https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.ddo.pigsty.HabitBrowser&hl=en
I've been using this browser for a very long time. It's customization options are unmatched as far as I'm concerned (haven't found anything that is even remotely close to being as customizable).
If you want something that that you can customize specifically to your needs this is something to look at.
DISCLAMER: I'm not affiliated with the dev in any way, shape or form.
also try naked browser for very small footprint and non hungry on system resources browser, feature rich and loads very fast even when you have poor wifi signal on home network like me.
highly recommend it http://download.cnet.com/Naked-Browser/3000-10440_4-75802461.html
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Ok this may be silly, but just wondered if there would be any interest in this idea I had earlier. What I love about Sense is that it's like each tab has almost moved past being a widget and has almost program like functionality, it seems to me this is really unique on a mobile device.
Concept
So I was thinking, what if it was possible to have extra tabs, in which ongoing programs could run, in something like a window. So for example, slide right one from a Facebook tab immediately into TCPMP, or continue one further into the File Explorer app? Why not extend the Sense UI?
Other thoughts:
1. I noticed that altering the tabs in sense causes a restart. I don't know if there is any way that this could be worked around, but otherwise I guess it's not possible to open up a whole new tab for each program. Perhaps there could be several open in which programs appear as they are run, with a customisable preference for the apps which appear on each tab/ a priority list?
2. maybe it would be possible to have something like a task switcher instead, I was thinking about something like the fantastic iManager, but where the app was fully functional in the tab, then could be switched with a nice simple gesture? This could skirt around the problem of new/blank tabs, and would be pretty cool!
3. Maybe this is nuts, as after all a quick tap on the home button will bring us straight back to Sense, but one less press is never bad right? And also the idea of a unified seamless UI is perfect for mobile in my opinion- I get frustrated by the jumping in and out of apps which Andoid and iOS require. CHT and Sense is exactly what is keeping me on WM
I can't code, but just thought I'd open the idea up to your opinions. Maybe someone who can wants this enough to do it?
I stumbled upon a very interesting new launcher that's currently in development.
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.pierrox.tiny_home
I tried it on my phone and while it definetely lacks a LOT of features that we are used to even from minimal launchers like Zeam, it's can be so incredibly fast and resource-friendly, I almost think it makes other apps run smoother.
It's a bit buggy and currently has no support for widgets at all, but it's very customizable ...and did I mention that it's fast?
I set the "All Apps" section to 3 columns and increased the top and bottom margins a bit (dimensions), set icon filtering off (miscellaneous) and reflections off (reflection). The app drawer is almost iphoney smooth now.
There is a bug that reverts the app icons on the home screen from time to time. I haven't found a way around it, nor did I find a solution other than to delete and readd the icons, but the dev is aware of the problem.
While this launcher might not be a potential daily driver in its current state, its worth checking out and following..
Looks pretty good, I'll test it out later and get some screenshots up of it!
Will give it a try to. thx
It's my daily driver now. It makes my phone so much more comfortable to use. I still fear that I'm imagining things, but I could swear that there are less app restarts and scrolling is smoother. I don't use any tuning scripts since they seemed to hurt more than they helped. The developer says that he's planning to implement some basic widget support. This can only get better, I think
looks very very good hope that the dev. work on bugs ^^
I like it, it just win7launcher
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.boatbrowser.free
Simply awesome browser.
It handles extremely heavy Flash websites like Grooveshark like a boss. It's smooth, handles multiple pages well, handles annoying popups well (!) without going ape****. It inherently knows keyboard shortcuts like "CTRL+A" when selecting all the text in a text box. Knows CTRL+C, CTRL+X, CTRL+V. It does *not* know CTRL+F to find, you have to click through to find text, which is one of the very few minor downsides.
It's smooth, elegant... like Chrome for your desktop, except it's for your Prime.
Enable Desktop User Agent mode in the settings and play around with Flash settings til it works for your needs. But it will handle *almost* any flash website you browse regularly, bar none.
Independent review here: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/boat-browser-chrome-mobile-safari-inspired-browser-for-android/
I'll give it a shot, I'm always up for trying a new browser. I'll update with an opinion after I check it out for awhile. The reviews on the market are very positive.
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I'll give it a shot, I'm always up for trying a new browser. I'll update with an opinion after I check it out for awhile. The reviews on the market are very positive.
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Please give a bluntly honest review - perfect/great stuff & the ugly - I have a feeling the "ugly" stuff would probably get fixed pretty quickly.
