Basic UI explanation

Main Screen

1: Content Area

It's the web content part. There's no traditional address bar on top of the App. If you want to change the url, or search anything on the internet, please click on the web title area in toolbar on the bottom of the screen.

2: Toolbar

From left to right, the explanation is as follows:

• Web Title/Address bar

  When web is loaded, the title will be displayed here. Click on this area if you want to input url or search keywords in search engine. (The default search engine is Google. You can change it in Settings)

• Bookmarks

  Show the bookmark list. If you want to add current web into bookmarks, you can click right most button (Menu), and click on Save as bookmark button.

  Long Click: add current web url into bookmarks.

• Tab Count

  The number in the square means how many tabs are open now. Click on the button, the tab list would be displayed. From left to right, the buttons mean: new incognito tab, web history, tab list, and new tab and close panel.

  

  Long Click: enable incognito mode. The tab count border will be changed to dotted style.

• New Tab

  Create a new tab.

• Back

  Back in web history.

  Long Click: show recent 5 web histories.

• Reload

  Reload current web page.

  Long Click: enter fullscreen mode. (hide system bar, navigation bar, and toolbar)

• Touch to Scroll by Pagination

  The most important feature of EinkBro: by touching areas on screen, it will scroll the content page by page. Touch on right side, it will go page down; touch on left side, it will go page up. This button toggles the feature.

  Long Click: change the position of the touch area; or configure other settings related to touch scroll feature: show touch area border; switch touch scroll direction.

• Reader Mode

  A quick way to get you immersed in the main web content, by removing other distracting web components.

• Function Menu

  More features are available here. It will be explained in next secion.

Function Menu

1st Row

• Read Content

  Read the web content. Sometimes, you don't have time to read all the texts. You could click on this button to ask EinkBro read the content for you.

• Quick Toggle

  A quick popup to allow you toggle following features: Incognito Mode, AdBlock, Javascript, Cookie, History recording, Location information, Use Volume key as page up/down control, Background Playing media, Desktop mode.

  

• Open Home

  Open Homepage (Default is Google Search page. You could change it by clicking on Save as home button while you are in other website. Or, you could modify it in Settings too.

• Close Tab

  Close current web tab. If it's the last tab, EinkBro app will close itself.

• Quit

  Leave EinkBro App.

2nd Row

• Toolbar setting

  There are many other actions available. If you find them useful for you, you can add them to toolbar for quicker access. Please see [Toolbar] for more details.

• Split screen

  If you want to open a new Web content, but don't want to close existing one, you can try split screen feature. This feature is particularly useful when you are reading news websites, and want to browse all the articles without leaving the news list. This feature is also available when long clicking on url links too.

  

  In the split screen, there's a new toolbar. From top to bottom, orientation, dual screen link, scroll sync, font size increase, font size decrease, close split screen.

  • orientation: by default, the split mode is in vertical mode. You can click on this button to switch to horizontal mode. Long click on the button could flip two screens.
  • dual screen link. When this button is toggled, clicking links on main screen, the content will be displayed in second screen.
  • scroll sync: This feature is useful for translation mode. When it's toggled, scrolling on main screen, other screen will be automatically scrolled too.

• Translate

  Translate current web page into different languages. Default mechanism is Google Translate. This can be changed if Translate button is added to toolbar.

• Vertical

  Show web content in vertical mode. It's useful for Chinese, Japanese, Korean content.

• Reader mode

  Already explained in basic toolbar section: a quick way to focus on reading main web content part.

• Touch setting

  

3rd Row

• Shorcut on home

  Add a shortcut of current url to home

• **Receive data

  On another device, if EinkBro is also installed, you could click on Send link; and on this device, after clicking on Receive data, you could receive the link right away. Integration with Shakira App (content transfer tool): If Shakira app is installed on Mac, or iPhone, you could receive data from these devices too. (ps. should be under the same WiFi network)

• Send link

  Send current url to other devices that installed Shakira app or EinkBro app.

• Open link with..

  Useful when you want to open current url in other apps, e.g., Youtube link, Google Map, etc.

• Copy link

  Copy link.

• Share link

  Share link.

4th Row

• Save as home

  Save current url as home page.

• Save as bookmark

  Save current url as bookmark.

• Open epub

  If you saved web article as epub before, you could see it listed here. You can open it directly in EinkBro App.

• Save epub

  If the web content could be read as Reader Mode, it could be saved as epub file. Epub is an ebook file format that's very suitable for electronic books. You can save different web content to the same epub. They will be arranged as different chapters.

• Save as PDF

  Save web content as PDF file. This feature may not always work. It depends on whether the phone/tablet manufacturer includes the PDF printing module or not.

5th Row

• Open downloads

  Open system Downloads file directory.

• Search on site

  Search content on this web page.

• White background

  Some websites are with black background by default. It's hard to read on this kind of website on Eink devices. You can turn on white background feature, to see if it helps in this scenario.

• Bold font

  Make font thicker. Sometimes this helps readability on some websites.

• Font Size

  Change font size, and change font style. If you have font files on storage, you could also choose Custom font, and use Edit Custom Font to choose the font you have.

  

• Settings

  Display Settings screen. The Settings screen will be explained in other sections.