I tried it on the emulator. Richard does it fail for you there? James
> On Oct 29, 2014, at 6:44 PM, Chris Kitching <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not necessarily! As Facebook mentioned in their blog post, per-vendor > variation can exist. Try it on a device identical to the one Richard used and > see what happens. > > On 29 Oct 2014 23:41, "James Willcox" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I built both opt and debug with the new SDK and support lib, and haven’t had > any problem with installing onto a 2.3 device. Must be something else going > on. > > James > >> On Oct 29, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Chris Kitching <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Proguard has a class merging feature that will mitigate this problem as well >> as save binary size. >> >> In Fennec, this feature is turned off because the example config file from >> Google I was using as a template contained a comment warning that this can >> crash early versions of Dalvik. >> >> We may no longer care. The options should be pretty straightforward to spot >> in profuard.cfg (but I'll post again with mxr links if desired when I'm not >> on a phone). >> >> I suggest investigating this before trying Facebook's selections of utter >> insanity. >> >> On 29 Oct 2014 16:32, "James Willcox" <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >>> On Oct 29, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Richard Newman <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[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 >>> <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/ >>> <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] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >> <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev> >> >
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