On 2014-02-24, 11:21 AM, Nick Alexander wrote:
Hello mobile-firefox-dev, (friends, in your best Zoidberg voice),
Motivated by all the problems that I don't understand about how
packaging a GeckoView library with Android resources is ever supposed to
work, I started to think about how hard it will be to actually extract
GeckoView out of Fennec without Android resources.
I dug in over the weekend to understand how packaging GeckoView is
supposed to work.
Changes
-------
I just landed Bug 978587 [1] (on fx-team), which does two things:
1) does not include org.mozilla.gecko.R in the GeckoView library;
2) sets the GeckoView library package to org.mozilla.gecko, which makes
the embedding application provide org.mozilla.gecko.R.
With these tweaks, we should be shipping a GeckoView library project
with correct Android resource dependencies.
Please let me know if you see new problems with the Makefile
dependencies during the build.
Impact on embedders
-------------------
I do not expect embedders to have to change anything [2]; I think it is
unusual to reference the Android package of an embedded library (as
distinct from a Java package contained in an embedded library). But it
is possible that some embedders have hard-coded org.mozilla.geckoview
somewhere that should be org.mozilla.gecko. If this is the case, please
let me know (via reply to this list, or a Bugzilla ticket), and we'll
try to understand what's necessary.
Best,
Nick
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=978587
[2] For example, no changes are necessary to
https://github.com/mfinkle/geckobrowser. Of course, it hard crashes due
to something that looks like Bug 927253 [3], but isn't exactly (?) that
ticket.
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927253
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