Questions about cordova-plugin-ionic-webview

[chrisbrody]

I just learned about cordova-plugin-ionic-webview, was wondering about the following:

• What kinds of needs motivated cordova-plugin-ionic-webview?
• What kind of native WebView classes are used on iOS & Android?
• How does it compare to popular alternatives such as cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine and builtin UIWebView?
• How actively is cordova-plugin-ionic-webview maintained?

It was also not clear to me which category I should have used for this question.

Some related topics for reference:

• Why do I need cordova-plugin-ionic-webview?
• WebView in Ionic is Very Big Problem
• What is the IOS WebView engine?

[Sujan12]

@chrisbrody

What kinds of needs motivated cordova-plugin-ionic-webview?

See README of 1.x on Github: GitHub - ionic-team/cordova-plugin-ionic-webview at 1.x

@chrisbrody

What kind of native WebView classes are used on iOS & Android?

See https://github.com/ionic-team/cordova-plugin-ionic-webview/tree/master/src

@chrisbrody

How does it compare to popular alternatives such as cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine and builtin UIWebView?

It is actually an advanced fork of apache/cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine (1.x was closely related, 2.x I don’t know). And it uses WKWebView in contrast to UIWebView.

The Ionic plugin is actually much more popular as it comes with Ionic by default, which makes a good part of Cordova installations:
cordova-plugin-ionic-webview vs cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine | npm trends

@chrisbrody

How actively is cordova-plugin-ionic-webview maintained?

Very - all Ionic apps use it.