cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview

Makes your Cordova application use the Crosswalk WebView instead of the System WebView. Requires cordova-android 4.0 or greater.

Benefits

WebView doesn't change depending on Android version
Capabilities: such as WebRTC, WebAudio, Web Components
Performance improvements (compared to older system webviews)

Drawbacks

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)

Install

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

Configure

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" />

Release Notes

2.3.0 (January 21, 2017)

Uses the latest Crosswalk 23 stable version by default

2.2.0 (November 4, 2016)

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

2.1.0 (September 9, 2016)

Uses the latest Crosswalk 21 stable version by default

2.0.0 (August 17, 2016)

Uses the latest Crosswalk 20 stable version by default
Discontinue support for Android 4.0 (ICS) in Crosswalk starting with version 20

1.8.0 (June 30, 2016)

Uses the latest Crosswalk 19 stable version by default

1.7.0 (May 4, 2016)

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

1.6.0 (March 11, 2016)

Uses the latest Crosswalk 17 stable version by default
Support to package apps for 64-bit devices, it's possible to specify 64-bit targets using the --xwalk64bit option in the build command:
```
cordova build android --xwalk64bit
```

1.5.0 (January 18, 2016)

Uses the latest Crosswalk 16 stable version by default
The message of xwalk's ready can be listened

1.4.0 (November 5, 2015)

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

1.3.0 (August 28, 2015)

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

1.2.0 (April 22, 2015)

Made Crosswalk command-line configurable via <preference name="xwalkCommandLine" value="..." />
Disabled pull-down-to-refresh by default

1.1.0 (April 21, 2015)

Based on Crosswalk v13
Made Crosswalk version configurable via <preference name="xwalkVersion" value="..." />

1.0.0 (Mar 25, 2015)

Initial release
Based on Crosswalk v11