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| author | Peter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com> | 2026-07-22 18:35:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com> | 2026-07-22 18:35:06 +0000 |
| commit | e804e7a77a6cac048d5f6edeac0a339ca89e4d40 (patch) | |
| tree | 41bc4c30b11105f5846a5fe2eaf13e2cede10adf /app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/ui/BrowserScreen.kt | |
| parent | 91edd1f5f29a3336fa9e3bd1762c70ea74e3e48d (diff) | |
Add site login and alternate-source search for paywalled articles
Deliberately not a paywall-bypass mechanism -- that space (archive.today-style
proxies, "Bypass Paywalls" extensions) is legally grey, adversarial toward
publishers, and constantly breaking. Instead:
- BrowserScreen: a real interactive mini-browser (JS + DOM storage on,
ordinary navigation, no Readability interception) for the two cases where
the user needs to actually USE a page rather than read it. Reached from
a new overflow menu on the article reader:
- "Log in to this site" opens the article's own URL there so the user can
sign into a site they already subscribe to. Needs no extra plumbing:
Android's CookieManager is one process-wide store shared by every WebView
in the app, so a session cookie set here is picked up automatically by
the reader's (JS-off) extraction WebView on the next visit to that
domain -- same as a normal browser remembering you're signed in.
- "Find another source" runs a web search on the article's title in the
same browser, so the user can pick a different, non-paywalled outlet
covering the same story themselves -- plain search/discovery, not
circumvention.
Verified live: search opened a real, interactive Google results page with
working title-bar sync; back navigation (via BackHandler, goBack() when the
WebView has history, else pop the screen) returned cleanly to the article.
Diffstat (limited to 'app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/ui/BrowserScreen.kt')
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diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/ui/BrowserScreen.kt b/app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/ui/BrowserScreen.kt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6202016 --- /dev/null +++ b/app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/ui/BrowserScreen.kt @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +package org.terst.feedreader.ui + +import android.annotation.SuppressLint +import android.content.Intent +import android.net.Uri +import android.webkit.CookieManager +import android.webkit.WebChromeClient +import android.webkit.WebView +import android.webkit.WebViewClient +import androidx.activity.compose.BackHandler +import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box +import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize +import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding +import androidx.compose.material.icons.Icons +import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.ArrowBack +import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.OpenInBrowser +import androidx.compose.material3.ExperimentalMaterial3Api +import androidx.compose.material3.Icon +import androidx.compose.material3.IconButton +import androidx.compose.material3.Scaffold +import androidx.compose.material3.Text +import androidx.compose.material3.TopAppBar +import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable +import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue +import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf +import androidx.compose.runtime.remember +import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue +import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier +import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalContext +import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextOverflow +import androidx.compose.ui.viewinterop.AndroidView + +/** + * A real, interactive mini-browser -- JS and DOM storage on, ordinary navigation, no + * Readability interception. Unlike LinkReaderScreen (always tries to extract a clean + * article view), this is for the two cases where the user needs to actually USE a + * page rather than just read it: browsing search results to find an alternate, + * non-paywalled source for a story, or logging into a site they already subscribe to. + * + * Login needs no extra plumbing beyond turning cookies on: Android's CookieManager is + * a single process-wide store shared by every WebView in the app, so once a session + * cookie is set here, the reader's (JS-off) extraction WebView picks it up automatically + * on the next visit to that domain -- same as a normal browser remembering you're signed in. + */ +@SuppressLint("SetJavaScriptEnabled") +@OptIn(ExperimentalMaterial3Api::class) +@Composable +fun BrowserScreen(startUrl: String, onBack: () -> Unit) { + val context = LocalContext.current + var title by remember(startUrl) { mutableStateOf<String?>(null) } + var webViewRef by remember(startUrl) { mutableStateOf<WebView?>(null) } + + BackHandler { + val wv = webViewRef + if (wv != null && wv.canGoBack()) wv.goBack() else onBack() + } + + Scaffold( + topBar = { + TopAppBar( + title = { Text(title ?: "Browser", maxLines = 1, overflow = TextOverflow.Ellipsis) }, + navigationIcon = { + IconButton(onClick = { + val wv = webViewRef + if (wv != null && wv.canGoBack()) wv.goBack() else onBack() + }) { + Icon(Icons.Default.ArrowBack, contentDescription = "Back") + } + }, + actions = { + IconButton(onClick = { + val url = webViewRef?.url ?: startUrl + context.startActivity(Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url))) + }) { + Icon(Icons.Default.OpenInBrowser, contentDescription = "Open in browser") + } + } + ) + } + ) { padding -> + Box(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize().padding(padding)) { + AndroidView( + modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(), + factory = { ctx -> + WebView(ctx).apply { + settings.javaScriptEnabled = true + settings.domStorageEnabled = true + CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptCookie(true) + CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptThirdPartyCookies(this, true) + webViewClient = object : WebViewClient() { + override fun onPageFinished(view: WebView, url: String) { + title = view.title + } + } + webChromeClient = WebChromeClient() + loadUrl(startUrl) + webViewRef = this + } + }, + onRelease = { webView -> + // Flush explicitly so a just-completed login survives even if the + // process is killed shortly after (modern WebView auto-persists, but + // this makes it immediate rather than relying on that timing). + CookieManager.getInstance().flush() + webView.destroy() + } + ) + } + } +} |
