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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 19:33:14 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 19:33:14 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/contributing/build/building_mobile_firefox.rst b/docs/contributing/build/building_mobile_firefox.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..90e922af8a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/contributing/build/building_mobile_firefox.rst @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Firefox for Mobile Devices +-------------------------- + +We have several different mobile products aimed at different tasks, +devices, and audiences: + +- Building **Firefox for Android** (codename: fenix). Our general-purpose + mobile browser is split into several different artifact layers: + + - `The fenix Android application </mobile/android/fenix.html>`_ + - `The android-components Android library <https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/tree/main/android-components>`_ + - `The GeckoView platform </mobile/android/geckoview>`_ + +- `Firefox for iOS <https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios>`_, + our general-purpose browser for iOS with desktop sync built-in. +- Building **Firefox Focus**, our privacy-focused browser for + + - `iOS <https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios>`_ + - `Android <https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/tree/main/focus-android>`_. This browser + also uses the android-components library and GeckoView platform, like Firefox for Android + +For both Desktop and Mobile development, please bear the following in +mind: + +- While you can build Firefox on older hardware it can take quite a bit + of time to compile on slower machines. Having at least 8GB of RAM is + recommended, and more is always better. The build process is both CPU + and I/O intensive, so building on a machine with an SSD is also + strongly preferred. +- Fast broadband internet is strongly recommended as well. Both the + development environment and the source code repository are quite + large. +- Though you can build Firefox to run on 32-bit machines, the build + process for almost all of our products requires a 64-bit OS. |