Issue #1053 - Drop support Android and remove Fennec - Part 1a: Remove mobile/android

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- Runtime locale switching in Fennec
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-
-`Bug 917480 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917480>`_ built on `Bug 936756 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936756>`_ to allow users to switch between supported locales at runtime, within Fennec, without altering the system locale.
-
-This document aims to describe the overall architecture of the solution, along with guidelines for Fennec developers.
-
-Overview
-========
-
-There are two places that locales are relevant to an Android application: the Java ``Locale`` object and the Android configuration itself.
-
-Locale switching involves manipulating these values (to affect future UI), persisting them for future activities, and selectively redisplaying existing UI elements to give the appearance of responsive switching.
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-The user's choice of locale is stored in a per-app pref, ``"locale"``. If missing, the system default locale is used. If set, it should be a locale code like ``"es"`` or ``"en-US"``.
-
-``BrowserLocaleManager`` takes care of updating the active locale when asked to do so. It also manages persistence and retrieval of the locale preference.
-
-The question, then, is when to do so.
-
-Locale events
-=============
-
-One might imagine that we need only set the locale when our Application is instantiated, and when a new locale is set. Alas, that's not the case: whenever there's a configuration change (*e.g.*, screen rotation), when a new activity is started, and at other apparently random times, Android will supply our activities with a configuration that's been reset to the system locale.
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-For this reason, each starting activity must ask ``BrowserLocaleManager`` to fix its locale.
-
-Ideally, we also need to perform some amount of work when our configuration changes, when our activity is resumed, and perhaps when a result is returned from another activity, if that activity can change the app locale (as is the case for any activity that calls out to ``GeckoPreferences`` -- see ``BrowserApp#onActivityResult``).
-
-``GeckoApp`` itself does some additional work, because it has particular performance constraints, and also is the typical root of the preferences activity.
-
-Here's an example of the work that a typical activity should do::
-
-  // This is cribbed from o.m.g.sync.setup.activities.LocaleAware.
-  public static void initializeLocale(Context context) {
-    final LocaleManager localeManager = BrowserLocaleManager.getInstance();
-    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.GINGERBREAD) {
-      localeManager.getAndApplyPersistedLocale(context);
-    } else {
-      final StrictMode.ThreadPolicy savedPolicy = StrictMode.allowThreadDiskReads();
-      StrictMode.allowThreadDiskWrites();
-      try {
-        localeManager.getAndApplyPersistedLocale(context);
-      } finally {
-        StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(savedPolicy);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
-    final LocaleManager localeManager = BrowserLocaleManager.getInstance();
-    final Locale changed = localeManager.onSystemConfigurationChanged(this, getResources(), newConfig, mLastLocale);
-    if (changed != null) {
-      // Redisplay to match the locale.
-      onLocaleChanged(BrowserLocaleManager.getLanguageTag(changed));
-    }
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
-    // Note that we don't do this in onResume. We should,
-    // but it's an edge case that we feel free to ignore.
-    // We also don't have a hook in this example for when
-    // the user picks a new locale.
-    initializeLocale(this);
-
-    super.onCreate(icicle);
-  }
-
-``GeckoApplication`` itself handles correcting locales when the configuration changes; your activity shouldn't need to do this itself. See ``GeckoApplication``'s and ``GeckoApp``'s ``onConfigurationChanged`` methods.
-
-System locale changes
-=====================
-
-Fennec can be in one of two states.
-
-If the user has not explicitly chosen a Fennec-specific locale, we say
-we are "mirroring" the system locale.
-
-When we are not mirroring, system locale changes do not impact Fennec
-and are essentially ignored; the user's locale selection is the only
-thing we care about, and we actively correct incoming configuration
-changes to reflect the user's chosen locale.
-
-By contrast, when we are mirroring, system locale changes cause Fennec
-to reflect the new system locale, as if the user picked the new locale.
-
-When the system locale changes when we're mirroring, your activity will receive an ``onConfigurationChanged`` call. Simply pass this on to ``BrowserLocaleManager``, and then handle the response appropriately.
-
-Further reference
-=================
-
-``GeckoPreferences``, ``GeckoApp``, and ``BrowserApp`` are excellent resources for figuring out what you should do.