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Status of WebviewEngine Bridge Plugin
Hi everyone,
I am working on implementing WKWebView into our app right now. This blog
post announced changes to cordova-ios and a "bridge" plugin:
https://cordova.apache.org/news/2018/08/01/future-cordova-ios-webview.html
Is this plugin already in development? Can I test it or contribute to
development? An option to switch between WebViewEngines in runtime would
make stuff easier for this app.
I`m looking forward helping.
Best regards
Niklas
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Re: Status of WebviewEngine Bridge Plugin
Posted by Niklas Merz <ni...@linux.com>.
Thanks for the info.
The discussion there is about a bridge that sits between the app and
webview. The webviews I tested (Cordova CDVUIWebview and WKWebview and
Ionics WKWebview which has the same class name) implement the interface
CDVWebViewEngineProtocol. I can´t get a feeling what needs to be done to
get this bridge/proxy working smoothly. I just found a (simple/dirty)
way to force Cordova to load a webview at runtime, because we need this
for compatibility reasons.
Cookies are still a not quite ready, but workarounds exists.
The Ionic plugin switched from the webserver solution to serving from a
custom protocol just a few days ago. This works quite well for CORS.
Am 12.01.19 um 00:06 schrieb Jesse:
> Previous discussion leading up to that blog post is here:
> https://markmail.org/message/fxe6q6nnernvr6h6
>
>
>
> @purplecabbage
> risingj.com
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:05 AM Niklas Merz <ni...@rhoen.de> wrote:
>
>> I have looked around in cordova-ios and found a way to switch the webview
>> at runtime. As far as I understood how cordova-ios works it, is enough to
>> set the name of the new webview and call the right method to reload the
>> webview.
>>
>> We have built a plugin which does that for our use case:
>> https://github.com/GEDYSIntraWare/cordova-plugin-webview-switch
>>
>> Now I can call the plugins Javascript function and the app reloads with
>> the webview I want to. This works perfectly for now.
>>
>> Do you see any chance to integrate parts of this into cordova-ios? If this
>> sounds feasible, I would be glad to contribute this. I just need some
>> feedback if this approach makes sense and where to implement the changes.
>> Changing the webview is a dangerous action because the apps restarts
>> completely and open plugin callbacks may run into exceptions which can
>> cause crashes. Where do you to put JS code for platform code?
>>
>> I am available to talk more about that via e-mail or the Cordova Slack.
>> Please let me know who is the right person to talk to. I would love to see
>> this feature in cordova-ios.
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Niklas
>>
>>
>> julio cesar sanchez – Tue, 8. January 2019 19:35
>>> As far as I know, WKWebView was going to be integrated into cordova-ios,
>>> and as I understand it, it's not going to be a real plugin, but a method
>> in
>>> cordova-ios to switch the webview at runtime.
>>>
>>> Looking at cordova-ios repo I couldn't find anything about the WKWebView
>>> integration, so looks like nobody is working on it yet. (it was a quick
>>> look, so maybe I missed it)
>>>
>>> El mar., 8 ene. 2019 a las 17:40, Niklas Merz (<ni...@linux.com>)
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I am working on implementing WKWebView into our app right now. This
>> blog
>>>> post announced changes to cordova-ios and a "bridge" plugin:
>>>> cordova.apache.org/news/2018/08/01/future-cordova-ios-webview.html
>>>>
>>>> Is this plugin already in development? Can I test it or contribute to
>>>> development? An option to switch between WebViewEngines in runtime
>> would
>>>> make stuff easier for this app.
>>>>
>>>> I`m looking forward helping.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Niklas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: Status of WebviewEngine Bridge Plugin
Posted by Jesse <pu...@gmail.com>.
Previous discussion leading up to that blog post is here:
https://markmail.org/message/fxe6q6nnernvr6h6
@purplecabbage
risingj.com
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:05 AM Niklas Merz <ni...@rhoen.de> wrote:
> I have looked around in cordova-ios and found a way to switch the webview
> at runtime. As far as I understood how cordova-ios works it, is enough to
> set the name of the new webview and call the right method to reload the
> webview.
>
> We have built a plugin which does that for our use case:
> https://github.com/GEDYSIntraWare/cordova-plugin-webview-switch
>
> Now I can call the plugins Javascript function and the app reloads with
> the webview I want to. This works perfectly for now.
>
> Do you see any chance to integrate parts of this into cordova-ios? If this
> sounds feasible, I would be glad to contribute this. I just need some
> feedback if this approach makes sense and where to implement the changes.
