B2gdroid

Presentation

B2GDroid is an Android homescreen that provides the same user experience as Firefox OS. It's a GeckoView consumer with Gaia pre-packaged, and as many b2g APIs as possible.

Building

1. Clone the Mozilla source tree

$ hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central

2. In the Mozilla source tree, run `./mach bootstrap` and select build "Firefox for Android". This will install the necessary Android SDKs and the Android NDK.

$ cd mozilla-central
$ ./mach bootstrap
  Please choose the version of Firefox you want to build:
  1. Firefox for Desktop
  2. Firefox for Android
  Your choice:
  2

(For this step to install all the necessary tools you need the patch here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205405)

Manually install version 22.0.1 of the Android SDK Support package. See https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/109 for details.

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