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kivy / plyer

Plyer is a platform-independent Python wrapper for platform-dependent APIs
https://plyer.readthedocs.io
MIT License
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Feature Request: Webview (and Custom chrome tabs for Android) #627

Open snazzy92 opened 3 years ago

snazzy92 commented 3 years ago

Is it possible to create an API to call Webviews and custom Chrome tabs from Plyer? Pyjnius is just not very intuitive to work with.

RobertFlatt commented 3 years ago

It is possible to instantiate a Webview without using Plyer, for example: https://github.com/RobertFlatt/Android-for-Python/tree/main/webview Android only. I know nothing about Chrome tabs.

snazzy92 commented 3 years ago

Thanks for that! I've actually been using this Webview for my application. I still think we need an easier and platform independent way to call webviews for Kivy apps. I know webviews exist in python and you can call them from other libraries like pyqt but those weren't made with android/ios in mind and may not work on them. Custom chrome tabs: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/custom-tabs/overview/ Basically, its an improved version of Webviews that gives you faster load times through pre-fetching and control over which browser you want to use in your app.