1558102 - Run Android emulator as headless mode

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: Android Studio and Gradle Integration, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

Actually, Android emulator has -no-window, -no-audio and -no-skin to run headless mode. I am happy to add this option when using ./mach run or etc with --headless? option.

Comment 1

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

Since emulator 28.0.25 there is also emulator-headless and I think there may be additional headless emulator improvements on the way.

Currently we do not use any headless options in continuous integration. When running the emulator locally with mach, I definitely want the default to be non-headless, so that folks get immediate visual feedback of problems running Firefox, etc. I could see adding a --headless option for 'mach android-emulator', 'mach run', 'mach test', etc, but I don't see much advantage to that personally.

An alternative approach to consider: allow passing arbitrary arguments to the emulator from mach commands. That might be more future-proof with respect to evolving emulator arguments, features, and capabilities.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 3

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Release mgmt bot [:sylvestre / :calixte / :marco for bugbug] from comment #2)

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:nalexander, could you have a look please?

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P3: backlog. Happy to take a patch.