> Changing the webview is a dangerous action because the apps restarts
> completely and open plugin callbacks may run into exceptions which can
> cause crashes. Where do you to put JS code for platform code?
>
> I am available to talk more about that via e-mail or the Cordova Slack.
> Please let me know who is the right person to talk to. I would love to see
> this feature in cordova-ios.
>
>
> Best regards
> Niklas
>
>
> julio cesar sanchez – Tue, 8. January 2019 19:35
> > As far as I know, WKWebView was going to be integrated into cordova-ios,
> > and as I understand it, it's not going to be a real plugin, but a method
> in
> > cordova-ios to switch the webview at runtime.
> >
> > Looking at cordova-ios repo I couldn't find anything about the WKWebView
> > integration, so looks like nobody is working on it yet. (it was a quick
> > look, so maybe I missed it)
> >
> > El mar., 8 ene. 2019 a las 17:40, Niklas Merz (<ni...@linux.com>)
> > escribió:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I am working on implementing WKWebView into our app right now. This
> blog
> > > post announced changes to cordova-ios and a "bridge" plugin:
> > > cordova.apache.org/news/2018/08/01/future-cordova-ios-webview.html
> > >
> > > Is this plugin already in development? Can I test it or contribute to
> > > development? An option to switch between WebViewEngines in runtime
> would
> > > make stuff easier for this app.
> > >
> > > I`m looking forward helping.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > Niklas
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@cordova.apache.org
> > >
> > >
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Re: Status of WebviewEngine Bridge Plugin
Posted by Niklas Merz <ni...@rhoen.de>.
I have looked around in cordova-ios and found a way to switch the webview at runtime. As far as I understood how cordova-ios works it, is enough to set the name of the new webview and call the right method to reload the webview.
We have built a plugin which does that for our use case:
https://github.com/GEDYSIntraWare/cordova-plugin-webview-switch
Now I can call the plugins Javascript function and the app reloads with the webview I want to. This works perfectly for now.
Do you see any chance to integrate parts of this into cordova-ios? If this sounds feasible, I would be glad to contribute this. I just need some feedback if this approach makes sense and where to implement the changes. Changing the webview is a dangerous action because the apps restarts completely and open plugin callbacks may run into exceptions which can cause crashes. Where do you to put JS code for platform code?
I am available to talk more about that via e-mail or the Cordova Slack. Please let me know who is the right person to talk to. I would love to see this feature in cordova-ios.
Best regards
Niklas
julio cesar sanchez – Tue, 8. January 2019 19:35
> As far as I know, WKWebView was going to be integrated into cordova-ios,
> and as I understand it, it's not going to be a real plugin, but a method in
> cordova-ios to switch the webview at runtime.
>
> Looking at cordova-ios repo I couldn't find anything about the WKWebView
> integration, so looks like nobody is working on it yet. (it was a quick
> look, so maybe I missed it)
>
> El mar., 8 ene. 2019 a las 17:40, Niklas Merz (<ni...@linux.com>)
> escribió:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am working on implementing WKWebView into our app right now. This blog
> > post announced changes to cordova-ios and a "bridge" plugin:
> > cordova.apache.org/news/2018/08/01/future-cordova-ios-webview.html
> >
> > Is this plugin already in development? Can I test it or contribute to
> > development? An option to switch between WebViewEngines in runtime would
> > make stuff easier for this app.
> >
> > I`m looking forward helping.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Niklas
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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Re: Status of WebviewEngine Bridge Plugin
Posted by julio cesar sanchez <jc...@gmail.com>.
As far as I know, WKWebView was going to be integrated into cordova-ios,
and as I understand it, it's not going to be a real plugin, but a method in
cordova-ios to switch the webview at runtime.
Looking at cordova-ios repo I couldn't find anything about the WKWebView
integration, so looks like nobody is working on it yet. (it was a quick
look, so maybe I missed it)
El mar., 8 ene. 2019 a las 17:40, Niklas Merz (<ni...@linux.com>)
escribió:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am working on implementing WKWebView into our app right now. This blog
> post announced changes to cordova-ios and a "bridge" plugin:
> https://cordova.apache.org/news/2018/08/01/future-cordova-ios-webview.html
>
> Is this plugin already in development? Can I test it or contribute to
> development? An option to switch between WebViewEngines in runtime would
> make stuff easier for this app.
>
> I`m looking forward helping.
>
> Best regards
>
> Niklas
>
>
>
>
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