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[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
I see you mention that the Startpage IS COMING....and by all means...I dont want to confuse or add more work to an already hardworking developer, but could I come with a suggestion to check out the Startpage of the already mentioned Open source project: UltimateBrowserProject.

It has THE DEFINITELY BEST Startpages of any browser I've ever used...nicely design (fitting right in to YOUR browser), easily editable and used absolutly NO TIME TO LOAD. And the most important of all...with this kind of thumbnail overview of your pages, and for a person with 15-20-30 links on the startpage, it lets you find your desired link in seconds without even the need of reading the title. (Added an example screenshot)
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Every suggestion is welcome :) I will do ly best to get a good solution ;)

Today I've created the new AdBlocker. It works very well :) Now I'm searching for some more increasements, for example to block phishing etc.

4 All: Here is the current to do list:

1. Finalizing the AdBlocker. Will be done at the end of this day :)

2. Adding and finalizing the settings. There are some changes, which needs some modifications in different classes. I think, I can do this in the next 2 or 3 days.

3. Adding a new viewpager. I've found a very very good one, but it needs major changes to get it to work (as this app works with views and the new viewpager library only works with fragments and doesn't contain some needed features). It can take at least 2 days, but maybe some days more. Can't say that for sure.

4. a) Create an updater for the databases. I'm very new with SQLite, so I need some tests until it may work. I hope it should not take more than one evening.

4. b) To get categoric bookmarks, there will be a new database for the folders. It's easy to work with, but I need some testing for the cursors. For regular there is one cursor for one listview. Now there will be one for the folders and one for the entries of each folder. That's new to me too, but I'm looking forward to learn it now.

5. Adding new Intro and Credit activities. I've completely removed the libraries for them, because I want to use an own implementation instead. Should be done in even one more evening.

6. Adding the StartPage. I've a good concept for it, so I hope you will like it when it's done.

That's it. If I haven't forgot anything, there are only a few more minor things to do.

This weekend I'm traveling to a friend, so there is not much time for programming. But I do my best to finish the to do list as fast as possible. When done, I share the strings here for localizations :)

So best regards and have a nice week!
[Android Apps and Games] primaleph:
I notice SwiftKey flow (entering words by swiping instead of tapping) isn't working in the latest beta. Not sure if Swype is affected also. This seems only to apply to the address/search bar. On website text fields, flow / swiping works.

Is this a known issue already?
[Android Apps and Games] Sr. Zé Alguém:
It happens here too. Both predictions and flow don't work in address bar.

And while talking about keyboard, I think keyboard should be closed when a side panel is open, but it's not happening.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Thanks, no it's an unknown issue until now. I will try to fix it.
[Android Apps and Games] primaleph:
Much appreciated.

I'm getting frequent crashes that may be related. I'll have a log for you soon.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
I've found one issue in the databases which can be related to the crashes. I've created one global static class to save memory. That works much different than before so there needs to be some more changes. It's on the way and easy to fix, so I currently need no more logs :)
[Android Apps and Games] Chunnye:
Beta Tester

I would like to be a beta tester.How can o do It ?
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
You can download the beta from this thread. Next beta is coming today or tomorrow :)
[Android Apps and Games] D4rkV0iD:
I like the tab 3D animation when I switch or open a new tab. I hope the new version contains this. ?

About the bookmarks:

I know that the Chrome bookmark syncing is not available for 3rd party browser but I think the best solution would be the .html import/export. The desktop Chrome support the bookmark exporting to html file.
[Android Apps and Games] Sr. Zé Alguém:
Even though I think importing for Chrome is possible until Lollipop (as I posted before), I also think the best is bookmarks exporting to file, as I don't use Chrome.

I have seen some other WebView-based browsers using a html format compatible with old age Netscape bookmarks html format.

Also, if SaschaHa implements exporting of settings, it could include bookmarks. Maybe in Json format?
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
New beta with fully working (final) AdBlocker is online.

