929382 - [WebIDE] support Fennec apps

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools Graveyard :: WebIDE, defect, P2)

Description

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

It should be easy to support Fennec. Most of the current code is compatible. Let's figure out what's missing.

Comment 1

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

Alex, on top of your head, what do you think is missing?

Comment 2

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

A bunch of webapps actor requests would need some OS-specific abstraction:
  http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/devtools/server/actors/webapps.js
A the very least: watchApps, listRunningApps, getAppActor.
That's because we are looking for app iframes whereas the apps runs in another android processes.
It might not be that easy, as you have the app process and it may not be as easy to reach than the b2g content process. In b2g if you have the app frame, you can easily communicate with the content process, whereas in Fennec I have no idea how to communicate with the app process.
We would need to do a similar debugger protocol pipe with something similar to ChildDebuggerTransport, but for fennec app process.

Otherwise, connecting to fennec tabs should be easier to implement.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Supporting app debugging on Android, with Fennec as the runtime, is getting more complicated, as the web runtime engineering team is in the process of implementing a new approach to apps on Android, called "synthetic APKs," which wraps them in APKs to make them more native.

Regardless, we want to support debugging as part of the synthetic APKs experience, so developers can test their apps on Android before uploading them to the Marketplace and marking them Android-compatible.

Comment 4

[Dave Camp (:dcamp)]

Is this bug for app debugging on android with a fennec runtime, or tab debugging fennec from the app manager?  Is there a plan for tab debugging fennec?

Comment 5

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

(In reply to Dave Camp (:dcamp) from comment #4)
> Is this bug for app debugging on android with a fennec runtime, or tab
> debugging fennec from the app manager?

Debugging Fennec apps.

> Is there a plan for tab debugging fennec?

tab debugging fennec: 912900

Comment 6

[Nick Fitzgerald [:fitzgen] [⏰PST; UTC-8]]

Filter on 86b7095e-2bd0-499e-a704-d00f2524aeef / PAUL STOP SETTING QA CONTACT TO THE DEVTOOLS COMPONENT'S WATCHERS EMAIL FOR BUGS YOU FILE :)

Comment 7

[Nazar Mokrynskyi]

Any progress here?
I really want to bring my app to Android users, but can't figure out what is wrong with it on Android.

Comment 8

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

We are making progress on connecting to Firefox for Android, which includes some work related to this.  Apps on Android would be a natural next step after that work.

Comment 9

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Filter on TEAPOT-SPLINES.

Apps are being removed from Fennec, see bug 1235869.