Hi List! I want to write an offline web application but unfortunately the WebKit engine of Androids WebView does not support this Html5 feature. I have tried the offline detection[1] on my Android 1.5 phone and on the Android 1.6 emulator and both do not support offline web applications. But on an iPhone (which also employs WebKit for its web rendering) it works.
The WebView does not support Google Gears either, but the built in web browser _does_! So my idea now is, that we subclass the WebView and add the gears support from the built in web browser. So we at least have gears support on the WebView. I looked around the android code and I think I found the browser code here [2]. So my questions now are: -) Has anyone of you planed something similar? -) Has anyone of you messed around with the Android browser code? -) What do you think in general of my idea? Grateful for useful pointers and comments! Anton [1] http://www.diveintohtml5.org/detect.html#offline (under the image on the right you can read whether your browser supports offline web application or not.) [2] http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Browser.git;a=tree;f=src/com/android/browser;h=d01bd23d6c0065ddccc301737f1ec49309a4a3e4;hb=HEAD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
