Old webview for Kitkat.

equeim commented 10 years ago

Is it possible to build browser with integrated webview for android 4.4 (kitkat now uses chromium webview which is a lot slower and doesn't support text reflow)

Anasthase commented 10 years ago

I'm not sure this is even possible... Or it is ? I may have a look, but i doubt it.

ElementW commented 10 years ago

@Anasthase It's not yet possible but have been requested in the Android bugtracker. However, as 4.4 is already released and the switch to Chromium WebView was a heavy change, getting the legacy WebView will only be possible in next versions. (And anyway, it's unlikely Google rolls back their changes even if it's highly requested) A workaround would be to bundle a compiled WebKit library and its wrapping Java code, it has advantages but more disadvantages:

:+1: Full control over the WebView (i.e. direct DOM & script interaction, middle/right click management)
:+1: Up-to-date WebKit (yay, CSS3D and WebGL!)
:-1: Heavy codebase to copy
:-1: WebKit's .so weighs like 15 Mb
:-1: It must be compiled for ARM, ARM64, MIPS, x86 and x86-64 to support all devices, this would split Tint into multiple APKs (one for each arch)

Anasthase / TintBrowser

Old webview for Kitkat. #49