Crosswalk 1 release notes

Runtime

• Support packaged applications (.apk on Android, .xpk on Tizen)
• Initial manifest parsing
• Launch app in fullscreen mode
• Persistent event page
• Command line package installation
• Launch installed applications from home screen
• API to query details about the manifest
• API to retrieve the background page
• Web application integrated with task manager
• Viewport meta tag handling across all Crosswalk configurations
• W3C App URI API support

Crosswalk on Android

• First release of Crosswalk Runtime library APK
• Run a simple web application without manifest support
• Package HTML/JS/CSS files into web app APKs
• Initial runtime infra to bridge capabilities from content to crosswalk
• Sample web applications to demonstrate HTML5 features and performance
• Hook up the runtime API’s on Android
• Initial web app APK template

Crosswalk on Tizen

• First release of Crosswalk RPM for Tizen
• First release of extension system - developers can create their own API extensions and install them as separate packages
• Support for Tizen HW keys (menu&back)
• Basic virtual keyboard support

Extensions System (Tizen only - Android support coming in Crosswalk 2)

• Run extensions in separated extension process, also support running them in-process
• Support require() primitive in JS API extensions
• Allows providing convenience and native functions when needed
• Basic support for dependency tracking, focusing on Tizen Device APIs case
• Provide bindings for code running in renderer process and tools for generating bindings.