Is it possible to create your own WebView and make PhoneGap work on it on Android?

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Junya Ishihara

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Feb 9, 2012, 5:29:23 AM2/9/12
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Is it possible to create your own WebView(not the one that DroidGap
provides) and make PhoneGap work on it on Android?

I have an existing Android project which has my own WebView. I want to
extend that WebView so that PhoneGap can be used on it.

What I want to do is similar to:

Cleavage
http://blogs.nitobi.com/jesse/2010/04/20/introducing-iphone-cleavage/

but on Android.

I tried the following code, but PhoneGap did now work and got
java.lang.NullPointerException at com.phonegap.DroidGap
$1$1.run(DroidGap.java:479)

Any help, advice, hint is appreciated.

===

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import com.phonegap.*;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class MyWebViewActivity extends DroidGap {
private WebView webView;

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.my_web_view_activity);
webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.web_view);

appView = webView;

super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");
}
}

Simon MacDonald

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Feb 9, 2012, 6:48:10 AM2/9/12
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That type of functionality is being worked on for the 1.5 release.

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Junya Ishihara

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Feb 9, 2012, 11:40:41 AM2/9/12
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When will 1.5 be released?

On Feb 9, 8:48 pm, Simon MacDonald <simon.macdon...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Simon MacDonald

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Late February or early March is the current target. 

Bryan Stern

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Apr 11, 2012, 5:42:11 PM4/11/12
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Hi Simon,

Any update on this? I'm going through the documentation and I'm not seeing any mention of this feature.

Best Regards,
Bryan

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Simon MacDonald

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Joe continues to work on it. We got tied up with the Cordova rename
and common JS code. I believe there will be more focus on it for
1.7/1.8.

Simon Mac Donald
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Collin Forrester

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May 17, 2012, 3:57:02 PM5/17/12
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I know the last update was only about a month ago, but I'm following this closely as we currently have an app with a webView, and we'd like to expose the PhoneGap functionality.  Right now it's not possible without heavy modifications to DroidGap.java.

Any updates?


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May 17, 2012, 4:04:30 PM5/17/12
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Out of curiosity, does your custom web view achieve any better performance on Android in any magic way?

Signed,
DesperateForBettaDroidPerf =)

Collin Forrester

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May 17, 2012, 4:07:41 PM5/17/12
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Sadly, no.  Our customers wanted some additional functionality (menu bar, logos, etc).  I'm trying to do the same thing in iOS too.

jcesarmobile

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May 18, 2012, 8:50:39 AM5/18/12
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In iOs it's possible, I have just used it that way, on the phonegap installer you have a HOWTO. (using phonegap as a component.pdf)

Collin Forrester

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May 18, 2012, 8:54:01 AM5/18/12
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That's good news... I think I have tried following those steps before but kept getting caught up.  Did you add components via and .xib file or in code?

Simon MacDonald

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May 18, 2012, 8:53:33 AM5/18/12
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Hey Collin,

It is still being worked on but it is not quite ready yet.

Simon Mac Donald
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@Simon,  thanks!  
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The CordovaWebView work is happening in the Android git branch
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cordova-android.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/CordovaWebView
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