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Building Firefox for Android: I want my IDE!

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.

Thu 08 January 2015 / tagged: mozilla, android, build system, buck, gradle, firefox, fennec

What I intend to work on for 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.

Tue 06 January 2015 / tagged: mozilla, android, ios, build system, gradle, firefox, account, fennec

We should build Firefox for Android with an external build system

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

Mon 05 January 2015 / tagged: mozilla, android, build system, gradle, buck, intellij

The Firefox for Android build system in 2015

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.

Mon 08 December 2014 / tagged: mozilla, android, build system, gradle, intellij