Browser engine with wide capabilities (e.g. display naked page)

• Used in conjunction with smartyoutubetv
• Engine can be used independently (currently in development)
• Based on marshmallow-release branch of android open source project

To build project navigate to the root directory then type:

gradlew build

Generated apks will be placed in the directory ./smartyoutubetv/build/outputs/apk/

MyActivity extends MainBrowserActivity {
	@Override
	void onCreate(Bundle bundle) {
		super.onCreate();
		Controller controller = new SimpleUiController(this);
		controller.loadUrl("http://ya.ru");
		setController(controller);
	}
}

MyActivity extends MainBrowserActivity {
	MyActivity() {
		// set preferred engine to XWalk (default - WebView)
		// we must set engine as early as possible
        Browser.setEngineType(EngineType.XWalk);
	}
	@Override
	void onCreate(Bundle bundle) {
		Controller controller = new SimpleUiController(this);
		Intent intent = (bundle == null) ? getIntent() : null;
		controller.start(intent, "http://ya.ru");
		setController(controller);
	}
}

• ability to choose preferred engine type: WebView, XWalk
• you don't have to deal with creating custom methods for managing WebView lifecircle (pause, resume etc)
• ability to easily add tabs, settings and other regular browser-specific features
• all internal state is saved into persistent memory instead of RAM

• Crosswalk - alternative browser engine
• Otto - message bus
• OkHttp - http processing
• Android Logger - logger factory implementation
• Crashlytics - multipurpose crash analytics
• Butter Knife - simplify layout handling

Version name, code and package will be loaded from gradle build script. Crashlytics credentials can be controlled from fabric.properties file.

app/fabric.properties

apiSecret=7c9df6d057e7bb62b17ab364e8115a75fcf7430873b6274bb094d1a8adb
apiKey=cc238b2a4866ceb061b008839cdb49a8b77

You can get apiSecret and apiKey from the fabric dashboard fabric.io/settings/organizations where they were created after successful first-time signup with Crashlytics plugin GUI for Android Studio.

• exo: fix play from phone (because main app not running: mobizen_20170929_111409.mp4)
• exo: add 'share' button
• subtitle support

• playlist: more informative playlist layout
• playlist: add shuffle option
• video-item: add comments section
• video-item: add description section

• XWalk: remember selected resolution
• XWalk: add 4k version
• auto update
• live video > select higher quality
• beta: remember selected resolution
• exo: tune rewind step from 1min to 15 sec
• auto update
• exo: fix brightness (-webkit-filter:brightness(0))
• market: add to aptoide
• select version on launch
• System.exit(0)
• add 60 fps support
• auto clear cache to maintain small footprint
• disable release logging
• bug with Resuming webview timers
• ability to set video quality
• adapt build system to multiple prduct flavors
• add Crashlytics crash reporting tool
• add Crosswalk backend
• apply codec fixes: MiTV3, MiTV3S-55, X92
• add DIAL (DIscovery And Launch) support
• add adblock
• add crash handler
• handle intents from external apps
• restore state (Bundle) when app unloaded from memory
• back key not closes video but exits from app
• don't play video in background
• keys not working
• add wide viewport
• fix constant activity reload
• remove ActionBar
• add system wide logging

• Activity->onLowMemory() -> throw exception; tune webview to display complex sites
• hide TitleBar and other UI (Controller.enableBasicMode())
• use logging framework slf4j + android logger backend
  • https://github.com/noveogroup/android-logger
  • http://www.slf4j.org/android/
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10514175/which-android-logging-framework-to-use
• add multiple flavors: original (WebView) and beta (XWalk)
  • custom resources location: src/originalFlavor and src/regularFlavor
• use logging framework slf4j + android logger backend
  • https://github.com/noveogroup/android-logger
  • http://www.slf4j.org/android/
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10514175/which-android-logging-framework-to-use
• review crash reporting tools (https://www.captechconsulting.com/blogs/a-comparison-of-android-crash-reporting-tools)
  • add Crashlytics crash reporting tool (https://fabric.io/kits/android/crashlytics/)
• Crosswalk docs:
  • https://crosswalk-project.org/documentation/android/embedding_crosswalk.html
  • https://crosswalk-project.org/documentation/shared_mode.html
  • https://crosswalk-project.org/apis/embeddingapidocs_v7/index.html?org/xwalk/core/XWalkInitializer.html
  • https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk-website/wiki/Shared-mode-for-Crosswalk-Core-Library-on-Android
• update UML diagram for MainController and SubControllers
• find more details:
  • TabControl.SubWindow
  • DataController
  • BrowserWebView.CustomView
  • SnapshotBar
• add tests:
  • testThatPageLoadHandlerNotCalledTwise
  • testThatUrlIsNotOverridedAndHandledInternally
  • testCheckThatBackKeyNotClosesActivity
  • testThatCustomUserAgentHeaderNotOverridedBySettings
  • testThatWebViewCreatedAndAttachedToTheActivityView
  • testThatWebViewHeadersAreProperlySet
• add Chrome Custom Tabs backend (unable to implement: lack of api for setUserAgent, setUseWideViewPort)
  • https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/customtabs
• optimization tips
  • android:largeHeap="true"
  • android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
  • assets folder xwalk-command-line: xwalk --ignore-gpu-blacklist

• how to fetch sources from android open source project via console:
  • git clone -b marshmallow-release https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Browser