From a08aaa11b0fb351474e330525f0f806fe0400c84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 04:33:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] further updates to the Vanadium section --- static/build.html | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/static/build.html b/static/build.html index 3ed46e3b..d161bb50 100644 --- a/static/build.html +++ b/static/build.html @@ -559,14 +559,15 @@ cd ../.. Browser and WebView -

Before building GrapheneOS, you need to build Vanadium for the WebView and - optionally the standalone browser app. Vanadium is a hardened fork of - Chromium developed and used by GrapheneOS. It needs to be rebuilt when Chromium is - updated or the GrapheneOS Vanadium patches are changed.

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Vanadium is a hardened fork of Chromium developed by GrapheneOS and used to provide + the WebView and optionally the standalone browser app. It tracks the Chromium + release cycles along with having additional updates for downstream changes to the + privacy and security hardening patches, so it's updated at a different schedule than + the monthly Android releases.

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Chromium and the WebView are independent applications built from the Chromium - source tree. The GrapheneOS Chromium build is located at external/vanadium and - includes the WebView.

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The browser and the WebView are independent applications built from the Chromium + source tree. The GrapheneOS browser build is located at external/vanadium and the + WebView is at external/chromium-webview.

See Chromium's Android build instructions for details on obtaining the