Webview

[idbeny]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I don't have any simple way to display remote HTML.

Describe the solution you'd like I hope to provide a webview component that can display local and remote HTML. It would be better if it can provide basic JS interaction functions.

Describe alternatives you've considered

1. cefpython

• Advantages: very powerful, supports self-compiled chrome kernel, supports JS interaction
• Disadvantages: not friendly to mobile terminals. Currently, the open source library cefpython has stopped maintenance. The investment cost is high.

2. pywebview

• Advantages: many functions and easy to use.
• Disadvantages: does not support iOS (only recently supported Android). A new window pops up to display webview, which cannot be integrated with kivy components.

3. mobile webview

• Advantages: no obvious advantages are seen, which is a bad strategy.
• Disadvantages: The biggest problem is that the native webview is very high-level and cannot be integrated with kivy components, and the performance is not good. You need to write Java/Kotlin code to support Android, and write OC/Swift code to support iOS.

Additional context I believe that every application has many scenarios that require webview support, but kivy does not provide a webview component. I don't know whether it is impossible to implement due to technical reasons or the Kivy product team thinks it is unnecessary to provide webview. But I believe that Kivy users want to see and use this component as soon as possible.

### Tasks

[RobertFlatt]

This might help you a bit, Android native webview https://github.com/Android-for-Python/Webview-Example . It is a full screen widget within the Kivy app (a ModalView).

As with most things open source, the person who wants it the most is the person who contributes it. I think in your post above you nailed the issue exactly, due to multi platform support The investment cost is high. Somebody has to really want it.

[Sahil-pixel]

But we need kivy's own dedicated webview.

[baseplate-admin]

But we need kivy's own dedicated webview.

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