PhoneGap and Flash 10.1 content on Android

[Raju Bitter]

Will PhoneGap officially support embedding of Flash content into the
app's WebView? I've tested embedding an SWF into a PhoneGap, and it
works without any problems. For full support of Flash content there
should probably be a boolean switch to activate plugins through the
WebSettings.

In DroidGap#onCreate we'd have to add a line to activate plugins:

WebSettings settings = appView.getSettings();
settings.setPluginState(PluginState.ON); // Turn Flash plugin on

PluginState can be set to OFF, ON and ON_DEMAND (you'll see an icon
instead of the plugin content, which you have to tap to display the
content).

- Raju

[Jesse MacFadyen]

Phonegap will not unless apple allows flash. Plugins to the rescue.

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[Raju Bitter]

Thanks, Jesse.

[Raju Bitter]

I believe it would make sense to make it easy for developers to use Flash
content within PhoneGap Android apps. It wouldn't hurt PoneGap to add a
boolean value to the DroidGap class. Something like

boolean pluginsEnabled = false;

In the generated application class any developer could overwrite that value
with "true" to enable plugins. If you don't do that, anyone planning to use
SWF content on Android would have to modify the DroidGap class or fork
PhoneGap to be able use Flash. HTML5 video playback is still not supported
in Android 2.2, I believe. That means, you can play back video on iOS within
a PhoneGap app, but can't do that on Android.

Just some thoughts...

Am 7/29/10 12:15 PM schrieb "Raju Bitter" unter
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[Matthew David]

The best solution is to create a plugin for PhoneGap. 

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[Raju Bitter]

Thanks, Matthew. I've found this information on PhoneGap plugins:
http://wiki.github.com/purplecabbage/PhoneGap-Plugins/

Do you know a good example of Android plugin, or a plugin template?

- Raju

[Dave Johnson]

Android plugins are not quite ready. Maybe next week though. Check out get github.com/davejohnson/phonegap-android in the plugins branch. Look at the command interface (Command.java) and the command manager (CommandManager.java). I will have a sample up soon too.

Let me know what your use case is so that I can make sure things line up.

On Jul 29, 2010 7:01 AM, "Raju Bitter" <r.bitter.m...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Matthew. I've found this information on PhoneGap plugins:
http://wiki.github.com/purplecabbage/PhoneGap-Plugins/

Do you know a good example of Android plugin, or a plugin template?

- Raju

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Matthew David <matthe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The best solution...

[Raju Bitter]

Thanks a lot for your answer, Dave. I will look into it next week, and
keep you updated.