Crosswalk 1 release notes

Runtime

• Create and install 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
• Web application integrated with task manager
• Viewport meta tag handling across all Crosswalk configurations

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
• Sample web applications to demonstrate HTML5 features and performance
• Initial web app APK template
• Android API for debugging over USB

Crosswalk on Tizen

• First release of Crosswalk RPM for Tizen with Aura support
• 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.

APIs

• [app: URI] (http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/app-uri/) (Tizen only)
• [Fullscreen] (http://fullscreen.spec.whatwg.org/)
• [Touch Events] (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webevents/raw-file/v1/touchevents.html)
• [Typed Array 1.0] (http://www.khronos.org/registry/typedarray/specs/latest/)
• [Media Queries Level 3] (http://w3c-test.org/csswg/mediaqueries3/)
• [Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1] (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/)
• [HTML Canvas 2D Context] (http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/)
• [Online State] (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/browsers.html#browser-state)
• [XMLHttpRequest] (http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/)
• [WebSocket] (http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/)
• [HTML5 web Messaging] (http://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/)
• [HTML5 Date and Time state of input element] (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#date-and-time-state-(type=datetime)) (Android only)
• [HTML5 telephone, email and URL state of input element] (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#telephone-state-(type=tel)) (Android only)
• [Indexed DB] (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/IndexedDB/raw-file/default/Overview.html)
• [Web Storage] (http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/)
• [File API] (http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/)
• [File API: Directories and System] (http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/file-dir-sys.html)
• [File API: Writer] (http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/file-writer.html)
• [Web SQL] (http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/)
• [CSS Color Module Level 3] (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/)
• [Selectors Level 1] (http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/)
• [Selectors Level 2] (http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api2/)
• [CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 3] (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/)
• [CSS Multi-column Layout] (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/)
• [CSS Flexible Box Layout ] (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/)
• [CSS Text Decoration Level 3] (http://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-decor-3/)
• [CSS Animations] (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-animations/)
• [CSS Fonts Level 3] (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-webfonts/)
• [CSS Transforms] (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-transforms/)
• [CSS Transitions] (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-transitions/)
• [Navigation Timing] (http://www.w3.org/TR/navigation-timing/)
• [Resource Timing] (http://www.w3.org/TR/resource-timing/)
• [Page Visibility] (http://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility/)
• [Web Workers] (http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/)