Now let's search for a better tab manager :p

To all the new posts here: I've noticed all suggestions, currently I don't have the time to reply. Please don't take it personal, I will answer them next week ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Osh1:
Coming along nicely, :D
[Android Apps and Games] dchrono:
Is the latest download working for you? It seems like a dead link.
[Android Apps and Games] piersplowman:
Still works for me
[Android Apps and Games] dchrono:
Working for me too now, guess it was just that once I tried, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] hadi_rena:
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[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Hey, today I've added two new features:

1. Show links and files

2. Take screenshot

The first one is very usefull, it extract all links from the html code, and adds them to a dialog. All these files and links are seperated into images, videos, audio files, browser scripts and links. When clicking on one of the, a new dialog appeas (that one which is used for long clicks on pictures or links), where you have full control about the url :) For example you can easy find all (non-encrypted) videos, which are on a website, and download them.

The screenshot feature captures only the web page itself, so no statusbar or adressbar is drawn :) The screenshots get saved in sdcard/Pictures/Slimperience/. The filename is in the form WebsiteTitle_yyyymmdd_hhmmss, so it's structured a little bit ;)

Here are 2 screenshots. One of the list dialog and one of the drawer (where you find the new features).

Have a nice day :)
[Android Apps and Games] AviralOmar:
Maybe you can push the stable update now because I think the betas are doing pretty good now.:good:
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
It's not finally ready for update, because it would crash by reading the 'old' databases. If that's working, it get's released ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Flyingboy:
Hello, the new beta is great. I have little issues with adblocker and French adds. For example basketinforum.com where it remains an add at the bottom. When you slide between tabs you have one add (media clic) that remains and let an empty page. It's not the case with CS Browser or others

Is it possible in the future to add a list manually to the adblocker (i.e. easy-list.fr)

By the way, i had a lot of crashes when i open the app. Don't know why.
[Android Apps and Games] androidgaming:
Really Amazing Work!

Never seen such a light weight browser with so many features. Seems like a java app :P But simply amazing! Well done man! I hope you will add more features and keep it the light weight browser ever! :) :good:
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Thanks :) The force closes are related to an abstract class for all the databases. I've changed some methods, so the upcoming beta should be more stable.

For adding new ad hosts I've also added a 'Black list' database, which is not accessable in the current beta, but it will be in the next one :)

Great to hear :) The progress for the update to 2.0 is around 95%. When this update is finished and released, more features will be added :) The to-do list is long [emoji14]
[Android Apps and Games] tiodie:
Hi,

I've been using this new version for some days and it looks great. Some months ago I posted a request to create the option to block images from websites when you are not connected to WiFi, but I can't find it. Is it in the TODO list?

Anyway, thanks for your great work
[Android Apps and Games] jetta20162:
Possible bug: when i play a video from a page and then close the tab, the video continues playing in the background (tested in private mode)
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
I've added it today, on next build it's working :)

I will solve it now, thanks. On next build it will work properly :)
[Android Apps and Games] SDMU:
Can you keep background playback in case of youtube . That would be awesome !
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
That's only possible with a Service instead of an Activity. It's planned to add such a Service too, but not with this update ;)
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Now here is a new beta:

Changes:

1. Screenshot feature (needs "write to memory" permission)

2. A link finder as described some days ago

3. Settings are now better sorted and hopefully more clear

That's one of the last betas. Most of the features are working good now, so I can now create the database update methods.
[Android Apps and Games] Flyingboy:
Settings are better and so is the browser ;)

Little question : where is the blacklist of the adblocker?

I would like to add some website and can't do it.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Not linked yet. I'm creating it right now and fixing the databse issues ;)
[Android Apps and Games] daywalk3r666:
can you fix the server login like in the playstore version

1st screen is the current beta

2nd screen is the playstore version
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
So now I've added a feature, whichs has been requested a long time ago: A language chooser. Will get published soon :)

Oh yes, thanks! I couldn't try it for myself yet. Will fix it now and upload a new beta this evening.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Please try this one :)

Changes:

1. Added language chooser (Settings -> General -> Language). Currently there are only English and German, more will come with the final update.

