1797495 - Improve Glean debugging documentation for Android

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Data Platform and Tools :: Glean: SDK, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Travis Long [:travis_]]

:frank recently ran into some troubles trying to get the debugging tools working on Android, and came up with the following suggestions that helped get it working:

I think there were a few key points:

• Use the nightly variant
• Create the signing key
• (something roger had me do, which I can't totally recall, maybe dexter does)... maybe just build the variant? But something came up with a red x on the "app" dropdown where I had to update the config
• Update the config again in project structure -> build variants -> select the key I created already
• Use physical device, not emulator (I did manage to use the wifi debugging)

In order to help the next person that runs into this, we should add this information to the docs for debugging

Comment 1

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

Note that all of the above has nothing to do with Glean: this is really about building a release version of Fenix!

Comment 2

[Jan-Erik Rediger [:janerik]]

Definitely more Fenix docs, than Glean SDK docs. We have another thing we will document which captures some of that.