[CB-13840] Support Widevine in Cordova webviews

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Affects Version/s: cordova-android-7.0.0
• Component/s: cordova-android

Environment

I have tested with cordova-android 6.3 and 7.0 on Android 6.0.1.

• Assignee: Joey Robert Bowser
• Reporter: Pierre Rudloff
• Created: 28/Jan/18 00:29
• Updated: 29/Jan/18 04:56
• Resolved: 28/Jan/18 23:10

Description

I'm developing an app that needs to play DRM media.
On Android Chrome it uses Widevine, but it does not seem to be available in Cordova.
According to this Chromium ticket there is a permission request that needs to be handled when creating the webview.

(As a workaround we use Crosswalk, which does support Widevine, but it is not maintained anymore...)