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Hermit — Older Versions

Jan 01, 2017

A Quick Summary

⚡ Faster than Lite. Automatically load Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) instead of slow regular pages.
🆕 Lite App Widget. Use with launchers that have buggy icon behavior.
🆕 Find in Page
🆕 Share your Lite Apps with other Hermit fans!
🆕 Backup & Restore Lite Apps — even if you uninstall and reinstall Hermit.
🆕 Toggle JavaScript on or off per Lite App.

6.3

⚡ Faster than Lite. Automatically load Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) instead of slow regular pages.
🆕 Lite App Widget. Use with launchers that have buggy icon behavior.
🆕 Find in Page
🆕 New Button to close Lite App
🆕 Replaced introduction slide show by feature tooltips.
🆕 Create monogrammed icons (with your own choice of color) when a site does not have a high quality icon.
🆕 Type theme colors as hex codes, without using the color picker.
🆕 Change a Lite App’s URL after creating it.
🆕 No need to type https:// before example.com when creating a Lite App.
🆕 Ability to silence SSL warnings permanently.
🆕 Now possible to have more than one Share Integration URL per Lite App.
🐞 Fixed crash on Android Nougat when sharing Lite Apps.
🐞 Fixed crash on Marshmallow when downloading files.

6.2

🆕 Share your Lite Apps with other Hermit fans!
🆕 Backup & Restore Lite Apps — even if you uninstall and reinstall Hermit.
🆕 New icon & Facebook Page: Follow Us for Updates
🆕 Reorder Lite Apps and Bookmarks. Long-tap any Lite App, then drag and drop to re-order.
🆕 Atom feeds supported for Notifications.
🆕 Popup Blocker can be disabled to support Google Login to sites like Pocket.
🐞 Removed the Customize button from the Lite Apps list, since many users were getting confused when the Lite App opened directly to the Customization view.
🐞 Scroll the Floating Action Button out of the way when the user is browsing the Lite App.
🐞 Don’t immediately disable a feed when it’s found to be temporarily broken.
🐞 Group any notifications over 3 into a single grouped notification.

6.1

🆕 Toggle JavaScript on or off per Lite App.
🆕 Long-press the BACK button to kill a Lite App.
🐞 Set the user agent for the WebView correctly.
🐞 Handle customization changes involving multiple tabs correctly.

6.0

🆕 Optimized for Android Nougat! (SDK 24)
🆕 Multi-Window support: Watch videos while browsing your favorite sites, without waiting for those other apps to implement multi-window support.
🆕 Zero permissions for usual usage: you only need to allow special permissions for special actions (e.g. location permission only when you want to check-in to a place, or camera/microphone when taking a phone or conducting a video call.)
🆕 Lite App Specific Permissions: Stronger controls than Android Marshmallow permissions model.
🆕 Scroll to Top button is now optional; turn it on or off from the Customize screen.
🆕 Direct Share: Share content from any Android app directly to a Lite App. More configuration assistance coming soon.
🆕 Create Content FAB: Configure your own URL for a FAB in every Lite App. More configuration assistance coming soon.
🐞 Don’t attempt to fetch feeds or malware blocklists when offline.
🐞 When text zoom is changed, save the shortcut immediately.
🐞 New text hint in the searchbox when a Lite App has a search integration configured.
🐞 Don’t vibrate with a default pattern if the user explicitly set it to a blank pattern.
⚡ Performance improvements in the in-app billing implementation.
⚡ Web Links to create new Lite Apps (via hermit.chimbori.com/create) open in Hermit by default.
⚡ RAM improvements all over: several features optimized to use even less RAM than earlier.
⚡ Improved startup performance: Hermit now starts up 1.6×—2× faster than earlier.

5.0

🆕 Add a separate menu item under About to show the What’s New dialog.
🆕 Allow deleting feed URLs created via the manifest.
🆕 Changes to the Feature Tour: simpler instructions and detailed steps for how the user should use Hermit
🆕 Copy URL & Share actions in the long-click menu for links in the WebView, and Share image for Images.
🐞 If there was a problem fetching any feed, show a message in that Lite App the next time the user opens it.
🐞 Automatically disable a feed if the server returns a 404, to avoid hammering the server.
🐞 Return to the list of Lite Apps after creating a new Lite App.
🐞 Improved startup performance: only does the basic tasks needed to get Hermit up and running as quickly as possible.
🐞 Prevent NPE when trying to access ringtones on phones that don’t have a default.

4.3

🆕 Ad Blocker. The most requested feature is now available. Free for everyone, no subscription fees, no root required, and the block list is updated regularly. 🙈
🆕 Quick Settings Sidebar. Instant customization. Just swipe in from the right edge!
🆕 Text Zoom. Set the text size for any Lite App, and Hermit will remember it.
🐞 Completely re-written in-app billing code.
🆕 Automatic update checking. Hermit can now show you within the app when an update is available.

4.2

🆕 Customize the icon and name after creating any Lite App.

4.1

🆕 Open links in Lite App, Load images & Do Not Track settings can be applied to individual Lite Apps separately, not globally to all apps.
🆕 Handle native app installation prompts more elegantly (no more UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME errors).
🐞 On some Samsung phones, downloaded files were being downloaded to an internal directory.
🐞 Show pull-to-refresh spinner when tapping on the refresh button.
🐞 Better handling of screen changes: you should not see lingering toolbar icons from the previous screen.
🐞 Allow certain resources to be loaded over HTTP from HTTPS pages. Fixes image issues with XKCD (SSL).
🐞 SSL errors now generate a user warning before proceeding (Addresses Google Play warning).
🐞 Icons are now larger than they used to be, while still following Material Design guidelines.
🐞 Allow copying the Notification Feed URL after it has been auto-configured.

4.0

🆕 Data Saver mode: Save-Data HTTP header
🆕 Library uses SSL
🆕 Download files to phone
🐞 Crash seen only by Beta users when deleting icons.
🐞 Open links in Lite Apps by default. Solves issues related to OAuth redirection.
🐞 Silent notification sounds correctly supported
🐞 Re-check aggressively with Google Play whether Premium has already been purchased

Hermit — Older Versions

A Quick Summary

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6.2

6.1

6.0

5.0

4.3

4.2

4.1

4.0

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