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author | android-build-team Robot <android-build-team-robot@google.com> | 2019-08-14 00:23:35 +0000 |
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committer | android-build-team Robot <android-build-team-robot@google.com> | 2019-08-14 00:23:35 +0000 |
commit | fb16e2ee3fddb6854872356744c5cf86d1b7da46 (patch) | |
tree | d5e0f3884c432deb801a5fd63d24c0dfac5363e6 | |
parent | 61ed7b619808827dd73d9bdd44efc5f87a2b769b (diff) | |
parent | 39d45b3aaf6009da6dbc1e653c269671506f5fe1 (diff) | |
download | chromium-webview-android10-s2-release.tar.gz |
Merge cherrypicks of [9193293, 9193352, 9193734, 9193641, 9192591, 9193630] into qt-releaseandroid-vts-10.0_r9android-vts-10.0_r8android-vts-10.0_r7android-vts-10.0_r6android-vts-10.0_r5android-vts-10.0_r4android-vts-10.0_r3android-vts-10.0_r2android-vts-10.0_r16android-vts-10.0_r15android-vts-10.0_r14android-vts-10.0_r13android-vts-10.0_r12android-vts-10.0_r11android-vts-10.0_r10android-cts-10.0_r9android-cts-10.0_r8android-cts-10.0_r7android-cts-10.0_r6android-cts-10.0_r5android-cts-10.0_r4android-cts-10.0_r3android-cts-10.0_r2android-cts-10.0_r16android-cts-10.0_r15android-cts-10.0_r14android-cts-10.0_r13android-cts-10.0_r12android-cts-10.0_r11android-cts-10.0_r10android-10.0.0_r5android-10.0.0_r4android-10.0.0_r3android-10.0.0_r2android-10.0.0_r17android-10.0.0_r11android-10.0.0_r10android10-tests-releaseandroid10-s3-releaseandroid10-s2-releaseandroid10-s1-releaseandroid10-release
Change-Id: I76b1d252cd8424f5a8904d32071b0a5630a6a262
-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. |