Components.
Chromer is an open source android app designed for the convenience of users. It is basically a search engine like other apps e.g uc browser , chrome, yahoo, bing, etc. Actually it uses chrome's latest rendering engine which is always updated through google play. Hence you as always are latest on updates. So, using Chromer is much more secure than normal webview found on android versions below 5.0. It is fast and designed for the sole purpose of displaying web pages quickly. The pages load faster. Pages are loaded in background results in saving of time. It also contains auto fill feature. It is also ad free app. And the article mode is just amazing.
Proposal
Well, I was using this app for some time. And it was great experience for me. And really it is so fast. But today I saw few features were unavailable. First one was Incognito mode. Second was night mode and the third was shortcut tab opening. Let me first tell you about these features
- Incognito mode: So called privacy mode or private browsing. It is a feature in some web
browsers to disable browsing history amd the web cache. This allows a person to browse the web without storing data that could be retained at later date. It also disables the storage of data in cookies and flash cookies. This privacy function is only on the local computing device as it is still possible to identify frequented websites by associating the ip address at the web server.
- Night mode: it is the feature that is useful for the users as well as for the phone. In this mode the background of the app turns dark. It has various merits. I will explain those later.
- Shortcut tab: No words this app is great fast, and really a data saving app. This is the feature which are enabled in every app. These tabs are added to the homescreen.So that we can easily and fastly open anything with this app. But with this app when someone adds a shortcut of a website to the home screen through Chromer, the shortcut on the home screen opens in chrome The feature would be allowing the shortcuts created from chromer to open in chromer rather than to open in chrome.
Mockups / Examples
Once implemented it will look like this
I have put these features here because they must be easily accessible.
Benefits
Incognito mode: it will help in reducing history, including autofill, browsing and personal information and also in preventing accidental saving of log in credentials to accounts. It will also prevent in finding one's search history from other users.
Night mode: It is very useful because night mode helps in reducing eye strain. Well, bloe spectrums of light are bad for eyes, especially at night when we are more likely to be looking at our phone in a dark mode. It also reduces the battery usage and unlikely heating of the phone.
This feature will definitely make this app attractive and stand apart. Because if the shortcut tabs will open in chromer rather than in any other app. Then loading will be faster as Chromer is faster than any other app.
Thanks
Hoping for the addition.
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