From 2773fff0a2927264eb37d9e532315aea0ba0ff20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Torne (Richard Coles)" Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:42:36 +0100 Subject: Add README explaining how to build WebView. Explain how to build WebView now that building it as part of AOSP is no longer supported, and document the build settings used to produce the current prebuilts. Bug: 22593928 Change-Id: I4c59a19eff86f1b2ad742a3df56e82e067872864 --- README | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57d6286 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +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 44.0.2403.114. To match our build settings, set: + +GYP_DEFINES="OS=android release_unwind_tables=0 buildtype=Official chrome_build_id='2e7c7a0f-c733-4b9a-9c8e-d3cf0938369b'" + +in your environment before running build/gyp_chromium. + +------ + +Due to WebView API changes in the M release, the Java code in the Chromium 2403 +branch is not compatible with M. We'll be working on upstreaming the M-specific +Java changes to Chromium once the final M SDK is released. + +------ + +For questions about building WebView, please see +https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/android-webview-dev -- cgit v1.2.3