There are plans to support other architectures soon. Into WPE Android’s build system, to the point that building everything requires a single python3 scripts/bootstrap.py -buildįor now the only supported architecture is arm64. I wrote all the missing Cerbero recipes and integrated it Names its build scripts - for many of the required dependencies. Which already had recipes - this is how Cerbero We decided to use Cerbero, GStreamer’s cross compilation system, So in order to ease the development process I focused my first weeks of work on setting up a more usable build system. Cross compiling all these dependencies manually can be quite cumbersome,
WPE WebKit has a very long list of dependencies. This is how it currently looks running on an Android phone: How it looksĪ picture is worth a thousand words.
Since then, I have been heads down working on it, trying to make it more usable thanks to Cerbero and a WebView based Java API. The work was paused for quite some time until the beginning of this year, when I joined Igalia and took over his work. This effort was initiated back in 2017 by my colleague Žan Doberšek, who fully implemented a WPE backend for Android along with the required pieces to get rendering and basic input work. Today, we ( Igalia) are happy to announce initial support of WPE for Android. It can be custom embedded into an existing application, or it can run as a standalone web runtime under a variety of presentation systems, from platform-specific display managers to existing window management protocols like Wayland or X11. WPE WebKit’s architecture allows for inclusion in a variety of use cases and applications. It brings the excellence of the WebKit engine to countless platforms and target devices, serving as a base for systems and environments that primarily or completely rely on web platform technologies to build their interfaces. It has been designed from the ground-up with performance, small footprint, accelerated content rendering, and simplicity of deployment in mind. WPE WebKit is the official WebKit port for embedded and low-consumption computer devices.
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