Robocop tests need to refer to Android View instances. Such instances are identified by numeric ids. In code, they are referenced by names; R.java translates names into ids. Until Bug 916507 landed, the Robocop package could not reference the Fennec package directly. Instead, a table mapping names to ids was written at build time; this is fennec_ids.txt. This table is no longer necessary; it complicates the build system (leading to bugs like Bug 961339) and makes it more difficult to run Robocop tests locally (since fennec_ids.txt must be pushed to the device). This ticket tracks removing fennec_ids.txt entirely.

gbrown, you have the most context into the history of Robocop as anybody. Any reason to not move on this?

(In reply to Nick Alexander :nalexander from comment #1) > gbrown, you have the most context into the history of Robocop as anybody. > Any reason to not move on this? I am not aware of any reason. I would like to see fennec_ids.txt removed -- seems like a good idea.

I do not see any more bugs blocking this, I assume we can mark this as resolved/fixed?

(In reply to Joel Maher (:jmaher) from comment #3) > I do not see any more bugs blocking this, I assume we can mark this as > resolved/fixed? Yes!