ChromiumWebView

Android WebView wrapper based on chromium

Why you need

The current performance of Android webview is so poor. ChromiumWebView gives your application early access to the newest features in Chromium, and removes the variability due to different WebView implementations in different versions of Android.

Inspired by ChromeView project, our goal is to provide full Android WebKit compatible API, so the web apps or hybrid apps can easily immigrate to chromium.

Setting Up

This section explains how to set up your Android project to use ChromiumWebView.

Get the Code

Check out the repository in your Eclipse workspace, and make your project use ChromiumWebView as a library. In Eclipse, right-click your project directory, select Properties, choose the Android category, and click on the Add button in the Library section.

Copy Data

Copy assets/webviewchromium.pak to your project's assets directory. Star this bug if you agree that this is annoying.

Initialize

In your Application subclass, call ChromeIntializer.initialize and pass it the application's context. For example,

import com.mogoweb.chrome.ChromeInitializer;
import android.app.Application;

public class MyApplication extends Application {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        ChromeInitializer.initialize(this);
    }
}

Now you can use ChromiumWebView as the same as Android WebView except for different package name.

TestShell

There is a sample project to illustrate the usage of ChromiumWebView in the test folder. It is only a shell program that can navigate website.

Copyright and License

The directories below contain code from the The Chromium Project, which is subject to the copyright and license on the project site.

• assets/
• libs/
• src/com/googlecode
• src/org/chromium

Some of the source code in src/com/mogoweb/chrome has been derived from the Android source code, and is therefore covered by the Android project licenses.

The rest of the code is Copyright 2013 mogoweb, All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.