Use Chrome as render engine for Android webview

Question

I found this question very similar to what I need but I need chrome. Because of many reasons android webView (as I discussed here ) is not compatible with my application's requirements.

So are there any ways to Use Chrome as render engine for Android webview

Solution 1

This is coming as the default in Android 4.4 KitKat. See https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/webview/overview

Solution 2

Here is a proof of concept for a view that uses the Chromium code and has a WebView-like API. https://github.com/pwnall/chromeview

Make sure to read the Issues section in the Readme. This is merely a starting point, it's not ready for production use.

Solution 3

In addition to @Hyangelo's answer, if anyone needs to support Chrome for Android versions 4.0-4.3, you can use crosswalk.

Comments

[bearfriend]

Do you know when they plan to use Chromium as the default webview engine?

[pwnall]

I don't have any inside information on Google's plans. There is daily activity in the android_webview directory in the Chromium source tree, which means they're at least working towards it. Given the current issues, and the timeline for key lime pie, I would guess we won't have it there. So... 2014 at the earliest?

[eveevans]

The problem with this is that WebView on KitKat uses V8 version 30. (But V8 is on version 45-47), So your appliction could be incompatible. developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview

[Michael]

@eveevans Google has not done a good job of keeping this page updated. It currently lists up to WebView v36 but my device has v49.

[Jaeger]

I'm from the future, still nothing.