yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
Normally it will take some time before all markets are updated.
[Android Apps and Games] SwiftLegend:
Edit: nevermind
[Android Apps and Games] TheBiles:
I'm not seeing the paid version in the US Market.
[Android Apps and Games] XlAfbk:
Donate doesn't show up in Market in Germany either (neither Web nor phone).

Request: Until you implement a customizable quick controls area, could you please hardcode it to a value like 0x15? That'll benefit users with lowered DPI and won't change anything for users with default DPI, for you it's a quick fix till you find the time to implement a proper option.
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
I'll update the free version for now with the new gesture functionality. So it will be the same as the donation version. In the end the donation version will be a full version with many more features. But for now I keep them equal.
[Android Apps and Games] djmcnz:
You just got my donation.... now!

Keep it up man.

Edit: "Order cancelled due to internal error in Market" lol - okay, very soon then... :)

Edit2: Fixed...
[Android Apps and Games] Redflea:
Same here, repeated failed downloads, goes to the end and then fails. Downloads are no issue with other browsers...something isn't right.
[Android Apps and Games] TheBiles:
Not sure if this is a bug, but I can't pull down the page to get to the address bar and settings menu. I can only change the page by long pressing a tab.
[Android Apps and Games] djmcnz:
Don't get too bummed out about market feedback. But perhaps you announce a "feature lockdown" on the free version sometime and then continue development on the donate version. Perhaps occasionally cross-porting new functionality.

If you address any outstanding bugs then announce Browser+ (free) as complete, people can't complain (of course they will) - it will be a great, stable, feature rich browser.

Although it might suck for those without a paid market option... ?

Just don't feel bad, you've already made such a +v difference.
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
Thanks. Yeah, no problem. Just a lot of work, I thought it was time to split some things out. I guess I do that later. I just want to keep working on this. A few market trolls will not keep me from that :)
[Android Apps and Games] Nebucatnetzer:
IIRC you have to press the world icon to open the address bar. At least if you're using the quick controls.
[Android Apps and Games] TheBiles:
Bam! Thank you! I assumed that was a home key.
[Android Apps and Games] mobilehavoc:
Bought the donate version - hoping for bigger/better things to come. Keep up the good job :)
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
Appreciate it. Thanks. Expect a lot more thing to come. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Redflea:
Are you looking into the failed download issue that several of us have reported? Any info you'd like to help do so?
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
Ya I will, unfortunately I can't reproduce it. But I will dive into it.
[Android Apps and Games] esoomenona:
Clearing cache and data didn't change anything.

edit: and I still can't see the donate version of the browser in the Market... :/
[Android Apps and Games] rjax:
Donate version is now showing up in the US Market for me.

Can't wait for more functions to be assigned to the gestures!
[Android Apps and Games] Nebucatnetzer:
I just noticed it with download links from dropbox.

More specifically with this one.

http://www.box.com/s/zf4652eggxpo2i2tjvtc

It downloads fine until 99% and when it normally would save the file it stops and says the download was unsuccessful.
[Android Apps and Games] rgbc:
Donate version is now in the Canadian market. Donated, awesome browser.
[Android Apps and Games] esoomenona:
Okay, so searching for ICS Browser in the Market brought up no results. Neither did clicking on "More from this developer". But I searched the package name, com.beansoft.browserpluspro, and voila, there it is. Purchased.
[Android Apps and Games] rgbc:
I was able to dl a couple of files from the above link with no issues via 3g/h, haven't had problems downloading anything else either with this browser.
[Android Apps and Games] jjhiza:
Really glad to see this out of Beta! The work going into this is amazing, and I always support our devs, so I nabbed the donate version. The gestures are really a nice addition, even though I have capacitive buttons to work with. I've said it before, but between this, and Nova Launcher, ICS has eclipsed all of my expectations. Keep up the fantastic work!

