Closed Bug 1062316 Opened 10 years ago Closed 6 years ago

[Meta] Instant App Prototype

Categories

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::System, defect)

Product:
Firefox OS Graveyard
Component:
Gaia::System
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: pdol, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: systemsfe)

User Story

This is a meta bug to track the bugs for completing phase 1 of an instant app prototype.

The product scope for this prototype is: 

In Marketplace, when a user selects a listed app, the detail view of the app shows an "open" button, instead of "install". 

When the user clicks the "open" button, a loading screen is shown (either by system app or by marketplace- tbd) until the app is ready to open directly and "instantly" afterwards. (Note: the app install happens in the background and depending on technical difficulty, the app can either be pinned to the homescreen or can be hidden).

Only non-paid apps are in scope.

Attachments

(3 files, 1 obsolete file)

gecko.patch
8.97 KB, patch
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
marketplace.patch
2.47 MB, patch
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
gaia.patch
15.15 KB, patch
Details | Diff | Splinter Review 
      No description provided.
User Story: (updated)
Depends on: 1062318
Depends on: 1062319
Depends on: 1062320
Depends on: 1062325
User Story: (updated)
Depends on: 1062328
Bug 1057348 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug and it is definitely similar, but I want to make sure the detail from that bug is not lost.

This instant app concept sounds like it is focusing on downloading and installing packaged apps in the background and giving the impression that they are just being opened.

Bug 1057348 was more about hosted app listings in the Marketplace actually navigating straight to a URL rather than going through the installation process, which would also make the Marketplace useful on other platforms which do not support the (currently proprietary) Open Web Apps installation API.

The idea proposed in that bug is to navigate straight to live hosted apps and provide "installation" or "bookmarking to the homescreen" as an optional extra step if the user decides they want to keep the app. This is similar to the way EverythingMe apps are currently used in Firefox OS.

It's worth considering how this feature might be effected if in the future we move away from our current proprietary packaged apps and towards a standardised hosted package solution like the W3C TAG is proposing [1].

Another future consideration might be the use of W3C Manifests [2] as a progressive enhancement to a web page so that you can navigate straight to a web app and if a manifest is present then its metadata can be used to provide a more app-like experience, by specifying a display mode with less browser chrome for example.

1. http://w3ctag.github.io/packaging-on-the-web/
2. http://w3c.github.io/manifest/
Changing this into the overall Meta for the followup prototype phases.
Summary: [Meta] Instant App Prototype Phase 1 → [Meta] Instant App Prototype
Depends on: 1081309
Depends on: 1081310
Depends on: 1081312
Depends on: 1081314
Depends on: 1043401
Attached patch gaia.patch (obsolete) — — Splinter Review 

    
    

    
  

      
      
      
      

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Replaces Marketplace app with the custom version from Kevin Ngo.

    
    

    
  

      
      
      
      

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        gaia.patch
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        Attachment #8522218 -
        Attachment is obsolete: true
Depends on: 1098446

    
    

    
  
Firefox OS is not being worked on
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX

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