[app]Make Your Own Android Browser!!

buildyourbrowser · Apr 27, 2012

Hello guys,

Have you guys thought about making your own Android web browser? Now you can do it in just a few clicks!!

You can customize your own browser icon, browser name, default homepage, default skin/theme, and your own splash screen!!! Much more customizations will be coming in the near future.

Don't wait, make your own Android browser now at:
http://custom.maxthon.com/android/makeyourbrowser/

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UPDATE: we're working on providing more customization options for the browser. Guys, how would you like to customize your browser? Let us know..

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MrTaco505 · Apr 28, 2012

This is amazing!

buildyourbrowser · Apr 28, 2012

Check it out

keith456 · Apr 28, 2012

very nice idea , if there were something like this but to mke a music player that would be great ....i dont use the browser on my phone much

buildyourbrowser · Apr 28, 2012

what other apps would you like to customize? music player and??

waylaidwanderer · Apr 28, 2012

Won't it be possible for people to make their own browser and sell it? They could just edit out anything that mentions Maxthon...

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MrTaco505 · Apr 28, 2012

I think it would be best to customize the music player and gallery app

- Swift - · Apr 28, 2012

This is good, but it also means the Market is going to get flooded with themed Maxthon browsers.

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kmanilpillai · Apr 28, 2012

Thanks for the information...

dragontology · Apr 28, 2012

This is neat. I just nicked an icon off Google, as well as a wallpaper, which I added text to in MS Paint. I call my browser "Reality Web".

Does anybody have any opinions on the Maxthon browser itself?

//edit: I actually like the browser. It's faster than Opera Mobile. That isn't saying much, Opera is not a fast browser. It just does a lot and doesn't have many faults.

Some pictures won't load. This could contribute to the speed. I opened a 4chan board, which is a good test because the captcha usually screws up most mobile browsers. They just hang until it loads, then the whole page displays at once. It's a good benchmark. Surprisingly, my customized Maxthon just loaded it all up, and quick, including all the images. I was impressed. Next I went to How-To Geek. Some image thumbnails from articles did not load.

The browser has a lot of options. If you were on the fence about themes, you can actually download the others, so you can switch that. You can also change the home page. The customized browser is 2.21MB, though that may depend on the splash screen. I just used a JPEG; a PNG might make it bigger. But back to the options, you have your user agent changer, a privacy mode, the usual stuff, and even gestures (which I hate, but some like, and I still regard it as an advanced feature).

Couple gripes: 1, closing the last tab doesn't open Home, it opens this quick access tab, like Opera's speed dial, or Chrome's. There are a couple entries that don't need to be there, but that's also true for Opera. 2, hitting Home opens it in a new tab, not the current one.

All in all I like it, and I may set it as my default, primarily so when other apps (e.g. Facebook or baconreader, the Reddit app I use) call the browser, they call a fast one. At the very least, this is a decent browser worth your consideration. That you can customize it is just icing on the cake.

IrishStuff09 said:
This is good, but it also means the Market is going to get flooded with themed Maxthon browsers.

I wouldn't worry about that. I don't think it's free to put something on the Market. Besides, free software being resold or with ads tacked on tends to get blasted pretty hard in the comments. And if Maxthon cares that people are selling these, they have recourse, I'm sure. I don't think your concern is without warrant, but it doesn't really concern me.

- Swift - · Apr 28, 2012

Dark Reality said:
I wouldn't worry about that. I don't think it's free to put something on the Market. Besides, free software being resold or with ads tacked on tends to get blasted pretty hard in the comments. And if Maxthon cares that people are selling these, they have recourse, I'm sure. I don't think your concern is without warrant, but it doesn't really concern me.

Yes it costs $25 for A Developer Account with Google but you might just get one Developer who might upload 20 of his themed Maxthon browsers.
It'd be quite funny.

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Forwox · Apr 28, 2012

This is really stunning!

+1 for making galerry & music player this way.

AC DC · Apr 28, 2012

Dark Reality said:
This is neat. I just nicked an icon off Google, as well as a wallpaper, which I added text to in MS Paint. I call my browser "Reality Web".

Does anybody have any opinions on the Maxthon browser itself?

//edit: I actually like the browser. It's faster than Opera Mobile. That isn't saying much, Opera is not a fast browser. It just does a lot and doesn't have many faults.

Some pictures won't load. This could contribute to the speed. I opened a 4chan board, which is a good test because the captcha usually screws up most mobile browsers. They just hang until it loads, then the whole page displays at once. It's a good benchmark. Surprisingly, my customized Maxthon just loaded it all up, and quick, including all the images. I was impressed. Next I went to How-To Geek. Some image thumbnails from articles did not load.

