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| Which prints a list of connected devices. If not connected, try
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| unplugging and reattaching your device.
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| +
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| +### Build the full browser
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| +
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| +**Note: When adding new resource files or java files in gyp builds, you
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| +need to run 'gclient runhooks' again to get them in the build.**
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| +
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| +```shell
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| +ninja -C out/Release chrome_public_apk
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| +```
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| +And deploy it to your Android device:
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| +```shell
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| +build/android/adb_install_apk.py out/Release/apks/ChromePublic.apk # For gyp.
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| +CHROMIUM_OUTPUT_DIR=$gndir build/android/adb_install_apk.py $gndir/apks/ChromePublic.apk # for gn.
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| +```
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| +
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| +The app will appear on the device as "Chromium".
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| +
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| +### Build Content shell
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| +Wraps the content module (but not the /chrome embedder). See
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| +[http://www.chromium.org/developers/content-module](http://www.chromium.org/developers/content-module)
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| +for details on the content module and content shell.
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| +
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| +```shell
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| +ninja -C out/Release content_shell_apk
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| +build/android/adb_install_apk.py out/Release/apks/ContentShell.apk
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| +```
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| +
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| +this will build and install an Android apk under
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| +`out/Release/apks/ContentShell.apk`. For GYP, replace `Release` with `Debug`
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| +above if you want to generate a Debug app. If you are using GN, substitute the
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| +name you initially gave to your build directory.
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| +If you use custom out dir instead of standard out/ dir, use
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| +CHROMIUM_OUT_DIR env.
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| +```shell
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| +export CHROMIUM_OUT_DIR=out_android
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| +```
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| +
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| +### Build WebView shell
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| +
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| +[Android WebView](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html)
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| +is a system framework component. Since Android KitKat, it is implemented using
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| +Chromium code (based off the [content module](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/content-module)).
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| +It is possible to test modifications to WebView using a simple test shell. The
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| +WebView shell is a view with a URL bar at the top (see [code](https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/android_webview/test/shell/src/org/chromium/android_webview/test/AwTestContainerView.java))
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| +and is **independent** of the WebView **implementation in the Android system** (
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| +the WebView shell is essentially a standalone unbundled app).
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| +As drawback, the shell runs in non-production rendering mode only.
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| +
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| +```shell
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| +ninja -C out/Release android_webview_apk
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| +build/android/adb_install_apk.py out/Release/apks/AndroidWebView.apk
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| +```
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| +
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| +If, instead, you want to build the complete Android WebView framework component and test the effect of your chromium changes in other Android app using the WebView, you should follow the [Android AOSP + chromium WebView instructions](http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-android-webview)
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| +
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| +### Running
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| +
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| +Set [command line flags](https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/run-chromium-with-flags) if necessary.
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| +
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| +For Content shell:
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| +```shell
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| +build/android/adb_run_content_shell http://example.com
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| +```
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| +
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| +For Chrome public:
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| +```shell
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| +build/android/adb_run_chrome_public http://example.com
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| +```
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| +
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| +For Android WebView shell:
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| +```shell
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| +build/android/adb_run_android_webview_shell http://example.com
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| +```
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| +
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| +### Logging and debugging
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| +
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| +Logging is often the easiest way to understand code flow. In C++ you can print
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| +log statements using the LOG macro or printf(). In Java, you can print log
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| +statements using [android.util.Log](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html):
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| +`Log.d("sometag", "Reticulating splines progress = " + progress);`
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| +You can see these log statements using adb logcat:
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| +```shell
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| +adb logcat...01-14 11:08:53.373 22693 23070 D sometag: Reticulating splines progress = 0.99
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| +```
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| +
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| +You can debug Java or C++ code. To debug C++ code, use one of the
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| +following commands:
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| +```shell
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| +build/android/adb_gdb_content_shell
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| +build/android/adb_gdb_chrome_public
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| +build/android/adb_gdb_android_webview_shell http://example.com
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| +```
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| +
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| +See [Debugging Chromium on Android](https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/debugging-on-android)
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| +for more on debugging, including how to debug Java code.
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| +
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| +### Testing
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| +
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| +For information on running tests, see [android\_test\_instructions.md](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/android_test_instructions.md).
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| +
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| +### Faster Edit/Deploy (GN only)
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| +GN's "incremental install" uses reflection and side-loading to speed up the edit
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| +& deploy cycle (normally < 10 seconds).
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| +
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| +* Make sure to set` is_component_build = true `in your GN args
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| +* All apk targets have \*`_incremental` targets defined (e.g.
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| + `chrome_public_apk_incremental`)
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| +Here's an example:
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| +```shell
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| +ninja -C out/Default chrome_public_apk_incremental
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| +out/Default/bin/install_chrome_public_apk_incremental -v
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| +```
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| +For gunit tests (note that run_*_incremental automatically add
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| +--fast-local-dev when calling test\_runner.py):
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| +```shell
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| +ninja -C out/Default base_unittests_incremental
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| +out/Default/bin/run_base_unittests_incremental
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| +```
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| +
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| +For instrumentation tests:
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| +```shell
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| +ninja -C out/Default chrome_public_test_apk_incremental
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| +out/Default/bin/run_chrome_public_test_apk_incremental
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| +```
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| +
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| +To uninstall:
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| +```shell
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| +out/Default/bin/install_chrome_public_apk_incremental -v --uninstall
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| +```
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| +
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| +### Miscellaneous
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| +
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| +#### Rebuilding libchrome.so for a particular release
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| +In the case where you want to modify the native code for an existing
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| +release of Chrome for Android (v25+) you can do the following steps.
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| +Note that in order to get your changes into the official release, you'll
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| +need to send your change for a codereview using the regular process for
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| +committing code to chromium.
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| +1. Open Chrome on your Android device and visit chrome://version
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| +2. Copy down the id listed next to "Build ID:"
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| +3. Go to
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| + [http://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-browser-components/BUILD\_ID\_FROM\_STEP\_2/index.html](http://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-browser-components/BUILD_ID_FROM_STEP_2/index.html)
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| +4. Download the listed files and follow the steps in the README.
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