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EinkBro: Small Android Browser made for Eink devices
EinkBro is designed to fit Eink devices' needs; no unnecessary UI transitions and animations, clear B&W icons, useful features for eink reading experience. It's originated from FOSS Browser, which is fully free/libre (as in freedom) Android app.
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EinkBro has a book about how it was developed!
Screenshots
| Main Screen | Menu Items | Toolbar Configuration |
|---|---|---|
| <img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4084738/216380150-dbac589a-175e-4ae6-9776-7cd0b219ae43.png" width="200"/> | <img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4084738/216380448-9b226f37-c30c-49fd-8242-3291bf82eaab.png" width="200"/> | <img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4084738/216380769-b2461e9b-a78a-43a0-8317-43882a683d13.png" width="200"/> |
| Touch Setting | Settings | Vertical Read |
| <img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4084738/216380971-7e021ba9-e6f6-4f69-8323-1faf10f9e06b.png" width="200"/> | <img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4084738/216381202-e8103082-2866-48d9-92b1-96d3cc8106dd.png" width="200"/> | <img src="fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/phoneScreenshots/7.png" width="200"/> |
E-Ink specific features
- tap on screen left/right area for pageUp/Down
- use physical volume keys for pageUp/pageDown
- reader mode
- vertical reading mode (for Chinese/Japanese content)
- export web content to epub files
- pageUp / pageDown button on toolbar
- all icons in high contrast colors
- tab count in bottom function bar
- font size configuration in first layer setting.
- custom font with local font files
Customizable Toolbar Icons
<img width="800" alt="image" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4084738/122229339-39f62080-ceeb-11eb-8c46-2f6ea270b486.png">- web title
- web tab count
- bookmarks
- refresh
- go backward
- go forward
- bold font
- increase font size
- decrease font size
- text size configuration dialog
- touch screen area to turn page buton
- page up
- page down
- reader mode
- vertical reader mode
- fulltext translation
- setting
- toolbar configuration dialog
- rotate screen
- fullscreen
Basic UI/Handling:
- optimized for one hand handling (toolbar at bottom)
- tab control
- fullscreen browsing
- floating button in fullscreen mode
- fast toggle for most important settings
- gesture control for floating navigation button
- multi-touch gesture support
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)