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Using Github actions to regularly test an external project

Suppose you contribute to an existing open source project, and are interested in regularly running a custom workflow (e.g. static analysis, or tests with sanitizers, or other checks) against that project. To give a concrete example: I wanted to start

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ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH improvements

When running code under sanitizers such as ASAN, you may wish to override the default symbolizer using: (Although it’s currently not mentioned in the docs, there are equivalent LSAN_/MSAN_/UBSAN_ combinations should work with those respective sanitizers. Similarly you can even

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Tracking Protection for Android’s WebView

Unlike iOS (really just Safari), Android has no content blocking API. Tracking protection is available in some browsers, e.g. Firefox in combination with addons (and also in Firefox’s private browsing which includes tracking protection enabled by default). For fun, we

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Postbuild gradle commands in Buddybuild for Android

We’re currently using Buddybuild as our CI system for Firefox Focus for Android. It’s been a great solution for getting CI running with minimal hassle, and it also provides the infrastructure to quickly deploy builds for internal testing. Although Buddybuild

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Fun with VectorDrawable’s (or: how to make them work everywhere)

We recently started trying to use VectorDrawable’s – this is as part of an effort to reduce and minimise app size. VectorDrawable’s are a vector image format, based on SVG. Reliably using them across multiple Android versions, and a diverse

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Some Impress Remote Improvements

Over the course of the summer I’ve been adding some minor improvements to various parts of the Impress Remote — both on the Server and Android components. Remote Deauthorisation & Dialog Improvements (for WiFi connected remotes) (Implemented at the Paris

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LibreOffice on Android #3 – Calc Documents

After a somewhat painful debugging experience*, it’s now possible to view Calc documents on Android too. This combines the Calc Tiled Rendering work (thanks to the Google Summer of Code) with the LibreOffice Android Viewer developed by Collabora (thanks to

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Calc & Impress Tiled Rendering, and LOKDocView

At the Libreoffice Conference 2014 in Bern I gave some very brief talks, both related to my work this summer on tiled rendering (and the possibilities of reuse in external applications): Calc and Impress Tiled Rendering A shortish talk (as

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Calc & Impress Tiled Rendering preview

Recently I’ve been working on Calc and Impress tiled rendering, with some results now becoming visible: Impress Impress Tiled Rendering is now integrated into master — there are still some issues, i.e. foreground images are not shown yet (this is

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LibreOfficeKit GTK+ Viewer Widget

Easily integrating LibreOffice directly into any other application is now a step closer thanks to the new GTK+ lok_docview widget (currently only on the feature/gtkbmptiledviewer2 branch, API and naming liable to change, usual disclaimers, etc.). It currently sports a very

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