Yeah, the size is the biggest drawback. It's around 16meg and is slower to start-up than the system webview.
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Hoa V. Dinh <[email protected]> wrote: > What’s the size of Chromium binary on Android? > > -- > Hoa V. Dinh > > On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 2:27 PM, PBK 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/63b2718a-6548-453f-86e8-388dd3487ff4%40googlegroups.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > 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/CABiQX1V9mdD422LioHh-BOEFHLSjoW7d6k6Wz9TG3z_Kpz26og%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
