Well for polymer based apps that would mean the difference between 2% of the android installed base and 80%+. So that is 16Mb that would be well spent if that was an option in the toolchain.
It is pretty much that or the polymer team supporting non chromium webviews on android 4.0. Short of one those 2 solutions mobile-chtrome-apps+polymer" is DOA for at least 18-24monthsuntil KitKat catches up. That is somewhat unfortunate given both are key elements of the Google mobile html based UI stack On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 2:42:41 PM UTC-8, Andrew Grieve wrote: > > 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] <javascript:> > > 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] <javascript:>) >> - 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] <javascript:>. >> 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/f5d12bd9-dbee-4eba-9aa2-589a5cf0221b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
