on a RecyclerView efficiently. Uses Crux library.
Minimize and Tabs - Lynket can minimize the tab and also show all active tabs for you to quickly switch to.

Architecture and Code Structure

Lynket is written on a MVVM Architecture and uses Dagger 2 for dependency injection. The source code is packaged based on feature.

app/src/java/<package>
	<feature_1>\
	<feature_2>\
	shared\
	utils\

Architecture

Below outlines sample structure of most screens.

Code Style

• mNo Hungarion notation.
• No Impl suffixes for interface implementations. Instead name based on what it does. Ex: AppStore and implementations AppDiskStore and AppSystemStore.
• All new modules are preferred to be written in Kotlin
• Formatting - Android Studio Default.

Contributions

You are more than welcome to contribute to Lynket's development. New features are branched off of develop . PRs are welcome against the develop branch. How you can help:

• Grab an issue from issues section that interests you.
• Unit testing using Roboelectric and Dagger 2 is already setup but coverage is rather low. Adding tests to existing features would greatly help! Refer src/test/.
• Break the ice. Feel free to create an issue to discuss your ideas.

License

Lynket is licensed under the GNU v3 Public License.

lynket-browser's Issues

Bottom color bug when incognito

Default color for toolbar is used for bottom bar color instead of webpages' for some websites, which makes the bottons nearly visible when light color is set as default.

Search bar should show suggestions from matching items in history.

Change language option

Wrong url when entering from shortcut

Open Chromer, enter url "https://www.v2ex.com" and visit, create shortcut from Menu -> More -> Add To Home Screen, back to launcher to open this shourtcut, it's ok.

Now, delete this shortcut, open Chromer again, enter url "https://hk.v2ex.com" and visit, also create a shortcut, open this shortcut, it will open "https://www.v2ex.com" instead of "https://hk.v2ex.com".

Blacklist links for dynamic toolbar color

Allow changing text size in article mode

Also allow users to save their desired size so they don't have to change it every time.

Incognito toggle switch turning off by itself while incognito is enabled

However, incognito is not disabled.
Video

Create a round icon for 7.1

Suggestion: Hide Chromer Options from menu when bottom bar is enabled

Not able to run

@arunkumar9t2
I am getting this error while running this project:

Error:Project :app declares a dependency from configuration 'compile' to configuration 'default' which is not declared in the descriptor for project :RxSuggestions:library.

Some apps like Instapaper causes CCT to not open when user sets the app as favorite share app.

This is caused by TransactionTooLargeException. The app icon is too large to successfully marshall leading to this exception. Possible fix is to normalize the icon bitmap before sending it to CCT.

/system/lib/libhwui.so Crash.

Seeing this crash reported from people trying to use web heads. Based on a cursory check its thrown from JNI and can be caused when switching view layer type. This stack overflow answer says to try switching layers by posting runnable to view handler.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19614526/android-crash-system-lib-libhwui-so

What is causing this? (image in discription)

Is this a problem with translations?

Same page opens in new tab when Chromer fails to load a page in article view

Recovering session or recently closed tabs

I use Chromer in web heads mode. Occasionally I have had all webheads disappear, prseumably due to a crash. Some I think sometimes it Chromer has asked me to reopen old tabs when restarted but not today.
Is there a way to try and make it reopen recently closed tabs without being prompted? I can not find anything like that in the menus

illegal start of expression

Error Apk build
Error: illegal start of expression

Improve Draw over other apps permission handling for M+

Seeing crash reports thrown when trying to open web heads and it crashes due to missing permission.

Encoding problem in search bar

Hi, i have a problem with Turkish characters in search area. They are not displaying correctly. (e.g. "ö" "ç")
Screenshot here:

Is it possible to use app's own webview?

Some apps have their own webview for photos/links, but chromer forces me to choose a secondary browser for blacklisted apps.
Is there any way to stick with webview for those particular apps?
Thanks!

Handle browser intent from other apps properly. Sometime settings is opened instead of browser activity.

Currently some apps can send ACTION_VIEW intents targeting the MainActivity instead of BrowserInterceptActivity. This can happen when apps try to do getLaunchIntentForPackage() instead of manually targeting the specific component. Need to add defensive code to handle the case in MainActivity. Some apps that do this: Join, Link bubble etc.

Dynamic toolbar color causes Chromer to crash frequently

It crashes

Japanese Character Encoding

Refactor home screen with bottom navigation bar.

