The Developers' Bakery

Firefox for Android with Sebastian Kaspari

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You don’t get to build a browser every day right? Today we have Sebastian Kaspari on stage to talk us about Firefox for Android 🦊.

Together we will walk through what it takes to write a mobile browser, and we will discover some of the open-source projects in the Mozilla ecosystem such as Firefox Focus, GeckoView and Mozilla Android Components.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes
  • 00.13 Intro
  • 00.59 Episode Start
  • 01.24 Sebastian’s Introduction
  • 02.12 What is Fenix?
  • 03.11 The big rewrite
  • 04.42 Code sharing between Mobile and Desktop
  • 07.26 Feature parity
  • 09.34 From monorepo to separate repos
  • 12.29 The story of Firefox for Android
  • 18.23 What is needed to build a browser?
  • 20.06 GeckoView
  • 22.15 WebViews vs GeckoViews
  • 24.01 Mozilla Android Components
  • 26.34 Specific Browser Components
  • 27.46 From Github to the PlayStore
  • 29.12 Nightly, Alpha, Beta and Stable
  • 31.01 Reproducible Builds
  • 33.56 Firefox Focus
  • 37.31 Firefox Tech Stack and Architecture
  • 40.56 How many engineers are behind Firefox for Android?
  • 42.05 External Contributors to Firefox
  • 43.36 How to start contributing to Firefox?
  • 46.24 Further reading
  • 47.48 What’s the future for Firefox on Android?
    • Resources
    • mozilla-mobile/fenix on Github
    • Firefox for Android Official Website
    • whatcanidoformozilla.org
    • Mentioned Projects:
      • mozilla-mobile/focus-android on Github
      • mozilla-mobile/android-components on Github
      • GeckoView Official Website
      • @pocmo on Github
      • @Anti_Hype on Twitter
        • Show links
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        • The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
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        • @thebakerydev on Twitter
        • @cortinico on Twitter
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