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It's fun that you should mention that, because assuming it is true that webview is best upgraded out-of-aosp (which I guess I kinda agree with), then why does A

by phh 5y ago

It's fun that you should mention that, because assuming it is true that webview is best upgraded out-of-aosp (which I guess I kinda agree with), then why does AOSP ship with a webview? AOSP is lacking a browser, not a webview.

anderskaseorg 5y ago
It doesn’t: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/chromium-webview/+/refs/heads/master https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/chromium-... “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 https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/androi... For questions about building WebView, please contact our mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/android-webview-dev https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/andro... 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.” https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Browser2/+/refs/heads/master/README https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Brow... “Browser2 is a copy of the WebViewShell, a minimal test browser using WebView. The old Browser is no longer supported. This is *not* a production quality browser and does not implement suitable security UI to be used for anything other than testing WebView. This should not be shipped in production devices, or used as the basis for implementing a real browser. To build a full-fledged browser for AOSP, one option is to build a standalone (non-WebView-based) Chromium browser by following the instructions at: https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/android-build-instructions https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/android-build-in... ” If you’re going to build the WebView from an external repository, you might as well build the browser from there too.

by phh 5y ago

anderskaseorg 5y ago

It doesn’t: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/chromium-webview/+/refs/heads/master https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/chromium-... “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 https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/androi... For questions about building WebView, please contact our mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/android-webview-dev https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/andro... 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.” https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Browser2/+/refs/heads/master/README https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Brow... “Browser2 is a copy of the WebViewShell, a minimal test browser using WebView. The old Browser is no longer supported. This is *not* a production quality browser and does not implement suitable security UI to be used for anything other than testing WebView. This should not be shipped in production devices, or used as the basis for implementing a real browser. To build a full-fledged browser for AOSP, one option is to build a standalone (non-WebView-based) Chromium browser by following the instructions at: https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/android-build-instructions https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/android-build-in... ” If you’re going to build the WebView from an external repository, you might as well build the browser from there too.