blob: febe77c5b695f9f723dce0aa2a8231651e8c27fc [file] [log] [blame]
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
------
The prebuilt libwebviewchromium.so included in these APKs is built from Chromium
release tag 52.0.2743.100, using the GN build tool (not the older GYP tool). To match our build settings, set:
target_os="android"
is_debug=false
is_official_build=true
is_chrome_branded=false
use_official_google_api_keys=false
exclude_unwind_tables=true
enable_resource_whitelist_generation=true
ffmpeg_branding="Chrome"
proprietary_codecs=true
enable_remoting=true
in your GN argument file before building.
------
Due to WebView API changes in the N release, the Java code in the Chromium 2743_91
branch is not compatible with N. We'll be working on upstreaming the N-specific
Java changes to Chromium once the final N SDK is released.
------
For questions about building WebView, please see
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/android-webview-dev