D3 CM9 Alpha 4
[Android Apps and Games] Redflea:
i've found the issue to be intermittent...can happen steadily for a while and then work, and then stop working again.

i had success one time wiping caches and rebooting, but no idea if that actually helped, or if it just decided to work again for some reason.

it's maddening, of course, as the download looks perfect down to the last second and then fails...sort of like watching your favorite team drive for the last winning touchdown and then fumble at the 1 yard line. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] yongxian:
great app, now i can set UA to iphone to watch html5 video.
[Android Apps and Games] dwang:
I don't think its specific to this browser. I've experienced it with stock as well.
[Android Apps and Games] Redflea:
The problem is that it's very common with this browser, to the point that i had to stop using this browser and fall back to the stock browser or boat browser...

it may be present in stock, it's front and center (for me and some others evidently) in this one.
[Android Apps and Games] rgbc:
Is this an issue on 3g and wifi or just 3g, just curious as I haven't experienced this problem at all but it seems to be affecting several people on the forum, wondering if it could be a rom/kernel, baseband or provider issue.
[Android Apps and Games] itsjusttim:
Amazing job btw. This is easily my favorite browser on Android and really is how stock should be. All your improvements are great.

Purchased the donate as soon as I found it existed. Great job! Looking forward to more updates.

Btw, no issues dl anything through this browser for me.
[Android Apps and Games] Redflea:
Good question...I tried changing between 4G and wifi, didn't appear to help.
[Android Apps and Games] lonathe:
There's a bug in the lastest version. The address bar no longer appears when you perform a down swipe.i suspect it has to do with the new gestures option. It's really annoying and makes the browser unusable for now, since im on the leaked sgsii ics rom where the scrolling is slow as hell and i cant scroll to the top to change tabs. Hope it.gets fixed soon.

edit: it works occasionally, only ~5% of the time.
[Android Apps and Games] Nebucatnetzer:
As I said one page before. You have to click on the world icon in the quick controls to open the address bar.
[Android Apps and Games] runner1717:
So how do you bookmark a page?

Mike
[Android Apps and Games] lonathe:
That is true, yes. However the address bar doesnt appear when you swipe down in the normal fullscreen mode (without quick controls).
[Android Apps and Games] rgbc:
When I turn off the quick controls the address bar swipes down in full-screen, works exactly the same as the stock browser.

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Menu button/Save to bookmarks.
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
Right, that's definitely something to work on. For now, the stock way is to open the menu (vertical dots) and select "save to bookmarks". I hope to add a button to the bookmark tab itself for this.

I will also add at some point some customizable quick controls, so one can do it directly with a quick control. (maybe also make it one of the functions to assign to the new gestures)
[Android Apps and Games] orion2001:
lonathe, that is how it should be I believe. I currently have the Stock ICS Browser and if you enable the quick controls, the address bar does not pop up when you scroll down. I personally hate it when it pops up the moment I scroll upwards, so I'm really happy with the context menu. It is easy enough to pull up the quick controls and click on the Browser/World icon to pull up the address bar.

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Appelflap. Great work! I really like it so far. I had one feature request, and I'm not sure if it would be possible to implement.

Right now, the quick controls pop up the moment you tap on the edge of the screen. Would it be possible to instead have it pop up only if you slide your finger in from the edge of the screen?

The reason I ask is because the one frustration with using quick controls on both your browser and the stock browser is that it makes it next to impossible to click on any link at the edge of the screen. This can get quite frustrating and a simple solution would be for simple taps at the screen edge to register as clicks rather than pop up the quick control panel.

Thanks and all the best with developing the browser! :)
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
I can create some controls to fine tune the behavior of it. I myself would love to add a vertical scrollbar, but because of the exact same reason it is impossible to have it with the quick controls enabled.
[Android Apps and Games] orion2001:
Great to hear! I wish you all the best with developing the Browser and I hope this takes off for you :). If this does end up being highly successful, try not going overboard and bloating the browser up like Dolphin Browser if possible ;).

