/einkbro

A small, fast web browser based on Android WebView. It's tailored for E-Ink devices but also works great on normal android devices.

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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.

Get it on F-Droid

EinkBro has a book about how it was developed!

Screenshots

Main Screen Menu Items Toolbar Configuration
Touch Setting Settings Vertical Read

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

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  • 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)

Development environment supported by JetBrains

IDE supported by JetBrains

App icon is made by turkkub from www.flaticon.com
Language icons created by Those Icons - Flaticon Split screen icons created by Fajrul Fitrianto - Flaticon