1473872 - Start targetting API 26

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Petru-Mugurel Lingurar [:petru]]

To enable all Oreo features and abide to Google's requirements [1] we need to actually start targetting API level 26 (Android 8.0).

[1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/12/improving-app-security-and-performance.html

Comment 1

[Petru-Mugurel Lingurar [:petru]]

Attachment: Bug 1473872 - Start targeting API 26;

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/255340/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/255340/

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Comment on attachment 8990303 [details]
Bug 1473872 - Start targeting API 26;

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/255340/#review262248

If it's green on try, it's fine by me.  I really think we want QA to spend some time smoke testing this on a few different devices.

Comment 3

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Do we really want to land this before we've landed all the prerequisite changes (new background execution limits, use notification channels because otherwise notifications won't work at all!, etc.)?

Comment 4

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Jan Henning [:JanH] from comment #3)
> Do we really want to land this before we've landed all the prerequisite
> changes (new background execution limits, use notification channels because
> otherwise notifications won't work at all!, etc.)?

No, obviously not.  I can not track the totality of this work (I just don't have time), so I'm trusting that the engineers and QA folks will arrange these things so Nightly isn't horrifically broken.

Comment 5

[Petru-Mugurel Lingurar [:petru]]

Comment on attachment 8990303 [details]
Bug 1473872 - Start targeting API 26;

Review request updated; see interdiff: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/255340/diff/1-2/

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/da5b3e1dca89
Start targeting API 26; r=nalexander

Comment 7

[Bogdan Tara[:bogdan_tara | bogdant]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/da5b3e1dca89