carlhuth / cordova-poc

POC for cordova android webviews in which webviews are remote but cordova js is bundled with the app

Test app to investigate cordova communication between the js and java layer. Idea is that we are loading a remote web page inside a CordovaWebView that accesses locally the cordova.android.js file deployed with the application. This is easier said than done as for SDK < 11 it looks like there is no way to modify the webview response. So the code below only works for SDK=11 and up.

The cordova-js is about 70K minified (the whole set) which is too much to send over a 3G connection. Thus deploying with the application allows us to have the best of both worlds:

1. Access from js to native features like connection , acelerometer or camera
2. Small payloads on the webview side as we do not need to download the whole cordova framework on JS.