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Basic UI explanation

Daniel Kao edited this page Jan 15, 2023 · 6 revisions

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.

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    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

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First Row

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  • 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.

Second Row

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  • 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

  • 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

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