1109320 - Open with app icon missing from mobile.twitter.com

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P2)

Description

[bug.zilla]

Attachment: Twitter.png

Open with app icon missing from mobile.twitter.com. See attachment.
Works in Opera.

Comment 1

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

I didn't see any such icon in Android stock browser, but the reason might be that I don't have a Twitter app installed. Any idea how it detects whether an app is installed? I thought that wasn't possible..

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

If this version of Opera is using blink. They may have implemented the same chrome intent:// scheme.
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents

Comment 3

[bug.zilla]

Yes, it redirects to twitter://timeline

Comment 4

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

dup of bug 1134005?

Comment 5

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

This one seems different than 1134005 - rather than a 404 for an image, we're not getting the same option to open the timeline in the Android twitter app.

When the UI is building the header view, it checks to see if the user is on a platform that supports the App (iOS and Android), and if it canHandleAppLinks:

TWITTER.add("twitter-header"...
  this.brandbar = a.TwitterBranding.createInstance({template: this.brandBarTemplate,data: {applinks: this.appAvailabile() && this.canHandleAppLinks(),

Here's how that is defined:

canHandleAppLinks: function() {
  return a.Browser.Chrome || a.Browser.Safari
}


Indeed, when they set the href, it's to twitter://timeline. Do we have a bug for supporting Android-style intent protocols? I'm having a hard time finding it. (Closest I can find is Bug 859456)

Comment 6

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

OK, nevermind. Apparently we do support that --just tested in https://miketaylr.com/bzla/twitter.html from Nightly and indeed it opens my Twitter app as expected in Stable. So we can set this to contactready and ask that Firefox on Android is added to the canHandleAppLinks whitelist.

Comment 7

[Michael Ellis]

@ Jeremy - Can you possible help with adding Firefox on Android to the canHandleAppLinks whitelist?

Comment 8

[Jeremy Forrester]

Thanks Mike and Michael for the analysis, i've triaged this as RWEB-1390

Comment 9

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Thanks Jeremy! (also hi!)

Comment 10

[Michael Ellis]

Mike - Can we close this Bug?

Comment 11

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

No, it doesn't look like Twitter has fixed it yet Michael.

Comment 12

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

This is fixed, I saw this just today in the new site.