JavascriptEngine

Declaring dependencies

To add a dependency on JavascriptEngine, you must add the Google Maven repository to your project. Read Google's Maven repository for more information.

Add the dependencies for the artifacts you need in the build.gradle file for your app or module:

dependencies {
    implementation "androidx.javascriptengine:javascriptengine:1.0.0-alpha05"
}

dependencies {
    implementation("androidx.javascriptengine:javascriptengine:1.0.0-alpha05")
}

For more information about dependencies, see Add build dependencies.

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Version 1.0

Version 1.0.0-alpha05

April 5, 2023

androidx.javascriptengine:javascriptengine:1.0.0-alpha05 is released. Version 1.0.0-alpha05 contains these commits.

API Changes

• Evaluation and result are no longer bound by Binder limits (I13b1d)
• Add callback for handling isolate console messages (I11725, Ic1c11)

Version 1.0.0-alpha04

February 22, 2023

androidx.javascriptengine:javascriptengine:1.0.0-alpha04 is released. Version 1.0.0-alpha04 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a rare case of NullPointerException caused when the sandboxed process dies.

Version 1.0.0-alpha03

December 7, 2022

androidx.javascriptengine:javascriptengine:1.0.0-alpha03 is released. Version 1.0.0-alpha03 contains these commits.

New Features

• Contain out of memory crashes to the responsible isolate instead of crashing the entire sandbox. Once the isolate goes out of memory, it cannot be used for further evaluation.
• Currently, the resources that the isolate holds are not freed till the sandbox is closed. This resource freeing behavior might change in later versions of the library.

API Changes

• Throw MemoryLimitExceededException when an evaluation leads to isolate going out of memory.(I336ca)

Version 1.0.0-alpha02

October 5, 2022

androidx.javascriptengine:javascriptengine:1.0.0-alpha02 is released. Version 1.0.0-alpha02 contains these commits.

New Features

• Add JavaScriptSandbox#isSupported for checking whether the system supports JavaScript sandboxes.

API Changes

• Throw SandboxUnsupportedException when JavaScriptSandbox cannot be created due to lack of system support. (I0dcd6)

Version 1.0.0-alpha01

August 10, 2022

androidx.javascriptengine:javascriptengine:1.0.0-alpha01 is released. Version 1.0.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

New Features

• We’ve added experimental support for JavaScriptSandbox and JavaScriptIsolate to enable clients to evaluate JavaScript in a safe and restricted environment. This is an area of active development; the APIs are subject to change without notice.

• Please file feature requests and bugs our JavascriptEngine component!