1290012 - Introduce setting to enable experimental activity stream feature

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

As soon as we have a first, showable version of Activity Stream on Android, we want to enable it for at least Nightly so that some folks can start using/testing it while we iterate. We do not want to just enable this for all users so let's start with a setting that will show up if the build flag is enabled

Comment 1

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

https://trello.com/c/ht4aaTsM/43-i-want-to-have-early-access-to-new-activity-stream-features

Comment 2

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Attachment: Bug 1290012 - Introduce setting to enable experimental activity stream feature.

If the app is build with MOZ_ANDROID_ACTIVITY_STREAM enabled then a preference for
activity stream will appear in the 'advanced' section. All upcoming activity stream
features should check ActivityStream.isEnabled() at runtime.

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/67834/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/67834/

Comment 3

[Andrzej Hunt :ahunt]

Comment on attachment 8775694 [details]
Bug 1290012 - Introduce setting to enable experimental activity stream feature.

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/67834/#review65090

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9aa406751838
Introduce setting to enable experimental activity stream feature. r=ahunt

Comment 5

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9aa406751838

Comment 6

[Carmen Fat [:cfat] - Ecosystem QA]

Tested with latest Nightly build 54.0a1 (2016-02-06) using following devices:
- Huawei Honor 5x (Android 5.1.1);
- Nexus 9 (Android 7.1.1)

After installing Switchboard experiments add-on and tapping on "activity-stream" in about:experiments, an Experimental Features area is displayed in the Advanced option from browser's menu. That area mentioned contains the Activity stream title, short description and enabling switch button.

Marking this bug as Verified.