Kuroba Experimental (Temp name)

KurobaEx is a fast Android app for browsing imageboards, such as 4chan and 8chan. It's a fork of Kuroba. This fork provides lots of new features:

• New technological stack (Kotlin, RxJava/Coroutines, Room etc).

• On demand content loading (includes prefetching, youtube videos titles and durations fetching, inlined files size fetching etc).

• Third-party archives support.

• New thread navigation (tabs).

• New in-app navigation (bottom nav bar).

• New bookmarks (they were fully rewritten from scratch, now use way less memory, don't use wakelocks, show separate notifications per thread (and notifications can be swiped away).

• Edge-to-edge theme support.

• New database.

• 4chan global search support.

• Fully dynamic themes with Android Q Day/Night mode support.

• Per-site proxies.

• Ability to attach multiple media files to reply, attach media files that was shared by external apps (event by some keyboards), attach remote media files by URL, etc.

• New image downloader. Allows downloading images while the app is in background, retrying failed to download images, resolving duplicates, etc.

• Lots of other tiny improvements.

Screenshots can be found here

New stuff and important annoncements:

- (2/24/21) Beta apks are now built as release apks (not debug) to make them more performant. The downside here is that you won't be able to automatically install v0.6.x-beta and will have to do that manually. You will have to export all your settings, remove the previous beta version, install the new one and then import the settings back. This is pretty inconvenient but as a result you get an apk with the same performance as the release one. The stable release versions are not affected, only beta!

- (1/27/21) F-Droid version is now available.

- (10/7/20) Unfortunatelly, built-in updater for release versions was broken in one of the releases so people using Android M and below won't be able to use it to update to a newer version. You will have to install the update manually (it is fixed in v0.2.10). If you are using Android N and above you should be fine. Beta versions are fine too.

- New theme engine has been added which now allows you to create any theme you want, see this wiki page for more info

Latest beta version

All beta versions

Latest release version (v0.6.5)

Currently supported sites

• 4Chan
• Dvach
• 8Kun (thanks to @jirn073-76)
• 420Chan (thanks to @Lolzen)
• Lainchan
• Sushichan
• Wired-7 (thanks to @Wired-7)

Currently supported 4chan archives

• ArchivedMoe
• ArchiveOfSins
• B4k
• DesuArchive
• Fireden
• 4Plebs
• Nyafuu
• RebeccaBlackTech
• TokyoChronos
• Warosu
• Wakarimasen.moe
• Yuki.la

License

Kuroba is GPLv3, licenses of the used libraries.