1223155 - xpi build with jpm cannot be installed on android

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Joachim Herb]

If I create an xpi by the current version of jpm (1.0.3) the resulting xpi cannot be installed on Android:

If I upload the created xpi (in the beta channel) on addons.mozilla.org, the platform Android cannot not be selected. If I select all platforms and the try to install it on Android the button to install is grayed out. Also if I move the xpi to the sdcard and try to install it directly, nothing is happening.

If I use cfx --force-mobile xpi (cfx version 1.17) the resulting xpi can be uploaded as Android version to addons.mozilla.org and can be installed on Android (with Firefox 42.0). With Firefox Beta (43.0) it is still not possible to install it on Android (there is a message saying that a newer version of Firefox is necessary, which is obviously non-sense, because it works with an older version).

The link to the addon source code is https://github.com/jmozmoz/tabpreloader

Comment 1

[Joachim Herb]

As described in https://github.com/mozilla-jetpack/jpm/issues/444 and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tools/cfx_to_jpm fennec has to be added explicitly to the package.json file to mimic the behavior of cfx xpi --force-mobile