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3.4 KiB
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47 lines
3.4 KiB
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KurobaEx is a fast Android app for browsing imageboards, such as 4chan. It's a fork of Kuroba. This fork provides lots of new features:
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* New technological stack (Kotlin, RxJava/Coroutines, Room etc).
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* On demand content loading (includes prefetching, youtube videos titles and durations fetching, inlined files size fetching etc).
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* Third-party archives support.
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* New thread navigation (tabs).
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* New in-app navigation (bottom nav bar).
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* New bookmarks (they were fully rewritten from scratch, now use way less memory, don't use wakelocks, show separate notifications per thread (and notifications can be swiped away).
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* Edge-to-edge theme support.
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* New database.
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* 4chan global search support.
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* Fully dynamic themes with Android Q Day/Night mode support.
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* Per-site proxies.
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* Ability to attach multiple media files to reply, attach media files that was shared by external apps (event by some keyboards), attach remote media files by URL, etc.
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* New image downloader. Allows downloading images while the app is in background, retrying failed to download images, resolving duplicates, etc.
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* New posting. Posting code was moved into a foreground service which now allows stuff using like automatic captcha solvers (2captcha API) seamlessly or queueing multiple replies in different threads (only one reply per thread).
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* New Media Viewer. It was rewritten from scratch and now lives in a separate activity. It now also supports stuff like viewing links to media files shared into the app.
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* Thread downloader with ability to export threads as HTML pages with all downloaded media.
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* Composite catalogs (ability to combine multiple boards of any available sites (except archives) together into a single catalog).
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* Mpv video player.
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* Lots of other tiny improvements.
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AntiFeatures:
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- NonFreeNet. The app has to connect to image board sites which may be closed source.
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The app may connect to non-free services such as Google ReCaptcha (JS/no-JS), CloudFlare,
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GitHub (for some image resources), Youtube/SoundCloud/Streamable (to parse titles and durations),
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and other sites. This may depend on the site itself as well as the app settings.
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The app uses some permissions that may be considered dangerous:
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- RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED. It is used to listen to reboots and reschedule BookmarkWatcher service.
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- FOREGROUND_SERVICE. It is used by the service that shows a notification when a file is
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downloaded (allows you cancel it).
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- WAKE_LOCK. It may be used on Android versions prior to API 23 to keep the device awake while
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BookmarkWatcher service is doing it's job.
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When making a reply on some sites the app may connect to Google's ReCaptcha services.
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The app supports JavaScript and non-JavaScript based captcha systems.
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Whether to use a JS or no-JS captcha can be configured in the site settings (depends on the site).
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To make the final APK smaller some of the static resources are stored on Github servers and are
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loaded lazily, so the app may connect to Github services.
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The app uses it's own crash reporting system which is turned on by default.
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It collects crash logs and other logs (prior the crash), stores them, but does not upload them
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automatically. You have to do it manually. You can see what is being sent and even edit it
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(or delete crash logs). You can also completely disable collection of crash logs in the settings.
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(The server's source code can be found here https://github.com/K1rakishou/Kuroba-apk-server) |