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author | bsears <bsears@google.com> | 2019-08-13 17:44:18 -0700 |
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committer | android-build-merger <android-build-merger@google.com> | 2019-08-13 17:44:18 -0700 |
commit | 3fb782c63138347738a9a974be322b9fe8ab4be7 (patch) | |
tree | d5e0f3884c432deb801a5fd63d24c0dfac5363e6 | |
parent | c10ee9ea7f4056deef4cf4626eecb3b177da1470 (diff) | |
parent | ff65ae265bf009af746d6810fbb34cf6209934fc (diff) | |
download | chromium-webview-android10-qpr2-s4-release.tar.gz |
Merge "Update README to point to authoritative docs." into qt-dev am: 4570c81f97android-mainline-10.0.0_r9android-mainline-10.0.0_r7android-mainline-10.0.0_r5android-mainline-10.0.0_r4android-mainline-10.0.0_r10android-10.0.0_r45android-10.0.0_r44android-10.0.0_r43android-10.0.0_r42android-10.0.0_r41android-10.0.0_r40android-10.0.0_r39android-10.0.0_r38android-10.0.0_r37android-10.0.0_r36android-10.0.0_r35android-10.0.0_r34android-10.0.0_r33android-10.0.0_r32android-10.0.0_r31android-10.0.0_r30android10-qpr3-s1-releaseandroid10-qpr3-releaseandroid10-qpr2-s4-releaseandroid10-qpr2-s3-releaseandroid10-qpr2-s2-releaseandroid10-qpr2-s1-releaseandroid10-qpr2-releaseandroid10-qpr1-mainline-releaseandroid10-mainline-media-releaseandroid10-d4-s1-releaseandroid10-d4-release
am: ff65ae265b
Change-Id: I283822fbd497bacc1c0f54485c24f464a60767d5
-rw-r--r-- | README | 45 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | README.md | 19 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 45 deletions
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -Building the Chromium-based WebView in AOSP is no longer supported. WebView can -now be built entirely from the Chromium source code. - -General instructions for building WebView from Chromium: -https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-android-webview - -For questions about building WebView, please see -https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/android-webview-dev - ------- - -The prebuilt APKs here are built from Chromium upstream sources; check the -commit messages to see the version number for a particular prebuilt (the version -number looks like 74.0.3729.127 and this is also the name of the tag in the -Chromium git repository). - -If you want to build your own WebView, you should build the latest stable -version, not the version published here: newer versions have important security -and stability improvements. - -However, if you want to reproduce the native library (libwebviewchromium.so) -contained in these prebuilt APKs, you should be able to do so with the following -GN arguments: - -target_os = "android" -is_debug = false -is_component_build = false -is_official_build = true -is_chrome_branded = false -use_official_google_api_keys = false -exclude_unwind_tables = true -ffmpeg_branding = "Chrome" -proprietary_codecs = true -enable_remoting = true - -as well as specifying the appropriate target_cpu, which should be one of -"arm", "arm64", "x86" or "x64". - -To build a complete WebView APK it is necessary to also set android_sdk_release -to the current Android SDK version (for example, "q"). However, it's not always -possible to do this successfully for all public Chromium versions: we are not -able to publish the required Java code changes to support a given Android -version until after that Android version's SDK has been publicly released, and -so the public versions of Chromium do not always support the latest version of -Android. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a06bc0d --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Building the Chromium-based WebView in AOSP is no longer supported or required. +WebView can now be built entirely from the Chromium source code. + +Docs on how to build WebView from Chromium for use in AOSP are available here: +https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/android_webview/docs/aosp-system-integration.md + +For questions about building WebView, please contact our mailing list: +https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/android-webview-dev + +--- + +The prebuilt APKs provided here are built from Chromium upstream sources; you +should check the commit message to see the version number for a particular +prebuilt. The version number is formatted like "12.0.3456.789" and matches the +tag in the Chromium repository it was built from. + +If you want to build your own WebView, you should generally build the latest +stable version, not the version published here: newer versions have important +security and stability improvements. |