[Development] WebView for Android on track for Qt 5.2?

[Abrahamsen-Blomfeldt Eskil]

Hi,

So far there hasn't been much research on this, but the idea was to render it into a texture and use this in the QML scene graph, yes.

Any experience you collect on this will probably be very helpful. I think the path forward may be to make an Android-specific API for this that can easily be adapted to a cross-platform API later. That gives us a bit more flexibility as we do not have to commit to a cross-platform API right away. I can't give any promises as for the Qt version this will be targeted at yet, but I do understand that it's a very important feature, so I definitely want to have it as soon as at all possible.

Here's a blog which might be helpful if you're going to be looking at this:

http://anuraagsridhar.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/rendering-an-android-webview-or-for-that-matter-any-android-view-directly-to-opengl/

-- Eskil

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Fra: Cornelius Hald [mailto:hald at icandy.de] 
Sendt: 6. september 2013 16:15
Til: Abrahamsen-Blomfeldt Eskil
Kopi: development at qt-project.org
Emne: Re: [Development] WebView for Android on track for Qt 5.2?

On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 10:41 +0200, Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt wrote:
> On 09/05/2013 06:18 PM, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > what is the state of WebView (QQ2) for Android? Is it still planed 
> > for Qt 5.2? Is there a branch to track somewhere? The bug report 
> > suggests that instead of using QtWebKit a wrapper around the 
> > Android-WebView is now planned.
> >
> > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32093
> >
> > Anything I could help you with?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've talked to the team working on the web engine in Qt in Digia, and 
> right now there are no resources to do work on this in Digia 
> unfortunately. It might be possible to do something specifically for 
> Android, but it would be a lot nicer to have a cross-platform solution 
> like the web engine guys initially planned, and I think this is needed 
> for iOS as well. I'll talk to the iOS team here, but I don't think it 
> sounds feasible that this will be done in the one and a half weeks we 
> have left before the Qt 5.2 feature freeze. Sorry :(
> 
> -- Eskil
> 

Hi Eskil,

thank you for your fast reply. Of course that wasn't the answer I was hoping for but at least I can be sure now. I have two projects running on Windows and Linux. Both I should port to Android as soon as possible.

Are there any known workarounds? Like using the Android WebView and rendering it into a GL texture that could be used with QQ2? I only need output. No input or interaction.

I will research my options but would be very grateful for any hints and tips. Also it would be great to know for what Qt version it is planned to have a working WebView on Android.

Thanks!
Conny