Determine the impact of using the webview without an activity but with the service

[wearscript]

Determine the impact of using the webview without an activity but with the service

[kurtisnelson]

Is there a valid use case for this? I could think of the webview being used invisibly to access cookies or state, etc.

[lnanek]

It generally doesn't work any more in my experience anyway. The WebView won't actually do anything (no resource loading, no JavaScript execution, etc.) in modern versions of Android when started from a service. A real headache for PhoneGap development because it forces all background execution to have to be reimplemented for each platform as a plugin instead of just using JavaScript.

[bwhite]

So it actually worked fine for me. Even with the activity killed I can relaunch webviews, etc. I don't completely understand why it works but it doesn't have any errors or issues. Going to close it for now unless we find a problem with it.