I found writing my goals for the Firefox 36 cycle personally helpful, so I thought decided to repeat the exercise. Then I thought, "Why not share what I’m doing more widely?" In that spirit, here’s what I intend to work on during the Firefox 38 cycle.

I found writing my goals for the Firefox 36 cycle personally helpful, so I thought decided to repeat the exercise. Then I thought, "Why not share what I’m doing more widely?" In that spirit, here’s what I intend to work on during the Firefox 38 cycle.

For some time, I have been advocating for building Fennec with a full-featured Android build system. Here’s why.

2014 was an exciting year of improvements to the Firefox for Android front-end engineering build chain. 2015 is going to be even better. We’re going to improve the Firefox for Android development experience in three main ways: making your first build easier; making your next builds faster; and letting you use the Android tools you know and love.

Developing Fennec with Eclipse has been working well for quite some time now, but Eclipse is officially no longer supported by Google and the new standard is to build with Gradle and to edit in Android Studio or IntelliJ. I recently landed Bug 1041395 and friends, which makes it easy to build Fennec with Gradle. Here is a companion demonstration screencast.

GeckoView is a project that lets you embed the Gecko rendering engine into your Android App. Slowly but surely, we’ve making this process easier. It’s now really easy to include GeckoView in your Gradle-based application, thanks to a new Maven repository hosting Nightly GeckoView builds.