"Run" chromium on your windows phone
Currently a proof of concept inspired by browservice.
This was hacked together in a few days, much of it is hardcoded & the code is pretty ugly (for now) but it works.
When it grows up it aims to be a usable modern browser for windows mobile devices that anyone can install on a PC (server) and have an up to date web browser on WP (client).
For now your phone and your server needs to be on the same network
- Download the latest release.
- Run the server app on your PC
- Open the client app on your phone, enter the IP of the server (your PC's local IP in
ws://localip:8081format) and click connect - Navigate to a page or search using google
- 2 way communication with websockets and JSON
- Render buffer forwarding to a UWP client
- Navigation events from UWP client
- Touch input events (only 1 for now) from UWP client
- Auto finding the server if on local connection (UDP discovery packets)
- Easy&secure remote connections via tunnels (Ngrok, ZeroTier, serveo)
- Auto scaling renderview based on screen resolution/rotation/UWP viewport
- HiDPI
- Multitouch
- Text input (basic, still WIP)
- Auto save the last server address
- Faster rendering (GPU?)
- Faster & smarter transport (chunking?, rawbytes?, SYN/ACK)
- Configurable streaming quality (ondemand rendering?)
- Audio playback forwarding
- File uploads
- File downloads
- Camera & microphone
- Notifications
- Tabs
- In Private/Incognito
- Back/Forward
- General browser stuff
- Continuum support/verify
- XAML! I don't like XAML. If you are a seasoned UWP/XAML/Windows Phone developer feel free to suggest changes.
- UWP peformance & memory management. Yes, C# has GC so one might as well use it but still. If you have any cool tips on how can I make the UWP app faster besides getting down the memory allocations let me know.
- We need a real name for the project
- Report issues you encounter on the GitHub page
- I don't do much user-facing stuff, If you find this useful and have the time make guides/tutorials for the less tech-savy :)