No I think your understanding is right, Nick. We already have a job that
copies over some parts of hg.mozilla.org to our gituhub repo for
documentation (https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview) so adding GVE (if the
rest works) should be easy.

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:55 PM Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:34 PM Agi Sferro <asfe...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Bob.
>>
>> I agree, getting an example to compile is a good first step.
>> Unfortunately we don't provide a version on github, but maybe we should.
>>
>> We have an example project on github that uses Android Components which
>> provides many reusable components on top of GeckoView [1]
>>
>> If you still want to build GeckoViewExample what you need to do is add a
>> root build.gradle file like this one that specifies topobjdir: [2]
>> change this line to refer to a released version of GeckoView: [3]
>> e.g. "org.mozilla.geckoview:geckoview-nightly:78.0.20200505094621" and
>> remove this line [4].
>>
>
> Is the goal here to allow some `settings.gradle` (that is not in
> $topsrcdir) to reference `mobile/android/geckoview_example` and have that
> build?  That feels possible because the changes you list can all be done
> dynamically/conditionally.  The `project.ext...` bits, maybe not so much.
>
> I'd be more interested in this if I could think of a way to have folks
> fetch only GVE from, say, GH -- but that appears to be hard.  (Also hard
> from hg.mozilla.org, AFAIK.)
>
> Have I misunderstood what's desired here?
>
> Nick
>
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