I'm glad with ICS coming about, a lot of apps like Browsers and Launchers are getting rebooted and essentially de-bloated again :)
[Android Apps and Games] d-iivil:
Just dropped in to say I purchased the donate version. Thanks for the great work dude :)
[Android Apps and Games] chris3g:
I'm not sure if most people like it the way it is and it's just me, but i hate that closing the last tab in the stock browser quits the app. Usually when i close the last tab i just want to get back to a clean home window, exactly how dolphin browser does it. Any chance of adding this as an option?
[Android Apps and Games] esoomenona:
I love it the way it is. I set the home page to a blank page, and I like to close all tabs before I close the app so that when I reopen it, I get a clean home window. If I plan on still using the browser, I open a new tab, close the old one, and keep moving, or just use the same tab to do what I need to.
[Android Apps and Games] Rahshaka:
Gesture Settings

Can you please explain the gesture settings to me? I don't really understand what 200% means. If the setting is 100% do I have to swipe the entire width of the screen? If it's 200% do I have to swipe the whole screen twice as fast?

Thanks BTW, this is what the Stock ICS Browser should have been.
[Android Apps and Games] phegard:
gesture suggestion

Very satisfied browsing app. Google dev team should learn about this :)

Anyway, I have suggestion to gesture function.

What about add "Slide to top & down" gestures?

"Slide to up" to Go to top of the page // "Slide to down" to Go to bottom of page.

It has already quick panels to move back & forward, so...
[Android Apps and Games] datacreek:
I guess for some the new gestures are neat but with the popup menu it's so easy to navigate that imo they really aren't necessary.

Now to what I think is necessary to make this a perfect browser.

Tab History and exit with clear cache and/or history.

I'm all over the donation version if/when that happens.

I just hope it doesn't get too feature ridden (bloated)

Thanks and I'm loving it, just could love it a bit more with the above.
[Android Apps and Games] esoomenona:
I think I might have an idea for those who are having trouble downloading things, so I pose a question:

when you download, do you close the browser or leave it in the foreground?
[Android Apps and Games] alostpacket:
Really just what the browser needed :)

One quick question:

Any plans/thoughts for putting this on GitHub or otherwise opening the source? Seeing as much is from ICS/HC.

I would gladly donate (not that a single donation means much, but I figure it's worth adding)

(also I searched the thread for this but could not find anything)

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[Android Apps and Games] orion2001:
I am also curious about this. Since this is based of the stock browser, does that mean that this work will also be open source? I only ask because I am learning Java programming in my spare time for fun and this seems like something interesting to delve into if it were open source :).

With regards to features, a couple of questions/suggestions:

1) Sortable/re-arrangable bookmarks would be nice. I hate that the stock browser does not let you arrange the bookmark sequence...especially because the bookmarks widget displays pages in the same sequence as in the browser.

2) Is there any possibility to tweak how backgrounding on the browser is handled to improve multitasking performance? I've noticed that on the stock ICS browser, my pages end up reloading quite frequently when I switch back to the browser after being in a couple of other apps. With 1GB of RAM, I really don't think having 2-3 tabs open should result in the browser being killed after a while.
[Android Apps and Games] rjax:
This would be huge. Is there any way you can exploit the browser's ability to save pages for offline viewing to prevent reloads?
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
Might have a look at it. A basic feature imho any browser should have is a option to clean everything and start with a clean browser. But that may depend on my browser usage. A lot of times I just want to start a whole new browser session and get rid of the all open tabs and open pages. There will be a feature "close all tabs except the current one", but I might also add an option to reset the browser to its initial state, just to start a new browser session.

If there are any suggestions or usability tips for this, please let me know

First, I think the Android development team is just not in a position to create a browser with all the extra options I'm adding to it. From a usability perspective this would create a browser that is way to complex to use for the average user who just picks up an android phone and starts playing with it. It is great that they open sourced the browser so that features can be added and users can download it as an alternative if they want to. (maybe in the future they will release a browser with add on options)

As for the gesture settings: the "sensitivity" refers to the velocity of the swipe movements. It relaxes (or constraints) the velocity threshold. The vertical distance for a swipe to be registered and slope deviance is hard coded. (I may tweak this more to optimize swipe movements for phones. Now it is mainly optimized for tablets)

See above for my comment about the Android dev team. I also want to add that I don't want to steal their thunder. They did an amazing job and if you see the code, you know what I mean. It's just wonderful. One of the best Object Oriented designs I've ever seen. It is so well designed that adding extra features to it is almost a breeze.

Absolutely, more gestures to come. In particular multitouch gestures.

As for the redundancy, the browser has two modes, a tablet mode and a phone mode (modes that are triggered by the size of the screen). On a tablet the swipe gestures are very comfortable, and in my opinion, better than using the back button or quick controls. On a phone it might be not as comfortable (but maybe with a little tweaking it will)

Agreed. Good suggestion, see also my comment above.

I will do all I can to not make this bloatware. Where it is possible I make a new feature an option and if the option isn't used it will not affect the behavior of the stock browser.

Good question, I'm still trying to debug this. Any new observations from people that have this problem are welcome

I will look if I can team up with the CM team when they are going to work on the browser and will gladly put some additions to their browser on GitHub.

1) Added to the the todo list.

2) Will work on this later. Not absolute top priority for the moment.
[Android Apps and Games] lonathe:
Wait a moment. There has been some misunderstanding.

I've been using the browser since beta 0.1.

In the 0.1 version (and the samsung-modified ics browser), swiping down a bit (i.e scrolling upwards a little) while on a webpage would summon the address bar. Note that this would work as long as the quick-controls setting was not on (that is, even in fullscreen mode) I found this incredibly useful for switching tabs while midway on a page.

However version 1 seems to be broken this feature. Swiping down no longer causes the address bar to appear. I can still get it to work from time to time, but it's definitely a bug. I've tried resetting the settings, reinstalling the app, and even wiping the phone (had to flash a new firmware anyway). Still broken.

I'm confident that it's not a device specific bug since it only stopped working after the update. If someone could link me the 0.1/0.11 version I will be able to confirm it.

Edit: when I say version 0.1 / 0.11 it really means Beta 1 and Beta 1.1.6

Edit2 : I managed to find the Beta 1.1.6 .apk from this most excellent site. Just as expected the "swipe down for address bar" feature works as per normal. Thus concludes my investigation. It is a bug with release version 1. Again, I will continue hoping that this bug gets fixed soon. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] vashburn23:
thanks for this! i'll use it as my default browser now, 'coz i feel that this is faster than the stock browser.. :D
[Android Apps and Games] daandman:
Agreed on both of these points. In regards to bookmarks multi-select would be awesome as well, as I don't keep any of the stock bookmarks & it's pretty annoying having to delete them individually every time I flash a new rom.

Also I think it's been mentioned but the one thing that bothers me in this browser compared to the stock browser is that I need to scroll all the way to the top to get the address bar& menu buttons as opposed to just a quick swipe bringing them up in stock.
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
Thanks for reporting this. I will create a fix for this in the next version.
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
It's a bug that is introduced in the last version. It will be fixed in the next version
[Android Apps and Games] oilfighter:
My ICS broswer plus updated itself the other day, and I found the volume button up/down to page up/dow. Since then, this has become my default browser. Well done! I love it.

Not sure if you've added this feature, but can we get a swype gesture to bring up the tabs page?
[Android Apps and Games] jjhiza:
Just flashed Thor's ICS ROM, and I'm loving the added functionality I get with this! I thought it was great on my D3, but it's even better on a tablet! Thank you again for all the hard work!

Acer A500 Thor ICS v80
[Android Apps and Games] vibranturk:
i m the dev of both sgs+vibrant ICS Doctor's Roms

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1442176

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1442169

if you let ı want to use your bowser as a default browser at my next update.

