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@@ -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. |