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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• • 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

Architecture Diagram

Webkit : Thin layer to link against from the applications .

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Platform : Provides platform-specific hooks to implement generic algorithms.

rdkbrowser2 Controls

App 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

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start /usr/bin/rdkbrowser2-control in a separate shell

Sample control sequence: