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Chrome For Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source

Posted by Soulskill on from the strong-work dept.

jones_supa writes: After lots of work by Chrome for Android team and a huge change, Chrome for Android is now almost entirely open source, a Google engineer announced in Reddit. Over 100,000 lines of code, including Chrome's entire user interface layer, has been made public, allowing anyone with the inclination to do so to look at, modify, and build the browser from source. Licensing restrictions prevent certain media codecs, plugins and Google service features form being included, hence the "almost." This is on par with the open source Chromium browser that is available on the desktop.

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  1. Re:Almost? by Kjella · · Score: 4, Informative

    It means it's closed source!

    Missing codecs: AAC, H.264, MP3
    Missing plug-in: flash

    So either patents or not their code, if you got a good solution for that I'm sure Google would like to hear it.

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