On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com > wrote:
> Hi folks, > > tl;dr: mobile/android/resources is now mobile/android/app/src/main/res -- > see [1]. > > Details > --------- > > The Photon development team is leveraging the partial Gradle support in > the tree to refresh the existing Firefox for Android skin. The future is > Gradle and the android-api-15-gradle build job (like android-api-15, but > with --with-gradle) is building and testing the Photon enabled build. To > that end we're following Gradle conventions for the resources, which means: > > - mobile/android/app/src/main/res for shared resources > - mobile/android/app/src/photon/res for Photon-specific resources > - mobile/android/app/src/australis/res for Australis-specific resources > > Over time, the source code in mobile/android/base/java will migrate to the > Gradle convention location, which is mobile/android/app/src/main/java. > > Future > --------- > > I'm planning to land [2] this week, which pushes the moz.build APK towards > the Gradle APK. > I landed [2] last night; it should be in today's Nightly. Please let me know of any resource-related fallout, blocking [2] of course. Best, Nick > About a week later, I'll throw the Gradle switch on Nightly, so that we > build Nightly --with-gradle. Assuming everything doesn't burn on Nightly, > I'll uplift [2] to Beta about a week after that. The idea is that with the > prep work on Beta and --with-gradle riding the Nightly train, we'll be > better positioned to deal with Gradle related falllout independently of > Photon requirements. (The last thing we want is to depend on Gradle for > Photon and hit a snag as we get to Beta or Release and a tight timeline.) > > Follow-up > ------------- > > Discussion is best on mobile-firefox-dev. Jing-wei Wu, Max Liu, and Nevin > Chen, are doing all the hard work here -- start with them. I'm supporting > the Gradle build work. > > Best, > Nick > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1372486 > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1355625 >
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