I'm not quite sure what you mean - the android browser app is built on top of WebView, which is in turn built on top of WebKit..
Writing a browser is a major task, even if you build it on top of WebView. JBQ On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM, ifelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
