888536 - Remote debugging: Add instructions in-app for setting up remote debugging

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 888042

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Theme and Visual Design, defect)

Description

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

This will be located at Settings > Advanced > Developer Tools | Getting Started (or whatever string we decide on)

Basic instructions - you need a host machine running desktop Firefox (at least version 15.0).
1. Enable remote debugging on Firefox for Android.
2. On desktop Firefox, load the "about:config" page and set devtools.debugger.remote-debugging to true. Restart Firefox.
3. Connect Android device via USB.
4. Run "adb forward tcp:6000 tcp:6000" on host machine.
5. On desktop Firefox, go to Tools > Web Developer > Connect...
6. Keep the defaults (Host: localhost, Port: 6000) and click Connect.
7. Firefox for Android will display an "Incoming Connection" dialog - select OK.

For additional debugger documentation, see documentation [1].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger#Remote_Debugging

Comment 1

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

The devtools.debugger.remote-debugging pref can now be toggled from the developer tools options tab (the one with the gear icon). There is a "Enable remote debugging" preference there, under Advanced settings.

Comment 2

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

Bug 888533 also adds a link in the Developer Tools settings screen to the remote debugger setup page, with great instructions, so I'm going to resolve this bug as a dupe.