rdkbrowser2
Overview
rdkbrowser2 is the browser application based on WPE, it is integrated with following components which enables it with new features compared with legacy rdkbrowser.
- injectedBundle : Provides integration Layer for Service manager and Player inside WPE, adds ability to send messages between JavaScript & other application.
- pxcore-libnode : pxcore – Provides a lightweight Frame-buffer library, pxscene – 2D scene graph API library.
- wpe-webkit : WebKit porting which is used with Wayland.
- rdk-logger : Provides console and file level message logging feature to RDK component.
- westeros : Wayland compositor library that allows applications to create their own Wayland displays, which allows nesting and embedding of third party application
How to Launch rdkbrowser2 ?
rdkbrowser2 can be launched in two different ways:
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Server Mode: –server – Launch the browser in a server(“tab”) mode
It could be directly launched as:
/usr/bin/rdkbrowser2 –server
Also can launch _rdkbrowser2_server.sh, script file to run rdkbrowser2 as a server.
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Standalone mode: –url <url> – Launch opening a specific URL
web pages could be launched using rdkbrowser2 by passing the URL.
/usr/bin/rdkbrowser2 –url http://www.google.com
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Architecture Diagram
Webkit : Thin layer to link against from the applications .
WebCore : Provides rendering, layout, network access, multimedia, accessibility support etc.
JavaScript Core : Javascript engine.
Platform : Provides platform-specific hooks to implement generic algorithms.
rdkbrowser2 Controls
rdkbrowser2-control is an app for discovering RDKBrowser2 RtRemote Server Object and invoking its RtRemote based API.
Only works in conjunction with /usr/bin/rdkbrowser2.sh
Usage:
start rdkbrowser2: /usr/bin/rdkbrowser2.sh ‘about:blank’
start /usr/bin/rdkbrowser2-control in a separate shell
Sample control sequence:
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