Migrate to RxJava 2

Add system bars dimming to article mode for immersive reading

Reference : https://github.com/googlesamples/android-AdvancedImmersiveMode/blob/master/Application/src/main/java/com/example/android/advancedimmersivemode/AdvancedImmersiveModeFragment.java

Ignore google search urls for Article modes.

Attempting Article extraction on a google search URL mostly fails or gives gibberish text. It is better to ignore extraction and load full URL for these cases.

Refactor bottom bar in Chrome Custom Tabs

Current implementation of bottom bar uses deprecated method for displaying bottom bar. Need to refactor this to use RemoteViews and also consider reducing the bottom bar height.

Cannot open links from YouTube app

Allow changing default search engine.

Web head not usable when device is rotated.

Currently if device is rotated after web head service is created, it is not possible to close the web heads and they stay in the middle of the screen.

Unable to build in Android Studio

I can't build the app in Android Studio (both stable and beta).

2017-09-18 22:12:21,218 [ thread 15]   WARN - ect.sync.idea.ProjectSetUpTask - Project :app declares a dependency from configuration 'compile' to configuration 'default' which is not declared in the descriptor for project :RxSuggestions:library.
Consult IDE log for more details (Help | Show Log) 
2017-09-18 22:12:21,219 [ thread 15]   INFO - e.project.sync.GradleSyncState - Gradle sync failed: Project :app declares a dependency from configuration 'compile' to configuration 'default' which is not declared in the descriptor for project :RxSuggestions:library.
Consult IDE log for more details (Help | Show Log) (24s 979ms) 

editing a source code

Error:Project :app declares a dependency from configuration 'compile' to configuration 'default' which is not declared in the descriptor for project :RxSuggestions:library.

FDroid?

Can you make this available on FDroid?

Refactor all parsing code with the new Crux library.

Make Lynket implement Custom Tab protocol by itself.

Even though Lynket was meant to allow apps to use Custom Tabs by default, it never registered as a Custom Tab provider itself.

Make it implement Custom Tab protocol leads to lot of interesting advances. For example, we could use mayLaunchUrl to preload web site metadata/amp/article etc.

On a more important note, we can even do a pass through like functionality, where we can take the Bundle provided by client app and forward it to desired Custom Tab provider. This is useful for some users who prefer Lynket not take over if the app already implements CCCT.

Allow changing text size in article mode.

[Links] Product Hunt Newsletter links open the same page.

This bug was fixed in a previous version of Chromer, but for some links, this has appeared to persist in the latest version.

To clarify, if I open any link in an email by Product Hunt, they will all lead to the same page.

Add Adaptive Icon for Oreo

Allow custom names for Chromer shortcuts and implement new Oreo API

When you open a web page then go to Context Menu > More > Add to Home Screen, the Chromer shortcut gets the title of the page for its name. This is annoying on websites that do not have descriptive titles on every page. Please add a pop-up to give the shortcut a custom name if desired.

Buttom bar customization

add or remove buttons

Focus back button bug

Pressing the back button does not properly close a Focus custom tab (using slide over mode). It leaves the "erase browsing history" notification active, whereas it should instead perform the same action that pressing the "x" in the upper left does (thereby removing this notification).

Thank you, and keep up the great work!

Unify color of bottom bar buttons with color of website address

Differentiate between adding a Chrome shortcut to the home screen and a Chromer shortcut

Enhancement request: There are 2 options called "Add to Home Screen" - one in the context menu and one accessible from "More." The first adds a link that opens in Chrome and the latter opens in Chrome. Please rename these to clarify which is a browser shortcut and which launches Chromer.

Remove Flipboard bottomsheet and migrate to Support lib's bottom sheet.

Having both unnecessarily increases app size and method count. Needs reimplementing IntentPickerSheetView too.

Chrome is shown as the provider when Canary is set as the provider

Powered by Chrome?

Match color in recents with action

The color of the recent card of chromer should match that of the action bar if possible.

Conflicts with DeAMPify

The app doesn't work well with DeAMPify.

Could you make the app compatible or should I ask DeAMPify's dev?

Keep toolbars always visible

Crash when non text items are copied on the clipboard and then trying to search.

Add support for cct in the nav ring

I 'd like to put a cct in the nav ring (gets visible when you swipe from bottom to top over the home button) Currently only Chromer as the app itself can be put there, but not a cct with specific URL.