[APP][8.0+] Native Alpha - Transform any website into native fullscreen web apps

[cylonid]

Hey, after a longer development break, I have finished a bunch of new features

• Support for camera and microphone access
• Support for mailto and tel hyperlinks
• Support for file picker dialogs
• Support for DRM-protected content
• Enhanced support for video playback
• Enabled for usage with non-internet addresses
• Color theme will from now on always follow system settings

In addition, the long awaited sandbox feature is finally here!
I had to invest many hours to get this ready and have it user-friendly, so I decided that this feature will not be offered as separated APK but as paid download on Google Play:


The full list of Native Alpha Plus features:

• Sandbox containers: Web Apps are loaded in fully separated sandboxes, cookies or other data are not shared with other Web Apps
• Kiosk Mode: Fullscreen with menubars hidden
• Experimental "Force Dark Mode" also available for websites (configurable with respect to day-time)

 

[MrManson666]

Really cool app! Thank you so much

Just a quick question: As Adblock Plus is a bit controversial... would it be possible to change to Ublock Origin?

 

[MrManson666]

Is there any way to share a link of the website that is opened?

 

[cylonid]

As Adblock Plus is a bit controversial... would it be possible to change to Ublock Origin?

If it were that easy, I would have already done that. In short: Adblock Plus has a ready-to-use library for Android WebView, others don't. Bringing Ublock Origin to Android WebView is a major task on its own and way beyond the scope of this app. The only known Chromium-based Android browser with extension support is Kiwi which is very controversial itself

Still, never say never. There are ways to get proper extension support to Native Alpha but that requires me to start virtually from scratch - and so far I focused on bringing new features to the current implementation.

Is there any way to share a link of the website that is opened?

Not yet, but this will definitely be implemented.

 

[Danizer]

Firstly thanku for this beautiful app.
Secondly, I'm having an issue. I have created Amazon Music webapp from Native alpha. But whenever I close the Amazon Music webapp it again asks me for login. It asks me to login everytime I closes the app ( closing means removing app from the recent menu)

 

[cylonid]

Firstly thanku for this beautiful app.
Secondly, I'm having an issue. I have created Amazon Music webapp from Native alpha. But whenever I close the Amazon Music webapp it again asks me for login. It asks me to login everytime I closes the app ( closing means removing app from the recent menu)

I cannot reproduce this. When I create a Web App pointing to "music.amazon.de" and login, the login is persistent.
Perhaps your privacy settings are too strict?
E.g., you cannot disable cookies if you want to keep login data.

 

[Danizer]

I cannot reproduce this. When I create a Web App pointing to "music.amazon.de" and login, the login is persistent.
Perhaps your privacy settings are too strict?
E.g., you cannot disable cookies if you want to keep login data.

It's now resolved, Don't know what was causing this issue but I just deleted and re-created the webapp. (All the settings of the Webapp are still same)

 

[cylonid]

Is there any way to share a link of the website that is opened?

Sharing is now part of the new context menu feature in the newest release v1.3.0.

Full changelog:

• Resolved unusual going back behaviour on certain websites
• Added support for Google OAuth-enabled sites
• Context Menu: Long-press context menu with several options (Share, going back/forward, reload...)
• Added pinch-to-zoom setting
• Added option to freely set start URL of Web Apps to support non-standard URLs (expert settings)
• Build for x86 and x86_64 platform included
• Several bugfixes and general improvements

Native Alpha Plus-only:

• Biometric Access Protection: For every Web App, you can enable access protection (Fingerprint + fallback to lockscreen PIN)
• Further enhancements for Dark Mode

Available via IzzyOnDroid and GitHub, Google should follow soon 🙂️

 

[dysphasi]

Is there a way to create / adapt the created home-screen shortcuts so that they don't display a small 'native alpha' sub icon/badge in the lower right corner?

Would be great to be able to create shortcuts that look like regular apps


Thanks for all your hard work!

 

[cylonid]

Is there a way to create / adapt the created home-screen shortcuts so that they don't display a small 'native alpha' sub icon/badge in the lower right corner?

Would be great to be able to create shortcuts that look like regular apps


Thanks for all your hard work!

I answered to your GitHub issue:

https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid/issues/86

 

[dysphasi]

I answered to your GitHub issue:

https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid/issues/86

Thank you for the response.

I’ll have. a look into different launchers out there. There seem to be a few mentions of various apps working around the shortcut badge ‘issue’ by making use of widgets to do so. Though this seems more geared toward non web-app shortcuts.

Unless I’m mistaken I don’t think lawnchair / neo launcher don’t have an option to remove the badge unless there’s a non-GUI means of doing this…. So I’ll take a look at smart launcher.

Fair enough re: the means of displaying the icon. I can edit/make my own icons.

Be grand if you were to work out a way of getting around these two items at some point in the future.

Thanks again for your efforts!

 

[ElCunq]

Hey I'm still using ur app and it' freaking awesome. Great job man. But I'm having an issue. App deletes cookies after closing the shortcut. I oppend accept cookies in shortcut settings and app settings. But it didn't solve. Can you help about that?