1200791 - Add WebRTC to Firefox for iOS

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox for iOS :: Browser, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Build ID: 20150901030226

Steps to reproduce:

Add WebRTC functionality to Firefox on iOS the same way as Bowser does: https://github.com/EricssonResearch/bowser

The code is under the BSD-2 clause, so it might be interesting to take a closer look at the code. Possibly also other features that are missing in Webkit could be added the same way.

Comment 1

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Note that Firefox for iOS uses WKWebView, and support for that is unfinished: https://github.com/EricssonResearch/bowser/pull/61

Comment 2

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

https://github.com/common-tater/wkwebview-webrtc-shim

Comment 3

[Adam Roach [:abr]]

As pointed out by one of its authors on #media, this is another approach that is worth evaluating: https://github.com/eface2face/cordova-plugin-iosrtc/tree/master/src

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Maria: a card for this is probably worthwhile.

Comment 5

[James Hugman [:jhugman] [@jhugman]]

The size of binaries concern me: https://github.com/eface2face/cordova-plugin-iosrtc/blob/master/lib/libWebRTC-LATEST-Universal-Release.a is 72.4 MB

Building from src, 
 63M	src/out_ios/Release-iphoneos/libWebRTC-ios-min.a

Comment 6

[stefan.alund]

Bowser now uses WKWebView. Our WebRTC "hack" is now rock solid thanks to moving to WKWebView with proper support for injecting custom JavaScript before page loads:

https://github.com/EricssonResearch/bowser/releases/tag/0.6

OpenWebRTC adds ~20 MB to a distributed app on iOS.