feat: Provide documentation on how to embed capacitor 3 into an existing native app.

[sundeepdev]

Feature Request

Provide documentation on how to embed capacitor into an existing native app.

Description

Provide documentation on how to embed capacitor into an existing native app.
Some native app may need to present capacitor powered webview.
This would be with a capability of native <-> web interaction.
It was mentioned in 2019 that capacitor 3 may have that capability. Is it a possibility now?
Worst case can it be done with Ionic Cordova stack as Cordova does support this feature.

Platform(s)

• iOS
• Android

[fkirc]

I would like to support this issue 👍
I am already using Capacitor-3.0.0-rc.0 in an embedded capacity, and things are still unclear.

My preliminary results:

• iOS works similar to Capacitor 2.X.
• Android's embedded "BridgeFragment" seems to be broken right now, see [Android Bug] Permission Request Crashes App When Using Embedded Capacitor 3.0 #4343 for more details.

[jthoms1]

We have a separate effort underway for using Capacitor in Native applications. We will provide more info on the topic in coming months. This effort is a commercialization and will not be made available as open source.

[fkirc]

I have launched a parallel effort with the release of https://github.com/fkirc/embedded-capacitor.
It is good to hear that some work is being done, but I believe that we need an immediate short-term solution that works right now, which is why https://github.com/fkirc/embedded-capacitor is available on npm right now.

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