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eselk

Reputation: 6884

Write a web browser for Android

This is hopefully an easy question to answer for someone familiar with Mozilla, but I'll be darned if I can find this info via Google searching. I see a few apps, parental control software mostly, that replace the default web browser on Android OS. They all look about the same and one of them (NetNanny) says they are using a Mozilla-based browser. Is there a toolkit or something for creating custom web browsers (fairly easy?) from Mozilla? Also, is it free for commercial use?

Edit: I'm looking for something like this I think, but this seems dated so I'm wondering if there are newer/better options:

http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/webclient/

Just wondering what else is available, mostly Mozilla/Gecko based (since Firefox seems like a very nice browser), before I commit to using WebView.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1973

Answers (2)

Wladimir Palant
Wladimir Palant

Reputation: 57651

Yes, there is a toolkit to create Gecko-based applications, it is called XULRunner. That's what Firefox Mobile is based on. However, there are no pre-built packages for Android, you would have to build it yourself from source. And I think that running XULRunner on Android is a rather tricky affair due to applications being in Java.

Upvotes: 0

Simon
Simon

Reputation: 14472

I hope I'm not missing the point, I suspect I might be ;)

Most Android browsers are based on Webkit.

http://www.webkit.org/

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/package-summary.html

Upvotes: 2

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