2. Hopefully fixed the log in dialog.
[Android Apps and Games] daywalk3r666:
thx for the fast fix
[Android Apps and Games] Osh1:
Hi Sascha

The beta looks good,

One glitch that seems to be in the beta and slimperience pro is that when you enter a search in google web page the sub links like "shopping" "images" "maps" "tools" will only move across a fraction at time,this is same in portrait and landscape,scrolls across normally in chrome,
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Hi, that's related to the ViewPager which I'm currently using for the tabs. It overrides horizontal swipe gestures, so such views are not working properly. For the final version I want to use a different one, so that's currently only a placeholder. This night I have time to try different ones, hopefully I find a good solution :D
[Android Apps and Games] Flyingboy:
Thanks for the quick response. Would it be possible to add a website in the blacklist like in the white list?
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
No the black list is not just the opposite of the white list. The white list is for full websites / domains (for example xda-developers.com), whereas the blacklist is only for some elements on these websites (these ones which contain ads). So when blacklisting a website domain like xda, the whole website would not be accessable anymore. So I need to add it to the dialog, which appears when clicking on links or other elements, or to the settings itself. I prefer the last one, because it's more safe for users.
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
It's really "getting there" SaschaHa, its looking nicer and nicer every beta.....excellent work.

I have a question, and please DONT take it as pressure or anything...its just for satisfying my curiosity; I have been using Slimperience for a long time, and was requesting a sort of homepage with thumbnails or similar for your selected pages....you then always said "working on it"

Now I have seen here that you also say that you are working on a startpage so my question is; is this planned for the "final" release (after these betas) or is it still going to be on your "to-do-list"?
[Android Apps and Games] Chunnye:
Thanks

Works good Thanks for your job.Im expecting to see the New tabs view
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
It's currently work in progress. Needs some modifications on my list adapters and the WebView behavior, as it get's a child view of the WebView.
[Android Apps and Games] D4rkV0iD:
I really like the beta but I miss one thing: the tab switcher with the cool animation. Any chance for in the new version?
[Android Apps and Games] Tatsch:
Tab switching is a process, which should be done easily, fast, with one touch or slide. Animation could make it worse, so please be careful.

Thanks. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Sr. Zé Alguém:
I prefer real tab bar. I don't use browsers without. Afaik, SaschaHa was looking for a better library for it, right?
[Android Apps and Games] Rosa Elefant:
You could add Firefox Sync though. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Rosa Elefant:
Why doesn't the Slimperience browser support FTP?
[Android Apps and Games] rapboy91:
hi, where is the latest version for download of this browser?

Inviato dal mio ONEPLUS A3003 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Rosa Elefant:
Right in the Play Store. Please follow the link in the first posting.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Hey, the last few days I've tested a lot of ViewPagers and startet to create a new one. Currently it looks like this:

The main difficulty are the paddings, which the ViewPager needs to use to work properly, but which can't be used with the WebView :rolleyes

But all in all it works 'ok', so it can be uploaded soon :)
[Android Apps and Games] Rosa Elefant:
Have you managed to fix the random crashes?
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
It seems so, but on my device it worked well the most of the time :D

When the tabs are working properly, I upload a new beta.
[Android Apps and Games] Rosa Elefant:
Great. I'll give it a run. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Tatsch:
Hello, do you already additionally provide

- fast switching betwen tabs without tab manager (ViewPager)?

- fast closing of the focused tab in foreground?
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
In the current beta it's already there. Swiping between tabs will be disabled because of the issues on websites, but to use the new tab manager will be very fast and I add swipe gestures for the toolbar to change tabs fast.
[Android Apps and Games] Tatsch:
Thank you. :) And what about closing the actual tab without opening the tab manager?
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
On the right drawer there is a button. This should be fast enough ;)
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
Looks really nice SaschHa....exited to see it in real...
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
The new tab manager is finally working. It's fast and clean, I think you will like it :)

Also the database issue (which was the reason for a lot of crashes) seems to be fixed. I had no crashes anymore.

