Firefox for Android with Sebastian Kaspari

The Developers' Bakery

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

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts
• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts
• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter