I didn't find a lot of instruction setting up crosswalk for iOS it seems like it should be as simple as:
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview
cordova build ios
Because I've had issues with plugins not taking effect before I do the following:
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview
cordova platform remove ios
cordova platform add ios
cordova build ios
After having done this, when I capture the view hierarchy and inspecting that it's still using "UIWebView" which has a "UIWebBrowserView" inside of it (which is inside of a scroll view and there are a couple image views too).
Also, navigator.userAgent is as follows:
"Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 9_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/13B143 (5618403776)" = $1
Another test someone mentioned was essentially:
if (window.indexedDB)
console.log('Using crosswalk');
else
console.log('Not using crosswalk/wkwebview');
And window.indexedDB is undefined.
So... what do I need to do so that the app uses wkwebview?
A review of the plugin repository does NOT indicate a cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview that supports iOS. This means crosswalk does not work as a plugin for iOS.
Yes there is support for Crosswalk for iOS, but you must install via the github repository or other means.
Cordova Embedding WebViews
FWIW: there is a WkWebview plugin
UPDATE: 2016-03-19. The follow post was made on February 16, 2016:
Plugins From Git Repositories Are Now Available on PhoneGap Build!
How I solved the issue
As JesseMonroy so helpfully answered(feel free to upvote him) the cordova crosswalk plugin is only for android.
Because of apple's terms of service, crosswalk for iOS uses wkwebview instead of what non-ios version of chrome would use.
Since there is no cordova plugin I know of for crosswalk iOS, I found plugins for WKWebView
The plugin I used was:
https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/WKWebView
This is probably a better option: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine.. But it errored for me.
Coming soon:
As stated by Honry:
Crosswalk will soon provide a cordova plugin for Crosswalk ios, see
ticket https://crosswalk-project.org/jira/browse/XWALK-4911
XWalk will not be supporting an iOS plugin afterall because it does not provide any must have advantages over wkwebview
Crosswalk will soon provide a cordova plugin for Crosswalk ios, see ticket https://crosswalk-project.org/jira/browse/XWALK-4911
Related
Cordova iOS is giving me a very hard time. I have a Cordova iOS app written in 2016 and I am handling it now.
I believe you are familiar with the following app store issues regarding UIWebView:
ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - New apps that use UIWebView are no longer accepted.
Instead, use WKWebView for improved security and reliability. Learn more (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview).
Now my application is quite huge; it has Apple Pay feature, biometrics, lots of bridge calls between website and iOS app.
I tried to update Cordova in my app and then uploaded it, but it never worked. So I find out that first the physical structure of my app was wrong, all I had in my source tree is 'src' folder which had everything. So I created "hello world" Cordova iOS project from terminal (command line) and then noticed the difference of folders and files like config.xml hooks, nodeModules etc ..
Now my solution was to create a sample helloworld app and then copy my code into ios folder (platform->iOS-> My 100 files). But it did work. I followed this link: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine
And i thought if i follow following lines of code in terminal :
cordova create wkwvtest my.project.id wkwvtest
cd wkwvtest
cordova platform add ios#4
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine
I will create a Cordova app which will have ios 4 version of Cordova and then WKWebView will be integrated in my app and then i will be able to upload this app on app store.
But even this sample application gives me app store error of deprecated UIWebView. Has anyone found the clear cut solution to this problem?
Q1: Have you ever uploaded a sample test app like hello world to the TestFlight which has Cordova ios 4.1+ or even cordova ios 5.1+ version. Because I am assuming in Cordova wkwebview plugin all things related to uiwebview has already been handled or atleast in the latest version it has been handled and we don't need to do anything else apart from installing latest Cordova ios version.
Question 2: What should I do to upload my app on app store it has cordova-ios 4.1.1 right now. I tried many possible ways. Like for eg a) created a sample cordova-ios app with latest Cordova ios 5.1.1 and copied all my source files (almost 100-500) into ios folder, removed all uiwebview instance in my code (almost 50 places), but when I search for 'uiwebview' cordova library still has almost 120 search results.
I'm trying to add the 3rd party plugin; BarcodeScanner to my project and have done successfully. When building the final app it works fine.
However is there any way to add this plugin to allow the iOS 'PhoneGap' app without having to build the project?
I've tried CLI to add the plugin and also have added the plugin to my config.xml; I've also looked on google and cannot find an answer. Some people say you can and others say you can't.
Thanks
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PhoneGap App is essentially a cordova app with a fixed set of plugins installed. The app is capable of downloading and executing the css/html/javascript parts of a Cordova application. However, It is not possible to install a plugin that includes native parts over-the-air.
iOS 8 introduced WKWebView, a modernised web view for iOS with more features, particularly notably JIT compilation for Javascript code which significantly improves performance.
However WKWebView on iOS 8 had some bugs which prevented Cordova using it by default. AFAIK there are plugins that can use it, but they all say "beta", "incomplete" etc. Also as far as I'm aware iOS 9 fixes the bugs that stopped Cordova defaulting to WKWebView in iOS 8.
