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[Feature]: TWA Support #7719

Closed DanielHerr closed 1 month ago

DanielHerr commented 1 month ago

Description

Android TWA support as Webview alternative

Platforms

Request or proposed solution

TWAs run inside Chrome instead of in a Webview, so it can have superior rendering performance #4187, and many Web APIs are supported in Chrome but not in Webview.

As of Chrome 115, TWA supports messaging between Android and Web code, so as far as I know it should be possible to implement Capacitor.

Alternatives

No response

Additional Information

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/post-message-twa

jcesarmobile commented 1 month ago

TWAs load external websites, while Capacitor apps load local assets that are shipped with the app. Also Capacitor relies in the WebView request interception to act as a local web server, which is not possible in TWAs, so lo load local requests in a TWA it would require to use a real local web server, which would be insecure and I'm not even sure if that would work for a TWA.

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