I work in eclipse and have a native java digital signage app that runs webview. The app runs great and hardly has any issues except for maybe the native webview thats provided on some devices. This issue has led me to a quest of changing webview. While researching i have stumbled upon a two projects that would replace webview to a better one. The first one is https://github.com/mogoweb/chromium_webview. The project is very easy to add in and very easy to code with existing code. All thats required is adding a library and changing the imports and thats about it. Everything else falls in place without having any extra coding. Pretty simple process. My issues with that project is that it needs a larger set of ram to run and it has issues with memory leaks. Not great for someone needing to run signage for 27/7 without crashes.
The second project was crosswalk. Adding in the library was about the same but once importing it in the project i can see that coding for native java is totally different than the regular webview. I wish that it was the same like the first project, where you didnt have to change any coding except for the imports. This way if someone needs to change webview it would be as simple as adding in a library and changing the imports. Also another issue i run into is that not everything works. My main issue is scaling. While the first project scales/fits the view to the device correctly, yours doesn't fit at all. In a 1920x1080 presentation i get about 1/4th of the presentation in fullscreen. Its like the webview is zoomed in to a particular spot Almost like viewport isnt working correctly. Not good for signage making. Also the backbutton and other buttons have issue with listeners. I have mine set to go to the menu if back button is pressed. Doesn't work with crosswalk. Plus some of the things the regular webview uses doesn't work in crosswalk. I believe crosswalk is great for hybrid and html5 apps, but native java apps its laking compared to the first project. Anyway i wanted to email you my thoughts so far. I know you all have lots of development to do but i wanted to point out the reason for a better native use for crosswalk. If crosswalk can do some of the things the first project i mentioned has accomplished then that would make for a better library for native java apps. Thanks for your time.
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