1003587 - Stumbling (wireless and cellular location collection) as full-time background service

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1038843

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[:garvan]

Rather than perform stumbling only when Firefox has been launched (or launched and backgrounded), implement it as a service which can collect at all times.
Key points:
- the service will only be active after the user has enabled the pre-existing preference to collect this data
- the service will use the passive location provider on Android, which is zero-power

Comment 1

[:garvan]

Additionally:
- aggregate the data, and upload periodically (compressed)

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Miscellaneous note:

Service lifecycles can be tricky if Firefox is installed on the SD card, not to mention after upgrades, upgrades where permissions change, and across Android versions.

It's worth making sure that services are (re)triggered at appropriate points.

Some of the services in the Android Background Services module (most of the source for which lives canonically on <https://github.com/mozilla-services/android-sync>) would be good references for this.

Comment 3

[:garvan]

Fennec stumbling has landed as part of this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038843