Lightning Browser

Speed, Simplicity, Security

Download

• Download APK from here

• Download from Google Play

Master Branch

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Dev Branch

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Features

• Bookmarks

• History

• Multiple search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, StartPage, DuckDuckGo, etc.)

• Incognito mode

• Flash support (prior to 4.4)

• Follows Google design guidelines

• Unique utilization of navigation drawer for tabs

• Google search suggestions

• Orbot Proxy support

Permissions

• 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

• ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: Required for the WebView to function by some OEM versions of WebKit

The Code

• Please contribute code back if you can. The code isn't perfect.
• Please add translations/translation fixes as you see need

Setting Up the Project

Due to the inclusion of the netcipher library for Orbot proxy support, importing the project will show you some errors. To fix this, first run the following git command in your project folder (NOTE: You need the git command installed to use this):

git submodule update --init --recursive

Once you run that command, the IDE should automatically import netcipher and a couple submodules in as separate projects. Than you need to set the netcipher library project as a libary of the browser project however your IDE makes you do that. Once those steps are done, the project should be all set up and ready to go. Please read this tutorial for more information on git submodules

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 open-source any files that you use from this repository and if you use any code at all from this repository, the file you put it in must be open-sourced according the the MPL 2.0 license. To put it simply, if you create a fork of this browser, your browser must be open-source, no exceptions. The only way to avoid open-sourcing a file is to completely write all the code yourself and to not use any code from Lightning. This is in order to provide a way for companies to utilize the code without making private server code public. For further explanation, please email me, or seek legal counsel :-P

If you have any questions regarding the open-source license, please contact me at anthonyrestaino11@gmail.com