+mobile-firefox-dev On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all your work in making this happen! I've used some of > these commands recently and they work much better than they used to > for Fennec :) > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Geoffrey Brown <gbr...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > > In recent months, many improvements have been made to mach commands to > > support running, testing, and debugging Firefox for Android: > > > > - More test commands for Android. These mach test commands now support > > Firefox for Android explicitly: > > > > mach mochitest > > mach robocop > > mach reftest > > mach crashtest > > mach jstestbrowser > > mach xpcshell-test > > mach cppunittest > > > > > > - Emulator support. 'mach android-emulator' launches the Android > emulator, > > using the same Android image used to run tests seen on treeherder; select > > an image type with the --version option. > > > > - All of the test, run, and debug commands offer to start the Android > > emulator if no Android device is connected (when run from an Android > > context). > > > > $ ./mach mochitest testing/mochitest/tests/Harness_sanity > > No Android devices connected. Start an emulator? (Y/n) > > > > - All test, run, and debug commands offer to install Firefox on the > > connected device or emulator if Firefox is not already installed. > > > > $ ./mach mochitest testing/mochitest/tests/Harness_sanity > > It looks like Firefox is not installed on this device. > > Install Firefox? (Y/n) > > > > - Test commands requiring host xpcshell offer to install "host > utilities" > > if none have been configured. > > > > - Firefox can be run on an Android device or emulator with 'mach run'. > > > > - JimDB, a GDB fork explicitly supporting debugging for Firefox for > > Android, can be installed, configured, and run with 'mach run --debug'. > > > > - Emulator images, host utilities, and jimdb are automatically > downloaded, > > cached, and installed as needed. > > > > - Firefox for Android wiki pages have been updated: > > - Build info at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android > > - Testing info at > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/Testing > > - Debugging with GDB at > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/GDB. > > > > - Screencasts demonstrate common tasks at > > https://people.mozilla.org/~gbrown/android-demos/. > > > > Running, testing, and debugging Firefox will always be more complicated > on > > Android than on desktop, but now these tasks look just as easy on > Android, > > and can be performed with the same mach commands as on desktop. > > > > If you have had trouble in the past running, testing, or debugging your > own > > Firefox for Android build, this is a great time to try again. All you > need > > to get started is a Firefox for Android build on a Linux or OSX computer. > > Something not working for you? Have more ideas for improvements? Let me > > know. > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
