building chromium latest release on android

Question

I have to build latest release of chromium browser for android. I am using the following step,

1. Create a Chromium root directory mkdir chromium ; cd chromium

2. Download and export PATH of depot_tools

      export PATH=$PATH:~/path/to/depot_tools/
   

3. Checked out the source for build 32.0.1665.2

   gclient config https://src.chromium.org/chrome/releases/32.0.1665.2

4 The above command create a .gclient file in chromium root directory, and add the target android in .gclient.

          target_os = ['android']

1. To download the initial code:

         gclient sync
   

2. Install the Dependencies

     6.1) cd /path/to/chromium/src
   
     6.2) ./build/install-build-deps.sh
   

3. gclient runhooks call GYP to generate your platform-specific files. This should give you a complete source tree gclient runhooks

Compile :

To build the ARM Android content shell:

1) cd /path/to/chromium/src

2) . build/android/envsetup.sh

3) android_gyp

4) ninja -C out/Release -j10 content_shell_apk

After following the above command i am getting the content_shell.apk which has version chrome/19.77.34.5, i am checking the version of chromium using the link http://whatsmyuseragent.com, Please help me to build chromium latest version(32.0.1665.2) on android

Answer 1

Content shell does not display correct user agent version in android as well as linux (right now content_shell displays chrome/19.77.34.5).

This seems to be deliberate from src/content/content_shell.gypi

  'variables': {
'content_shell_product_name': 'Content Shell',
# The "19" is so that sites that sniff for version think that this is
# something reasonably current; the "77.34.5" is a hint that this isn't a
# standard Chrome.
'content_shell_version': '**19.77.34.5**',

You can always use chromium_testshell which will give correct version (which is currently Chrome/35.0.1879.0).