Cordova + Crosswalk iOS still using UIWebView

Question

I didn't find a lot of instruction setting up crosswalk for iOS it seems like it should be as simple as:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview
cordova build ios

Because I've had issues with plugins not taking effect before I do the following:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview
cordova platform remove ios
cordova platform add ios
cordova build ios

After having done this, when I capture the view hierarchy and inspecting that it's still using "UIWebView" which has a "UIWebBrowserView" inside of it (which is inside of a scroll view and there are a couple image views too).

Also, navigator.userAgent is as follows:

"Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 9_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/13B143 (5618403776)" = $1

Another test someone mentioned was essentially:

if (window.indexedDB)
    console.log('Using crosswalk');
else
    console.log('Not using crosswalk/wkwebview');

And window.indexedDB is undefined.

So... what do I need to do so that the app uses wkwebview?

Somebody voted to close this because it's asking to find a "tool"; and as a result answers are biased. My original intent was not to ask for a tool to be found, I thought "Crosswalk"'s cordova plugin would you know... work on more platforms than just Android cause that's the point of crosswalk. Anyway, I think the answers have not been subjective, and are helpful to those whom may read this looking for answers similar to mine. — csga5000

Unknown Unknown · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-19T01:11:39

A review of the plugin repository does NOT indicate a cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview that supports iOS. This means crosswalk does not work as a plugin for iOS.

Yes there is support for Crosswalk for iOS, but you must install via the github repository or other means.

Cordova Embedding WebViews

FWIW: there is a WkWebview plugin

UPDATE: 2016-03-19. The follow post was made on February 16, 2016:
Plugins From Git Repositories Are Now Available on PhoneGap Build!

Cordova + Crosswalk iOS still using UIWebView

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