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Why not chrome is part of Android? This is a question as old as time itself. Or at least a few years. But given that the same company, Google, makes both products, he never made much sense. Now they're finally taking steps to address this problem. A little. Can be.
As Google announced the team group WebKit-Dev today (to Google Peter Beverloo), now the Android team seeks to work more closely with the community of WebKit. Yes, it's a bit strange that so committed to "open" the product is not actually works with the open source community — but hey, better late than never.
Andrei Popescu Writes:
We wanted to give an update on the WebKit on Android. Some time ago, we started the higher Android port of WebKit. For a variety of reasons, this work took longer than expected and was never completed. We understand that the incomplete Android port that exists today in WebKit ToT caused quite a lot of confusion and inconvenience for the project as a whole, and we are very sorry for this.
The full story is a bit trickier than it seems on the surface. While Android has its own separate browser which are not branded as "Chrome", both share some code. But they are not the same thing, and two separate commands work on each. For whatever reason, Google decided not to brand the Android browser like chrome, and do it now may cause some confusion since no chrome OS is another operating system, built by Google, Android.
So here is what happens now: Google Android team going to start giving another, slightly modified build Android browser that is fully open source. Think of it as Google chrome chrome. Android code will be deleted, and probably everyone will be able to use this code to build a new mobile Web browser based on WebKit.
That's all in the tech talk:
We plan to start with a build script webkit.org which will be compiled of chrome in the DRT for Android using the Android NDK, SDK and tools. We look forward to a quite small set of changes to the port of chrome in order to achieve this goal. We are fully committed to support this new flavor of chromium WebKit port and build Bot up and running as soon as possible will do this simple task. At the same time, we will delete the existing incomplete Android port. This includes Android code into WebCore/platform/android, as any code protected macro PLATFORM (ANDROID).
That makes it particularly difficult to understand that it sure sounds like Google is planning to call this version of the Android open source browser chrome and this will just new taste. Perhaps it's not so bad, because there is already a Windows, OS X and Linux flavors (and Android, one will be very close to Linux, the OS core technology, they share), but the finished product to all of these operating systems is called chrome, Android, he still would not be (presumably, anyway).
Follow all this?
Yes, it's still confusing, but in any case, it is a welcome step in the right direction.
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