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Reputation:

XPCOM support in Android webkit browser?

Does the Android WebKit supports the XPCOM framework or NPRuntime API`s as like Firefox? How to implement JavaScript in the Android WebKit plug-in?

Update: I am writing a media player plug-in for the Android WebKit browser and my plug-in needs to get the command from the web page through JavaScript (some actions like play/pause/stop/resize are issued as JavaScript commands from the browser). My plug-in is written in native C code. Are there any examples or sample plug-in available for JavaScript communication?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2250

Answers (3)

anselm
anselm

Reputation: 792

The android browser supported NPAPI all the time, the mechanism changed in 2.1 though, now it looks for APKs with the intent filter "android.webkit.PLUGIN", so a plugin needs to be packaged separately.

Previously setting the plugin path on the WebView and compiling the plugin using the NDK did the trick.

Hope this helps, you will find a lot of info when googling for NPAPI and WebView or NPAPI and android.

Upvotes: 1

Roman Nurik
Roman Nurik

Reputation: 29745

Android's WebKit doesn't support XPCOM, nor does it support NPAPI and npruntime. Not sure how you're planning to write a browser plugin, but it's not going to be possible with the Android SDK.

Upvotes: 0

Christopher Orr
Christopher Orr

Reputation: 111555

WebKit doesn't support XPCOM, as WebKit is entirely separate from the Mozilla stack.

When you say you want to "implement Javascript", what do you mean?
The built-in Android browser already supports the execution of Javascript.

Upvotes: 2

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