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[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Great news!:D ...and even going open source...:good:

Looking forward to the beta release.

Sascha, thanks a lot for all your efforts. Great job!:good:
[Android Apps and Games] hadi_rena:
Which one?
[Android Apps and Games] minimale_ldz:
I hid the toolbar and don't know how to get it back... Adding menu button to system navigation bar would be handy

EDIT: ok, got it. Swipe to the left from the right side to get quick panel. Nice
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
I will upload the apk file here on XDA, when the next update is finished :)

Haha Bielefeld 4ever <3 :D

Yes that's an optional feature that is on my to do list :) I think it will be integrated next month.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
A new update is out: Now there is finally solved the download issue and there is a new dialog for long clicks on links :)

As requested the new apk file can now be downloaded from OP, if you haven't access to PlayStore ;)

Update 1.0.5

(2016-05-22)

PlayStore
[Android Apps and Games] murlidhar85:
would be so good if done. also maybe the toolbar settings like closing tab and refresh like such things could be used by long clicking at an empty space in the website...

since android sdk has removed text-reflow thingy from their code I think it would be hard to implement fit to screen. some browsers major web browsers have implemented in their own way. maybe that would make this browser just as heavy . if so then it is better not have such feature in this browser.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
I can take a look at the code of other browsers to write my own implementation for this feature (if possible).

Now I remember that a setting for disabling swype to refresh is even on my to do list :D
[Android Apps and Games] rolarocka:
Installed this five minutes ago and already loving it. I think I found a replacement to naked browser yay und danke! ??

Oneplus One
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
[MENTION=7035235]rolarocka[/MENTION]

Thank you very much, great to hear :D
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
[MENTION=7035235]rolarocka[/MENTION]

Thank you very much, great to hear :D

Edit: Yeah my 1.000th posts now :D And just this one is a double post because of my broken internet connection -.-' :laugh:
[Android Apps and Games] L-ViZ:
congrats and thx for the browser, atm still my second browser, buuuut if everything works correctly, this will be my primary and only one ;)
[Android Apps and Games] minimale_ldz:
Thanks for download link :)

My experience with this browser is positive, but... there must be some "buts":

- you cant set a homepage in settings menu

- when you browse a page, go to settings and go back to the page it kinda freezes for a couple of seconds before showing the page

- I belive it'd be better if address bar disappeared when you scroll a page
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Thanks :)

When changing settings the activity get's recreated and the page need to get reloaded. That's the reason for the lag. This behavior needs to get replaced, so that changing settings will not automatically recreate the activity. Is on my to do list :)

A homepage can be set within the browser itself (on the right drawer there is an entry). In settings menu there is only shown which homepage is currently set. I will add a dialog or a toast message now to tell the user how to set the homepage (it's useless to do it within the settings itself, because it needs the website to be loaded to get the title and it's easier to do that wihting the browser activity than within settings).

The scrolling behavior is on my to do list too. But as described in OP, it's difficult to handle with this app size, because it needs major changes in the WebView class. It will be integrated, when it's working without issues ;)
[Android Apps and Games] vrwmiaris1:
Hey m8, I've just tried your app and I'm pretty satisfied with the performance.dunno if it's the right place to ask for a feature, option for importing bookmarks and syncing could be great.also the floating stuff you have in your to do list is another thing i wanted to request.

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[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
Hey, importing bookmarks will be possible and might be added soon. Sync is another thing, that seems to be not possible. According to a Google employee the (Chrome) Sync is only for Google products. But I don't know, if this sync is the same as the devices browser sync, so I will search for some more information.

The floating stuff is a major feature, so I need a little more time to get it to work. Currently my tab views are working only with my BrowserActivity, for the floating stuff they need to work with a special service too. That needs a lot of methods to get changed, so I have to take some time to add this feature. But it will definitely be integrated :)
[Android Apps and Games] ad78:
I wish that there is a autohide toolbar for more fullscreen.. i can hide but when decided to change webpage i need to flick again the fullscreen
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
It's a known issue. The scrolling behavior get's updated soon, when it is working. The WebView does not resizing by default (or paddings just for the header), that's why it's not easy to add this code without loosing the smoothness. So I need to make some changes to get it to work.
[Android Apps and Games] CrazyCypher:
Hy, I would love to try it, but before that I have to ask you if you maybe have a plan on including custom tabs function to your browser? For now I am using TugaBrowser with Anticipate but would love to swap it for something like Slimperience Browser to use it with Anticipate..Slim looks gorgeous and seems (based on info and posts) like a quality browser :)