So what is the state of WKWebView in Cordova on iOS 9? I can't seem to find any information about this. Does Cordova default to WKWebView on iOS 9? If not why not, and can it be officially enabled another way?
New edit: June 2019
Apple has not removed UIWebView in iOS 13 beta, so looks like it can be used at least for another year.
Ionic WebView plugin, starting in version 3.0.0 no longer uses a web server, but the WKURLSchemeHandler instead, that required to drop support for iOS 10 and older.
Still backport most fixes to 2.x branch that still have the web server for those that want to support iOS 10.
WKWebView was not integrated into cordova-ios 5.0.0, a plugin is still required to use it. Should be there for 6.0.0 version.
And now there is Ionic Capacitor available, an Apache Cordova alternative that was built with the WKWebView since the beginning. It has its own set of plugins, but it's also compatible with most Cordova plugins.
https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/
Old edit: August 2018
Apple has deprecated UIWebView in iOS 12 and will probably remove it in iOS 13.
Apache Cordova has announced that it will integrate the cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine into cordova-ios in next major release (5.x.x), but UIWebView will still work and be the default one. Also, you'll be able to switch between them in runtime to easily test your app.
In a future release it will remove the whole UIWebView code and the WKWebView will be the only option.
But cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine still have a lot of issues. I still recommend using cordova-plugin-ionic-webview as using GCDWebServer solves most of the WKWebView issues.
New edit: November 2017
Ionic team has launched a new WKWebView plugin that is no longer a fork of the Cordova one and uses GCDWebServer internally and overcomes most of the Cordova plugin known issues.
New edit: 24 August 2016
Updated just to add a fork of the apache's WKWebView plugin created by the ionic framework team that adds some enhancements to the plugin.
https://github.com/driftyco/cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine
The enhancements will probably land on the core plugin soon, but you can take a look and test the ionic fork now.
New edit: 9 December 2015
cordova ios 4.0.0 has been released
and the version 1.0.0 of cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine
To try it:
cordova create wkwvtest my.project.id wkwvtest
cd wkwvtest
cordova platform add ios#4
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine
As I already told, cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine only supports iOS 9, on iOS 8 it will use UIWebView and has some know issues
If you want to support iOS 8 too, you can use the wkwebview-engine-localhost (experimental) or cordova-plugin-wkwebview from Telerik, both of them use a local web server
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugins/tree/master/wkwebview-engine-localhost
OLD MESSAGE:
You can use WKWebView with cordova using the WKWebView plugins available.
The problem you mention is that WKWebView can't load local files, so the plugins use a local web server to workaround the problem.
There are some of them like this one from telerik https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/WKWebView (with the web server built in) or the official from cordova team https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugins/tree/master/wkwebview-engine-localhost (with the web server as dependency plugin)
As the bug you mention is fixed on iOS 9, the current cordova plugin (compatible with iOS 8 and iOS 9, using the web server) has been renamed to wkwebview-engine-localhost, and the current name cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine will be used for a new plugin that will support iOS 9 only and won't use the web server
You can see the issues to track the progress here
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9566
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9567
EDIT: I bring news https://shazronatadobe.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/apache-cordova-ios-4-0-0-and-wkwebview-support/
WKWebView support
The cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine plugin will be iOS 9 only and it
will be a core plugin. The development of this updated plugin is still
in progress. Apple has fixed the bug where we couldn’t load documents
from file:// urls, and it is iOS 9 only. On non-iOS 9 devices,
cordova-ios will fallback to using the UIWebView.
The old version of this plugin used a local webserver to load your
main document. This older plugin can be used where you want to use
WKWebView in both iOS 8 and iOS 9 deployments, but the plugin will
remain as a cordova-labs experiment. This plugin has some re-factoring
work to be done.
I have an app built on Cordova 3.3 running this phonegap-estimote plugin.
All works great on iOS 7 devices, but will crash on startup for any version previous.
I've tried using window.device.version on DeviceReady to bypass calls related to the plugin, but I think the app crashes on plugin initialization.
So my question: is there a way to conditionally load a plugin or prevent it from initializing?
This is Wojtek Borowicz, I'm a community evangelist in Estimote.
Please note that Estimote SDK, for which the referenced PhoneGap plugin was built, is only compatible with iOS 7. You can however set some code within your libraries and the CoreLocation from 'required' to 'optional'
I have been using the Barcode Scanner Phonegap plugin on Android, and tried to implement the same on iOS. However it seems like the documentation is outdated. The Github README.md file does not really apply to the current version of Xcode and latest ZXing library. I am using Xcode 4.6.2. I tried to follow the instructions from here on iOS 6.1 but many things are different. My code compiles but it does not seem to be able to call the scanner. Any ideas?
This works. It is the same plugin updated by #zeroasterisk. It does the trick, until PhoneGap guys update the plugin.