I have changed the license of Lightning Browser to the Mozilla Public License. From now on, any changes merged into projects from this one, and any forks of this browser will be licensed under the MPL v2 license instead of the Apache License. You can read more about what the MPL license means at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
#Lightning Browser # ####Download
####Features
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Bookmarks
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History
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Multiple Search Engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, StartPage, DuckDuckGo, etc.)
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Incognito Mode
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Flash Support
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Privacy Aware
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HOLOYOLO
####Permissions Requested and Explained
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INTERNET
: For accessing the web -
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
: For downloading files from the browser -
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
: For downloading files from the browser -
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
: For sites like Google Maps, it is disabled by default in settings and displays a pop-up asking if a site may use your location when it is enabled -
READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS
: To synchronize history and bookmarks between the stock browser and Lightning -
WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS
: To synchronize history and bookmarks between the stock browser and Lightning
####The Code
- Please contribute code back if you can. The code isn't perfect.
- Please add translations/translation fixes as you see need
- Change
FinalVariables.MAX_TABS
from 5 to 100 to change the Lightning to the paid version - Beware when using proguard while compiling. Some methods should not be obfuscated. Use the proguard settings file I provided for best results.
####License
Copyright 2014 Anthony Restaino
Lightning Browser
This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the
Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL
was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at
http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
This means that you MUST provide attribution in your application to Lightning Browser for the use of this code. The way you can do this is to provide a separate screen in settings showing what open-source libraries and/or apps (this one) you used in your application. You must also publish any changes you make to the code, basically meaning that you must open-source code derived from this one. The purpose of this is to encourage contribution back to the parent repository.