Crosswalk-powered InAppBrowser plugin

[Sidney Bofah <si...@googlemail.com>]

Hi all,

my company recently required the availability of a high-performance Android modal WebView (that is, Chromium-based, disposable, free of memory leaks, etc.) in context of a Crosswalk-based Cordova/Ionic project. My research had shown that the widely used InAppBrowser plugin has not made any progress or attempts in terms of being extended (or migrated) towards using the XWalkView stuff yet. However, as the container app already employed Cordova-Crosswalk, this seemed counterintuitive. Solutions such as the Cocoon "WebViewPlus" were too opaque.

As a solution, i devised a version of the plugin that uses Crosswalk (13/Canary) as its rendering engine, with a dependency on the "cordova-engine-crosswalk" project (the host project is based on Ionic). In this context, it was required to migrate its legacy WebView architecture to Chromium. The results are promising this far, and could possibly benefit many Android apps using rendering-intensive, temporary webviews.

Currently, the code lives in a private repository, but is to be open sourced. My questions are: Which project, branch, repo etc. would be the correct context for contributing?

Cheers,
Sidney
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Re: Crosswalk-powered InAppBrowser plugin

[Joe Bowser <bo...@gmail.com>]

It SHOULD be its own thing.  InAppBrowser should always use the default
Chromium present, and having customizable webviews in a plugin in a world
where webviews are a plugin sounds like a recipe for disaster.  I would be
interested in seeing how dependency management could be dealt with in a
post 4.0.x future, since someone would probably want to have Crosswalk for
their default renderer and for the third-party webview.

On Thu Feb 05 2015 at 3:38:33 PM Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote:

> could be its own thing but if it came under the actual inappbrowser that'd
> be cool too
>
> https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Sidney Bofah <si...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > my company recently required the availability of a high-performance
> > Android modal WebView (that is, Chromium-based, disposable, free of
> memory
> > leaks, etc.) in context of a Crosswalk-based Cordova/Ionic project. My
> > research had shown that the widely used InAppBrowser plugin has not made
> > any progress or attempts in terms of being extended (or migrated) towards
> > using the XWalkView stuff yet. However, as the container app already
> > employed Cordova-Crosswalk, this seemed counterintuitive. Solutions such
> as
> > the Cocoon "WebViewPlus" were too opaque.
> >
> > As a solution, i devised a version of the plugin that uses Crosswalk
> > (13/Canary) as its rendering engine, with a dependency on the
> > "cordova-engine-crosswalk" project (the host project is based on Ionic).
> In
> > this context, it was required to migrate its legacy WebView architecture
> to
> > Chromium. The results are promising this far, and could possibly benefit
> > many Android apps using rendering-intensive, temporary webviews.
> >
> > Currently, the code lives in a private repository, but is to be open
> > sourced. My questions are: Which project, branch, repo etc. would be the
> > correct context for contributing?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sidney
> > ------
> > https://github.com/sidneys
> >
> >
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Re: Crosswalk-powered InAppBrowser plugin

[Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io>]

could be its own thing but if it came under the actual inappbrowser that'd
be cool too

https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser


On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Sidney Bofah <si...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> my company recently required the availability of a high-performance
> Android modal WebView (that is, Chromium-based, disposable, free of memory
> leaks, etc.) in context of a Crosswalk-based Cordova/Ionic project. My
> research had shown that the widely used InAppBrowser plugin has not made
> any progress or attempts in terms of being extended (or migrated) towards
> using the XWalkView stuff yet. However, as the container app already
> employed Cordova-Crosswalk, this seemed counterintuitive. Solutions such as
> the Cocoon "WebViewPlus" were too opaque.
>
> As a solution, i devised a version of the plugin that uses Crosswalk
> (13/Canary) as its rendering engine, with a dependency on the
> "cordova-engine-crosswalk" project (the host project is based on Ionic). In
> this context, it was required to migrate its legacy WebView architecture to
> Chromium. The results are promising this far, and could possibly benefit
> many Android apps using rendering-intensive, temporary webviews.
>
> Currently, the code lives in a private repository, but is to be open
> sourced. My questions are: Which project, branch, repo etc. would be the
> correct context for contributing?
>
> Cheers,
> Sidney
> ------
> https://github.com/sidneys
>
>
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