Chromium Rebranding for Android

[Beulah Akindele]

So I have been going through the chromium documentation and trying to get a general grasp of the project. I decided to begin by changing the name of the application for the launcher label, and APK name. However, I have been unable to do so.

I tried editing the package name via the `build.gn` file in the `src/chrome/android` directory, however I am not seeing the changes I expected.

I also wanted to investigate editing some layouts, so I decided to try opening the `src/chrome/android/java` in AndroidStudio, but I didn't get the sense that it was the appropriate action.

Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

[Satish Nada]

Hi here is some steps which is helpful as i tried.

We followed the below steps
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/android_build_instructions.md

For build APK we use this
autoninja -C out/Default chrome_public_apk

We used below GN files for build project for ABI ARM64 configuration.

target_os = "android"

target_cpu = "arm64"

is_debug = false

android_channel = "stable"

is_official_build = true

is_component_build = false

is_clang = true

symbol_level = 0

blink_symbol_level=0

use_unofficial_version_number = false

v8_use_external_startup_data = true

fieldtrial_testing_like_official_build = true

icu_use_data_file = false

ffmpeg_branding = "Chrome"

proprietary_codecs = true

multidex_in_release = true

exclude_unwind_tables = true

Executed script to extract code to run in android studio.

https://github.com/JokerNineteen/JokerChromium/blob/master/tools/sync.sh

We build a project like below reference link

https://github.com/JokerNineteen/JokerChromium

Hope its help you 

[Beulah Akindele]

Thanks, I'll check them out. 

[Devendra tarak]

I was also looking for the same but after exploring for a day I found it myself. If you want to change the application name you might want to update the contents of "chromium/src/chrome/android/java/res_chromium_base/values/channel_constants.xml" (it's simple just replace the word 'Chromium' in the file with your application name).

You can update the logos in similar manner. You just need to change the png files in:

"chromium/src/chrome/android/java/res_chromium_base/mipmap-hdpi"

"chromium/src/chrome/android/java/res_chromium_base/mipmap-mdpi"

"chromium/src/chrome/android/java/res_chromium_base/mipmap-xhdpi"

"chromium/src/chrome/android/java/res_chromium_base/mipmap-xxhdpi"

"chromium/src/chrome/android/java/res_chromium_base/mipmap-xxxhdpi"

I hope this helps.