Google today announced that the code for Chrome for iOS is now part of its Chromium open source project.
On iOS, Chrome has to use Apple’s WebKit rendering engine instead of Google’s own Blink engine. Because of this, Google didn’t add the Chrome for iOS code to the Chromium code base before. Supporting both rendering engines in the same code base, after all, adds quite a bit of complexity.
Over the last few years, though, Google’s team worked on making the necessary code changes to add the Chrome for iOS code to Chromium.