I would give an honest review, but I'm on cloud 9 with this browser currently so I'm currently incapacitated
I'm checking it out now. Seems pretty good so far. Just alot to it and have to get used to the setup. Will report back after longer use.
Damn! I have like 5-6 of the best browsers I'm comparing..lol. lets see if this one is better than stock or opera mobile.
demandarin said:
I'm checking it out now. Seems pretty good so far. Just alot to it and have to get used to the setup. Will report back after longer use.
Damn! I have like 5-6 of the best browsers I'm comparing..lol. lets see if this one is better than stock or opera mobile.
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i have a browser folder with like 5 in it i cant choose
lol, silly name for a browser but awesome looking (reminds me of a chrome/xscope look), I will give it a try
this is a great browser. my only gripe with it is that it takes forever to get back into it from the recent tasks bar. other than that, its just as smooth as opera and it plays flash.
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i have a browser folder with like 5 in it i cant choose
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Same here. Made a folder called Browsers. This boat browser is really nice. Only thing is the quick settings and taskbar options n everything all over the place. You have to get use to it. I like that it lets you customize the quick setting on the tasknar at the bottom.
ANYONE know how to transfer bookmarks from opera mobile?
looks and feels great, but lacks keyboard shortcuts like ctrl t, ctrl w, ctrl tab and etc. So its not that easy to use while docked (most of time for me). otherwise pretty damn solid browser
Nice! Thanks for the heads up.
My only tiny gripe is that panning while loading is still a little jittery. Dolphin is the smoothest when loading but Boat"s flash prowess might make it my browser of choice.
robomo said:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.boatbrowser.free
Simply awesome browser.
It handles extremely heavy Flash websites like Grooveshark like a boss. It's smooth, handles multiple pages well, handles annoying popups well (!) without going ape****. It inherently knows keyboard shortcuts like "CTRL+A" when selecting all the text in a text box. Knows CTRL+C, CTRL+X, CTRL+V. It does *not* know CTRL+F to find, you have to click through to find text, which is one of the very few minor downsides.
It's smooth, elegant... like Chrome for your desktop, except it's for your Prime.
Enable Desktop User Agent mode in the settings and play around with Flash settings til it works for your needs. But it will handle *almost* any flash website you browse regularly, bar none.
Independent review here: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/boat-browser-chrome-mobile-safari-inspired-browser-for-android/
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Very nice browser. I like it. Doesn't seem very fast, but has been stable and nice to use.
The Note is my first Android phone coming from iPhone and so far I'm loving the phone and loving Android. It's obviously much much more customizable in a lot of ways (theming, widgets, settings, etc), and I find that it loads most applications much faster and does things quite a bit faster than I'm used to on my iphone 4.
One thing I'm surprised about, and maybe I'm not looking in the right places or I have it all wrong, is that there aren't many _low level_ tweaks available? It's mostly just widgets and themes, but nothing really available that can change the core behavior of your phone as you can with tweaks on a jailbroken iPhone?
For example, two things I've looked for so far that seemed like no-brainer easy peasy things.... music controls for the notification bar (or perhaps music controls that are accessed by overriding a capacitive button, such as holding down the settings button), and a user agent faker for the default browser. Yes I know there are other browsers available, but that's not the point (I tried Dolphin browser HD and did not like it.. it was slower and less responsive than the stock browser).
Those two examples may have their own workarounds (I know notification music controls are coming in ICS, and about:useragent will temporarily change the user agent), but I'm really getting at a larger question here. Other examples of "low level tweaks" from iphone that I kind of liked -- if you are viewing a text window above an open keyboard (ie gtalk, sms) and scroll down within the text window, it moves the keyboard out of the way. This was really natural for me, and just a simple download from Cydia. Another example -- swiping up from the bottom of the phone opening the multitasking bar -- again, really natural and awesome... a better fit for iphone for sure, but again, I'm not necessarily looking for those _exact_ tweaks, just offering some examples of what *types* of tweaks I'm referring to as "low level tweaks". Based on that, is there somewhere I can look to find these *types* of tweaks?
Unless I'm mistaken, it seems that to get these low level tweaks, you need a custom ROM? And then I guess you either need to learn how to build your own custom ROM, or hope that a dev will bake *all* of YOUR favorite tweaks into the _same_ ROM. Is that assessment about right when talking about low level tweaks? Or maybe there are other ways to add these tweaks, such as using adb to push them over? If so, where might I actually locate tweaks like this -- is there a repository / database / market of them somewhere?