A new beta is planned for tomorrow. If there are no more issues, the development is almost done :)
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
Sounds EXCELLENT SaschaHa....looking forward until tomorrow then ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Flyingboy:
Cool News!
[Android Apps and Games] Osh1:
Well done,current beta working good,
[Android Apps and Games] Wolfcity:
I'm new on this browser (was built in my ROM) and I really like it. Sometimes it's a bit slow and lags when too many tabs are opened. So I would like to have a better overview of the open tabs too. I like the animation but it's difficult to see the number of open tabs.

Would like to test the beta. Where can I download it? Maybe I've eggs on my face but I can't find it in the OP.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Wait for tommorow (or maybe this evening). There will be a new beta up and I will post it here :)
[Android Apps and Games] CLPose:
Hi! You can also look for the "base.apk" in this thread.;)
[Android Apps and Games] Rosa Elefant:
I find the name "base.apk" to be inconvenient TBH.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
It's an internal project name, because the engine is fully modular and created as base for a lot of following apps.

Of course the update itself will be called Slimperience again.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
A new beta is here :)

Changes

1. added a new tab manager

2. increased the theme behavior

3. hopefully fixed the force close issue in the databases

4. minor bug fixes and increasements

5. some other stuff I don't remember

As you can see in the screenshot, the new tab manager is very simple and clean. To open it, just tap on the new icon in the toolbar. To change tabs just swipe left and right. That's it :)
[Android Apps and Games] Rosa Elefant:
Wheeee. Testing!
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
It is nice my friend, but unfortunately I don't get the tabmanager to work very well. When I press the tabswither icon I'll get the page I had open in the main view, but the rest of the tabs I don't see until I start moving/sliding in the tabmanager, but then the thumb of the mainpage disappear (showing blank) and when I select one of the opened pages and then click again the tabmanager they all show blank...not even title is showing.

It can't be a "memory" problem with my phone because I have the Huawei P9 with Android 6 and 3Gb Ram.

I also have a problem when I have a page opened, lets say Google, select to open a link in new tab in background, it refreshes my Google page while the new tab opens in background.

I have tried now on 3 different phones and unfortunately this behavior is the same on all 3 (two with Android 5 and one with Android 6).

Hopefully its not suppose to be like this right?

Maybe it was an idea to also have the function of showing a number in the tabswither icon showing how many tabs are opened.

And I have to say I already miss the swiping gesture for tabs (swithing tabs).

Keep up the excellent work my friend.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Thanks for the detailed description! :) That seems that I need to add a new workaround. Each time a page is added or removed, the viewpager needs a new adapter. When setting a new one, all the views get out of focus and their draws get removed. Furthermore the viewpager doesn't allow to show different pages at the same time without moving or setting paddings to each one. For regular ist would be easy to set passings on views, but the webview doesn't like changing paddings at real time.

So I need to find a new method to draw even tabs in background, when the tab manager is shown. I will try it this evening. Hopefully it will work better than.

This is one of the examples, how limited some Android features (like the webview and the viewpager) are :D
[Android Apps and Games] kost7:
Thank you [MENTION=1255308]SaschaHa[/MENTION] for the update. Tested the new version only for a few minutes and all seems to work fine - tabmanager included. It does look pretty neat too.

