WPEWebKit – 2.0: Android Support
Description: Reference for WPEWebKit-2.0: Android Support

#### Android Support

WPE WebKit supports running on Android, which is considerably different from other Linux-based systems.

## Building

Compiling WPE WebKit for Android requires a suitable toolchain configured to use a “sysroot” which includes the needed dependencies—including their development files.

Currently, the preferred method to build WPE WebKit for Android is using wpe-android-cerbero. This is a fork of the Cerbero build system used to cross-compile the GStreamer multimedia libraries for a number of targets—Android included—, with the needed changes to compile WPE WebKit. Note that this produces the native libraries that are part of a WebKit build, and their native dependencies.

## View Widget

A web view widget that integrates with the Android View-based GUI toolkit and may be used as part of an application written in Java™ or Kotlin is provided by the separate WPE Android project.

Prebuilt packages produced by the WPE Android project are readily available as org.wpewebkit.wpeview at the Maven Central repository. Using these package is the recommended way of using WPE WebKit to develop Android applications that embed WPE WebKit web views.

## Logging

WPE WebKit integrates with the Android `logd` system service, and uses the `WPEWebKit` tag. This means that logging is configured using system properties, and `logcat` may be used to read log entries:

    adb shell setprop log.tag.WPEWebKit VERBOSE
    adb logcat -s WPEWebKit

The `WEBKIT_DEBUG` environment variable is replaced by the `debug.WPEWebKit.log` system property to configure logging channels:

    adb shell setprop debug.WPEWebKit.log 'Process,Media=error'

Using the `persist.` prefix may be added to system properties to store settings across device reboots.