Re: Build Icecat for Android

[chippy]

I'm sorry for replying mto myself but I realized that in my previous
message I failed to mention that I understand that support for the
Android build was dropped because of non-free software used for..
well.. building it, but given the enormous importance browsers have in
our life, i believe this is worth investigating and possibly compromise
(on a personal level). Each and every browser I tried, except for
Icecat and Tor Browser, will phone home at the very least if not worse,
and I took a look at the code of FF telemetry and my jaw dropped,
that's way too much info sent over to Mozilla.

Again, thanks for Icecat and for your time.
Chippy
 

On Fri, 2023-03-31 at 10:43 +0200, chippy wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Is anyone currently building Icecat for Android?
> If so, maybe we can share instructions/scripts for this particular
> type
> of build?
> I'm been trying the data/buildscripts but unfortunately it does not
> seem to work for me (besides sdk/ndk versions from toolchain-
> android.sh
> are bit past date, git says 6 years ago), I also tried the
> instructions
> at mozilla.org (planning to apply makeicecat after a successful dry
> run) but it did not work for me as I ended up with zip files instead
> of
> an apk (here also my ignorance on "building apps for Android" plays a
> fairly relevant part).
> The only working attempt was by using gradle with this repository
> https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android , but honestly i do
> not find and/or recognize the source files against wich to run
> makeicecat.
> I've also been looking at the jenkins build log from f-droid but it's
> an awful amount of work, and it's not sure it's gonna work because
> it's
> from version 60~...
> I'm also looking into
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/wikis/Hacking#building-android-tor-browser
> which shed some light on the several components needed to build
> Firefox/Icecat/Torbrowser for Android but it would be so much better
> having an up to date script in this very repository so anyone can
> consistently contribute and/or use it for their mobile, I'm sure many
> people out there would like to build and use Icecat on their mobile.
> 
> Thank you all in advance,
> Chippy
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