[DRAFT] Reusing sync code to persist data of other apps

I want to implement a network persistence/synchronization layer for my Android app.

It looks like the most of server-side infrastructure can be borrowed from Firefox Sync Server codebase as it is.

From a client-side high level perspective, to accomplish the goal, all Fennec entities/collections (tabs, bookmarks, passwords, and so on) need to be replaced by those of my app.

Basing on my experience so far, the practical steps that need to be performed after obtaining sources of this project:

• Run ./preprocess.py script to get real files out of *.in templates
• Rename example.project to .project
• Import .project into Eclipse
• Download missing binary dependencies:
  1. https://code.google.com/p/httpclientandroidlib/
  2. https://code.google.com/p/json-simple/
• Modify .classpath of imported project so that "src" entry looked like this:
• Set target Android version to be at least level 9

By this time code should be compilable and deployable to a hardware device.

Suitable starting point in the code to start with might be:

org.mozilla.gecko.sync.GlobalSession.prepareStages()

This method defines a synchronization workflow.

(to be continued)