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I wish there were a Webkit based browser for Android.

There are dozens of Firefox- and Chrome-based browsers, but nothing else. Wonder why?



Igalia are doing an Android port of webkit named WPE-Android[1] including a mini browser shell. There is an APK you can run[2].

1. https://blogs.igalia.com/jani/bringing-webkit-back-to-androi...

2. https://github.com/Igalia/wpe-android/releases/tag/v0.1.3


I caught my fish! Thank you :-)


Because a browser is not just the engine (JS, Wasm, ...). A chrome/Firefox derivate is far easier to create because you can piggyback on their integration work (and maintenance) around these components.




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