Integrating Chromium WebView with Ionic framework

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Did anyone try Crosswalk or CocoonJS with Ionic?

Cordova uses the default WebView. Crosswalk and CocoonJS use Chromiun to render the app, which is said to improve speeds on Android. Did someone already try to port his app over and did some somparisons? CocoonJS is in private beta right now and the documentation to use Cordova apps with Crosswalk is… well… a little complicated (escpecially since I build my project with CLI and not with Eclipse).

Has anyone integrated an Ionic project with Crosswalk or Android ChromeView?

And if so…Care to share how you did it? Some background for the uninitiated: Cordova on Android 2.3 all the way up to Android 4.3 uses the stock Android browser to display apps. These browsers offer varying levels of compatibility and speed with modern websites- leading to a ton of debugging of Ionic apps built for older Android platforms. By using a library such as Crosswalk or Android ChromeView you’re running your app within an up to date version of Chrome, without the user having to have Ch…

Ionic for production apps

@coen_warmer yes Crosswalk is Android 4.0 and up, the Android APIs appear to be the reason why. As previously mentioned the beta is the better release to use. It’s Chrome 34, supports external debugging from chrome inspect (enough of a reason to use Crosswalk) and all the other nice modern apis, hello websockets and webworkers. Latest Cordova plugins work fine, I’m using Camera, File, Device, Barcode Scanner, a custom plugin that accesses Bluetooth among others. I’m using Crosswalk Cordova 5.…