Build chrome for android

[ziran]

Hi, 

In chromium android build instructions, it only described how to build content shell and test shell. I understand that we can build chrome for Linux - is there any way to build it for android?

Ziran

[Tommy Nyquist]

You can see the instructions for rebuilding libchromeview.so for a particular release.

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[Victor Khimenko]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:38 PM, ziran <zira...@samsung.com> wrote:

Hi, 

In chromium android build instructions, it only described how to build content shell and test . I understand that we can build chrome for Linux - is there any way to build it for android?

You can not build Chrome neither for Linux nor for Android (in both cases you need some proprietary components). For Linux you can build Chromium (which is full browser with just a few pieces disabled), but under Android it's content shell, tests and you can also build libchromeview.so as was pointed out. There are no way to build a full-blown Chromium for Android, but other browsers based on Chromium code base (such as Yandex.Browser or Opera) tend to offer their own UI anyway thus it's low-priority task at best.

[ziran]

Hi,

Thanks both for very useful reply. 

In Linux build, I had a executable file called "chrome" built - it's actually chromium. I guess I probably should reword my question on how to build chromium in android...

[David Turner]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:05 PM, ziran <zira...@samsung.com> wrote:

Hi,

Thanks both for very useful reply. 

In Linux build, I had a executable file called "chrome" built - it's actually chromium. I guess I probably should reword my question on how to build chromium in android...

What the previous posters tried to clarify is that there is no chromium on Android.

The closest you can get is the ChromiumTestShell (which you can build with "ninja chromium_testshell_apk"), but it's only used for testing, i.e. not a real browser.

On Friday, November 15, 2013 11:25:44 AM UTC, khim wrote:

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:38 PM, ziran <zira...@samsung.com> wrote:

Hi, 

In chromium android build instructions, it only described how to build content shell and test . I understand that we can build chrome for Linux - is there any way to build it for android?

You can not build Chrome neither for Linux nor for Android (in both cases you need some proprietary components). For Linux you can build Chromium (which is full browser with just a few pieces disabled), but under Android it's content shell, tests and you can also build libchromeview.so as was pointed out. There are no way to build a full-blown Chromium for Android, but other browsers based on Chromium code base (such as Yandex.Browser or Opera) tend to offer their own UI anyway thus it's low-priority task at best.