Must haves: Kiwi Browser + ViolentMonkey for User Scripting in Browser in Android

This is a must-have for script junkies: Kiwi Browser with ViolentMonkey extension in Android phones.

If you're used to having GreaseMonkey, TamperMonkey run your favourite scripts in your Firefox or Chrome in desktop PC, Kiwi+ViolentMonkey is the combo for Android.

What is it?

• Kiwi Browser is a browser for Android, that supports extensions : ) Chrome et al for Android doesn't support extensions unlike its desktop counterpart.

• ViolentMonkey is userscript manager that allows you to run your favourite scripts to augment any webpage. Just like the other Monkeys, which unfortunately doesn't run well in Kiwi.

Tips

• Editing. To get the most out of it, use Samsung Dex or equivalent to 'project' on PC to import and edit your scripts.

  • Import/edit in VM is a little tedious on a mini phone screen, so PC keyboard, mouse and monitor helps a lot!

  • Slight glitch though: there seems to be a major copy-and-paste limit in VM script editor - it can't handle copying of large scripts. If you try to copy say 1k LOC, only the 1st few tens of LOC are copied and pasted.

• UI. You'll likely need to tweak userscripts that have UI element injects, so as to adjust the UI element sizes and layout for smaller, mobile screens.

  • This is just like having to rotate phone to landscape mode or toggle browser to 'force desktop mode' to get a webpage to display its 'full' content like in a desktop browser.