Chromium

[alterechtschreibungMember]

@zillode: “There was a problem parsing the package.” So it seems to be corrupted. Besides of that, yes, please publish your meta file.

[alterechtschreibungMember]

@zillode : Any progress?

[usingchromiumMember]

I’m using chrome-shell.apk from the builds here: http://chromium.woolyss.com/

It’s not as good as Chrome, but it’s usable.

[kolAflashMember]

Also looks good to me:

http://chromium.woolyss.com/#android

https://storage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-continuous/index.html?prefix=Android/325985/

[jmsqMember]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/36py7f/chrome_for_android_is_now_almost_entirely/

Looks like enough of Chromium is now open source. Could we get an f-droid build?

[clang1Member]

I just read on Slashdot that Chrome for Android is now fully open source except for 3rd party proprietary parts.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/15/05/22/1722217/chrome-for-android-is-now-almost-entirely-open-source

Any chance it will now end up in F-droid repository?

[EpicanisMember]

I’m kind of curious what the difference between the “open-source chrome” and “chromium” is…

[baggypantsMember]

‘Chromium’ at the moment is only the desktop version. clang1 is talking about the Android browser which might get called ‘Chromium something Android’ in the future.

It might end up in F-Droid, but I’m expecting the inevitable ‘Requires Google Play Services’

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by  baggypants.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by  krt.

[krtModerator]

merging with https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/chromium/

[krtModerator]

Install Google Play Services

This is necessary before gclient runhooks:

~/chromium$ src/third_party/android_tools/sdk/tools/android update sdk –no-ui –filter 57

… so i don’t think we can build it. Is there a way to strip play-services?

[usingchromiumMember]

I just installed “ChromePublic.apk” from http://chromium.woolyss.com/ and it looks and feels just like Chrome but has the Chromium logo and installs as “Chromium”

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by  usingchromium.

[ZillodeMember]

Yes and it depends on play services. I did a small assessment of the code base and it looks like the play servers are really deeply entangled.

[usingchromiumMember]

I disabled play services and it seemed to still run fine.

[krtModerator]

we are talking about build-time depencies. If you happen to have a build recipe that strips them, please provide a MR.

[usingchromiumMember]

Sorry, does this mean the resulting binary is not FOSS? Is it even freely redistributable?

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