I'm working on an native Android application

[letroll]

Hello,

After tested the current Android application and see some issues:

• Not work on firefox for android #53
• Bookmark properties fail to be fetched when adding new bookmark in Android #78
• Android: App doesn't rotate into landscape mode #47
• Mobile app can't handle servers behind BASIC authentication #29
• Improve the time to load the Android app #25

I started working on a native application, and I would like to know if you are interested than I share my works

[nero120]

Hi @letroll, I've considered building a native app in the past, there's a couple of reasons why I decided to stick with Cordova but the main one is that having a unified code base means far less work to update all platforms. For now, the app is simple enough that it can share the code base with the extensions so I don't think there's a benefit in separating it out. Dev time is limited and must be utilised to complete implementation of core features before looking at nice to haves.

Regarding the issues:

• Android: App doesn't rotate into landscape mode #47 will be resolved in v1.5.0 which I'm currently working on (Improve the time to load the Android app #25 may also be resolved at this point).
• Not work on firefox for android #53 cannot be resolved due to segregation of app data/no equivalent mobile api to web extensions.
• Mobile app can't handle servers behind BASIC authentication #29 will be resolved in future as part of the plan to support more services than just xBrowserSync services.

The interesting one is #78, this used to work but doesn't any more. It uses the cordova InAppBrowser plugin to open a hidden web view, load a url, then grab metadata from the loaded DOM before closing the web view. It relies on the loadstop event listener to fire once the url has finished loading but this no longer seems to work which is why xBrowserSync can no longer automatically populate bookmark metadata.

If you are able or willing to look into this issue then it would be a massive help! Otherwise no worries, if you still want to develop a native app then i'd be interested to see what you produce.

[vsatmydynipnet]

Hi, is there any progress? I miss my bookmarks on android alot. All Desktop is on 1.5 so Android can not read the bokmarks because of 1.4. Thank you

[nero120]

@vsatmydynipnet yes I'm making progress! I have been delayed in completing the release due to family commitments but hoping to get it out before xmas. Really sorry this has taken much longer than I'd hoped, bear with me.

[vsatmydynipnet]

sounds great to me! thank you very much. and we all do not have enough time for things we want to do. Love this solution!

[nero120]

Closing this as no longer relevant for this project.