Windows 11 has the option to run a Subsystem for Android, which is still fairly new but has reached the stage of general availability. Microsoft has partnered with Amazon to list apps from the Amazon Appstore in certain countries. There are a number of websites with instructions for setting up the Windows Subsystem for Android…

Privacy Browser Android 3.15.1 was released on 26 June 2023. The main purpose of the release was fixing a bug, introduced with duplicate bookmark folder names in 3.15, that caused the app to crash if a bookmark was moved to the home folder in the Bookmarks Activity. The rest of the items were ready to…

Every piece of software as complex as a browser that receives unsanitized information from the internet will eventually be compromised. How often that happens and how damaging the compromises are can be mitigated through a careful design process. Some information about decreasing the damage that a compromise can inflict is discussed on the Core Privacy…

Privacy Browser Android 3.15 was released on 12 June 2023. The major factor in the timing of this release was a desire to reenable the dark WebView on Android 7-9 (APIs 24-28). Privacy Browser Android 3.12 bumped the target API to 33, which changed the way the dark WebView worked. Privacy Browser Android 3.12.2 extended…

Privacy Browser Android uses Android’s WebView to render web pages. WebView provides fairly limited controls compared to the upstream Chromium source. However, there are small set of user-configurable controls that Google has baked into WebView. Users can tweak these controls using WebView DevTools. If you are using a pre-stable channel (Beta, Dev, or Canary) there…

Privacy Browser Android 3.14 was released on 6 May 2023. The domain settings spinner entries now have a highlighted background if they are not default. This change will eventually also be applied to the switches when they are converted to spinners. The terms whitelist and blacklist have been removed from the project. In English these…

Privacy Browser Android 2.13 was released on 29 October 2018. There is now an activity for exporting and importing settings and bookmarks. Both Privacy Browser and Privacy Browser Free use the same format, so backed up settings can be used to migrate between the two. There is a page that has more detailed information on…

Programming for Android is an interesting experience. One of the most annoying things I didn’t anticipate is how Android will just kill your app whenever it wants and often for no good reason (it’s a little like doing battle with a chaos monkey). This has to do with what is called the Android Activity Lifecycle.…

Beginning with Privacy Browser 3.5, the app now saves and restores the instance state if killed in the background by the OS. For those who might not be aware of the abomination that is memory management on Android, I would point you to the picture below, which was taken from the official Android Lifecycle documentation.…