Build Chrome for Android

Question

My original post was about one month ago. Looks like Google has really cleaned it up and made the basic features upstream. With the help of Nikolay's comment, I was able to build the contenttest shell and chromium test shell. However the chromium test shell looks exactly like the content shell. It basically has an address bar and back/forward button. That's it.

I am still trying to find my ways in this giant project. But my understanding is that Chromium should be a fully functional browser including the basic UIs such as menus, bookmarks, etc (just like Firefox). Chrome is Google's flavor with their own Google specific services. But Chromium should has the basic features as a fully functional browser. So is it the right understanding? If so, why Android port is not? Anybody knows that if there is the full UI code for Android in Chromium? If not, is it coming or it will be like this going forward? Any other open source project that can be used to add a basic full browser UI to chromium for Android?

Answer 1

There is no Chromium build for Android. As of right now the closest you are going to get is to build the ContentShell described in https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/AndroidBuildInstructions - content shell gives you a lot of the browser that you need, however not all of it.