Curses. How big of a pain would it be to write my own browser? it would be essentailly just a webview would it not? i dont understand why the android team put so much effort into building their browser up and not bulding up webkit...
On Dec 3, 11:41 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed, the built-in android browser uses a variety of private system > APIs, very unfortunately, which means that rebuilding it in order to > be able to install it on a G1 as if it was a 3rd-party application is > hard enough to be essentially almost imporsible. > > JBQ > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:22 PM, ifelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I changed the user agent variable (from 0 to 2) in the source code, > > compiled the source and swapped the system.img files in the android > > SDK emulator images folder (/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.0_r1/tools/lib/ > > images/system.img). > > > The emulator loads the new browser fine and displays an iPhone user > > agent string. (the setUserAgent() method in webview.websettings has a > > preset function to set user agent as iphone). > > > What i dont know how to do, is get the browser that i created, off the > > emulator and onto my physical g1. > > I tried loading the files located in ~/bin/mydroid/packages/apps/ > > Browser into the folder created when i created a new project in > > Eclipse using the file name Browser, activity name com.android.browser > > etc. (matching the file as if it were alone) but when i tried to build > > just the browser application eclipse throws 100 errors and 49 > > warnings. > > I assume this is because there are file dependancies that exist in > > their proper places in the source code, but not when i try to compile > > just the browser application. > > > What do i need to do to compile the browser and create a .apk file i > > can transfer to my g1? > > > Any help is appreciated, > > thanks > > > Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
