A WebRTC browser for iOS developed in the open. Bowser is built on top of OpenWebRTC.
Bowser is based on the official UIWebView provided by the platform and the WebRTC API's are implemented with JavaScript that is injected into web pages as they load, the injected JavaScript code is using remote procedure calls to control the OpenWebRTC backend.
The plan is to move to the WKWebView, introduced in iOS 8, as soon as possible.
Mobile Safari on iPhone displays <video> elements only in fullscreen. This severely limits the UI of your apps, especially when designing video communication apps using WebRTC. Bowser goes beyond that and allows you to fully customise and manipulate <video> elements using CSS and JavaScript.
Bowser was originally developed by Ericsson Research and released in October of 2012, for both iOS and Android devices. Back then Bowser was the world's first WebRTC-enabled browser for mobile devices. Bowser was later removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play but was resurrected and released as Open Source together with OpenWebRTC.
Bowser is released under BSD-2 clause. See LICENSE for details.