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+title: "Godot Android Webview"
+description: "Hacking together a way of displaying webview content in Godot on Android"
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+source_code: ""
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+tags:
+- Godot
+- Android
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+start_year: 2024
+start_month: 4
+end_year: 0
+end_month: 0
+publishdate: 2024-04-24
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+This started as a thought experiment of how I could use define UI in Godot using Compose (or Compose-like) syntax, using the [Godot Kotlin/JVM](https://github.com/utopia-rise/godot-kotlin-jvm) project, and evolved into a project to display [SinkSabre](TODO) directly within [BeatSource](TODO).
+
+My ideas progressed like this:
+
+1. Implement a Godot UI framework in Kotlin, making it as close to the Compose-API as possible
+
+I thought it would be fairly easy to get a basic prototype written and working, with basic layout structures and modifiers, I couldn't think of a way to have logic placed directly within Composable functions work (as in, not in a modifier lambda or a side effect).
+So while this might have worked with some very basic layouts, many would still need reworking. In other words, it wouldn't be worth the work to, effectively, design and implement a UI framework from scratch.
+
+2. Using Compose Multiplatform directly
+
+I knew that Godot Kotlin/JVM would technically allow me to include Compose Multiplatform in a Godot project, but that I would have to either find a way of getting AWT/Swing to work nicely in Android, or implement a new Compose target specifically for Godot. I've a decent amount of digging into Compose's source code, but not enough to know how to do that (or even know if it would be possible).