Finally - A solution for kosher and dpad compatible Google Maps?

ars18 · July 15, 2026, 5:04pm

Glad we are on the same page

To be clear, if you do integrate this, your users with browsers installed will never see a difference.

anonymousfliphones · July 15, 2026, 5:18pm

Did you turn the entire app into a default browser?

ars18 · July 15, 2026, 5:19pm

No

Only change is if you ONLY have system webview, no links will open. If you have a browser installed they will open in the browser, not webview.

anonymousfliphones · July 15, 2026, 5:21pm

meaning Velo becomes the browser when no other browser is installed

ars18 · July 15, 2026, 5:21pm

No

github.com/alltechdev/vela-dpad

app/src/main/java/app/vela/ui/ExternalLinks.kt

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package app.vela.ui

import android.content.Context
import android.content.Intent
import android.content.pm.PackageManager
import android.net.Uri
import android.widget.Toast
import app.vela.R

/**
 * Opens http(s) links ONLY in a real installed browser - never in the system WebView.
 *
 * On browser-less devices (common on the keypad/degoogled phones this fork targets) a bare
 * ACTION_VIEW can land in whatever half-browser the ROM ships: the "WebView Browser Tester"
 * shell, an OEM mini-browser, or nothing at all (an ActivityNotFoundException a runCatching
 * used to swallow silently - the tap just did nothing). This helper resolves the REAL
 * browsers up front:
 *  - no real browser installed -> a toast says so and nothing opens;
 *  - the user's default handler is a real browser -> respect it;
 *  - the default handler is a WebView shell (or something non-browser claimed the link)

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TripleU · July 15, 2026, 5:27pm

Bro i was kidding

keepitkosher · July 15, 2026, 5:30pm

I know I know. I only brought it up because ars18 did. Not everyone is an edgelord like us lmfao.

ars18 · July 15, 2026, 5:44pm

I had to check up what an edgelord is lol

I’m more of a dark humor kinda guy but usually about my life

And memes? I don’t know any of them I’m too busy with vela

Dev-in-the-BM_2.0 · July 15, 2026, 6:18pm

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TripleU · July 15, 2026, 6:26pm

SILB · July 16, 2026, 9:34pm

Amazing work @keepitkosher on Vela in general and @ars18 on the d-pad, small screen and kashering! I am really enjoying using it.

On my Sonim x320, the app displays nicely, and d-pad navigation works well throughout the app. I briefly checked it out at the default 225dp before switching back to 320dp which is what i keep my screen set at in general. If you want, I could do some more testing at 225dp when I get a chance. I would suggest that you make the d-pad map scrolling only move around half to a quarter of the amount it does now per click, because at the current amount it is hard to select a specific building in an urban area. I would also suggest that you make the upper right and upper left physical buttons zoom because with the current setup it takes at least 4 key presses to zoom and continue moving the map.

A few things I noticed:

Sometimes, when I drop a pin, the map moves to some other place. This happens with regular and d-pad navigation.
D-pad scrolling doesn’t work on text blocks like location descriptions.
When the button that was highlighted disappears (for example some download buttons in settings), the top button on the page gets highlighted instead of the button below the one that disappeared.
In settings, at 225dp, when there are 4 buttons in a row for the vibration setting, one of the buttons gets a little cut off.
For some reason, the update button cannot be highlighted with d-pad controls even though it is clickable with a touchscreen.

ars18 · July 16, 2026, 9:36pm

Real question, do we care about 225dp? Is it widely used?

And thanks for the detailed report

Maybe it’s time to add soft key support but it’s a headache.

@Creed any chance you wanna share what you got?

Edit - forgot I can also look at @PodLP Quickly reverse engineer hidden Android APIs with Gemini and OpenCode - Tom Barrasso

Dev-in-the-BM_2.0 · July 16, 2026, 10:38pm

Probably not.

The x320 has a very weird screen shape, which is probably why it has an uncommon DPI.

Dev-in-the-BM_2.0 · July 17, 2026, 12:36am

13 posts were split to a new topic: Yapchik: dumbphone UI integration for Android apps

SILB · July 16, 2026, 10:23pm

225dp is the default, and it can only be changed in developer options. The only other person I know who has the x320 also has it changed, although I’m not sure to what. The issue with it being different than the default is that it slightly breaks some of the system apps, so I definitely see why someone would keep it at the default.

Basically, IDK.

Dev-in-the-BM_2.0 · July 17, 2026, 12:42am

A post was merged into an existing topic: Yapchik: dumbphone UI integration for Android apps

SILB · July 17, 2026, 4:00am

Can’t test the update button yet, because the fix is only on the latest update

Focus while downloading works.

Vibration-on-turn wraps.

Dropped pins still move the map. It seems that the map moves to the last named place that was selected (ex. home or a store) when clicking a random address.

Place descriptions scroll.

I noticed another thing that might be related to the update button issue: by the downloaded voices, where there is a use button and a delete button side by side, I cannot move from one to the other directly; instead, coming from above them gets me to delete, and coming from below them gets me to use.

Also, I’m not sure if this is for you or @keepitkosher, but for some reason by the routing regions in offline settings it says no regions available yet instead of listing areas to download.

@ars18 is your post playing hide and seek with me?

ars18 · July 17, 2026, 4:10am

Things seem to have been split into different topics

SILB · July 17, 2026, 4:11am

Right. But your post about the bug fixes belongs here, not by the Toameha.

Creed · July 17, 2026, 4:29am

Sorry about that, I just deleted it. Your app took off nicely and my repository was redundant at best. Thanks for all your work!