Android Kitkat 4.4 webview in Android 9

Question

Question: Is it possible to have Android Kitkat version webview (chromium) on Android 9?

Problem: I have some webpages and I want to show them in webview but the webpages are developed using old technologies like appCache and application Manifest. The webpages are hosted on a hardware based custom control system which has low specs and the server on the control system does not support https so we cannot move to technologies like service workers.

These webpages works properly on tablet having android 4.4 kitkat. So that's why I am asking about any possibility of integrating kitkat webview (chromium) in Android 9

I tried to use crosswalk webview, it worked but when compiled through old sdk version 23 but crosswalk not compiles on latest android sdk's like 29 and 30

Answer 1

No,it's not possible but you can do one thing that instead of serving a webpage via http or https in your app you can serve a local file to that webview.To do so :-

Method 1

1. create assets folder.
2. create your files in that folder like index.html,style.css .
3. set Webview url to "file:///android_asset/index.html"
4. It's done.

Method 2

1. Use Cordova to do so.