1028809 - Sharing Music or Video over email results in unexpected multi-tasking behaviours

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::E-Mail, defect)

Description

[Rob MacDonald [:robmac]]

Steps to Reproduce:
- From Video or Music, tap on the share icon
- Select Email from the list of apps to share from

Actual Behaviour:
Email launches as a separate app and loads the compose view with the correct attachment. Tapping on back button from the compose view returns to Now Playing view within Music. 

Expected Behaviour:
The back button is only used to navigate within an app and is not used for navigating between apps. Instead, the email compose view should be launched as an inline activity. The email compose view will be retained as part of the Video or Music sheet and not show up as a separate task within task switcher.

Related issue Steps to Reproduce
- From Video or Music, tap on the share icon
- Select Email from the list of apps to share from
- Wait for the email compose view to load
- Tap on the home button
- From the home screen, launch the email app

Actual Behaviour
Launching email shows the Video or Music sharing sub-task and, when the user taps on the back button, they are taken back to the music or video app.

Intended Behaviour
The email launch should not be affected by the Video or Music inline activity.

Comment 1

[(inactive after 6/18) Alive Kuo [:alive]]

This is impossible for email app. Email app could not be launched as inline activity.
Asuth could confirm the technical detail.

Comment 2

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

Correct, the email app cannot be an inline activity until platform support for use of our required Web APIs in workers happens.  Once that happens the back-end can be migrated to run in a SharedWorker and we can do inline activities.  It's not clear the platform support is going to happen in time for v2.1 and the follow-on email changes will be nontrivial too, so v2.2 at the earliest seems likely.

Bug 916204 covers most, if not all, the APIs the email app needs on the worker.

Comment 3

[James Burke [:jrburke]]

Clearing the assignment from me since this is still waiting for platform worker changes before it can be assigned.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on