I do have one request: Would it be possible to edit the bookmarks? I mean something like longpress on one and ability to rename it, or perhaps create a folder? As far as I understand we cannot do that now, right?
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
I trust that you'll find a solution....AS ALWAYS ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Osh1:
Sorry sascha,just tried the new beta and find that the status bar icon that opens extra features such as close,save,disappears on the "news.sky.com/uk" website,

I am still able to click where the icon would be and it works,also the same for the extra features icons,
[Android Apps and Games] Flyingboy:
Hello Sasha. Is it normal that I can't swipe between tabs directly. I had to go into the tab manager that works bizarrely when you are in the fist or the last tab.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
It's currently disabled until I've created a method to not override website gestures (for example in galleries). But it will definitely enabled again :D

Yes it's work 7n progress and might be added today or tommorrow. Ghe difficulty is in the folders because I need to combine 2 databases, but it should be done in 1 or 2 hours I hope :)

Thanks, I forgot to add it to the 2 methods of the theme engine which choose the optimal colors to get a contrast between background and foreground.

I will fix it now, that's only 2 or 3 lines :)
[Android Apps and Games] primaleph:
When opening links from Swipe for Facebook, the link does not load unless there are no tabs open in Slimperience. Instead, whatever site was already open reloads. I have to close the tab, go back to Swipe, and reclick the link before it will open.
[Android Apps and Games] Tatsch:
Perhaps swiping the address bar could do it (like in Chrome)?
[Android Apps and Games] primaleph:
This only happens in my phone but not my tablet,so it may be Marshmallow specific. My tablet has Nougat.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Not woking good in CoordinatorLayout. I now try to add gestures to the borders of the screen.

My idea is the following:

The upper third of the screen should trigger "go back" and "go forward" for websites.

The middle one should open the drawer.

The bottom third should change the tab.

Furthermore swiping from the bottom of the screen up should open the tab manager.

What do you think? It should be very comfortable for the user :)

Thanks, I've fixed it now :)
[Android Apps and Games] primaleph:
Awesome. You're so quick.

Any thoughts on the Swiftkey flow issue in ine address bar?
[Android Apps and Games] Tatsch:
Good idea.

Maybe it's enough to open the drawer just from the left edge - like many other apps do?
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
No there are too much features for both sides. Left there are bookmarks and app features, right there are website features and quick settings.
[Android Apps and Games] abhi08638:
Following for a while now and gotta say the new apk is extremely quick. Been waiting on this update for a while and its definitly worth it, great work. Is there any option to move the address/toolbar to the bottom of the screen? It would be really useful for bigger phones. Also via browser in the play store has tab swiping on the toolbar and its really quick, try checking that out

Also long pressing any icon on the bar allows for a custom action as well
[Android Apps and Games] abhi08638:
Screenshot of the actions
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Now here is a new beta with some new features :)

Changes

1. Added gestures:

a) Toolbar gestures to change and add tabs: Swipe from left to right will scroll to the previous tab, swipe from right to left will scroll to the next tab OR add a new tab (if there is no other tab at the right). The gestures works only above the text layout of the toolbar (to not override on touch methods of the icons) as marked in the screenshot below ;)

b) Swiping up from the bottom of the screen will open the tab manager, so tabs can be changed even faster :)

2. Added a text view to the tab icon, which shows the amount of opened tabs

3. Fixed foreground colors for the tab manager

4. Fixed intents: Links from other apps will now get received and opened correctly.

5. Added a workaround for the drawing issue, which happened when tabs are added or removed. On my device (Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with Nemesis 3.1 MM) it works very well, so on most other devices it should work too. The other issue regarding the left and right preview tabs is work in progress.

6. Some minor changes.

In the screenshot you can see the changes. The blue marks show the swipe areas in the toolbar and at the bottom. Please keep in mind that the toolbar gestures work only for horizontal swipes on the text layout, and the bottom area works only with swipe up gestures ;)

So now I'm working on the other issues mentioned in the thread. Have a nice day :p
[Android Apps and Games] IagoJevaux:
Amazing job so Far!

Just a few bug reports:

Swiping to the left doesnt work, swiping to the right Works Fine though...

The tab drawing still a bit clunky (Nougat AOKP).

You should change the "X" and the "-" in the tab page, they are not very intuitive...

Aside from that, very nice job!