1063368 - Android dialog describes Firefox Nightly's casting as "Casting BlasseyTest"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Screencasting, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STR:
 0. Have a chromecast on your wireless network.

 1. In Firefox for Android, do Tools | Mirror Tab.

 2. Drag down the Android top-bar, and tap the upper-right button to get the screen of system widgets (Brightness, Settings, WiFi, etc)
 
 At this point, a "CAST SCREEN" button should appear at the bottom left. (Might take a few seconds.)

 3. Tap "CAST SCREEN".

ACTUAL RESULTS: An Android dialog pops up (to let me cast my full Android screen), which says:
> [name of Chromecast device]
> Casting BlasseyTest

EXPECTED RESULTS:
It should probably say "Casting Nightly" or something like that.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot after step 2 (showing button to press)

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot of final state (showing "BlasseyTest")

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

This is Firefox Nightly, up to date. The "about:" page says 35.0a1 (2014-09-04).

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(For completeness, I should probably provide a sample URL for the STR. Let's use http://theamazingdancingmfinkle.com/ )

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

And it looks like you can replace Step 2 with "Attempt to cast to your Chromecast from any other app, like say YouTube. [just tried that, and got a dialog like attachment 8484796 [details]]

I've confirmed this using my original STR on my Nexus 4 phone (using STR in comment 0) and my Nexus 7 tablet (using YouTube).  Both are running Android 4.4.4.

Comment 6

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

A MXR search for Blassey just turns up two code-comments:
  http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?string=Blassey

So I suspect this isn't coming from the source code anywhere. Maybe we have "BlasseyTest" encoded in our out-of-tree Fennec build configuration somewhere?

Comment 7

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

I am assuming that "BlasseyTest" is the registered name of the receiver application. I don't see the string in Brad's patch for the application in bug 1048335, so it might be part of the "registration" process.

We are moving from Brad's app to a more official app in bug 1056043. We should remember that this string shows up in the UI and make sure it looks good.

Comment 8

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

I changed the name of the app in the receiver application console to "Fennec Mirroring". That should bandaid this until bug 1048335 gets resolved.