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Idea discussion for GSOC 17
#1
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
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#2
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 Rolleyes

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.
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#3
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.
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#4
hello @alwinus,

when is the final Version of KODI-CHROMIUM-WEBBROWSER-ADDON released?  can you please publish a beta pre-release Version?


Regards
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