Can we drop our support for the battery plugin entirely? Let the community take over if they want it? I would rank it very low in use among our supported plugins, but it does probably still need to exist.
> On Mar 24, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey > > So, right now our current Battery Plugin on Android is actually considered > harmful to devices and shouldn't be used. It seems that the Chrome team > has implemented the Battery Spec in Chromium 38. This can be tested with > this simple JSBin here: > > http://jsbin.com/battery-status-test > > The problem is that Android WebView on Lollipop that's installable from the > Play Store is at 37, and of course I don't even have to mention earlier > Android versions that we support, some of which don't even support Chromium. > > However, the latest Crosswalk does support the Battery Spec, so we have two > options: > 1. Implement a plugin for the non-Crosswalk use case, knowing that it'll be > obsolete for Future Android. We always intend to do this, but this never, > ever happens. > 2. We drop support the Battery Plugin for Android since nothing in this > case is better than something that's actively draining your battery. > > What do people think of this? > > Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
