I've using it for two and a half year on iOS but only for a year on android Your blog post was very helpful ( http://infil00p.org/android/cordova/phonegap/2012/12/04/advanced-tutorial-using-cordovawebview-on-android/ )
We had a meeting with IBM guys yesterday and I think they mentioned that they use the embedded webviews on worklight too 2014-10-02 19:16 GMT+02:00 Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com>: > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:57 AM, julio cesar sanchez < > jcesarmob...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have received the same mail. >> >> BTW, in one of my apps I use an embedded cordova webview and I'm not sure >> how to upgrade that app. >> >> My main problem is I don't know how to install the core plugins I need, >> that isn't explained on the embedding webviews guide. I don't think I can >> use the CLI as the project isn't created with the CLI and isn't a real >> cordova project. >> >> Any hints? >> >> Maybe using plugman? >> > > Yes! Use plugman to install your plugins. It's kind-of annoying, but it's > the best way to get them to work. If there's bugs with Plugman, you should > file an issue that it doesn't support this use case. > > Also, thanks for using the Embedded Cordova WebView! I'm really glad that > there's real people who use it, since at times I was thinking I was making > a big issue out of nothing. > > >> >> >> 2014-10-02 17:52 GMT+02:00 Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org>: >> >> > That patch fixes the startURL / errorURL issue, which is one of the >> major >> > components of the 3.5.1 security release (CVE-2014-3500). >> > >> > The other issue is CVE-2014-3502, which is that intent urls can be >> launched >> > by a Cordova app regardless of the whitelist settings. There isn't a >> patch >> > which addresses this on the 2.x branch (unless IBM has produced one -- >> > Mike?) but it shouldn't be much work to simply remove the all of the >> code >> > that handles intent / sms / geo / tel / etc. URLs from the >> > shouldOverrideUrlLoading method of CordovaWebViewClient.java. If you >> remove >> > the intent-launching code from that method, then it should stop your >> > application from launching external applications. >> > >> > That being said, if you can afford to upgrade to 3.x (3.6.x now) then it >> > will be much easier for you to get additional security patches in the >> > future. We're not running or testing 2.x anymore, and can't guarantee, >> for >> > instance, that the patch that Andrew mentioned or the technique that I >> just >> > described will actually work. >> > >> > Ian >> > >> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > That said, the relevant patch is here: >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/commit/2ab81bc5aeb575fef3657cf48a671607e81ca37d >> > > >> > > (Ian / Joe, please correct me if there's more than that) >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > > >> > >> No, you should upgrade to 3.5.1. We have dropped support for Cordova >> > 2.x >> > >> months ago, and we recommend upgrading. >> > >> >> > >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:33 AM, <steve.wil...@bentley.com> wrote: >> > >> >> > >> > We have released applications in the Google Play store based on >> > Cordova >> > >> > 2.7.0 and have received notification from Google that these apps >> are >> > >> > vulnerable to an Android Cordova security issue ( >> > >> > >> http://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2014/08/04/android-351.html). >> > >> > >> > >> > Upgrading to Cordova 3.5.1 would require significant work on our >> part. >> > >> Is >> > >> > there any possibility that you can release a patched Cordova >> Android >> > >> > version based on 2.7 that would fix this security vulnerability? >> > >> > >> > >> > Please let me know whether you think this would be possible on your >> > >> part. >> > >> > Thank you! >> > >> > >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Steve Wilson >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >
