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Since you should be able to build Chromium browser on any reasonably modern Linux distribution, can we assume that you should be able to build it onto Android ?
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Our in-app browser for Facebook on Android has historically relied on an Android System WebView based on Chromium, the open source project that powers many browsers on Android and other operating systems.
The Chromium browser itself won't harm your machine as long as you download it from a trusted source. Since it's intended for developers, it's less stable and less secure than most browsers, and may put you at a higher risk of a malware infection.
Google developers take the Chromium source code and add their proprietary code – thus resulting in Chrome which has more features and add-ons than Chromium. For example, Chrome updates automatically can track browsing data and provides native support for Flash.
Chrome and Chromium are both fast browsers, but they rely on extensions since they don't have a wide range of features on their own. As you can tell, Chrome emerges as the victor once again. Chromium isn't a slow browser, but Chrome is much faster, according to our browser testing.
No, Android is not exactly a Linux distribution. It's based on a Linux kernel, but it doesn't include an X server nor other dependencies for building Chromium on Linux.
However the Android Browser is also based on WebKit and includes the V8 JavaScript engine.
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You can now run Chrome on Android:
http://code.google.com/chrome/mobile/
It's only available on some countries and only on Android 4.0+.
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