Minutes from Oct 31 Mobile Tech Leads meeting

[Nicholas Alexander]

Hello ghosts and ghouls,

The Mobile Tech Leads met on Wednesday, Oct 31 (NA/AU timezones) to
celebrate Hallowe'en. I was the only one in costume, which -- let me tell
you -- was very disappointing. Unless, of course, everybody came disguised
as Mozilla engineers...

The discussion
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/13ZqcDtmedjAykVveOlZSFYP5tWi2i6G5dCzUuHEBY0U/edit#heading=h.cqzbenie95p3>
was dominated by status updates from the various sub-projects. The major
points are:

- Android Components and Application Services are still pushing on the
shared interfaces to make the Kotlin-to-Rust connections as smooth as
possible. The patterns are still being set but the FxA client library is
looking pretty good.
- Application Services published the first version of the history
storing library
<https://bintray.com/bintray/jcenter?filterByPkgName=places>. Next up,
Sync 1.5 support!
- A proposed networking API
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405081> to expose in
GeckoView is looking healthy.

Remember to brush and floss after all of that Hallowe'en candy,
Nick

[Stefan Arentz]

Post by Nicholas Alexander
- A proposed networking API
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405081> to expose in
GeckoView is looking healthy.

What is the reason for doing network requests through GeckoView? I'm
curious what the use case is.

S.

[Sebastian Kaspari]

As I understand it's for all the reasons we wanted to have a standalone
Necko. For apps that already include GeckoView it kind of comes for free -
we just need to expose it.

For app code I would love to use it to avoid all the issues we saw in
Fennec whenever we used a different network stack (e.g. downloading
favicons).

Post by Stefan Arentz

Post by Nicholas Alexander
- A proposed networking API
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405081> to expose in
GeckoView is looking healthy.

What is the reason for doing network requests through GeckoView? I'm
curious what the use case is.
S.
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