{"id":9112,"date":"2023-10-05T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=9112"},"modified":"2023-10-05T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:10:37","slug":"changes-to-android-extension-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2023\/10\/05\/changes-to-android-extension-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Android extension signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently identified a bug in the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org?utm_source=blog.mozilla.org&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_content=amo-api-v3-deprecation\">addons.mozilla.org<\/a> (AMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/addons-server.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/topics\/api\/index.html\">external API<\/a> that caused all <a href=\"https:\/\/addons-server.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/topics\/api\/v4_frozen\/signing.html\">signing requests<\/a> to mark extension submissions as being Android compatible. A fix for this bug will be pushed on Thursday, October 12th.<\/p>\n<p>When the fix lands, the signing endpoint will stop marking extensions as being Android compatible by default, and instead check the extension\u2019s manifest.json for a property in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Mozilla\/Add-ons\/WebExtensions\/manifest.json\/browser_specific_settings\"><code>\"browser_specific_settings\"<\/code><\/a> named &#8220;gecko_android&#8221;. If present, that object\u2019s <code>\"strict_min_version\"<\/code> and <code>\"strict_max_version\"<\/code> properties will be used to set the Firefox for Android minimum and maximum values on AMO.<\/p>\n<p>This change also affects community tools that send signing requests to AMO using the web API. This includes, but is not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/Add-ons\/WebExtensions\/Getting_started_with_web-ext#Signing_your_extension_for_distribution\">web-ext sign<\/a>, a CLI tool for developing<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/Add-ons\/WebExtensions\"> WebExtensions<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/sign-addon\/\">sign-addon<\/a>, a library for general programmatic use in<a href=\"https:\/\/nodejs.org\/\"> NodeJS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What do I need to do?<\/h2>\n<p>To continue marking your extension as Android compatible on AMO, ensure that your manifest.json file includes a <code>\"browser_specific_settings.gecko_android\"<\/code> object. You can declare the minimum browser version supported using the <code>\"strict_min_version\"<\/code> properties of this object.<\/p>\n<p>To stop marking your extension as Android compatible on AMO, ensure that your manifest.json file does not include a <code>\"browser_specific_settings.gecko_android\"<code> object.<\/code><\/code><\/p>\n<p>For example, to signal that your extension works in Firefox for Android, you would include the following snippet in your extension\u2019s manifest.<\/p>\n<pre>  \"browser_specific_settings\": {\r\n    \"gecko_android\": {}\r\n  }\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>You may also want to check the version compatibility settings for your extension on AMO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently identified a bug in the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) external API that caused all signing requests to mark extension submissions as being Android compatible. 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