Would the Chrome Embedding Framework (CEF) work help at all? On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:11 PM Fabrice Desré <fabr...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I want to start a discussion about Servo's Android support. The current > state is quite basic and doesn't provide what we need to cover several > interesting use cases. > > So far I have identified these: > 1- Full screen app (games, VR). > 2- Browser with a pure html "chrome" like browser.html. > 3- Browser with a native (java) chrome. > 4- Reusable WebView (ServoView !) for other apps to embed. > 5- Providing a CustomTab implementation (Chrome and Fennec support that). > > 1- and 2- are the only cases we can cover with the current platform > code. However I believe that we need more flexibility and that the key > here is to implement the ServoView, as it is a dependency for all the > other cases. > > ServoView would expose an API as close as possible to > https://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html to > ease reusability in the Android community. > > This ties into the overall embedding story, which I discussed with Paul. > We have alignment there, relying mostly on 2 aspects: > - the embedding support provided by libservo will be low level enough to > let us build the ServoView and CustomTabs on top of it. Expect a lot of > JNI fun! > - glutin may not be something we want to keep using. I haven't looked in > details yet but glutin may be too high level an opinionated for us in > this context (eg. can glutin let us display several ServoViews?). > > So my current plan of action is to verify whether glutin is suitable or > not on Android, fix that if needed and then start on a ServoView > implementation. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Fabrice Desré > Emerging Technologies > Mozilla Corporation > _______________________________________________ > dev-servo mailing list > dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo > _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
