Building a smartphone image is not like building the Firefox browser, or even like compiling a custom kernel. Firefox OS sits atop a number of other projects, including Linux, the Android Open Source Project, and many others. I am not joking! Expect it to take 10 hours or more to fetch the entire source tree. TIME! It will take overnight to download the source code.Read on to create your own build of Firefox OS for a Sony Xperia device… Building Firefox OS These builds also have over-the-air updates, so you can stay up to date as Firefox OS continues to improve! They’re built from the nightly branch of Firefox OS though, so make sure to back up your information regularly.
Thanks to Adam Farden for his work on improving the default look and feel of unbranded Firefox OS builds, and hosting these images. The porting work described in this post is based on this effort and brings Firefox OS to a dozen different Sony devices.īuilds of Firefox OS for a number of Sony devices are now available from the FXP project.
Since then, Sony has started the Open Devices initiative to bring support for AOSP (the Android Open Source Project) to many more of its smartphones. A few years ago, Sony released their first port of Firefox OS, for the Xperia E.
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