Thank you for the answer :)
[Android Apps and Games] bgiesing:
I just ran this through GOptimize (using the latest version and the test command from the last page on that thread for the Google Play Store) and got it from 371KB to 335KB as it said some PNGs could be compressed even more.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
What do you mean with custom tabs? Tabs are already here :)

Thanks, I will try it out :)
[Android Apps and Games] bgiesing:
They mean integrating a custom tab provider like Chrome does so apps that support custom tabs can preload a site in Slimperience like they do Chrome (and other browsers that have added them)

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/custom-tabs-provider
[Android Apps and Games] CrazyCypher:
Yes, that is what I mean :)
[Android Apps and Games] Patricmac:
Update

Did you manage to upload 2? can only see 1.2.3
[Android Apps and Games] k0rner:
Google OAuth WebView issue

Hi!

Looks like Slimperience has been affected by this issue: googleblog.com/2016/08/modernizing-oauth-interactions-in-native-apps

Google seems to not identify Slimperience as a "real" browser, thus not allowing to authorize apps for Google Drive (for example) access via Slimperience.

Steps to reproduce (Titanium Backup a an example)

- Try to enable Google Drive backup sync in Titanium Backup.

TB will redirect the user to https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth...redirect_uri=...&response_type=code&scope=...

- Page opened in Slimperience will display "403 forbidden":

screenshot:

Perhaps, User-Agent string needs to be modified to fix this.
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
It's sad that Google removed the support for their own creations (webview) :D

Now here is a new beta. This beta finaly replaces the old PlayStore version. So please make a backup (if possible). On my device the update worked without any issues and all the databases got updated, but as this is the first open beta with this package name, a backup is recommended (just for the case something goes wrong).

You can use it as daily driver now :)
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Updated and all looking well currently.:) Thanks very much for your great efforts.:good:

I apologise, already out of thanks for today.
[Android Apps and Games] Osh1:
Seems my bookmarks change position in left drag tab,as I use them they swap position?

Is there anyway to make a editable homepage with bookmarks on,works good otherwise,good job,

---------- Post added at 03:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:50 PM ----------

Seems also my bookmarks disappeared after I added a new one,
[Android Apps and Games] SaschaHa:
I'm happy you like it :)

This is one of the features which is currently disabled, until it works properly :D
[Android Apps and Games] Sr. Zé Alguém:
[MENTION=1255308]SaschaHa[/MENTION] thanks for new build.

You could implement it as simple as copying the database files containing user settings to a user accessible place (eg. /sdcard/) or could host it directly there (/sdcard/Android/data/...).

I'm not able to push down to top as in Base used to open tab controls; is it temporarily or permanently disabled?

And a detail: in Edit Bookmarks OK button is not fitting inside my screen.

Finally, I would like to ask if it is on your plans to re-add the traditional tab bar as it was an option in 1.2.3?

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] CLPose:
Thank you so much for your hard work! :good: I've been following your project since I love light-but-powerfull apps like yours. :highfive: Keep on your good work and let us know if there's anything we can do to test/improve your project!
[Android Apps and Games] pecha2k:
many thanks SaschaHa
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
I have to admit that for being a BETA version, you shouldnt have disabled different functions. This is what beta is for isnt it? For us to check all the new functions and/or to help you with comments and critics so it can become 100% until release??

We have no startpage. There is no bookmark handling. Honestly...there is to many things NOT working well but absolutly no point in commenting these since it can all be because functions are disabled/unfinished.

PS! This is NOT meant as NEGATIVE critism to SaschaHa only trying to say that maybe wait with releasing BETA before there is something new to check. I would say a BETA version is a full version in a "trial mode" to check out what is good and what is not....its not a "stripped version" as this release is, because that could more be called a LITE and/or FREE version.

As example....there are some of us which has been waiting for over a year now with a simple thing as a start page...and when there was started releasing these "base" dev-versions there was again said that this should be ready until the final BETA release...

This I say now...is ONE example.....

I think BEFORE releasing the BETA version you should finish it...then i mean finish it totally ready for a daily use and like this the beta will show people that this is a PERFECT browser which has it all and will only get better.
[Android Apps and Games] AviralOmar:
That sounds like putting all the features you planned to implement in the future in one single big update. If you don't think there are newer features in the latest beta, look harder; the entire app has been rebuilt from scratch since the last play store update. The app hasn't been updated in the play store for almost an year. So it's high time to do it when the present features are entirely bugless.
[Android Apps and Games] Osh1:
I think what julio66 was getting at was that there hasn't been

