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title: "This Week in Glean: Glean & GeckoView"
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published_date: "2021-09-17 13:00:00 +0200"
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route: blog
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- mozilla
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- rust
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(“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work. They could be release notes, documentation, hopes, dreams, or whatever: so long as it is inspired by Glean.)
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All "This Week in Glean" blog posts are listed in the [TWiG index](https://mozilla.github.io/glean/book/appendix/twig.html)
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(and on the [Mozilla Data blog](https://blog.mozilla.org/data/category/glean/)).
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This article is [cross-posted on the Mozilla Data blog][datablog].
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[datablog]: https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/09/17/this-week-in-glean-glean-geckoview/
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This is a followup post to [Shipping Glean with GeckoView](/2021/07/26/shipping-glean-with-geckoview/).
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<center>
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## It landed!
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</center>
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It took us several more weeks to put everything into place, but we're finally shipping the Rust parts of the Glean Android SDK with GeckoView
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and consume that in [Android Components](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/pull/10828) and [Fenix](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/20889).
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And it still all works, collects data and is sending pings!
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Additionally this results in a slightly smaller APK as well.
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This unblocks further work now.
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Currently Gecko simply stubs out all calls to Glean when compiled for Android,
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but we will enable recording Glean metrics within Gecko and exposing them in pings sent from Fenix.
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We will also start work on moving other Rust components into mozilla-central in order for them to use the Rust API of Glean directly.
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Changing how we deliver the Rust code also made testing Glean changes across these different components a bit more challenging,
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so I want to invest some time to make that easier again.
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