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Robert Mc Dowell
Robert Mc Dowell
Legend
March 31, 2017
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about StageWebView

  • March 31, 2017
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Is there any chance that StageWebView will evolve like

to support full web technology like a normal browser?

especially SVG and HTML5 would be a must. Or maybe

let the developer choose to integrate its own web engine like blink, gecko or other with some

property. I would really enjoy to develop my own browser with AIR.

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Correct answer Colin Holgate

StageWebView should be able to show any page that the webview in your browser can show, but it is using an older version of webkit. It's using UIWebKit instead of the more modern WkWebKit. There are ANEs for WkWebKit, and using those can solve several big issues,

I don't know if Adobe are going to start using WkWebKit for StageWebView any time soon.

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el111
Legend
March 31, 2017

My ANE is free and open source.

It covers all platforms (OSX, Windows, iOS, Android)

However the iOS and Android I've written recently and may not be as feature rich or battle-tested as MyFlashLabs paid offering.

Robert Mc Dowell
Robert Mc DowellAuthor
Legend
March 31, 2017

your 2 projects are very promising, Although I'm an actionscript expert I'm new to ANE and learning slowly.

I will try both and for sure if I can contribute to them I will do. thanks

Robert Mc Dowell
Robert Mc DowellAuthor
Legend
March 31, 2017

Are your projects able to show flash player content without problem?

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el111
Legend
March 31, 2017

For Desktop there is also

GitHub - tuarua/WebViewANE: WebView Adobe Air Native Extension for OSX 10.10+, Windows Desktop, iOS 9.0+ and Android 21+…

Robert Mc Dowell
Robert Mc DowellAuthor
Legend
March 31, 2017

thanks for all your links, but

Colin: rich webview is a paid product, despite of they say try it for free, but no link to download it

el111, looks good as I need the source to integrate it in my project, but my need is essentially for IOS and Android.

update: el111: I just saw that it works on IOS and Android, but only on tablet? or smartphone also?

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
March 31, 2017

It should work fine on phones as well as tablets.

You can use the Clone or Download button in this page to get the ANE:

GitHub - myflashlab/webView-ANE: This air native extension is a perfect replacement to the classic StageWebView and it a…

Most of the files are sample files or source files. The richWebView.ane is in the lib folder, that's the only thing you need to add. There should be a swc too, which you would include in the FLA so that code completion works ok. Maybe I got that when I bought the ANE.

In a different thread someone also pointed to this ANE, which may well be free, and does use WkWebKit on iOS:

https://github.com/tuarua/WebViewANE

Colin Holgate
Colin HolgateCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 31, 2017

StageWebView should be able to show any page that the webview in your browser can show, but it is using an older version of webkit. It's using UIWebKit instead of the more modern WkWebKit. There are ANEs for WkWebKit, and using those can solve several big issues,

I don't know if Adobe are going to start using WkWebKit for StageWebView any time soon.

Robert Mc Dowell
Robert Mc DowellAuthor
Legend
March 31, 2017

thanks for the info, Do you have an links about it? couldn't find any from search engines. thanks

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
March 31, 2017

This is the one that I've used:

http://www.myflashlabs.com/product/rich-webview-ane-adobe-air-native-extension/

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