title: Building WebView From Chromium for Android
body: <p>I am trying to follow the <a href="https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-android-webview" rel="nofollow noreferrer">instructions</a> to build the webview apk from chromium base. I am running a Android-7.0 build. I finished the compilation process for chromium and generated the APK. I have two questions related to steps after APK generation.</p>
  
  <p>Firstly the library name is different from what I expected. The default <code>webview.apk</code> has a library name <code>libwebviewchromium.so</code>, but the APK I built from chromium (<code>SystemWebView.apk</code>) contains the lib <code>libwebviewchromium.cr.so</code>. I wanted to ask whether that can cause problems and if others also saw this.</p>
  
  <p>Secondly, I am unable to uninstall the <code>com.android.webview</code> app from the device. The instructions require uninstallation of this app and deleting its folder before the new APK can be installed. I get the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ adb uninstall com.android.webview     
  [DELETE_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I wanted to ask if anyone knows how to resolve this. I saw a related question and want to ask if there is any other approach that doing what this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/17240552">answer</a> suggests.</p>