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1 Building the Chromium-based WebView in AOSP is no longer supported. WebView can
2 now be built entirely from the Chromium source code.
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4 General instructions for building WebView from Chromium:
5 https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-android-webview
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9 The prebuilt libwebviewchromium.so included in these APKs is built from Chromium
10 release tag 58.0.3029.125, using the GN build tool. To match our build settings, set:
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12 target_os="android"
13 is_debug=false
14 is_official_build=true
15 is_chrome_branded=false
16 use_official_google_api_keys=false
17 exclude_unwind_tables=true
18 enable_resource_whitelist_generation=true
19 ffmpeg_branding="Chrome"
20 proprietary_codecs=true
21 enable_remoting=true
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23 in your GN argument file before building.
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27 Due to WebView API changes in the O release, the Java code in the Chromium
28 3029_108 branch is not compatible with O. We'll be working on upstreaming
29 the O-specific Java changes to Chromium once the final O SDK is released.
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33 For questions about building WebView, please see
34 https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/android-webview-dev
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