Brave Android Browser

Building the Browser

OS Linux, Ubuntu (14.04 - 17.10) is completely supported. Other distros may or may not work
Make sure you have enough swapspace available
yarn (including Node, it is required for ubuntu 17.04 as well)
ninja

Clone Chromium's depot_tools repository:

git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
Add the absolute path of the cloned directory to the end of your PATH variable (You may want to put this in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc.). Assuming you cloned depot_tools to /path/to/depot_tools:

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/depot_tools
Create a browser-android-tabs parent directory:

mkdir browser-android-tabs
Switch to the directory you just created:

cd browser-android-tabs
Clone the repository to the src subdirectory:

git clone https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs.git src
Switch to the directory you just cloned:

cd src
Execute the scripts/getThirdParties.js script:

sh scripts/getThirdParties.js
Enter information as requested by the script. When asked to create a file for arguments, use this gn file.

From the browser-android-tabs/src directory, execute the following:

ninja -C out/Default chrome_public_apk
Deploy it to your Android device:

build/android/adb_install_apk.py out/Default/apks/Brave.apk

Create configuration in a new folder:

gn args out/DefaultR
Set these settings in args.gn file.
From the browser-android-tabs/src directory, execute the following:

ninja -C out/DefaultR chrome_public_apk
Sign apk using these steps.

Create configuration in a new folder:

gn args out/Defaultx86
Set these settings in args.gn file.
From the browser-android-tabs/src directory, execute the following:

ninja -C out/Defaultx86 chrome_public_apk
Sign apk using these steps.