In Chrome M52 we implemented backup and restore in Chrome for Android using Android Auto backup (due to bugs, backup was only actually enabled in M55). Following a review of this we have decided to switch to key/value backup, largely because this will allow users to restore backups from older (pre-Android M) phones.
For more details see https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1ZMfb-b_2caoinQMSfEgsbc9gE9CoaeRK4ndWn-SdQIQ/edit?usp=sharing (Google internal only).
The build was broken because one of the header files this uses had moved between revisions. Having said this, we are now not going to merge this to M55, so closing.
Comment 1 by bugdroid1@chromium.org
, Nov 1 2016