[Development] Qt WebEngine

[Simon Hausmann]

On Thursday 19. September 2013 09.29.47 Cornelius Hald wrote:
> Sorry to bother again, but what's the plan now regarding QQuick2 WebView
> on Android? Is it Webkit? Chromium/Blink? Nothing? Something else? And
> when?

The initial release of Qt for Android is not going to include any integration 
of a web view (of sorts) into Qt Quick2 - unfortunately. This is not because 
nobody wants it, but it is simply a limitation of resources on our side and 
nobody else seems to have stepped up so far to look into it.

For Android I can think of two approaches:

* There may be a technical way of packaging up Chromium for Android and the Qt 
integration (Qt WebEngine). This is certainly a bigger task but you know what 
you get as it involves shipping the entire engine. My guess would be that the 
download is about the size of Opera for Android (~25-30 MB) plus the size of 
Qt and your app.

* A probably simpler way is to figure out how to access the Android WebView 
(Java), render it into an FBO and integrate the FBO into the QtQuick 2 scene 
graph. This might be doable on top of Qt for Android - I don't think it would 
require any changes to Qt itself (but I may be wrong here!)


Eventually I hope that we can find the time and resources to look into either 
of these options. If somebody else steps up first to start working on that 
inside the Qt project, then it would be an opportunity for us to join.


Simon

> On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 17:06 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the FAQ states: "We intend to make QtWebEngine available on all
> > platforms that the upstream Chromium project supports, with the
> > exception of Android. This also means iOS won’t be supported."
> > 
> > So what are the plans for Android and iOS? We currently do not have
> > QtWebkit on those platforms and support for QtWebEngine is not planned.
> > Does that mean we won't have any WebView at all for Android and iOS or
> > are some kind of wrappers around native widgets planned for those
> > systems?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Conny
> > 
> > On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 12:03 +0000, Knoll Lars wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > As many of you know, we've been doing some research on a (chromium
> > > based)
> > > new web engine for Qt during spring and summer. I wanted to let you know
> > > that we've now come to the conclusion that we want to continue these
> > > efforts in the future.
> > > 
> > > Please check
> > > http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/09/12/introducing-the-qt-webengine/
> > > for
> > > all the details.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Lars
> > > 
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