Waydroid Passthrough Browser - Open links in host browser
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# passthroughbrowser
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Waydroid Passthrough Browser - Open links in host browser
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Passthrough Browser has two components --- a server and a client. The server is
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a Python program written with Flask, while the client is an Android app written
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using [MIT App Inventor](https://appinventor.mit.edu). The server listens for
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HTTP POST connections on TCP port 8888 on an IP address only accessible to
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programs running on the host or in the Waydroid container. When it receives a
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properly formatted request, it opens the host's browser to the URL specified in
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the request. The client, when installed in Waydroid, is intended to be set as
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the default browser. After this is done, whenever an Android app attempts to
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open a Web page, it will open the Passthrough Browser client just as it would
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launch any other browser. The client then sends the URL to the server, which
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causes the host browser to open.
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## Installation
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Run `./install_both.sh`. (Make sure Waydroid is running first.) Installing the
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client requires running a command as root; the script uses `sudo`. You may need
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to enter your password during installation.
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## Credits
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The client app uses the
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[CustomWebView](https://github.com/vknow360/CustomWebView/tree/beta) (beta
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version) App Inventor extension by Sunny Gupta. CustomWebView is used under the
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MIT licese.
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