Native Alpha

Cylonid Apps

About this app

FEATURES

• Shows any website in a borderless full-screen window using Android System WebView (PWA-like)
• Create home screen shortcuts and retrieves icons in suitable resolution
• Less memory footprint and no privacy-invading app permissions in comparison to native apps
• Many settings (JavaScript, Cookies, adblocking, location access, etc.) can be set for every Web App individually
• Navigation with multi-touch gestures while browsing.
• Opt-in adblock using an AdBlock Plus custom WebView.
• Dark mode for Android 10+

Ratings and reviews

Seems to be an ok app, needs support on more devices however, it would be a perfect app on devices like tablets, chrome os, and x86 project computers, however the app is not available on many of my devices. It's not as useful on my phone, where I am comfortable using apps, and don't really prefer the web version. I'd like the web version and have it look and feel like apps.

Promising app marred by a fullscreen glitch. I still see the status bar on the top and navigation bar at the bottom, so it is not truly "fullscreen". While brilliant on Android 10 with an adb command workaround (adb shell settings put global policy_control immersive.full=com.cylonid.nativealpha), it falters on the latest Pixel 8 Pro due to a broken immersive.full implementation on newer Android versions. Hoping for a fix to fully enjoy the app's potential.

Almost exactly what I'm looking for with one big issue. The system bar (not sure what it's called, status bar? the bar with the time and battery) renders on top of the pages which causes two issues. One it just looks weird because it'll have status bar text over page text. But the real issue is the page elements under the bar can't be clicked so there are some pages I can't navigate or log into (board game arena is an example of a page I can't log into). I suspect this is a bug. Android 15.

What's new

Order of Web Apps in menu can be changed
File downloads are supported
Native Alpha custom context menu can be deactived so that the standard browser context menu is shown
Italian translation added
General, technical version updates