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pwnall / chromeview

Proof of concept Android WebView implementation based on Chromium code
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Crosswalk has dead. I hope you could reboot this repo. #60

Closed finscn closed 7 years ago

finscn commented 7 years ago

The Crosswalk team said : https://lists.crosswalk-project.org/pipermail/crosswalk-help/2017-February/002411.html

So I hope you could reboot this repo and make it could used in Cordova .

Thanks

pwnall commented 7 years ago

I'm sorry, but I can't justify doing that.

Android L and above let the user specify the WebView supplier, and support having Chrome supply the WebView implementation. Chrome stays up to date, mitigating my original issue of having to deal with each manufacturer's WebView snapshot. Given security issues, it's preferable to write an app using current standards, and rely on Chrome to keep the WebView up to date.

So, the approach behind Crosswalk only benefits ~32% (shrinking) of the Android users. Given that I'm currently on the Chromium team, I think it's better that I spend my time improving the experience of the other ~68% (growing) Android users and all the desktop users. This is why I can't justify rebooting this repository.

FWIW, on the Web platform side, W3C's web-platform-tests project has greatly improved the consistency and compatibility story. Today, getting consistent behavior is a lot easier than it was back when I created this repository.

Sorry. I know this isn't the answer that you're looking for. I hope you'll be able to find a solution that works for you.

pwnall commented 7 years ago

I forgot to paste the link with the data behind my 32% / 68% numbers. https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

finscn commented 7 years ago

the data of https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html is not truth. Example , most of new samsung's android phone used Android 6.0+ . But the webview is just Chrome 44. And the update of samsung's phone never update the chrome webview.

In the Android world , the real situation is very complex.

The statistics of Android 6.0+ is only reference , not truth.

And Most users of smart phone are not geek & IT practitioners , they never try to download/update Android WebView in Google Play by themselves , even don't know how to that.

kovel commented 7 years ago

Try to build own, Chromium provides program for embedding https://www.chromium.org/developers/content-module