TO DO

[xdevs23]

Here is everything what needs to be done and what has been recently finished.

Use following formatting:

 - [ ] something to do
 - [x] something finished

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TO DO:

To fix:

• [ ] Switching tabs
• [ ] Fix something in ActivityThread.performResumeActivity()

To do:

• [x] Native updater
• [ ] Select DL Location
• [ ] Change font size

Code status: Waiting for native updater to be completed and bugs to be fixed

[xdevs23]

Now it works 😂

[xdevs23]

Our stats are booming

[Thunderbottom]

yeah they do when a new version comes out, I once hit 33k new users per month and 12.7k active sessions for 2-3 weeks when I released v.1.4.6.

[Thunderbottom]

People on XDA are complaining that tab switcher cannot switch tabs...

[Thunderbottom]

They're using volume keys to switch tabs

[Thunderbottom]

I think it is device dependent cause it is working for me on some devices and not on others..

[xdevs23]

Yes I think it is device-dependent...

[Thunderbottom]

Do you have a quick fix for it? We'll release a incremental update soon then, maybe.

[xdevs23]

I am currently working on the updater.

[Thunderbottom]

Like I've been planning weekly updates starting next year, which, hopefully, I'll start supplying on a weekly/bi-weekly basis

[Thunderbottom]

Well can you not do both by tomorrow? I mean it is hard but should be possible right? If you're enjoying with family, you can take your time because this is the time to enjoy imo :)

[Thunderbottom]

I'll also start the PDF thing soon so we should be at least stable till next year and we haven't updated for a long time so..

[xdevs23]

I will try to fix it as soon as possible.

[xdevs23]

I hope you know what I mean with "native".

The updater was a webview which loaded a webpage, and when you click on update, it downloads it and installs it.

Making it native is just removing the webview, creating a layout and doing everything in java.

[Thunderbottom]

Yeah I know what native is...

[xdevs23]

Yep.. Just to be sure, because I don't want that you think I am going to use native libraries (C++)

[Thunderbottom]

Of course you aren't going to do that.. duh.

[xdevs23]

Updater is finished

[Thunderbottom]

Cool, so we ready to host an incremental?

[Thunderbottom]

I'll do it tomorrow, will test this one thoroughly and post the update

[Thunderbottom]

So we'll know the bugs beforehand and I'll start working :) FINALLY!

[xdevs23]

Some bugs are still there but some were already fixed after 2.0.

I think you can release an update.

[Thunderbottom]

Alright, testing now, will post an update tomorrow! have a good evening :)

[xdevs23]

Thanks, a good evening for u too!

[xdevs23]

Btw, as you can see, I added some cool features, such as DownloadUtils.downloadString(url). With this function you can download text files and save them into a String, without saving it onto the storage.

[xdevs23]

Can you please take a look into my new project Cornowser It is a web browser based on Crosswalk (Chromium)

[Thunderbottom]

Hey @xdevs23 I'll check that later, I'm pretty busy with stuff right now, but I took a quick look at it and it seems pretty good.

@takahirom Is there any way that we can implement this from here into our search bar? Like it should show some search suggestions in the omnibox.

[xdevs23]

Allright. Do you want to join the project? I have a good idea: we could share code across both projects. So, we can implenent good code from my project into yours and good code from yours into mine.

[Thunderbottom]

Sure!

[xdevs23]

Great

[xdevs23]

I used following regex patterns for detecting of address format:

    public static Pattern urlRegEx = Pattern.compile(
            "(" +
                    "(^(https|http|ftp|file|rtmp)://.*[.].*)|" +    // Protocols for adresses
                    "(javascript:).*" +                             // Javascript

                    ")"
    );

    public static Pattern urlSecRegEx = Pattern.compile(
            "(" +
                    "(.*[.].*)|" +                                  // Adresses without protocol
                    "(localhost).*|" +                              // localhost
                    "(.*[.].*[.].*[.].*)|" +                        // IPv4 adresses
                    "(.*(::|:).*)|" +                               // IPv6 adresses
                    "(.*@.*[.].*)" +                                // user@host.domain

                    ")"
    );

And it works perfectly fine. If it doesn't match it just searches the entered text on google.

And this is what I used for handling it:

    @Override
    public void load(String url, String content) {
        Matcher urlRegExMatcher     = CornResourceClient.urlRegEx   .matcher(url);
        Matcher urlSecRegExMatcher  = CornResourceClient.urlSecRegEx.matcher(url);
        String nUrl = url;
        if(urlRegExMatcher.matches()) nUrl = url;
        else if(urlSecRegExMatcher.matches()) nUrl = "http://" + url;
        else nUrl = "https://google.com/search?q=" + url.replace(" ", "+");
        super.load(nUrl, content);
    }

[Thunderbottom]

Oh, we have this in here, don't we?

[xdevs23]

We already have a regex pattern. I am going to improve it a bit. I think it is no difference between the result of mine and yours, you can decide which you take.

