1213418 - Use Fennec APKs in |mach artifact| based builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Right now, we product two AAR files (geckolibs and geckoview) when we're building GeckoView.  (The former is a dependency of the latter.)  The former geckolibs AAR files are consumed by |mach artifact| based builds (see Bug 

Bug 1212347 stopped building GeckoView, in order to stop building geckoview_example.  Unfortunately, that stops |mach artifact| builds from being updated.

This ticket tracks always packaging and uploading geckolibs, even when we're not building GeckoView.

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

I elected to go a different direction.  Rather than turn on AAR files again, I've prepared patches to use fennec-*.apk files to extract the libraries.  The AAR files are smaller -- almost half the size, ~20 Mb compared to ~40 Mb -- but they're special.  Desktop builds expect to fetch a package artifact (.tar.gz, .dmg) and unpack it, so this approach aligns with what we will need for Bug 1207890 and Bug 1207888.

It's late on a Friday, so there are no reviewers around; this is Python code, and not part of the build; it's Android specific; and it's 100% busted -- I'm landing with r=me.  Your good health!

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/e8462d5d833b8041268f4d33391d8e9e26c9c2c9
Bug 1213418 - Part 1: Use mozregression to download in |mach artifact|. r=me

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/0a2658b37fd01cda7b718320f5cfd7dc23d5c521
Bug 1213418 - Part 2: Use Fennec APKs in |mach artifact|; use mozversion to extract build IDs. r=me

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e8462d5d833b
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/0a2658b37fd0

Comment 4

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Does this mean you can no longer include GeckoView into gradle projects?
https://github.com/ncalexan/geckobrowser-gradle

Comment 5

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian) from comment #4)
> Does this mean you can no longer include GeckoView into gradle projects?
> https://github.com/ncalexan/geckobrowser-gradle

Yes, we're not currently building and uploading AARs.  We can patch this back in sometime soon, and I intend to work on a more comprehensive solution this quarter.