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Android version of Otter

Open D0ve opened this issue 8 years ago • 7 comments

would be great to use an Android version of Otter! existed Android browsers mostly very unusable by UI, not secure ... hope it is possible. many thanks in advance!

D0ve avatar Jul 21 '17 02:07 D0ve

Now Otter devs are focusing on desktop version, so it won't happen soon. Also, making mobile browser that would be as useful as Otter Browser on PC is probably impossible…

mkljczk avatar Jul 22 '17 11:07 mkljczk

@D0ve I can recommend Naked Browser for Android. It's specifically developed so that great many keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+T etc. work. Useful when you connect a hardware keyboard to your Android device very often.

Even better, try Termux which brings something like Debian Linux tty to Android without rooting. I launch my favorite textmode browsers in it.

ersi-dnd avatar Sep 02 '17 20:09 ersi-dnd

For Android. I can also recommend nakedbrowser. It gives you a very clean UI that shows you only the web site. The interface is entirely gesture based, i.e. to get to the address bar you have to swipe down. Once you get used to it it becomes intuitive though.

mariokamenjak avatar Dec 06 '17 15:12 mariokamenjak

The gestures bit sounds a bit like Sailfish on the face of it. :-)

Frenzie avatar Dec 06 '17 16:12 Frenzie

this may be slightly off topic, but Vivaldi for ARM (not sure if this means Android per se) was just announced...

uahim avatar Dec 07 '17 14:12 uahim

That definitely doesn't mean Android. It might mean that you could run desktop Vivaldi in GNURoot Debian and the like on most Android devices though. (Like I presumably already can with Vivaldi and Otter on my x86 Android Zenfone 2.) There just wouldn't be any point to it.

Android is fundamentally terrible from a dev's perspective. From a user's perspective it's not too bad these days. I mourn the demise of Ubuntu Phone. :-)

Frenzie avatar Dec 07 '17 14:12 Frenzie

[EN] There are 2 basic things that make browsers different from others: UI and features so not only mobile UI needs to be created, but also features need to be compatible with it. [PL] Są 2 rzeczy, które wyróżniają przeglądarki od innych: interfejs i funkcje, więc nie tylko trzeba by było zrobić mobilny interfejs, ale również sprawić by funkcje były z nim kompatybilne.

Julmik647 avatar Aug 17 '25 12:08 Julmik647