Godot Chrome Documentation & Plugin Update

📖 Documentation Updates

📌 Creating an Embedded Chrome Browser

(1) Create an embedded Chrome browser in godot via gdscript with helloWorld(url, headers, enableJavascript, order, debugger)

Parameters:

url: String – The URL to load.

headers: Dictionary = Dictionary() – Custom HTTP headers.

enableJavaScript: Boolean = false– Enables JavaScript (default: false for security reasons)

order : Int = -99 – WebView layering order (-99 is the default overlay for UI and background renders).

debugger : Boolean = true – Stores console.log messages that can be parsed in Godot.

📌 Other Methods:

(1) goodByeWorld()– Destroys the web view instance.

(2) getCurrentHeight() – Returns the height of the loaded HTML page as an integer.

(3) getTitle() – Returns the title of the loaded URL as a string.

(4) getProgress() – Returns the progress of the current page (1 - 100).

(5) consoleLog() – Prints JavaScript console.log() entries to Godot as a dictionary. Also debugs the embedded Chrome instance status.

📌 Signals:

(1) connected – Emitted when an embedded browser instance is created.

(2) disconnected – Emitted when the embedded browser instance is destroyed.

🚀 How To Use

(1) Download the Plugin: Download the .gdap and .aar precompiled release files from itchio at https://inhumanity-arts.itch.io/godotchrome

(2) Place them in your: res://project/android/plugin

(3) Enable the Plugin: In Export Settings in Godot Engine, enable Custom build and check GodotChrome plugin

(4) Initialize the Engine in Code: var Chrome = Engine.get_singleton("GodotChrome")

(5) Call Supported Methods on Your Chrome Instance Example : Chrome.helloWorld("<a href="https://example.com">https://example.com</a>", {}, true, -99, true)

🔥 Godot 4.4 Support

A Godot 4.4+ version would be made available for $1.99 to support maintenance and updates. This version will continue implementing Android WebKit API v1 calls. The Main Branch Uses v1 plugins for use in Godot 3.5.* branches to be maintained via CI/CD Devops pipelines