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rdkbrowser2 is the browser application based on WPE, it is integrated with following components which enables it with new features compared with legacy rdkbrowser:
westeros : Wayland compositor library that allows applications to create their own Wayland displays, which allows nesting and embedding of third party application
rdkbrowser2 can be launched in two different ways:
It could be directly launched as:
/usr/bin/rdkbrowser2 --server
Also can launch launch_rdkbrowser2_server.sh script file to run RDKBROWSER2 as a server.
web pages could be launched using rdkbrowser2 by passing the URL.
/usr/bin/rdkbrowser2 --url http://www.google.com
Gliffy Diagram | ||||
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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.
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