Hi Nick Thank you very much for this valuable suggestion .. This will help a lot to new contributers in fennec like me.
Waiting to see fennec dev videos on codefirefox . Have a nice time :-) BR Ashish Namdev Associate Engineer Broadcom Corporation Mozilla Reps , Mozilla C/C++ , Java Wizpert Wizpert :http://wizpert.com/AshishN Twitter : @ashish_nam Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Ashish.MSR On Mar 26, 2014 11:58 PM, "Nick Alexander" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi peeps, > > In the #mobile meeting today, it was suggested that #mobile contribute > some Fennec specific videos to Code Firefox. I think this is a great idea, > and would like to solicit suggestions for what would be valuable to new > Fennec developers. Herewith, my thoughts: > > * An introduction to JS/Java message passing and the event loops would be > useful. This could take an existing component and show how to register a > new ping and pong; or show how to do the same in browser.js. > > * Showing how to run a Robocop test locally, how to add a new Robocop > test, how to disable a test. > > * Providing an overview of Fennec start up, how Gecko gets instantiated, > when browser.js gets called, how to register things to happen early in the > cycle, when add-ons get initialized, etc. > > * Detailing how packaging and signing works, walking through pushing > Fennec to device via ADB, showing the layout of the package on device, > where files and shared preferences live, and where per-profile bits go > could be useful. > > * It used to be difficult to build Fennec. In some ways, it still is; but > I don't see nearly as many new contributors who are completely unable to > build. We don't support building Fennec on the Windows platform, so I'm > sure that makes things simpler. A video about building Fennec has limited > value because it would be OS and machine dependent. > > Please suggest others! I'm a decent fit for writing and recording some of > the ideas above, but a terrible fit for others (browser.js? actual > front-end code?) > > Yours, > Nick > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >
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