Makes your Cordova application use the Crosswalk WebView instead of the System WebView. Requires cordova-android 4.0 or greater.
- WebView doesn't change depending on Android version
- Capabilities: such as WebRTC, WebAudio, Web Components
- Performance improvements (compared to older system webviews)
- Increased memory footprint
- An overhead of ~30MB (as reported by the RSS column of ps)
- Increased APK size (about 17MB)
- Increased size on disk when installed (about 50MB)
- Crosswalk WebView stores data (IndexedDB, LocalStorage, etc) separately from System WebView
- You'll need to manually migrate local data when switching between the two (note: this is fixed in Crosswalk 15)
The following directions are for cordova-cli (most people). Alternatively you can use the Android platform scripts workflow.
- Open an existing cordova project, with cordova-android 4.0.0+, and using the latest CLI. Crosswalk variables can be configured as an option when installing the plugin
- Add this plugin
$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview
- Build
$ cordova build android
The build script will automatically fetch the Crosswalk WebView libraries from Crosswalk project download site (https://download.01.org/crosswalk/releases/crosswalk/android/maven2/) and build for both X86 and ARM architectures.
For example, building android with Crosswalk generates:
/path/to/hello/platforms/android/build/outputs/apk/hello-x86-debug.apk
/path/to/hello/platforms/android/build/outputs/apk/hello-armv7-debug.apk
Note that you might have to run cordova clean before building, if you previously built the app without cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview. Also, manually uninstall the app from the device/emulator before attempting to install the crosswalk-enabled version.
Also note that it is also possible to publish a multi-APK application on the Play Store that uses Crosswalk for Pre-L devices, and the (updatable) system webview for L+:
To build Crosswalk-enabled apks, add this plugin and run:
$ cordova build --release
To build System-webview apk, remove this plugin and run:
$ cordova build --release -- --minSdkVersion=21
You can try out a different Crosswalk version by specifying certain variables while installing the plugin, or by changing the value of xwalkVersion in your config.xml after installing the plugin. Some examples:
<!-- These are all equivalent -->
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview --variable XWALK_VERSION="org.xwalk:xwalk_core_library:14+"
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview --variable XWALK_VERSION="xwalk_core_library:14+"
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview --variable XWALK_VERSION="14+"
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview --variable XWALK_VERSION="14"
<preference name="xwalkVersion" value="org.xwalk:xwalk_core_library:14+" />
<preference name="xwalkVersion" value="xwalk_core_library:14+" />
<preference name="xwalkVersion" value="14+" />
<preference name="xwalkVersion" value="14" />
You can also use a Crosswalk beta version. Some examples:
<!-- These are all equivalent -->
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview --variable XWALK_VERSION="org.xwalk:xwalk_core_library_beta:14+"
<preference name="xwalkVersion" value="org.xwalk:xwalk_core_library_beta:14+" />
You can set command-line flags as well:
<!-- This is the default -->
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview --variable XWALK_COMMANDLINE="--disable-pull-to-refresh-effect"
<preference name="xwalkCommandLine" value="--disable-pull-to-refresh-effect" />
You can use the Crosswalk shared mode which allows multiple Crosswalk applications to share one Crosswalk runtime downloaded from the Play Store.
<!-- These are all equivalent -->
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview --variable XWALK_MODE="shared"
<preference name="xwalkMode" value="shared" />
You can also use a Crosswalk beta version on shared mode, e.g.:
<!-- Using a Crosswalk shared mode beta version -->
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview --variable XWALK_VERSION="org.xwalk:xwalk_shared_library_beta:14+"
You can use the Crosswalk lite mode which is the Crosswalk runtime designed to be as small as possible by removing less common libraries and features and compressing the APK.
<!-- These are all equivalent -->
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview --variable XWALK_MODE="lite"
<preference name="xwalkMode" value="lite" />
You can set background color with the preference of BackgroundColor.
<!-- Set red background color -->
<preference name="BackgroundColor" value="0xFFFF0000" />
You can also set user agent with the preference of xwalkUserAgent.
<preference name="xwalkUserAgent" value="customer UA" />
- Uses the latest Crosswalk 23 stable version by default
- Uses the latest Crosswalk 22 stable version by default
- Keep compatible for Cordova-android 6.0 with evaluating Javascript bridge
- This version requires cordova-android 6.0.0 or newer
- Uses the latest Crosswalk 21 stable version by default
- Uses the latest Crosswalk 20 stable version by default
- Discontinue support for Android 4.0 (ICS) in Crosswalk starting with version 20
- Uses the latest Crosswalk 19 stable version by default
- Uses the latest Crosswalk 18 stable version by default
- Support to use Crosswalk Lite, It's possible to specify lite value with the variable of XWALK_MODE at install plugin time.
- Cordova screenshot plugin can capture the visible content of web page with Crosswalk library.
- Doesn't work with Crosswalk 17 and earlier
-
Uses the latest Crosswalk 17 stable version by default
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Support to package apps for 64-bit devices, it's possible to specify 64-bit targets using the
--xwalk64bitoption in the build command:cordova build android --xwalk64bit
- Uses the latest Crosswalk 16 stable version by default
- The message of xwalk's ready can be listened
- Uses the latest Crosswalk 15 stable version by default
- Support User Agent and Background Color configuration preferences
- Compatible with the newest Cordova version 5.3.4
- Crosswalk variables can be configured as an option via CLI
- Support for Crosswalk's shared mode via the XWALK_MODE install variable or xwalkMode preference
- Uses the latest Crosswalk 14 stable version by default
- The ANIMATABLE_XWALK_VIEW preference is false by default
- Doesn't work with Crosswalk 14.43.343.17 and earlier
- Made Crosswalk command-line configurable via
<preference name="xwalkCommandLine" value="..." /> - Disabled pull-down-to-refresh by default
- Based on Crosswalk v13
- Made Crosswalk version configurable via
<preference name="xwalkVersion" value="..." />
- Initial release
- Based on Crosswalk v11
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