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Allow to use Bromite SystemWebView as WebView implementation

  • /e/ version: v1.2 (Android Q)
  • Device model(s): herolte

Summary

Allow the user to choose Bromite SystemWebView as WebView implementation. This can be done by adding org.bromite.webviewto the allowed SystemWebView packages.

Description

What is the current behavior?

org.bromite.webview isn't a allowed SystemWebView package and thus can't be used as a WebView implementation (without root).

What is the improved behavior?

org.bromite.webview should be a allowed SystemWebView package. This can be achived by adding the following lines to /res/xml/config_webview_packages.xml in the framework-res.apk file:

<webviewprovider availableByDefault="true" description="Bromite SystemWebView" packageName="org.bromite.webview"><signature>MIIDbTCCAlWgAwIBAgIEHcsmjjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQsFADBmMQswCQYDVQQGEwJERTEQMA4GA1UECBMHVW5rbm93bjEPMA0GA1UEBxMGQmVybGluMRAwDgYDVQQKEwdCcm9taXRlMRAwDgYDVQQLEwdCcm9taXRlMRAwDgYDVQQDEwdjc2FnYW41MCAXDTE4MDExOTA3MjE1N1oYDzIwNjgwMTA3MDcyMTU3WjBmMQswCQYDVQQGEwJERTEQMA4GA1UECBMHVW5rbm93bjEPMA0GA1UEBxMGQmVybGluMRAwDgYDVQQKEwdCcm9taXRlMRAwDgYDVQQLEwdCcm9taXRlMRAwDgYDVQQDEwdjc2FnYW41MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAtakjGj0eTavbBB2vWXj8KBixWn4zgXAKc+yGFu3SLEGF1VB5aJWwcMHxVI55yH/8M2eNnJP0BkSidfKgPVcm1sk/GrNEs9uk5sWod9byO5M5QWQmGP2REeTd6J0BVVVaMp2MZnqeR3Su3pwFzrSwTqIGyf8dkPSEz7ifj792+EeRNrov4oRQK7lIfqInzwc4d34wU069Lrw6m7J7HM0KbRYISsWMiYj025Qg+dTrtdWt7jbdcj7htW0eYyJoLd90+s43RWnOpENmWpcWv1EVPxUD4mCdV9idYwoHRIESpSu9IWvqDZp1VoRc43nLgsNfNBwmYdTkIaPiz1m7TBcr7QIDAQABoyEwHzAdBgNVHQ4EFgQUuWoGd7W7wMyQ1pOdjiMv10YHTR0wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQADggEBAA7iw6eKz+T8HIpKDoDcX1Ywjn9JUzuCFu20LnsLzreO/Pog1xErYjdLAS7LTZokfbAnitBskO9QhV9BYkDiM0Qr5v2/HsJTtxa1mz9ywCcI36jblMyuXFj8tuwQI9/t9i+Fc3+bOFBV3t7djPo9qX1dIK0lZ6s8HcIhaCNdqm65fH+nWhC/H9djqC6qOtrkTiACKEcHQ4a/5dfROU0q0M4bS4YuiaAQWgjiGbik4LrZ8wZX1aqJCLt0Hs7MzXyyf0cRSO11FIOViHwzh6WTZGufq2J3YBFXPond8kLxkKL3LNezbi5yTcecxsbKQ6OS46CnIKcy/M8asSreLpoCDvw=</signature> </webviewprovider>

For further information see https://github.com/bromite/bromite/wiki/Installing-SystemWebView

What does it bring?

The idea of installing Bromite SystemWebView is to have all apps (and Android itself) use Bromite's features like ad blocking and enhanced privacy as well. This is another step to a Google free device since the AOSP WebView is not fully degoogled (according to this post).

Edited by Manoj Nair