A great many changes to the beta releases apart from under

the hood that is,

sadly entirely bugless is a rarity in any app as different

setups and apps or even different web pages will cause other glitches to appear so a full working beta test by several phones and setups would help towards removing problems later,
[Android Apps and Games] AviralOmar:
I agree that it is difficult to make a bugless browser. Even then most people have not received an update to the app for an year. Before adding more features, which takes time, I believe that the update should be released if the dev thinks that it is relatively stable.
[Android Apps and Games] AviralOmar:
[MENTION=1255308]SaschaHa[/MENTION] App force closes when I start it without Internet Connection.
[Android Apps and Games] Sander9847:
Yup Can confirm this!
[Android Apps and Games] primaleph:
Ever since updating to Nougat, my Note 5's power saving frequently notifies me that Slimperience Beta is using anywhere from 3 to 7 percent of my battery per hour. This is even with it added to Greenify, which claims it doesn't need to be suspended.

Any idea what might be causing that?
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
Hopefully this project didn't die out....

Some "info" would be VERY appreciated
[Android Apps and Games] CLPose:
No, this project is not dead. The developer is working on it and he'll post some news when he has them. For the time being, you can download latest beta version which is pretty cool for every day use. Good luck!
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
Sounds excellent that its not dead. Been trying the beta but I got worried when there became so sudden "quiet" here for such a long time.

Thanx a lot for the reply, and I am looking forward to start using the browser when it will be released fully functional.
[Android Apps and Games] Osh1:
Was thinking the same,usually a beta brings bugs posts and

and people talking about the new features,

Seems to have got a lot quieter here recently,

No disrespect to saschaha meant and hope he doesn't

take as such but we all been down the road of paying for a pro version only for development to disappear,

My record of paid web browsers so far is 3
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
DELETED!

The made statement is definitely priveleged to a MODERATOR but not to a simple member.
[Android Apps and Games] Osh1:
I wouldn't call your post staying calm,sucking up to dev maybe!!,

If the dev has a heavy workload fine,nothing wrong with a busy life,no longer supporting app, 2 second update text,

If saschaha wants to berate me for no patience fine,but can't see why you getting arsey,
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
I ABSOLUTLY agree....there is NO need for attacking/downtalk anyone who ask for news....and again I agree...when a developer has a "following hord of users" and then they see the developer say "in a couple of days" notice for another release...but then totally dead for over a month....then they...well WE, have a right to ask of the developer to take 30 secs of his life to post a short message....

And for the "sucking up to dev" comment....MY LIKING 100%....there is a couple of users here who always have to attack and talk down to anyone who dares to get close to the question of releases....and then totally stupid if you ask me because they only leave an image of the dev to be a 10 year old child which cant answer for himself.

No, get a grid guys, and please let the dev answer for himself...he is a big boy....even managed to make an nice browser for Android!! ?
[Android Apps and Games] SDMU:
I am pretty sure that if the developer didn't have an XDA page , and the app is directly released in the play store , nobody would be emailing the developer asking for an update . Just a thought :p
[Android Apps and Games] CLPose:
I don't think asking ETA once and again to the developer would be helpful at all (most probably he/she doesn’t know), and many developers consider it disrespectful. This is a developer forum, there are rules (https://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?a=81), and all users are expected to read and obey those rules. Some threads have many followers. If each follower asks for ETAs, just put two and two together... I don't want to be rude, and I don't speak on behalf of [MENTION=1255308]SaschaHa[/MENTION], I just try to explain how people behave here in XDA! ;) Bye!
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Sir! Mam! I disagree. XDA is not a democacy. YOU don't have any rights and you are not entitled to anything.

I suggest to digest the following threads/posts that describe the privilege you own:

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2106177

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16682226&postcount=2441

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2031989&postcount=44
[Android Apps and Games] Osh1:
I understand that XDA isn't a democracy but neither is there any need for it to be a dictatorship either,why is it such a big deal that a simple question to a dev provokes posts like "you don't have any rights here" is this a development forum or north Korea,

Many of use have used slimperience since the beginning but find now that the silence about the app is deafening,
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
Agreed. A real good comment.

I think we should try to "finish" this discussion now, but I think with a certainty that the point here should be; if we make people afraid to comment/ask questions there will be less and less here in the thread. And with less and less here in the thread also result in less interest in the app.... we all need to feel included...and as I will say this developer does. The only thing missing are some updated info....

But PLEASE let us finish this discussion now....it only destroys the meaning of this thread, and rather let the developer answer for himself, because as I said before....THE DEVELOPER IS A BIG BOY and don't need any protectors.

