Léon - The URL Cleaner is an Android application which removes tracking and other obsolete parameters from a URL before sharing. Its usage is simple, integrating into Android's standard sharing mechanism.
Léon runs on Android 5.0 and later, is open source and does not contain any tracking or advertising frameworks. Léon does not collect any data about you.
The benefits of removing tracking parameters are:
- Protects your and the recipient's privacy
- Improves readability of links
- Saves characters (in Tweets for example)
When sharing a link, select URL Cleaner as the receiving application. Then from within URL Cleaner share the cleaned URL to the actual target application.
The app is currently in public beta phase. Please report bugs or give feedback.
This app is also meant as a blueprint for modern Android development, presenting and evaluating recommended and cutting-edge technologies and libraries such as:
- Kotlin programming language
- Kotlin coroutines
- Jetpack Compose
- Jetpack Navigation
- Jetpack Hilt
- several other Jetpack & AndroidX libraries