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authorPeter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com>2026-07-22 18:35:06 +0000
committerPeter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com>2026-07-22 18:35:06 +0000
commite804e7a77a6cac048d5f6edeac0a339ca89e4d40 (patch)
tree41bc4c30b11105f5846a5fe2eaf13e2cede10adf /app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/ui/BrowserScreen.kt
parent91edd1f5f29a3336fa9e3bd1762c70ea74e3e48d (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.
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+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()
+ }
+ )
+ }
+ }
+}