Have an excellent day. :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] godzilla1138:
Hi. Could you please add this search engine: https://lite.qwant.com/ to search engine list?
[Android Apps and Games] Osh1:
Time to say goodbye,

I have used slimperience for a long time but things seem to have stalled so time tomove on to another browser I found that I hoped slimperience would have become by now,

Many will say your loss and I agree but the obsessiveness that is part of my life can wait no more,

Bye and good luck
[Android Apps and Games] owaio:
Translation

Dear SaschaHa

i created a translate with traditional chinese, could you please help to add into the great app?

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Sander9847:
May I ask which browser you settled with? :)

I aswell had very high expectations of this browser, it is even almost finished. But it seems the developer has (maybe temporarily) dropped development. If it weren't for the bugs in the beta version I would absolutely love this browser. Too bad it didn't get finished, it was so close to being the best browser I could wish for.
[Android Apps and Games] julio66:
Unfortunately this is the case for me too...sad to leave this project, but my daily life has to go on....and to give my companions a small tip on what I settled with...AND SUPERHAPPY....try Via Browser on Google Play, an amazingly fast browser with all the customizations you can imagine, gestures, operations, STARTPAGE (speed dial), color modes 100% working AD-BLOCK etc etc...all what you can imagine. And the best of all...REALLY LOW on resource use...I use it for hours and it uses a minimum of battery. ..All this with an app on about 490Kb !!!
[Android Apps and Games] Wolfcity:
I can confirm that. Another candidate is lightning browser, you can get the full version on F-droid. Small, adblocking, handy, black (if you like it) and lightning fast.
[Android Apps and Games] SDMU:
I contacted the developer and he said that development is still going on . The project is not dead .
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Thanks for the information.:good::D

But I had no doubt. He's certainly doing this in his leisure time and not to earn money for living. And then there're point when to set priorities: Family, friend, studies, final exams at university - so many possibilities.

He's coming back, I'm convinced but it is solely his devision when the time is right.
[Android Apps and Games] Sr. Zé Alguém:
I would not put others under expectation for a project I give very low priority in my life. This is not something good to do. You are dealing with lots of people, not only with yourself and your friends.

My suggestion? Lock thread, append to title "project under hold until further notice", or add a note "I can't work anymore on this project due to this, this and that. Don't expect a new version anytime soon."
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
@SaschaHa: Take your time - whatever it needs! You aren't responsible to anybody here at XDA. Your family, your friends and buddies, and certainly yourself is all that counts. You aren't "dealing with lots of people"; lots of people simply take what you developed in your leisure time for free besides your private and business life.

Don't take any begging for an ETA seriously, doesn't matter how it's described or phrased. Continue when you're ready to continue...

Still using your beta with excitement. Thanks very much for that.

EDIT: @2phazt - The application itself was for free in the Google Play Store as far as I remember (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saschaha.browser&hl=de) but it offered an in-app purchase option for 4.19 €; certainly a very personal point of view if this is expensive. By purchasing something, I personally want to support the developer or I expect some additional feature; however, I never expect a life long ongoing development especially if coming from a single person.

Anyway, the latest and very good beta of 20170501 is for free! What to expect more?
[Android Apps and Games] 2phazt:
As far as I remember the app was not free. Instead it was relatively expensive in the playstore, so support and updates where highly expectable.

So at least a statement would be appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] d6603iscool:
This browser is just awesome. Congrats to the dev.

I've been trying to find a way to refresh a page without using the *swipe down to refresh* gesture as it doesn't allow scrolling down a page without refreshing it.

This minor thing is the only flaw of this awesome app I think. Is there a way to fix that?

Or could this come from some nomobile optimesd website as sometimes there is no issues with that swipe down thing
[Android Apps and Games] Sander9847:
No it was completely free
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
There was an in-app purchase option as I mentioned here just three posts above yours.
[Android Apps and Games] 2phazt:
With relatively expensive I compared it with other apps in this price segment which usual get a lot of support and updates.

And of course I wanted to support the development with my donation but the development seems to stagnate so a statement of the developer would be appreciated. Usually it is announced if a product is EOL.
[Android Apps and Games] Sr. Zé Alguém:
Peregrine, smaller than Slimperience

Not as customizable as Slimperience, but yet smaller, the name is Peregrine Browser. It has its bugs too, but which browser doesn't?

87KB apk, 360KB installed app size.

Play Store link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marc.browse
[Android Apps and Games] filnirv:
Project is dead?
[Android Apps and Games] Sander9847:
You never know maybe the dev will reappear.

Otherwise somebody else should really pick this project up, this browser had potential to be one of the best there is!
[Android Apps and Games] piersplowman:
Agreed,and hopefully the dev himself is fine. I know he was excited about releasing this but hopefully it is just the press of real work that is interfering and not anything worse.