CPU and Version usage poll

[wchen342]

For personal reasons I am going to lose my current computational power starting as early as this October. I will try to figure out whether I can use OBS to compile the apks but at the mean time I may have to reduce the number of variants I pre-compile for users. I want to make a poll to know which variants are used most by current users in advance.

Please DO NOT reply but vote by clicking "+1" for the corresponding variant you are using below. I will see the results and decide which variants to keep providing as apks.

[wchen342]

CPU: arm (32-bit) Version: ChromePublic (Android 5.0, Lollipop and later)

[wchen342]

CPU: arm64 (64-bit) Version: ChromePublic (Android 5.0, Lollipop and later)

[wchen342]

CPU: arm (32-bit) Version: MonochromePublic (Android 7.0, Nougat and later)

[wchen342]

CPU: arm64 (64-bit) Version: MonochromePublic (Android 7.0, Nougat and later)

[wchen342]

CPU: x86 (32-bit) Version: ChromePublic (Android 5.0, Lollipop and later)

[wchen342]

CPU: x86 (32-bit) Version: MonochromePublic (Android 7.0, Nougat and later)

[wchen342]

No need to vote for extension version since there is only one extension version.

[gerroon]

CPU: Arm Version: Nougat and above (SDK24)

[wchen342]

Please DO NOT reply but use "+1" instead.

[csagan5]

@wchen342 as far as I know ChromePublic should not be used on Android 5.0 as you would miss some important functionality, including security ones; that is because it is built with a backward-compatible previous SDK.

[wchen342]

@csagan5 How do you support 5.0~7.0 then? I think Monochrome won't run on 5.0, or it runs but with less functionalities?

[csagan5]

I will try to figure out whether I can use OBS to compile the apks

I cannot share my build server for security reasons but @wchen342 you could easily find someone willing to offer the compute resources. Just from a random search: https://www.digitalocean.com/open-source/

There are many others (mostly big ISPs/cloud providers) which would be willing to offer a VPS in exchange of a mention link somewhere. We may even ask about this in coordination for both projects (Bromite and ungoogled-chromium-android), I have some experience with open source projects.

[wchen342]

@csagan5 Interesting, didn't know cloud providers are providing free computational resources. I am open to cooperations since I am much less experienced about these stuffs. If you have something in mind just let me know.

[csagan5]

How do you support 5.0~7.0 then? I think Monochrome won't run on 5.0, or it runs but with less functionalities?

From https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/android_build_instructions.md#multiple-chrome-targets it says now that ChromPublic is the same as ChromeModernPublic; but for v84 and below it was different: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/84.0.4147.132/docs/android_build_instructions.md#multiple-chrome-targets

As you can see it mentions that SDK is 19 for ChromePublic; that is useless on Android 5.0 and above.

[csagan5]

Interesting, didn't know cloud providers are providing free computational resources. I am open to cooperations since I am much less experienced about these stuffs. If you have something in mind just let me know.

I will send some emails and let you know; DigitalOcean actually does not seem that interesting, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1ZqpxgKtiNibtWs53dLeCBmfp47Nqi6QlRg74lbsAc/edit (I will not ask them any sponsorship).

[wchen342]

@Eloston Is there any update on the build server searching?

[Eloston]

@wchen342 Right now, I am waiting for a response from Gandi. I am planning on sending a followup this week.

Are you still projected to lose your build resources by October?

[wchen342]

Are you still projected to lose your build resources by October?

Actually it is confirmed now. I will build 85.0.4183.121 this weekend and after that I will pause release for a month, both for loss of computational resources and my moving to a new country. After that I will at least have a laptop to develop but building multiple versions will be very time demanding. I am going to post a notice on the website of Android version for this.

[TheJags]

CPU: arm64 (64-bit)

Version: Extensions Chrome Modern Public arm

[Niek]

CPU: x86 Version: ChromePublic (Android 5.0, Lollipop and later)

[wchen342]

Closing for now for building servers provided by Gandi.net.