1255915 - Decouple Gradle Fennec builds from moz.build as much as possible

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Right now, --with-gradle builds a little more using moz.build than is strictly necessary: I see gecko.ap_ at least.

This ticket tracks ensuring we build just:

* AndroidManifest.xml;
* generated/preprocessed Java code;
* l10n dependencies;

when building with Gradle.

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

There's another piece here: we need to ensure that the JNI wrapper generation works correctly with the Gradle build system.

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Attachment: Bug 1255915 - Pre: Remove GeckoView classycle bits.

This was added in Bug 1096627 to enforce the baseline GeckoView
layering that we had at that time.  Now that GeckoView is a separate
Gradle project, that layering is automatically enforced.  It's time
for this to go.

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/200424/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/200424/

Comment 3

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Attachment: Bug 1255915 - Split --without-gradle bits from mobile/android/base/{moz.build,Makefile.in}.

This is an elaborate deckchair re-arrangement, with just a tiny bit of
polish to remove some of the (false) dependencies from the Gradle bits
to the old moz.build bits.

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/200426/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/200426/

Comment 4

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

After https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440757, I think this is done \o/