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Idea discussion for GSOC 17 - prabhanshu - 2017-03-20
Greetings, I'm Prabhanshu Gupta from New Delhi, India. I'm a sophomore majoring in computer science and want to work on the browser add-on for kodi. I've
worked on Qt and C++/Python before and have been into developing fullstack web applications recently. Integrating a web browser into kodi definitely feels an exciting idea to me.
I've setup kodi and went through the discussions at:
(2017-03-13, 12:39)RockerC Wrote: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=231545
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=220842
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=127847
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=141440
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=55093
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=25
I wanted to get comfortable with the existing codebase before submitting a proposal for the project. I am having trouble setting up the existing project at https://github.com/AlwinEsch/web.browser.chromium since it doesn't have installation notes. Can someone please help me with setting it up and getting into the code?
Looking forward to making awesome gadgets!
Prabhanshu
RE: Idea discussion for GSOC 17 - alwinus - 2017-03-22
Hi @prabhanshu,
nice to hear from you.
About the web browser is really a part who need to be continued. Had gone down because of the other things to bring in an binary add-on interface who have all needed parts for them.
Thought not that it take so long to bring them
There is a lot of things still to do, currently it can only be show a website and access with mouse pointers given from Kodi. Also is it a long time ago that it was updated to the current Kodi Version.
With the binary add-on interface is one of my main parts to discuss on DevCon to continue the web browser.
One bigger think where I see is to add also a chromium plugin to allow the use of Kodi's player instead of them from chromium.
Also I'm not sure to continue with CEF and maybe use Cobalt as Interface.
RE: Idea discussion for GSOC 17 - KOPRajs - 2017-12-19
Hi,
what is the current state of this project? Is there a brief guide how to build it?
What I've found so far:
- CEF binary
I can either download 64-bit Linux binary from https://github.com/kodi-web/cef-binary-packages/ or build it from https://github.com/kodi-web/cef/, right? But how do I build it, which branch do I use etc.?
- Kodi
It seems I need a modified Kodi from https://github.com/AlwinEsch/kodi/. The most recent branch seems to be "internet-addon-handler-cleanup".
- Web addon
Seems like the source of the binary addon is at https://github.com/AlwinEsch/web.browser.chromium/.
Is this all that is needed? Is this the most recent code?
Thank you.
RE: Idea discussion for GSOC 17 - asdf11 - 2018-11-13
hello @alwinus,
when is the final Version of KODI-CHROMIUM-WEBBROWSER-ADDON released? can you please publish a beta pre-release Version?
Regards