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DNDReader 0.3.0 — Ubuntu, Windows and Android

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@thisisankit27 thisisankit27 released this 19 Oct 11:14
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Learn about vigilant mode.

Select text in a PDF, tap Find meaning, and Google results open in a panel inside the reader. Close it and your scroll position is exactly where you left it.

No AI, no API keys, no backend, no account, no telemetry.

The first published release, and the first to cover three platforms with one version number.

New: Android

  • Touch text selection with drag handles and a magnifier
  • A draggable bottom-sheet search panel on the system WebView — nothing like Chromium is bundled, so the APK is ~25 MB against the desktop bundle's ~326 MB
  • Open PDFs from the Android picker or by sharing to the app (VIEW / SEND intents)
  • Layered system back, edge-to-edge, state restored after the OS kills the app
  • INTERNET is the only permission — no storage permissions at all

Ubuntu and Windows

Unchanged in behaviour. The Android work touched no file under linux/, windows/ or packaging/. Both are rebuilt from this tag, so the binaries are new even though the behaviour is not.

Verified against the real browser engines: Linux 10/10, Windows 11/11, Android 11/11 conformance.

Install

Ubuntu (26.04; Depends are derived from the build machine's libraries)

sudo apt install ./dndreader_0.3.0-1_amd64.deb

Windows 10 1809+ — run DNDReader-0.3.0-setup-x64.exe. Unsigned, so SmartScreen will warn.

Android 8.0+ — take DNDReader-0.3.0-arm64-v8a.apk for any phone from roughly 2017 on. Use armeabi-v7a only for older 32-bit devices, x86_64 only for emulators. You will need to allow installing from unknown sources.

All APKs are signed with the release key, certificate SHA-256:

90:B1:F8:9D:69:CA:9F:26:14:0A:AC:C9:DC:B2:A8:A5:BF:49:43:97:F1:BF:E1:99:A1:26:02:7F:A7:17:D9:36

Known limitations

  • Android holds a private copy of each document. Edits to the original will not appear until you open or share it again.
  • Memory on Android is higher than budgeted — about 517 MB with a 240-page document open and the search panel alive, against a 300 MB target. Fine on the test device; reported rather than quietly re-baselined.
  • You cannot sign in to Google in the panel — Google blocks sign-in in embedded webviews. Results are signed-out.
  • Text-based PDFs only. No OCR.
  • Not verified: TalkBack, Bluetooth keyboard/mouse/stylus, split screen, Android 13+ on physical hardware, a missing or very old system WebView. See docs/android-owner-test.md.
  • Whether Google's terms permit loading Search inside a third-party app panel is not established — see docs/implementation-plan.md §9.8.

Checksums (SHA-256)

2c04973edb4c16cab7189a0e99606edac337399e630f9acf9156dd6f7e4635fd  dndreader_0.3.0-1_amd64.deb
880026ddcb5c39314a8734ab75ef6f9dea5eee9efb180979c568b0f9de594722  DNDReader-0.3.0-setup-x64.exe
61c26309ab37d4598eb1944b4fe92f65d18f29b985a093be57ba5fd8467e3788  DNDReader-0.3.0-arm64-v8a.apk
4e215a1c9542fca632761834cda5d85186cd237e4974f9cefd0cd36611d8f5a5  DNDReader-0.3.0-armeabi-v7a.apk
1771ea8ac498bd275b5a1a53922b2354d9af4e58bfc2b20d3146aa9e809ccb56  DNDReader-0.3.0-x86_64.apk
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