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Comment by flexagoon

1 day ago

What do you mean by that? WebView is just Chrome embedded inside of an Android app. Same thing already exists on Windows (Edge WebView2), macOS (WKWebView) and Linux (WebKitGTK). There's also a library that wraps all of them into a single interface:

https://github.com/webview/webview

The entire point of WebView is that it's a browser embedded inside of a different application, how do you expect it to be a "standalone project"?

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DarkmSparks  3 hours ago

The idea is it would be lightweight (so just a few megabytes of libraries) and give the same functionality you get with an android webview (so send it html to load and javascript to run and get json results back).

I know there are quite a few options that try and do something similar. But they are all so incredibly bloated when all you want to do is use html5 for a native application UI.