1024724 - Can't install app if Fennec is in Italian

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Web Apps (PWAs), defect, P1)

Description

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

STR:
Start nightly
Change language to Italian
Go to https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/sketchy/ and install

Results:
After a long pause, you get a "Error parsing manifest" error screen (I think from Android, not us)

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

"locales": {
        "fa": {
            "name": "Sketchy",
            "description": "\u0628\u0631\u0646\u0627\u0645\u0647\u200c\u06cc \u0631\u0627\u06cc\u06af\u0627\u0646 \u0637\u0631\u0627\u062d\u06cc/\u0646\u0642\u0627\u0634\u06cc"
        },
        "en": {
            "name": "Sketchy",
            "description": "Free Sketch/Paint app"
        }
    }

That description for farsi looks 'sketchy'.

Comment 2

[Martyn Haigh (:mhaigh)]

Instructions for getting locales working in Fennec: http://160.twinql.com/building-and-testing-multi-locale-firefox-for-android/

Note: I've been unsuccessful at getting this to work so far.

Comment 3

[Daniele "Mte90" Scasciafratte]

I've installed apps in the marketplace with Firefox for Android in italian without problems.
Maybe this app have some problems in other languages.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Happy to help with this.

Comment 5

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)

> That description for farsi looks 'sketchy'.

Hurrrrh.

Looks like برنامه‌ی رایگان طراحی/نقاشی, which seems valid to me.

My blind guess at this bug: we fail at this stage if the app doesn't provide a localized name for the selected locale.

Comment 6

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Cannot reproduce this with current fx-team.

Comment 7

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Wes: what version of Android? I'm testing on 4.4.mumble.

Comment 8

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

I was on 4.3.2 at the time (Verizon, US Galaxy S3). My phone has updated to 4.4 since though (and this works now).

Comment 9

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Per bug 1235869, we're going to disable the Android web runtime, so we won't fix this bug in it.

(This is part of a bulk resolution of bugs in the Firefox for Android::Web Apps component, from which I attempted to exclude bugs that are not specific to the runtime, but it's possible that I included one accidentally.  If so, I'm sorry, and please reopen the bug!)