Call JavaScript API from Android Application

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I am trying to build a native android application where I don't intend to use WEbview for my frontend. I want to make API call to eWeLink (https://github.com/skydiver/ewelink-api) which is exposed for Javascript. How can I achieve this in android ?

Monte Roden · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-02 19:28:29Z

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Solutions (from easiest to hardest IMO):

You could use a JS evaluator for Android. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/22418086/9398629. LiquidCore https://github.com/LiquidPlayer/LiquidCore seems to be the standard choice. LiquidCore's readme in GitHub has directions for adding NPM package dependencies.
Use a WebView to execute code from that npm package. Reference the results of your JS API calls in your Java code by doing something similar to this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20377592/9398629. Using evaluateJavascript might be easiest.
Re-write the ewelink-api npm package in Java.

edited May 2, 2020 at 19:28

answered May 2, 2020 at 18:58

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user2168435 · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-10 13:03:59Z

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So i had the same issue, so wrote a java api if you still need it that interfaces with the ewelink platform

you can get it here if you want http://ewelink-api-java.co.zw/

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