The browser has a lot of options. If you were on the fence about themes, you can actually download the others, so you can switch that. You can also change the home page. The customized browser is 2.21MB, though that may depend on the splash screen. I just used a JPEG; a PNG might make it bigger. But back to the options, you have your user agent changer, a privacy mode, the usual stuff, and even gestures (which I hate, but some like, and I still regard it as an advanced feature).

Couple gripes: 1, closing the last tab doesn't open Home, it opens this quick access tab, like Opera's speed dial, or Chrome's. There are a couple entries that don't need to be there, but that's also true for Opera. 2, hitting Home opens it in a new tab, not the current one.

All in all I like it, and I may set it as my default, primarily so when other apps (e.g. Facebook or baconreader, the Reddit app I use) call the browser, they call a fast one. At the very least, this is a decent browser worth your consideration. That you can customize it is just icing on the cake.

I wouldn't worry about that. I don't think it's free to put something on the Market. Besides, free software being resold or with ads tacked on tends to get blasted pretty hard in the comments. And if Maxthon cares that people are selling these, they have recourse, I'm sure. I don't think your concern is without warrant, but it doesn't really concern me.

Absolutely

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narflynn619 · Apr 28, 2012

This webpage is not available
The server at custom.maxthon.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing RockMelt from accessing the network.

Why? Or is it suppose to be opened through my phone?

buildyourbrowser · Apr 28, 2012

narflynn619 said:
Why? Or is it suppose to be opened through my phone?

This is the correct URL: http://custom.maxthon.com/android/makeyourbrowser/

coydroid · Apr 28, 2012

Wow, my first post to this amazing forum!

BYB . . . Before I download this could I just qualify its limitation(s)? I'm looking for something that is (not to put it too mildly) um . . . ambitious.

I'm on a nice, meaty Lenovo Ideapad K1 ten-incher (no jokes now!! lol) and I'm specifically looking for a means by which to hard code into the menu bar itself buttons for the following four vertical navigation operations:

PGDN
PGUP
HOME
END

I don't even know if this can be done what the hell, I can ask, eh? Why do I want these buttons? For seamless, non-intrusive HTML ARTICLE READING without the crude finger swiping that is a huge interruption to my reading (any) HTML page by virtue of the fact that I'm endlessly positioning, trying to land precisely one screen lower to make the maximum use of my 10" screen.

What I'm describing is a feature best implemented for tablets, I'll be the first to admit -- a true, dedicated "HTML READER'S BROWSER" with no keyboard interaction required to obtain precise vertical PAGE SCROLLING.

Can your App be outfitted with something this ambitious do you think? or should I just continue to wait until some kind soul -- a reader, like myself -- discovers that he's wasting untold hours sweeping his New York Times pages just to position his scrollbar?

And thank you in any event for a wonderful concept!

coydroid

SpaceCaker · Apr 28, 2012

music player i like to edit

some kind of youtube player i would like to edit

etc

btw like this idea

its cool made my own

buildyourbrowser · Apr 29, 2012

That's pretty ambitious...

coydroid said:
Wow, my first post to this amazing forum!

BYB . . . Before I download this could I just qualify its limitation(s)? I'm looking for something that is (not to put it too mildly) um . . . ambitious.

I'm on a nice, meaty Lenovo Ideapad K1 ten-incher (no jokes now!! lol) and I'm specifically looking for a means by which to hard code into the menu bar itself buttons for the following four vertical navigation operations:

PGDN

PGUP

HOME

END

I don't even know if this can be done what the hell, I can ask, eh? Why do I want these buttons? For seamless, non-intrusive HTML ARTICLE READING without the crude finger swiping that is a huge interruption to my reading (any) HTML page by virtue of the fact that I'm endlessly positioning, trying to land precisely one screen lower to make the maximum use of my 10" screen.

What I'm describing is a feature best implemented for tablets, I'll be the first to admit -- a true, dedicated "HTML READER'S BROWSER" with no keyboard interaction required to obtain precise vertical PAGE SCROLLING.

Can your App be outfitted with something this ambitious do you think? or should I just continue to wait until some kind soul -- a reader, like myself -- discovers that he's wasting untold hours sweeping his New York Times pages just to position his scrollbar?

And thank you in any event for a wonderful concept!

coydroid

virgananta93 · Apr 29, 2012

wow awesome i have been created one

narflynn619 · Apr 29, 2012

buildyourbrowser said:
This is the correct URL: http://custom.maxthon.com/android/makeyourbrowser/

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