Android version of Otter

OtterBrowser / otter-browser

Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5

https://otter-browser.org

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Android version of Otter #1387

Open D0ve opened 7 years ago

D0ve commented 7 years ago

would be great to use an Android version of Otter! existed Android browsers mostly very unusable by UI, not secure ... hope it is possible. many thanks in advance!

mkljczk commented 7 years ago

Now Otter devs are focusing on desktop version, so it won't happen soon. Also, making mobile browser that would be as useful as Otter Browser on PC is probably impossible…

ersi-dnd commented 7 years ago

@D0ve I can recommend Naked Browser for Android. It's specifically developed so that great many keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+T etc. work. Useful when you connect a hardware keyboard to your Android device very often.

Even better, try Termux which brings something like Debian Linux tty to Android without rooting. I launch my favorite textmode browsers in it.

mariokamenjak commented 6 years ago

For Android. I can also recommend nakedbrowser. It gives you a very clean UI that shows you only the web site. The interface is entirely gesture based, i.e. to get to the address bar you have to swipe down. Once you get used to it it becomes intuitive though.

Frenzie commented 6 years ago

The gestures bit sounds a bit like Sailfish on the face of it. :-)

uahim commented 6 years ago

this may be slightly off topic, but Vivaldi for ARM (not sure if this means Android per se) was just announced...

Frenzie commented 6 years ago

That definitely doesn't mean Android. It might mean that you could run desktop Vivaldi in GNURoot Debian and the like on most Android devices though. (Like I presumably already can with Vivaldi and Otter on my x86 Android Zenfone 2.) There just wouldn't be any point to it.

Android is fundamentally terrible from a dev's perspective. From a user's perspective it's not too bad these days. I mourn the demise of Ubuntu Phone. :-)