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accessing native APIs from HTML5 app?

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From: Christof Meerwald <cmeerw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:27:01 +0200
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Hi,

what would be the preferred way for an HTML5 app that needs access to
some native APIs like raw TCP sockets?

I had a quick look at Cordova, but the plugin API seems to be a
complete pain (for anything non-trivial).

So far I am leaning towards implementing and native WebSockets server
to proxy the TCP connection as a wrapper around webapp-container. Is
there any way to pass any information (like a local port number and
maybe an authentication token) to the HTML5 app on startup?

Any other options? If possible I want to avoid writing too much Ubuntu
Touch specific code.


Christof

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