Build Firefox for Android on Ubuntu and test it on Windows!
Sadly, right now (and until bug 1169873 is fixed), it’s not possible to build Firefox for Android on Windows. That’s not nice, especially if you need to track down some Android-only failures triggered by your code 🙂 Until recently I was able to run my Android Virtual Device within my Ubuntu Virtual Machine (yeah, tricky). Then something broke in OracleVM (ticket 12941), preventing me from starting the Android emulator. Here comes the good news: there’s a way to spawn an Android emulator on Windows, build Firefox for Android on a VM and then run it....