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Firefox for Mobile Devices
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We have several different mobile products aimed at different tasks,
devices, and audiences:
- Building **Firefox for Android** (codename: fenix). Our general-purpose
mobile browser is split into several different artifact layers:
- `The fenix Android application </mobile/android/fenix.html>`_
- `The android-components Android library <https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/tree/main/android-components>`_
- `The GeckoView platform </mobile/android/geckoview>`_
our general-purpose browser for iOS with desktop sync built-in.
- Building **Firefox Focus**, our privacy-focused browser for
- `Android <https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/tree/main/focus-android>`_. This browser
also uses the android-components library and GeckoView platform, like Firefox for Android
For both Desktop and Mobile development, please bear the following in
mind:
- While you can build Firefox on older hardware it can take quite a bit
of time to compile on slower machines. Having at least 8GB of RAM is
recommended, and more is always better. The build process is both CPU
and I/O intensive, so building on a machine with an SSD is also
strongly preferred.
- Fast broadband internet is strongly recommended as well. Both the
development environment and the source code repository are quite
large.
- Though you can build Firefox to run on 32-bit machines, the build
process for almost all of our products requires a 64-bit OS.