EinkBro Web Browsers app for Android description
Its a lightweight browser to provide powerful features designed for Eink devices.
E-Ink specific features
- pageUp / pageDown / Back button on toolbar
- Physical volume keys for pageUp/pageDown
- Tapping on screen left/right edge for pageUp/Down (finger button on toolbar)
- Desktop mode feature
- All icons in high contrast colors
- Tab count count toolbar
- Font size change button
- Bold font button
- Reader mode
- Vertical Read mode
Basic UI/Handling:
- optimized for one hand handling (toolbar at bottom)
- tab control (switch, open, close unlimited tabs)
- full material design
- fullscreen browsing (optional)
- navigation button in fullscreen mode
- fast toggle for most important settings
- advanced gesture control for toolbar and navigation button
Some nice extra features:
- small size
- search on site
- open links in background
- Websearch (from marked text context menu)
- screenshots of the whole website
- share/save as PDF
- open links in other apps (for example YouTube)
Permissions that may be used
- INTERNET: its a browser, so its expected.
- READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: for saving web page as PDF or epub file, and for downloading files.
- INSTALL_SHORTCUT: to install web shortcuts on Home.
- ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION: when using some navigation web site, or some web service that needs location, these permissions are needed.
