968533 - Separate Fennec-specific code and resources from generic Gecko code and resources

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Would love to see this make progress, and happy to help with the build system pieces.  One small direction you could take this is to make it easy to build Background Services seperate from Fennec (and therefore from GeckoView), although this is not a blocker for this project.  (It's just one way to proceed.)

Comment 2

[Maksim Lin]

(In reply to Nick Alexander :nalexander from comment #1)
> Would love to see this make progress, and happy to help with the build
> system pieces.  One small direction you could take this is to make it easy
> to build Background Services seperate from Fennec (and therefore from
> GeckoView), although this is not a blocker for this project.  (It's just one
> way to proceed.)

Thanks Nick! I think I'll need your help as I'm not so good with Make and the Moz build system seems quite complex.

As a starting point I think its possible to remove from Geckoview any dependence on the resources that are used for Fennec. Initial look through Geckoview and Layerview, I see only 3 uses of styleable resources in Geckoview.

I'm not sure I follow what you mean about the Background Services? Do you mean splitting out org.mozilla.gecko.background package out into its own jar ?

Comment 3

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Maksim Lin from comment #2)
> (In reply to Nick Alexander :nalexander from comment #1)
> > Would love to see this make progress, and happy to help with the build
> > system pieces.  One small direction you could take this is to make it easy
> > to build Background Services seperate from Fennec (and therefore from
> > GeckoView), although this is not a blocker for this project.  (It's just one
> > way to proceed.)
> 
> Thanks Nick! I think I'll need your help as I'm not so good with Make and
> the Moz build system seems quite complex.
> 
> As a starting point I think its possible to remove from Geckoview any
> dependence on the resources that are used for Fennec. Initial look through
> Geckoview and Layerview, I see only 3 uses of styleable resources in
> Geckoview.

If this is true, pursue this!

> I'm not sure I follow what you mean about the Background Services? Do you
> mean splitting out org.mozilla.gecko.background package out into its own jar
> ?

Well, it's a little more than just that package.  And it's a little complicated since Services and Fennec depend on each other; rnewman and I have discussed plans for a shared Contract library that both refer to and implement.  It sounds like you are more plugged in to GeckoView itself and based on your comment above, that is a better avenue to pursue.

Comment 4

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