Privacy Browser Android

I address this at the following URL under the section "Reuse existing Android elements as much as possible".

https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-design-guidelines/

I would suggest you read that first and then add any comments you might have.

I have a fairly small device (6") & I have no issues with the address bar here.
The space utilization is not that bad currently. If you need to peek in little bit more of the URL, I would consider you to disable "Extra button" in settings which'll disable refresh icon. You can still refresh either via gesture, or from the menu.

I think there is no need to narrow down or up any of the existing buttons. Infact, I would even recommend Soren to expand 3 dot menu into a square. Because I had mishits accessing the menu a lot of times.

@ask low, I intentionally enabled the "Display additional app bar icons" setting, because I want to be able to quickly access to the refresh trigger (menu/button), so it's a no go via the more (kebab) button, and I don't like the refresh gesture, because I often want to check if I'm on the top of the page, which previously was often triggering a refresh of the page.

What do you think about the current Material You design standard ?
I think there is an issue tracker somewhere I need to search and watch it.

I generally don't like most of Google's current design language. It tends to have poor information density (there is a small amount of information displayed for the amount of screen real estate consumed). Beyond that, I find the Material You color theming to be ugly, and to force other ugly design decisions, like the push for monochromatic launcher icons.

So far, it is possible to design for Android using standard Android components without getting sucked into the Material You nonsense. Given Google's track record, about the time they would start forcing Material You onto the standard components, they will move on to something "so much better than that dated looking Material You". However, if that isn't what happens and everyone has to adopt a Material You design on Android, then I will probably find the least ugly and most user-empowering way to do so.

What do you think about Chrome's design itself ? The information density of it, is not as bad as material you design.
https://9to5google.com/2023/01/24/chrome-address-bar-redesign/
<HOME> <ADDRESS-BAR> <TABS> <MENU>
On privacy browser, it's
<SIDEBAR> <ADDRESS-BAR> <JS> <MENU>
But with inconsistent paddings, which happened to be caused by standard library function ActionBarDrawerToggle.

Material You standard is primarily incorporated by Compose with Dart language. But obviously independent of any framework/language.

I think part of the issue with interface density, is that people became lazy, lost focus hitting small buttons & their thumbs got fat due to their overweight diets (sorry pun intended ;D)

Neither I complain about monocoloured icons, as they mostly depict uniformity. But for the color blind people, it becomes difficult to distinguish between them. I literally use OLauncher mini, which is a dead simple launcher without any icons. It's just 23 kB lmao.
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/app.olauncher.light

The ActionBarDrawerToggle, as currently used in Privacy Browser (not how it was used years ago) ends up being rather easy to replace with a static icon where I can control the padding. So, I think I will do that.

@v ..., another hacky way I've found to refresh the page without refresh function, is to quickly double tap JS lmao.
No need to enable additional icon on toolbar.

Replacing the ActionBarDrawerToggle will fix all the problems on the left. It will not make any changes to the icons on the right, which are created by the Options menu.

I increased the padding to 10dp, because 8dp looked off-balance when Domain Settings were enabled.