FWIW I am rooted and OC'd using Da G's kernel (thanks Da G!). I've never dealt with custom ROMs on android so I'm partially speculating based on what I've heard about them and the lack of low level stuff on the market.
i think your comparing apples to oranges.
Apple keeps it simple and navigation is seamless IF YOU USE the device the way THEY INTENDED. step outside of that little box and they won't even support you .. i.e. jailbreak - after jailbreaking you can screw your phone up with all kind of cracked apps and all that junk.
As far as the keyboard moving out of the way, i don't think their are a great deal of ppl who care too much about that.... i think android compensates quite well in other areas.
having owned both platforms i would say it like this:
Apple holds software to a higher regard than hardware. after all, if you can't use your phone because it force-closes every 2 seconds then what's the point.
If you are like me and you like to "think outside the box" a little bit, then there are more possibilities with android... seems like eventually android drives you to learn more about your phone and how stuff works. i call it "the phone for adults!" lol
As far as the keyboard is concerned, you just need to download a different one. Go Keyboard, for example, has a button you can press to hide the keyboard whenever you want.
There's always an app/widget/setting in Android that will let you accomplish almost anything you want. That's the beauty of the platform.
Hitting the back button while in a text field will hide the keyboard, and allow you to scroll in the text box.
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I'm not sure about low level tweaks but you could try something other than the default TW launcher and keyboard to achieve some of the gesture based control you mention. For example, Swiftkey X has gestures to hide the keyboard by swiping down and ADWlauncher allows you to program the swipe up function to various things.
Android is a platform built on top of a Linux kernel. If rooted, anything you can do with Linux (e.g. everything), you can do with Android.
I've used both flynx and Javelin for multi-tasking while searching the web, I have found points that I do and don't particularly like about both apps, and I would like to hear what you think.
heres my list of what I like and dislike about both apps:
Javelin
ok, so first up is javelin. i would like to state that since javelin is also a full featured browser I will only be talking about it's "stack" feature
PROS
fast
convenient
gesture based switching through "pages" (tabs)
has a read mode which will display only the important text and pictures from the article
can open unlimited pages to load
conveniently opens web pages via a floating circle that can be placed anywhere on the screen
floating circle has loading (color changing) animation with page count
once pro version is purchased you are given 3 free pro "invites" for three friends
has built-in ad blocker (activated in the full app not in stack)
CONS
stack isn't it's own app
alot of great features require you purchase the pro version (like unlimited page loading)
in free version pro features are limited via how many times you can use them
...has pro version
doesn't "minimize" after you hit the home button
load times can vary greatly
may still have battery draining issues
FLYNX
PROS
simple UI
fast
can set a secondary browser to open the link in from fynx
allows you to "bookmark" articles to read for later
if the home button is pressed while viewing a webpage in fynx it will minimize fynx fso you can access your homescreen
lightweight & convenient
has a fullscreen mode
100% free
CONS
only allows up to 4 tabs open (said to change in update)
both of these are excellent at what they do, both have great UIs, and both are well worth a try. but now i would like to know what everyone thinks about these apps.
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I've used both flynx and Javelin for multi-tasking while searching the web, I have found points that I do and don't particularly like about both apps, and I would like to hear what you think.
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both of these are excellent at what they do, both have great UIs, and both are well worth a try. but now i would like to know what everyone thinks about these apps.
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I have been using Javelin for a long time, but for some reasons the bubble stack keeps closing itself randomly. Therefore I switched to Flynx, which is a really great app. The main difference between those two apps is the fact that Javelin is a fully equipped browser, whereas Flynx is only designed to open external links, e.g. in social networks. You can't browse the web by opening it and typing in a link. But this wasn't the need I had when installing it as I have better browsers for doing so on my device. But for multi-tasking Flynx is excellent. Only thing that bugs me right now is the fact that you can not close the app by double pressing the back button, you always have to open the menu or move the bubble to the bin.
that is excellent idea to close via double tap back, i just cant stand that i can only load 4 tabs at once, otherwise i'd be using flynx much more often, at the moment i have both installed because i love how flynx works and its load times but i use javelin if i need to open more than four tabs so i'd have say 4 open in flynx then a fifth opened in javelin, for me i think that these apps can learn from each other, i think if flynx added gestures to control and navigate the tabs and allow more than 4 tabs then that would definitely be my recommendation for anyone looking for such an app
sadly it may seem like javelin will be discontinued but also be migrating to open source, "I'm planning to take Javelin Browser open-source, but I don't have the time to do it. Anyone wanna help?" - steven goh
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