Hello political correspondents, The Mobile Tech Leads convened a discussion panel on Wednesday, Nov 7 (NA/EU timezones). Nobody was in costume but we all bleated like donkeys or brayed like elephants.
Three talking points from the classified dossier <https://docs.google.com/document/d/13ZqcDtmedjAykVveOlZSFYP5tWi2i6G5dCzUuHEBY0U/edit#heading=h.xrqv4vksutwg> : 1. We still want better options for storage on mobile. The Telemetry team (talking head today: Dexter) are building an Android Component for recording and submitting events. Sebastian wondered if rkv <https://github.com/mozilla/rkv> would be a good fit. The discussion concluded "yes, but in the future": there are no Kotlin (or Java) bindings for rkv right now, and we don't expect to build a cross-platform Telemetry component in Rust for Q1. 2. FxA engineer Shane Tomlinson wonders if we can use PAKE over TLS <https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/android-components/2018-November/000094.html> for certain pairing operations in Android Components. PAKE is an initialism that stands for "password authentic key exchange"; it's a family of protocols for two parties to securely agree on a common strong key if they have prior knowledge of a common weak key. PAKE over TLS, (if it gains traction) will be readily available in Necko and thus GeckoView; the question is, how might we expose it *without* requiring GeckoView. Christian will report back at next week's meeting with some thoughts on how this might be done using core Android technologies. 3. Many moons ago, the tech leads proposed that Kotlin-implemented Android Components would control asynchrony and that Rust-implemented libraries would be almost entirely synchronous. It's taken some time, but that vision has been mostly realized in the fxaclient component <https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/pull/1148>. Christian reports -- on the record (!) -- that the resulting expression is very nice for consumers and allows them to exploit the improved Kotlin co-routine support easily. Until next week, remember to vote! Nick
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