WPE Android Roadmap

Goals

Offer a fully-featured and alternative backend for Android's WebView based on WPE.

Subgoals:

• Increase the availability of WPE.
• Provide HW integrators with more flexibility to customize their products.
• Improve the market share of WebKit-based applications.

Timeline

Long-term objectives

• Fully featured drop-in replacement for Android Webview's backend based on WPE.

Medium-term objectives

• Implement most of Android WebView's APIs.
• Support for most use cases on Android devices.
• Hardware-accelerated video and audio encoding.
• Periodical releases delivered via Google Play Store.

Short-term objectives

• Support both for ARM and Intel devices.
• Support for Android Emulator.
• Support for full-screen mode.
• Support for kiosk mode.
• Hardware-accelerated video and audio decoding.
• Improve the general architecture and integration between Android and WPE.
• Implement a good enough subset of Android Webview's APIs to make it usable.
• Produce demos to showcase WPE Android on actual devices.
• Update it to the latest version of WPE.