What is aosp browser

Requirements to v Votes: 1. Votes: 0. Update date: 27 September Main Programs on Android Internet and network. App rating Editors rating. Rating of 2 users Estimate Read reviews. Help How to install? Do keep in mind that since the browser has an outdated rendering engine, it might have problems in rendering some websites properly. Posted on January 30, in How-To. By Rajesh Pandey. About Advertising Privacy.

Top Stories How to watch Netflix offline. Firefox is a more than capable browser. Possibly better than Chrome on Android. It's certainly smoother. The AOSP Browser uses the system webview, and the webview is now chromium-based and continues to be updated. So it's only abandonware in the sense that the UI didn't change with the latest release.

Exactly, the flip side of that is that the chromium engine, which used to be available for Android only as a part of the GMS app suite with a lagging open source release that basically no one knew how to build , is now a first class part of the open source platform. Honestly having "Chrome" be a proprietary blob is still dumb, but this situation is IMHO better than what we had for Jellybean.

Now all apps be they "browsers" or not have access for the first-class browser engine. The bits of Chrome not part of chromium don't really interest me much. Compatibility ensures that all the apps in the Play Store will run on your device. And to Google, "compatibility" is also a fluid concept that an Android engineer once internally described as "a club to make [OEMs] do what we want.