Closed Bug 1208130 Opened 9 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Move Fennec dx build rules to moz.build; support incremental dex

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: Android Studio and Gradle Integration, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
Android Studio and Gradle Integration
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(firefox44 affected)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox44 --- affected

People

(Reporter: nalexander, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Right now we dex everything in Fennec in a monolithic heap. (We support dexing in java-build.mk, and that's monolithic too.) However, Android's dx tool has grown some interesting functionality. It's now possible to pre-dex library JARs, to incrementally dex code under development, and merge the results together. This ticket tracks moving Fennec's dx build rules to moz.build, and supporting the new incremental dex behaviour. This should give us a nice local developer win. In the short term, we should just experiment with using multiple threads when we dex. It's worth noting that these dex improvements aren't as valuable if we are also using Proguard.
We're not going to do this; Proguard is handled by Gradle, and --without-gradle is going to die soon: Bug 1414415.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox Build System
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