1468075 - Review usage of Reflection for accessing private SDK interfaces on Android P

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

We need to check our code bases for instances where we're using reflection to access otherwise inaccessible (private, @Hidden, etc.) framework methods and check whether Google's new reflection blacklist/greylist on Android P affects them.

If that is the case, we'd have to find workaround and/or file an issue with Google.

See e.g.
https://commonsware.com/blog/2018/01/18/think-hard-about-hide.html and
https://commonsware.com/blog/2018/03/01/hide-penny-drops.html

Comment 1

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