building chromium latest release on android

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I have to build latest release of chromium browser for android. I am using the following step, Create a Chromium root directory mkdir chromium ; cd chromium Download and export PATH of depot_tools ``` export PATH=$PATH:~/path/to/depot_tools/ ``` Checked out the source for build 32.0.1665.2 gclient config https://src.chromium.org/chrome/releases/32.0.1665.2 4 The above command create a .gclient file in chromium root directory, and add the target android in .gclient. ``` target_os = ['android'] ``` To download the initial code: ``` gclient sync ``` Install the Dependencies ``` 6.1) cd /path/to/chromium/src 6.2) ./build/install-build-deps.sh ``` gclient runhooks call GYP to generate your platform-specific files. This should give you a complete source tree gclient runhooks Compile : To build the ARM Android content shell: 1) cd /path/to/chromium/src 2) . build/android/envsetup.sh 3) android_gyp 4) ninja -C out/Release -j10 content_shell_apk After following the above command i am getting t…

Accepted Answer

Content shell does not display correct user agent version in android as well as linux (right now content_shell displays chrome/19.77.34.5).

This seems to be deliberate from src/content/content_shell.gypi

```
  'variables': {
'content_shell_product_name': 'Content Shell',
# The "19" is so that sites that sniff for version think that this is
# something reasonably current; the "77.34.5" is a hint that this isn't a
# standard Chrome.
'content_shell_version': '**19.77.34.5**',
```

You can always use chromium_testshell which will give correct version (which is currently Chrome/35.0.1879.0).

building chromium latest release on android

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