[xdevs23]

String regex = "^((ftp|http|https|intent)?://)"                      // support scheme (how about javascript:?)
                + "?(([0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+: )?[0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+@)?" // ftp.user@
                + "(([0-9]{1,3}\\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}"                            // IP -> 199.194.52.184
                + "|"                                                        // IP DOMAIN
                + "([0-9a-z_!~*'()-]+\\.)*"                                  // -> www.
                + "([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]{0,61})?[0-9a-z]\\."                    //
                + "[a-z]{2,6})"                                              // first level domain -> .com or .museum
                + "(:[0-9]{1,4})?"                                           // Port -> :80
                + "((/?)|"                                                   // a slash isn't required if there is no file name
                + "(/[0-9a-z_!~*'().;?:@&=+$,%#-]+)+/?)$";

That is ours. But it is long and confusing.

[Thunderbottom]

Yea our's won't work...

[Thunderbottom]

And yeah we have also broken "Open links in the background" while you changed all those views so you'll have to fix that too...

[xdevs23]

Yep... I have seen that this browser is a derivate of Ninja browser... Is that why you can't fix the bugs? I have to say that the views etc. were really messed up, that's why I had to change everything.

[Thunderbottom]

No, I can fix bugs but I have too little time with all the work I've got, this was just a fun project.

[Thunderbottom]

You can have it all if you want now, I have little to no time to continue this, maybe next year I can work on this again...

[xdevs23]

Allright. I will take a look later. I want to get my browser to a stable state and release the first version, maybe until next year. Yes, that is possible. Somehow I do those things really fast, while others need a much longer time to do it.

[Thunderbottom]

I have a big list of features that many people want in a browser, do you want it? I can get it to you in maybe a day or two, and those are like the "most wanted" features in a browser. Also, you can take a look at Snapdragon Browser, If you can implement most of these stuff, then mark my words you'll have the best browser.

P.S. You can make some features as "Plugins" so that people get only what they want and no bloats, I'd have done this if I had time, and I started this shit thinking I'd have a lot of time to work on it, but oh boy, was I wrong... Also, from my experience, just do one thing at a time, as they say "Take what you have in your hand and use it, don't stretch out for something more, as the one thing you have in your hand will be lost", Good luck.

[Thunderbottom]

And I may wrap this stuff up soon, do you want me to have people check out your browser? cause your stuff sounds promising and you have good skills too..

[xdevs23]

Well, as you might know, browsers which just use the webview could be dangerous because on older android versions the webview engines are outdated and on 4.3 and lower you have a very awful performance. It's a good idea to create a such lightweight browser, if you just want to save free space and have a good browsing experience though. I think you should let your project continue existing but only work on it until it is stable enough. Then we could work on Cornowser and make a better browsing experience... What do you think? I also will try including native ARM64 support to have best performance on new 64bit devices. And you need to know that I learned programming by watching youtube videos, searching for code examples in the net and trying out things myself. I am just 15 years old and do programming only as "spare time activity".

Anyways, how about my idea?

[xdevs23]

First I have only programmed in Visual Basic, later I started learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript, I also have made my project in C++, and I started programming in Java. I made minecraft plugins and then started making android apps.

Now I can write code in Java, VB.Net, C++, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, PHP and bash shell scripting.

[xdevs23]

Here is some work in Visual Basic: https://github.com/xdevs23/xD

[Thunderbottom]

Yeah we can work on your idea, I'll just let 1.4.6. be the last version and from sometime around next year, I'll start helping you out. I still need to learn a lot, where specifically did you learn Android coding from? Cause I just did Java and read some documentations and then started to work on stuff. It was hard but now I have a good hold of it, although I'll need some Android specific videos to be good to go.

[xdevs23]

I started watching YouTube videos about basic java programming, later I wanted to create my own java console program, which worked, and later I started watching videos about bukkit plugins.

And then I started watching a few videos about android programming. Then I just started programming and if I didn't know something or needed help I just searched on Google for solutions and used copy&paste.

With the time I learned the code and just tried things out without knowing what I am really doing and with the time I developed my programming skills and am always improving it with each line of code I write.

And I didn't buy any books etc. for learning it, I didn't participate in any course or similar, I just started doing it myself and now you can see the results.

My code might not be perfect or the best but it is not that bad and with each new line of code I improve my skills and experience.

[Thunderbottom]

Well I did the exact same thing, guess my practice just wasn't enough. Cool, now I have stuff to do in my leisure time! Thanks :)

[xdevs23]

And never forget to not give up You can stop for a while if you can't solve a problem but later you might be able to solve it.

[Thunderbottom]

Well anyways, how farm along is your browser from initial release? You should totally post an XDA thread asking people what features they want because during the later time, when you have a release version, you might not want to change most of the code just to fit one feature in, so this just might be the right time to ask for features and show off your browser. I'll help you if you need.