Vivaldi for android
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@zak84 Please see When Will Feature Requests be Implemented?
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@zak84 said in Vivaldi for android:
any news about this? without the app this browser is pretty useless to me....
Fixed your sentence.
@zak84 said in Vivaldi for android:
...because I have chrome on android....
And it's been reported that Chrome will be removed from Android at some point soon. Can't remember where I saw that in that last few days, but I'm sure it can be Googled.
But that's okay, since I don't use Chrome it's useless anyway.
Oh wait... to me it's useless.
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The only thing that holds me from using Vivaldi as my default browser is lack of an android app with sync. If devs are on it, now its the time to start with public beta app. Firefox really sucks with android, Chrome is not an alternative, others have no sync with desktop browser....
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@nihilista Public beta will appear when it's ready. This has to be driven by the quality of the software, rather than the calendar.
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@nihilista Opera does sync mobile and desktop, or am I wrong?
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@ungern Opera has a mobile product. I don't know if it syncs with their desktop product, but I would sure hope so. But as I don't use any Opera mobile, I could not say. I know that the OLD Opera desktop and mobile synced, but it's been over 5 years since I was in that environment.
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@ayespy Sorry for being a bit unclear. I use Opera on Android mobile, but only rarely on desktop (when needed due to Vivaldi not showing some content), as I prefer Vivaldi. So I vaguely remember being able to find open tabs on both devices, and so on.
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@ungern I suppose that's the case. I just downloaded mobile to check, and it does have sync settings. I tried to sign in to my old Opera account, but apparently it's no good any more. Oh, well. I'll reclaim the space on my phone.
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They did reset passwords at least once, and may also remove inactive accounts. But yes, Sync on current versions includes the ability to sync sessions and history (both are optional and I don't actually use them).
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hi dear vivaldis developers
these days i use vivaldi on my daily and i fall in love whit this amazing browser on my pc !
bottom url bar and right side tab bar and panel with my windwos and mint right side taskbar and beautiful themes are very very fantastic and unique in the world !!!
i very search to find vivaldi with these features thanks a lot please dont delete these features in future
i want vivaldi on android and i am good luck that it is in development
i am waiting for it
i want bottom url bar on my phone please add it to android version dont forget it chrome home stoped in android and i see no other good browser have bottom url bar
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@ungern
Sure, Opera has sync, but i don't use it on desktop and i won't do that only because it has sync -
Vivaldi for android is in a very early stage of planning (we're not sure if it's even advanced enough in development to call it an app yet haha). So You'll understand how little information there is about it.
Rest assured the application IS planned and WILL be made, but it will take some time (Google wasn't built in a day :P).
I can recommend some browsers to use alternatively to chrome if you wish (as I saw some people sadly felt that Vivaldi was useless without an app
). But for now there's nothing to be done more than waiting.However, you will agree that any wait is worth it, just look at what Vivaldi is right now!
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@awpii ..and which would you recommend?
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@awpii said in Vivaldi for android:
However, you will agree that any wait is worth it
Not quite any wait, but we understand that it takes time to do something properly.
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@radi8 Focused on privacy, I can recommend Firefox Focus, as it's pretty rad when it comes to erasing (some) traces of your navigation, it also looks pretty and is quite fast!
If you don't care so much about privacy for now (not that these don't have good privacy protection features / policies), I recommend the following:
-Ecosia Browser (We have it's search engine incorporated in Vivaldi [I believe we endorse it too?] and we can plant trees with it! :D)
-Kiwi Browser (Has popup and tracker blocking incorporated)
-VĆa Browser (My personal favourite)
I hope this helps you
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@awpii said in Vivaldi for android:
@radi8 Focused on privacy, I can recommend Firefox Focus, as it's pretty rad when it comes to erasing (some) traces of your navigation, it also looks pretty and is quite fast!
If you don't care so much about privacy for now (not that these don't have good privacy protection features / policies), I recommend the following:
-Ecosia Browser (We have it's search engine incorporated in Vivaldi [I believe we endorse it too?] and we can plant trees with it! :D)
-Kiwi Browser (Has popup and tracker blocking incorporated)
-VĆa Browser (My personal favourite)
I hope this helps you
Do ignore any articles found on the images, as I took them from Google.
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@awpii "Vivaldi for android is in a very early stage of planning (we're not sure if it's even advanced enough in development to call it an app yet haha)."
Sounds exactly like what I heard 8 months ago when I first started looking to see if Vivaldi was working on a mobile version. Is there a timeline as to when we can expect a beta version? Has much progress been made since February? It's kinda discouraging that it's not "even advanced enough in development to call it an app," still after months and months.
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@alexkven said in Vivaldi for android:
@awpii "Vivaldi for android is in a very early stage of planning (we're not sure if it's even advanced enough in development to call it an app yet haha)."
Sounds exactly like what I heard 8 months ago when I first started looking to see if Vivaldi was working on a mobile version. Is there a timeline as to when we can expect a beta version? Has much progress been made since February? It's kinda discouraging that it's not "even advanced enough in development to call it an app," still after months and months.
What so many people to fail to realize (or even consider as a possibility) is that the Vivaldi team is not Microsoft or Google; meaning they don't have large numbers of people working on all aspects of every future feature all at once. The V team can only do so much each day/night. There are THOUSANDS of bugs to squash, HUNDRED of feature requests, and I can't even imagine the decision making process of knowing where to focus their efforts FIRST.
No one can reasonably expect Vivaldi to pop out with a perfect, polished, full-featured product within a few weeks or months. The average user has no idea - zero clues - about how much work it is to code software like this. I've been there done that, and I know full well what the team is going through.
This post will get lost in a sea of topics and posts within a few hours, but I had to take the time to say it. Seeing people come in here and expecting to have it all - instant gratification - is frustrating to me as a user and forum member. I can only imagine how discouraging/disheartening it can be for the developers.
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@daltondr said in Vivaldi for android:
@ayespy Is there someplace to offer suggestions for features for the Android version?
So far, Opera is the only Android browser I've tried that has Word Wrapping when zooming pages in the browser. Often the text is too small to read on my phone, so I zoom in, which will usually push the text off the edges of the screen. With Word Wrapping, once the zoom is set, the text adjusts to fit within the window.
I can't use a browser that doesn't include this option. Without Wrapping, a zoomed page requires continually scrolling left/right to read each line of text that has been zoomed off the screen. Uninstall.
I'm always amazed at how many people don't find this a necessary feature. I constantly see people squinting at tiny print on their phones.
Every few months I go on a mobile browser hunt because there is a lot I don't like about Opera Mobile, but in the end I wind up back because they're the only browser who gets this even close to right: two finger zoom, and automatically reflowing text. Yes, it occasionally doesn't work well with a website's formatting, especially at more extreme levels of zoom, but any desktop browser is no different. Go ahead and drag that zoom slider over to 400% on a few pages and see how the formatting holds up.
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@joelyoung Thank you for the reply. I by no means intend disrespect to the developers. The wording was definitely harsh, though I do want to point out one thing:
"No one can reasonably expect Vivaldi to pop out with a perfect, polished, full-featured product within a few weeks or months."
I never suggested any of that. I just noted that the project is in the same stage as it was 8 months ago, and wondered if it is close to entering beta. A far cry from coming back in three weeks and asking why it's not in the play store.
I understand that this takes a while and that will result in it being a better product. I also understand that there is a lot to focus on, and that new features take a lot of time. I see a lot of great new features coming out and they really are well done. I was really just curious as to the status of mobile, and the frustrated tone was uncalled for.
