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Maxr1998 / MaxLock

Powerful app locker for Android, with a root and no-root implementation
https://maxlock.maxr1998.de
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Launch default browser for MaxLock Website when the device is pre-KitKat #44

Closed TechnoSparks closed 8 years ago

TechnoSparks commented 9 years ago

The current version of MaxLock will open the MaxLock website right within the app itself with the help of webview. However due to the obviously old version of the webview, devices with Android version prior to KitKat will face compatibility problems. webview of the old Android versions was built for the web features at the time, since web technologies matures overtime and new features are introduced, versions that are stuck in time won't able to process and display the new things properly.

To overcome this limitation, I suggest for the MaxLock app to summon a browser to access the MaxLock website if the user is using Android prior to KitKat.

Lollipop and newer versions won't suffer from this problem, as webview itself is now a separate module, updatable from the Play Store. In the future, KitKat's webview will also fall into the same demise.

Maxr1998 commented 9 years ago

This seems like a good idea, especially all the problems we could have in the website when accessing from an old WebView.

I'll change this soon.

In the future, I plan to ditch the WebView completely and use Chrome custom tabs (as long as it's backwards compatible, but it should, we just need to wait until it's released..).

Maxr1998 commented 8 years ago

Fixed with 3c75b616218103690ac825b85d9763f2e225cae4