WootzApp

WootzApp

Check out the official website: https://www.wootzapp.com/

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System requirements for Build

A 64-bit Intel machine running Linux with at least 8GB of RAM. More than 16GB is highly recommended. At least 100GB of free disk space. You must have Git and Python installed already. Most development is done on Ubuntu. Other distros may or may not work; see the Linux instructions for some suggestions.

Building the Android client on Windows or Mac is not supported and doesn't work.

Installation Steps (building chromium):

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Install depot_tools

Clone the depot_tools repository:

git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git

Add depot_tools to the end of your PATH (you will probably want to put this in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc). Assuming you cloned depot_tools to /path/to/depot_tools:

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

Get the code

Create a chromium directory for the checkout and change to it (you can call this whatever you like and put it wherever you like, as long as the full path has no spaces):

mkdir ~/chromium && cd ~/chromium
fetch --nohooks --no-history android

When fetch completes, it will have created a hidden .gclient file and a directory called src in the working directory. The remaining instructions assume you have switched to the src directory:

cd src

Install additional build dependencies

Once you have checked out the code, run

build/install-build-deps.sh --android

Once you've run install-build-deps at least once, you can now run the Chromium-specific hooks, which will download additional binaries and other things you might need:

Run Hooks

gclient runhooks

Setting up the build

Build Options:

Option 1: Generate the default Chromium APK

Run following command in chromium/src directory

gn args out/Default

and add following arguments:

target_os = "android"
target_cpu = "arm64"

Option 2: Generate an optimized APK (approximately 131 MB)

Run following command in chromium/src directory

gn args out/Default

and add following arguments:

target_os = "android"
target_cpu = "arm"
is_official_build = true
is_debug = false
symbol_level = 0
enable_nacl = false
proprietary_codecs = true
ffmpeg_branding = "Chrome"
remove_webcore_debug_symbols = true

Build Chromium

Build Chromium with Ninja using the command:

autoninja -C out/Default chrome_public_apk

Installation Steps (building wootzapp):

change path to root directory or parent directory of your chromium build.

cd ..
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wootzapp/wootz-browser.git

Final Step

sudo chmod -R u+w chromium/src/
cp -r wootz-browser/src/* chromium/src/

cd ~/chromium/src
autoninja -C out/Default chrome_public_apk

Documentation in the source is rooted in docs/README.md.

Learn how to Get Around the Chromium Source Code Directory Structure.