> On Oct 29, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Richard Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I build and install Fennec on my 2.3 hardware, I hit an error that we’re > exceeding LinearAlloc capacity. Gingerbread has a 5MB limit. ICS and up have > 8MB. > > I don’t hit this with builds from infra. I recently upgraded support library > and SDK; I’m pretty confident that before the upgrade I was able to install > my built APKs. > > > Doing some reading, this seems to occur when you have deep interface > hierarchies, and/or lots of classes. You’ll see this issue cited a lot: > > https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22586 > > but lots of other folks seem to hit this just by using fat libraries (e.g., > JodaTime). You start dumping Facebook libs, rendering libs, datetime libs > into your project, and suddenly it won’t install. E.g., > > http://www.birbit.com/how-to-solve-linearalloc-problem/ > > > We do use fat libraries, we are a big project, and so I suspect we’re > hovering right around 5MB with old tools, and over 5MB with new ones. > > Another hypothesis is that method name collisions (typically across > libraries) will b0rk things, but I don’t see evidence of that in my ADB log. > > > So I’m concerned: an infra upgrade could just break 2.3 devices, for one > thing.
Yeah, that’s worrying. Presumably our 2.3 emulator testing would catch this, though. > > Has anyone else hit this? Facebook has, and came up with an insane hack to work around it: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-dalvik-patch-for-facebook-for-android/10151345597798920 <https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-dalvik-patch-for-facebook-for-android/10151345597798920> I think if it comes to it, we can use the same hack. > > > My expectation would be that ProGuard would eliminate enough code to fix > this, but perhaps it’s not aggressively pruning library code. I would like to know how much ProGuard strips out. Do we have that somewhere? Does ProGuard make that easily available? James
_______________________________________________ mobile-firefox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
