The last time we tested this approach, it was 16 MB, not 30 MB and many apps are upwards of that now anyway. I don't think 30 MB is a barrier if your app doesn't suck.
Also, who got stuck being substitute Andrew? I need someone other than me to tag Android for 2.9.0, since I'll be on vacation the last week of June. On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Braden Shepherdson <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a thing. Unfortunately the person most connected to the state of > Chrome WebViews is Andrew, who is out with a strong case of newborn baby > for a few weeks. We (the Google Cordova team) are chasing some tangential > deadlines at the moment and not really ready to set up a buildbot. > > I think the main, and substantial, drawback to the ChromeView approach is > that it makes the resulting app huge (upwards of 30MB). Also 4.0+. But I'm > just going from what I remember; Andrew would know more. > > Braden > > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So this is a thing: >> >> https://github.com/pwnall/chromeview >> >> And we know our friends at The Google are going to give us an embedded >> ChromeView (someday maybe). >> >> So is this something the Cordova team should be considering? >> >> Can we work w/ our committers from Chromium to create a buildbot that >> creates that friendly little binary for us? >>
