1073567 - Add a clock to the lock screen widget

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

I like having the lock screen widget on my home lock screen, but I miss having my the time in REALLY BIG NUMBERS so I don't have to look extra close at my phone to see what time it is.

Could we replace the Firefox logo with the current time? I don't think branding on the lock screen is so important, and we could get some valuable use out of a clock there.

So instead of:
[   ☕   | + New Tab ]
we could have:
[ 11:35 | + New Tab ]

Comment 1

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

The fact that Android only seems to allow one widget per lockscreen is a bit painful, but I don't think we want to turn the Firefox widget into more.

Comment 2

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

We've talked before about things that are missing from Firefox desktop's fullscreen mode, those of which that are stopping people from using fullscreen browsing as their entire OS: a clock, volume meter, and a wifi/network indicator.

I filed this bug because I think it falls in line with the same issue that plagues Firefox desktop. As stated, only one widget can be on a lockscreen at a time, so in order to make this widget useful, we should try to keep (subjectively) one of the most valuable parts of the lock screen.

Comment 3

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Mfinkle brought up potentially support DashClock, which is a launcher widget that shows a clock and some other buttons. DashClock actually lets you specify an app to "launch" when you tap it. If he just fired an intent at Fennec, Fennec is smart enough to handle the Guest/Normal transition itself.

But DockClick seems to think it has to force the keyguard to unlock before launching it. Even if we wrote a widget. you can really only just give it an intent to fire, and AFAICT it still does the unlock trick before firing it. Will have to look harder at it, but I don't think it does what we want...

Comment 4

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

Wes - I initially was thinking of flipping the relationship around. DashClock specifies an API for other plugins to integrate into it.  What if we supported that API (I am talking crazy now) and those plugins could be supported in the Fennec Lockscreen widget?

Then Jared and others could add clocks, widgets and other things to the Fennec widget. We would not need to add clocks and stuff ourselves.

Remember, I said it was a crazy idea.

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Widget is removed in 58+ and Android 5+ dropped support for widgets on the lock screen.