1091718 - Pass intent:// urls to notifications

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Notifications.jsm currently lets you register some javascript to be notified when a notification is clicked or closed. It would be nice to avoid loading Gecko if we don't need to (i.e. if you click a downloaded file, just launch it).

On potential way to do this would be to have Notificaions.jsm send up an intent:// url to java itself rather than sending a bunch of keys and having Java build the intent. For the default case, that intent url would be built by Notifications.jsm itself and would just do what our current notification clicking code does. For custom cases, the intent could launch a different app/app-picker.

I think having the ability to create intent urls in JS would likely be useful in other places as well (i.e. a home-panel that wants to launch an app when a page is clicked), so I'd like to factor it into its own jsm.

I have some worries about building intent urls in JS working correctly across all versions of android but the algorithm for it is pretty simple and hasn't changed much in the last few years.

androidxref.com/4.2.2_r1/xref/frameworks/base/core/java/android/content/Intent.java#6514

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