1518225 - (target-android-p) Target Android P

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Thankfully, this time the list of changes looks much more manageable than it did for Oreo.

Comment 1

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

When targeting P, retrieving the device's serial number only works with the READ_PHONE_STATE permission and also requires using a different API call (https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0-changes-28#privacy-changes-p).

We are using Build.SERIAL as an input into fixing up the PRNGs [1], but thankfully that is only required on API18 and lower. Therefore this change won't affect us.

[1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/c43240cef5829b8a2dec118faff8a5e1fec6ae1b/mobile/android/services/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/util/PRNGFixes.java#316

Comment 2

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Attachment: Bug 1518225 - Target Android P. r?nalexander,snorp

All obvious issues that can be deduced from
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0-changes-28
have been addressed, so we should be able to give this a try.

This will also make running tests depending on android.test.* (i.e. mainly
Robocop) work again on devices/emulators running P.

Comment 3

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

One more thing to watch out for:

Activities no longer implicitly assign initial focus in touch-mode. Instead, it is up to you to explicitly request initial focus, if desired.

I'm not sure if anything in Firefox actually depends on that behaviour, though, so we just need to be on the lookout for any issues here.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/90441eb025e3
Target Android P. r=nalexander,snorp

Comment 5

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/90441eb025e3