When i last tryied-i dont remember- it installed from market but needs stock browser. I want to use your browser without stock browser file???

it is possible? Can you fix that issue?

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and also thanks to dev for hard work and good browser;)
[Android Apps and Games] appelflap:
Update 1.01

V 1.0.1

bug fix:

show URL bar again after short flick down (when quick controls are not activated)
[Android Apps and Games] dnoyeb:
Wheres the source code?
[Android Apps and Games] daandman:
Perfect, got the URL menu back! :D
[Android Apps and Games] double1:
Holding volume down scrolls continuously but holding volume up only scrolls once. I'd be nice if volume up would scroll continuously so I wouldn't have to keep pressing it to get to the top of the page.
[Android Apps and Games] rlivin:
i have tried both, no luck
[Android Apps and Games] d-iivil:
I suffer from the download failed -bug aswell. Need to use Opera for downloads :/
[Android Apps and Games] wayne710:
Feature requests

I have been using the ICS Browser+ for about 10 days and overall I like it better than all the other browsers I have used. I have a Xoom wifi and had not come accross this thread until tonight so it was very interesting to read thru it and follow the browser's developement. Thanks for all the work that has been done to improve the stock brower to get it to its present form. I purchased the paid version tonight as soon as I found out that it existed.

A couple features I hope you will add in the near future to this app is the ability to show bookmarks in list form and the ability to custom sort them. The Honeycomb browser (where I learned about the great functionality of Quick Controls) had the bookmark listing function but not the sorting function.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] ingalik:
This is awesome! Thank you so much!

Works perfect on my Vibrant with ICS Passion.
[Android Apps and Games] esoomenona:
Alright, after enough reading and firsthand experience, I've come to realize it's not just this browser, I have the same problem in the stock browser (that is, having problems with downloads failing at the last second). A lot of people have the same problem with various other browsers. So I'm led to believe it's a problem with the OS itself. I wonder if it's with a specific version. I'm on 4.0.3
[Android Apps and Games] rlivin:
yes the stock browser does it some times, dolphin has never failed me though. so for some reason i dont know, the stock browser and ics browser must be missing something that dolphin does right.
[Android Apps and Games] Redflea:
Same with Boat browser...works. Stock fails sometimes, this one seems to fail more. Love it otherwise.
[Android Apps and Games] wayne710:
I have not experienced any download dropouts and I download quite a bit from a Motorola Xoom, including TeamEOS ICS. 4.0.3 Nightlies. Perhaps it could be related to the OS version?

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[Android Apps and Games] Redflea:
I'm on 4.0.3...
[Android Apps and Games] SwiftLegend:
Would it be possible to add a inverted web page option for easy night time reading
[Android Apps and Games] rgbc:
You can invert the colours under settings/accessibility/inverted rendering
[Android Apps and Games] SwiftLegend:
Yes, hut, that's nit actual night time reading ,that's just colors being inverted. A few browsers have night time reading settings and it is a lot different than the inverted color setting. If you have the premium xda app, you can are what I mean.
[Android Apps and Games] rgbc:
I guess you mean the simple display in the xda app, it is different than full inverted colours for sure, just never thought of it as night mode, just a dark theme.
[Android Apps and Games] xharry:
Please add a fast dial.
[Android Apps and Games] phegard:
+1

It would be much nicer to put "Inverted color" button in Quick controls :)
[Android Apps and Games] Lobo13:
+1 for this and second - toggle fullscreen in quick controls
[Android Apps and Games] rjax:
Since this isn't top priority, I'm wondering if maybe you could insert a setting so that the user can manually tell the browser to save all open tabs for offline reading. (If I have one or two tabs open, it's easy to do myself with the setting as-is, of course -- but it's also much less likely I'll experience reloads with only one or two tab open).

A +1 to this. I prefer full screen browsing, but would really like a quick way to occasionally check the notification bar without fearing reloads from hitting the home button.