Is it possible to run Chromium Browser on Android?

Question

Since you should be able to create the Chromium browser on any reasonably modern Linux distribution, can we assume that you can create it on Android?

Answer 1

No, Android is not a Linux distribution. It is based on the Linux kernel, but it does not include the X server and other dependencies for creating Chromium on Linux.

However, the Android browser is also based on WebKit and includes the JavaScript V8 engine.

Answer 2

Now you can run Chrome on Android:

http://code.google.com/chrome/mobile/

It is available only in some countries and only on Android 4.0+.

Answer 3

Yes. In fact, it was the other way around. Android web browser serves as launch for Chrome Chrome browser

There may be many limitations.

According to this source (sept 2008)

Google co-founder Sergey Brin showed some interesting tidbits about connecting Chrome / Android.

So, this was originally planned, but has not yet happened. Both teams (Android browser and Chrome) are very busy preparing their own product.

It can ultimately be developed by the open source community, but don't hold your breath.

Answer 4

Android does not have many of the same libraries that you will find in a modern Linux distribution, so I would suspect that this will require a lot of reengineering. Perhaps this is possible, but I would be very surprised.

Answer 5

well, you can run chrome on your android devices ... and there shouldn't be a big problem with this

http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/chrome/browser/mobile/android.html

They claim Chrome for Android devices :) A simple find for me.

About the next review is as follows:

Answer 6

For Android 4.4 and above, there is a free open source application getChromium that installs / updates the Chromium browser on Android.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I compiled getChromium as an open source tool for building collections directly from the Google repository: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-continuous/Android .