Android utilize V8 without WebView

Question

I\'m exercising executing javascript from Java. Rhino works very well for this on desktop, but has to fall back to (slow) interpreted mode on Android (due to dalvik being u

Answer 1

You can create a new V8 Context via its API and use that to execute your JavaScript, look into https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/v8 include directory which contains two C++ header files. Link against the libwebcore.so (compiled from https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/webkit) library via the NDK, nothing special.

v8::Persistent context = v8::Persistent::New(v8::Context::New());
context->Enter();

Refer to https://developers.google.com/v8/get_started which will work on Android. Just make sure the device actually ships with V8 (some older devices ship with JSC [JavaScript Core]).