Brave Android Browser

Building the Browser

System Requirements

• OS Linux, Ubuntu (14.04 - 18.04) is completely supported. Other distros may or may not work
• Make sure you have enough swapspace available
• node

Preparing the Build Environment

1. Clone Chromium's depot_tools repository:

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

2. Add the absolute path of the cloned directory to the end of your PATH variable (You may want to put this in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc.). Assuming you cloned depot_tools to /path/to/depot_tools:

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

3. Create a browser-android-tabs parent directory:

   mkdir browser-android-tabs

4. Switch to the directory you just created:

   cd browser-android-tabs

5. Clone the repository to the src subdirectory:

   git clone https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs.git src

6. Switch to the directory you just cloned:

   cd src

7. Execute the scripts/getThirdParties.js script:

   sh scripts/getThirdParties.js

8. Enter information as requested by the script.

9. Run gn args out/Default. When asked to create a file for arguments, use this gn file.

Making the Build

Debug

1. From the browser-android-tabs/src directory, execute the following:

   ninja -C out/Default chrome_public_apk

2. Deploy it to your Android device:

   build/android/adb_install_apk.py out/Default/apks/Brave.apk

Release (arm)

1. Create configuration in a new folder:

   gn args out/DefaultR

2. Set these settings in args.gn file.

3. From the browser-android-tabs/src directory, execute the following:

   ninja -C out/DefaultR chrome_public_apk

4. Sign apk using these steps.

Release (x86)

1. Create configuration in a new folder:

   gn args out/Defaultx86

2. Set these settings in args.gn file.

3. From the browser-android-tabs/src directory, execute the following:

   ninja -C out/Defaultx86 chrome_public_apk

4. Sign apk using these steps.

Build release apks with ./scripts/buildReleasesAllAndModern.sh

To run build release script and compress symbols, pv and 7z are required:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pv
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

Known Limitations

• The browser will not compile in an encrypted file system.

Debugging

• See https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/debugging-on-android for the general debug process.

• See https://www.chromium.org/developers/android-eclipse-dev to configure the Eclipse IDE.