Mobile/Projects/APK Factory

The APK Factory is a web service which synthesizes native Android Apps (.apk installer files) from Open Web App manifests.

This is a part of Mobile/Projects/Application_management.

Team

• Project - dvd, clouserw
• Development - (Android) jhugman, myk, mhaigh and (Server side) ozten
• QA - AaronMT, krupa
• Operations - jason, oremj
• Security - rforbes

Issues? File a Bug

File a bug in Marketplace::Integration with the following information

• Environment (production release or production review, etc)
• URL to the App in Marketplace or mini-manifest url
• Other typical information (Fennec details, steps to reproduce, etc)

Environments

• dev review mode only
• stage release and stage review
• production release and production review

Testing A Different Environment

Firefox for Android (Fennec) uses the production release environment. If you'd like to test or use a different environment, do the following:

1. about:config in Fennec
2. search for 'apk'
3. edit browser.webapps.apkFactoryUrl
4. set it to one of the following:

That would be production review env

   https://controller-review.apk.firefox.com/application.apk

and this is for the stage release env

   https://apk-controller.stage.mozaws.net/application.apk

Use Cases

• Use cases from Application Management
• User:Clouserw/APKFactory

Code

• https://github.com/mozilla/apk-factory-service
• https://github.com/mozilla/apk-factory-library

Tracking Bugs

• bug 896003 [theme] Support for Synthetic APKs (Fennec / Android)
• bug 936725 SecReview: APK Factory

Meeting Notes

• OPs meeting Jan 2nd
• 2nd Security Review Dec 19th
• Infrasec certificate storage meetings
• Developer Meeting Dec 5th
• Standup Meeting Dec 1st
• Reviewing User Case questions Nov 22nd
• Architecture Discussion Nov 21st
• OPs kick off Nov 19th
• Security Review Nov 16th