1004715 - [meta] Home screen widgets

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Josh Dover [:jdover]]

Add a search and reading list homescreen widget

Comment 1

[Josh Dover [:jdover]]

Attachment: WIP - Add basic search widget.

Comment 2

[Josh Dover [:jdover]]

Attachment: WIP - Add reading list widget.

Comment 3

[Josh Dover [:jdover]]

Attachment: WIP - Add ReaderList observer methods.

Comment 4

[Josh Dover [:jdover]]

Attachment: WIP - Update reader list widget on reader list change.

Comment 5

[Josh Dover [:jdover]]

Notes:
- Any ListView or GridView based widgets will not work on 2.2 or 2.3 devices. Right now the reading list one just crashes, need to disable it for these older devices.
- I need an appropriately sizes / styled FF logo. Should remove the drop shadow.
- 'New tab' button doesn't seem useful to me.

Comment 6

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Attachment: List Widget v2 WIP

Playing with this now. This is an attempt to have one widget that dynamically switches between a list and a single row based on its size. It also allows using different lists than just your reading list. It also supports being put on the lock screen, and if the lockscreen is password protected, loading in Guest mode from it.

Lots of bugs/styling/other stuff. Just saving my place.

Comment 7

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Attachment: WIP

Saving state here. This supports... a bunch of things. Hub panels (somewhat), Guest browsing, etc. I'm going to split this up into other things like bug 1035642 (and features built on top of it).

Mark does want two widgets here. One for launching and one for hub panels, so I'm going to move forward that way. If UX wants one widget like this that switches between modes (I like it :)) we should discuss.

Comment 8

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I feel that each widget "concept" should be a separate widget itself. Making a single widget do it all is kinda glitzy, I think people will have trouble discovery all the different "concepts" built into a single widget.

I envision:
* a lockscreen widget for opening Firefox into guest browsing
* a simple search activity widget for launching the search activity (and Firefox)
* a content widget that can show various homepanel content sources

Comment 9

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

* a lockscreen widget for opening Firefox into guest browsing
* a simple search activity widget for launching the search activity (and Firefox)

These I do plan to make the same widget. In fact, based on this WIP, most of the logic to start in guest mode can just be in Fennec itself. i.e. When it starts it asks "Is the lockscreen locked? Oh, then I should be in guest mode." Similarly, the widget just asks "Am I on a secure lock screen? Then the 'New Tab' button should say 'Guest Mode' instead." The rest of the code is identical (we can even have a special preview image for the lock screen widget).

Anyway, those a technical details, but just don't want to get confused on the "separate" widgets idea.

Comment 10

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

I split this up into smaller bits. Making this a meta bug and un-assigning.

Comment 11

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Widget is removed in 58+