Google Chrome for iOS Is Now Open Source

Google has decided to finally upload it Chrome code for iOS devices into the Chromium repository, a place where Google usually uploads its open source tools.

This has been a move that’s been a long-time coming. The open-source code can now be checked out by anyone. On top of this, it can be modified and compiled.

“Historically, the code for Chrome for iOS was kept separate from the rest of the Chromium project due to the additional complexity required for the platform. After years of careful refactoring, all of this code is rejoining Chromium and being moved into the open-source repository,“ writes Google’s Rohit Rao in a blog post.

As you may know, due to constraints of the iOS platform, all browsers must be built on top of the WebKit rendering engine. In Chromium’s case, that means it has to support both WebKit, as well as Blink, which is Chrome’s rendering engine for other platfor...