agregore-mobile

Mobile version of the Agregore browser for Android, based on Chromium and Bromite

WORK IN PROGRESS

Development

This codebase is based on Chromium Android and Bromite.

How it works:

• You'll need about 70 GB of space on your machine since chromium and it's history is so huge.
• Run ./setup.py to do the initial folder setup.
  • The build scripts use Python 3, so you'll need to have it installed on your system.
    • Chromium build tools are set up in ./depot_tools
    • A Chromium source tree is set up in ./chromium (this takes huge amounts of space)
    • A Bromite source tree is set up in ./bromite (this doesn't take much space)
• Run ./checkout_bromite_tag.py to checkout the correct version of bromite to base the browser on
  • Run this when the bromite version gets updated, you must then re-apply the bromite patches, it will auto-run at setup
  • bromite_tag.txt is where you can update the bromite version to build on top of
• Run ./apply_bromite_patches.py to checkout the correct version of Chromium and to apply the bromite patches to it
  • Run this whenever bromite gets updated, it will auto-run at setup
  • You will need to re-apply agregore patches next since the git state will be reset
• Run ./apply_agregore_patches.py to apply Agregore patches to the Chromium tree
  • Run this whenever there are new Agregore patches to apply. It will auto-run at setup
• Run ./download_ipfs_daemon.py to download the latest version of the Agregore IPFS Daemon
  • Run this whenever a new version is available to update. It will auto-run at setup
  • The version of the daemon that we're using can be found inside daemon_tag.txt, update this with new versions
  • Note: you can instead place an AAR of the daemon into chromium/src/third_party/agregore-ipfs-daemon/agregore-ipfs-daemon.aar
• Run ./prebuild.py to sync dependencies needed to perform a build.
  • This can be skipped if you're just adding changes, dependenices can take an extra 60 GB of space
• Run ./build.py to trigger a new build of the browser
  • You'll need to be running Ubuntu 18 in order to do a successful build. Automated builds via a build server are a work in progress.
• The patches folder contains Agregore-specific patches on top of Chromium
• Run ./generate_patch.py To generate a new patch based on the latest Commit inside Chromium/src
  • You can specify --n for the number of commits to include in the patch if you want something other than the latest one.
  • Generally, if you did several commits as part of your change, you'll want to squash them with git rebase -i HEAD~<n> where n is the number of commits you want to squash.
  • Then you'll want to commit the patches and use apply_agregore_patches.py to apply them on the build server

Flow for making patches

• Checkout a new branch for your patch
• Make changes in chromium/src
• git add -A to track newly added files
• git commit -am "some message" to commit your changes
  • For the message, try to start with AG since this will be the patch name
• cd ../../ back to the root of agregore-mobile
• ./generate_patch.py to generate a new patch
• git add -A to track the new patch
• git commit -am "Added patch for bla bla bla" to commit your patch to the main repo
• git push

Adding changes to an existing patch

• Make your changes in chromium/src
• (If you have new or deleted files) git add -A to track the new files or remove deleted ones.
• git commit -am "some message" to commit your changes
  • Note the message doesn't matter because we'll be deleting it in favor of the message in the patch
• git rebase HEAD~2 to start rebasing the commit history (with the goal of sqashing your previous commit into your patch commit)
  • Note 2 means "the latest commit, and the one before that", if you have more commits that you want to squash, increase this number
• When your editor opens, Squash all the commits other than the one for the patch (which should be left as "pick")
• Then once it prompts you to edit the new commit message, delete the squashed commit messages and just keep the original message
• Now your history should have the latest commit
• cd ../../ to go back to the agregore-mobile directory
• ./generate_patch.py to re-generate the patch content
• git commit -am "the actual commit message for you change" to commit changes to your patch
• git push to push the latest version of your patch out

Applying new versions of a patch

• git pull to get the latest chnages
• ./undo_last_patch.py to undo the latest version of the patch
• ./apply_agregore_patches.py to re-apply the latest versions of the patches.

Flow for building with the build server

• Checkout a new branch to start
• Make changes inside chromium/src and commit
• Run ./generate_patch.py to generate a pach
• Commit your changes to your branch
• Push them to github
• Checkout the branch on the build server ssh [email protected]
• Apply the patches using ./apply_agregore_patches.py
• Run ./build.py