Oh well. Was worth asking the chrome apps team :-). Time to ask the polymer team I guess: Any way we can get support for non chromium webviews on android 4.0 to 4.3 ?
On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 2:31:03 PM UTC-8, Andrew Grieve wrote: > > That's certainly on the wish list, but it's not on the near-term roadmap. > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:27 PM, PBK <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Given polymer afaik requires a chrome based Webview that indeed limits to >> KitKat or roughly 2% of the android installed based. >> >> Have you guys considered embedding a build of Chromium in the apk >> generated by your cca toolchain ? That would greatly expand the reach for >> polymer based apps but also for other chrome apps that require a modern >> browser on Android. >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 2:03:38 PM UTC-8, Andrew Grieve wrote: >> >>> Played with this today by creating a sample app: https://github.com/ >>> MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-app-samples/tree/master/polymer >>> >>> Status: >>> - Works on iOS6, iOS7 >>> - Had a bug on KitKat, which I've just checked in a fix for (didn't make >>> it into [email protected]) >>> - Does not work pre-KitKat (Polymer team isn't even attempting this I >>> don't think) >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Joe Marini <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> +ebidelman in case he wants to chime in, @mmocny and @agrieve from >>>> Mobile Chrome apps >>>> >>>> >>>> Since Mobile Chrome apps use whatever the webview on the device is, I >>>> would imagine that the polyfill version of Polymer would be used in those >>>> cases. >>>> >>>> Michal/Andrew, have you guys done any testing with Polymer? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Alex Komoroske <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> [+ joemarini] >>>>> >>>>> Polymer *should* behave similarly to how it does in Chrome Apps on >>>>> desktop, I imagine. I also think that it uses whatever webview is >>>>> available >>>>> on the device. >>>>> >>>>> Joe is more likely to know for sure. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:20 PM, PBK <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Does anyone have information on polymer's compatibility with the new >>>>>> mobile-chrome-apps toolchain and especially the chrome webview version >>>>>> it >>>>>> uses. >>>>>> >>>>>> Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 >>>>>> --- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "Polymer" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> >>>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>>>>> msgid/polymer-dev/0f32eb03-edae-4852-9815-5881cae4f505% >>>>>> 40googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Joe Marini >>>> Developer Advocate / Chrome Apps, Extensions, Web Store >>>> [email protected] | +Joe Marini | >>>> @joemarini<https://twitter.com/#!/joemarini> >>>> >>>> >>> > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/90e0e967-9a39-4220-a607-5c80b4899580%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
