That's great that you got it running Joe! I know that there has been a good amount of webview activity within the chrome repo lately. My understanding is that it's still pretty rough / crashy though. I'm planning on playing around with it around the feb/march timeframe (and hoping that it will be in better shape by then) :).
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > No. I compiled on my Ubuntu box. I don't know how you'd get it working on > OS X. > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Anis KADRI <[email protected]> wrote: > > 16Mb is way less than I expected. Were able to compile on OS X ? > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Filip Maj <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Nice work Joe. One step closer.. .. .. > >> On 12/6/12 4:38 PM, "Joe Bowser" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> >I played around with it this afternoon and I got it to build. The > >> >score on html5test has it right on par with my desktop chrome for the > >> >most part. That being said, there's a lot of problems with it, such > >> >as the footprint. It currently weighs in at 16 MB. It'd be cool if > >> >we could use it as a library with the uses-library in the Android > >> >manifest, but I think we're still stuck with the stock browser if we > >> >want things to just work. > >> > > >> >So, while it may make for a cool tech demo, using Chrome for Cordova > >> >is a long ways off. > >> > > >> >It's nice to have something that compiles though, even with a minor > tweak! > >> > > >> > > >> >On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Anis KADRI <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> I was going to try it out but last time I checked it needed a good > >> >>ubuntu > >> >> machine to compile (didn't work on OSX). At any rate, remember that > it > >> >> would have footprint of ~30Mb. I think it is worth the effort too. I > >> >>would > >> >> look into it if I had the pre-requisites. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Jarrod Overson <[email protected]> > >> >>wrote: > >> >> > >> >>> Us folk on the sidelines want to know what's going on with using > >> >>>Chrome's > >> >>> content shell on android too. Seems to be tracked here: > >> >>> > >> >>> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113088 > >> >>> > >> >>> That issue made me assume that it wasn't possible yet without effort > >> >>>on the > >> >>> chrome/chromium side. > >> >>> -- > >> >>> Jarrod Overson > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> > Hey > >> >>> > > >> >>> > I know that I brought this up before, but I'm wondering what's > going > >> >>> > on with Chrome Content Shell, and whether we can start looking at > >> >>>this > >> >>> > as an option for having a WebView on Android that sucks less than > the > >> >>> > current one that we have access to. It's kinda weird having > PhoneGap > >> >>> > only score 253 on HTML5 Test when Chrome is now stock. > >> >>> > > >> >>> > Anyone tried this out? Does it build? Is this horribly off-topic? > >> >>> > > >> >>> > Joe > >> >>> > > >> >>> > >> > >> >
