> -----Original Message-----
> From: agri...@google.com [mailto:agri...@google.com] On Behalf Of Andrew
> Grieve
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 10:08 AM
> To: dev
> Subject: Re: Cordova and Crosswalk
> 
> Wow, super impressive stuff!
> 
> A couple things that weren't clear to me from your website:
> - Is the idea that users will need to install XWalkRuntimeLib.apk in addition 
> to
> their app's .apk?
No. Crosswalk is embedded into your Cordova app.apk. No dependent APK will be 
needed to install your app with Crosswalk.

Please refer to our wiki 
https://crosswalk-project.org/#wiki/crosswalk-cordova-android for details.

> - Is it x86-only at the moment?
No. it supports both ARM and x86.

> It seems as though Xwalk is made to match the Android Webview API quite
> closely. I'm hesitant to make a separate repo for cordova-crosswalk for this
> reason. I think we'd benefit a lot more by having a single code base that 
> could
> work with either webview. E.g. add a level of abstraction so that 
> cordova-android
> and Android plugins could use either webview impl.
> 
> Does that make sense? WDYT?
> 
It is a good idea. We track this feature as 
https://crosswalk-project.org/jira/browse/XWALK-515. If people vote for this, 
we would like to implement it.

Thanks,
-ningxin

> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote:
> 
> > Crosswalk is cool. Very aligned with the Cordova approach and our
> > desktop (and even mobile runtime) story right now is somewhat
> > scattered. A unified cross platform approach would be a welcome option
> > for our community to be sure.
> >
> > So, are you guys saying you guys want to donate the source to Apache
> > as a subproject of Cordova (Eg. as cordova-crosswalk)?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Hu, Ningxin <ningxin...@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Cordova Developers,
> > >
> > > Crosswalk [1] is a web application runtime based on Blink and Chromium.
> > It
> > > supports Android 4.0+. By integrating Cordova with Crosswalk, it
> > > brings remote debugging capability, better HTML5 support and higher
> > > performance
> > to
> > > Cordova apps.
> > >
> > > In Crosswalk projects, there is a crosswalk-cordova-android project
> > > [2]
> > to
> > > prove the idea. It is derived from Cordova Android [3] and embeds
> > Crosswalk
> > > as the HTML5 runtime instead of WebView. Currently It is based on
> > > Cordova
> > > 3.0.0 and supports 16 Cordova APIs. Please check the wiki [4] for
> > > more details.
> > >
> > > Your thoughts about the integration?
> > > Is it possible to support Crosswalk runtime as a platform in Cordova
> > > upstream?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -ningxin
> > >
> > > [1]: https://crosswalk-project.org/
> > > [2]: https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk-cordova-android
> > > [3]: https://github.com/apache/cordova-android
> > > [4]: https://crosswalk-project.org/#wiki/crosswalk-cordova-android
> > >
> >

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