How to embed crosswalk-lite with ionic tutorial

@BojDom wrote:

Hi, i've spent some days trying to reduce the apk size with crosswalk, and finally i made it so i want to share with the ionic community the way, i think is interesting to have a cross-android-version app that weights 10 MB less than the normal crosswalk .

First of all the reason why it always goes to download the normal binaries is that the crosswalk-lite is not in official release, but i had no problems with my app so here we go: Go to your project folder than edit this file:

platforms/android/cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview/yourapp-xwalk.gradle

replace

repositories {
  maven {
    url 'https://download.01.org/crosswalk/releases/crosswalk/android/maven2'
  }
}

to be

repositories {
  mavenLocal()
}

then add near the line 71 after cdvPluginPostBuildExtras.add({:

def liteSpec = "org.xwalk:xwalk_core_library:1.0.0.1"

and edit the dependecies rule to be

dependencies {
        compile liteSpec
    }

remember that 1.0.0.1 is our self created version

Now download from the crosswalk-lite repository the version you want to embed, i have tested with the version 17.46.451.1 , download just the .aar file. This version has both x86 and armv7 reources so you have to unzip the .aar (is actually a zip file ) and then delete the file

res/raw/libxwalkcore.so.x86 [ if you want to make apk for armv7 devices ]

res/raw/libxwalkcore.so.armeabi_v7a [ if you want to make apk for x86 devices ]

this is because it will trigger the error duplicate resources, as i noticed.

Now zip again the folder without the resource and rename it to .aar

And finally the magic touch, (if you haven't installed maven do apt-get install maven2)

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=*YOURFILE*.aar -DgroupId=org.xwalk -DartifactId=xwalk_core_library -Dversion=1.0.0.1 -Dpackaging=aar

Now you can build your app with the crosswalk-lite embbeded, it may seems difficult but it's not , and it worth every mb saved to the apk

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