1135362 - Use fxpay for Android payments

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Payments/Refunds, defect, P1)

Description

[Andy McKay]

The effort to get mozPay working on Android is still ongoing and something that should probably keep up. However:
* once it does land it will have to go through the train
* it won't land this quarter
* we recommend developers use fxpay anyway for in-app payments
* you have to use fxpay for desktop in-app payments

I really don't see much of a downside to turning on fxpay for Android and working around the current issues. Then when the mozPay fixes land and the whole flow works on Android, we can turn it off in fxpay and use the native flow.

The upshot is, we have Android out and people using it sooner and we can wait till mozPay is all fine. 

See bug 1134466, bug 1123849, bug 1130057, bug 1097928 etc which have to work their way through the train.

Comment 1

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

I'll add that there's no technical reason we need mozPay on Android. There's no Trusted UI and there's nothing else that should prevent us from doing payments with standard web technology.

Comment 2

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So thinking about this it's probably a case of tweaking this line to exclude android: https://github.com/mozilla/fxpay/blob/c37e40a57eece66daee2edcea653d566596a5a5b/lib/fxpay/pay.js#L16

And anything popup related that looks at capabilities.navPay e.g. https://github.com/mozilla/fxpay/blob/c37e40a57eece66daee2edcea653d566596a5a5b/lib/fxpay/pay.js#L16 so you get the popups on android.

Comment 3

[Andy McKay]

This also assumes that bug 1135261 isn't going to occur on Android as well. I tried installing http://webapprt-win.paas.allizom.org/ as an app to check on my Android and it just crashes on starting up the webapp on my Android, so not sure yet :(

Comment 4

[Andy McKay]

Oops, took a nightly update and its working again. It fails to open a popup on Android runtime at all and the "window reference was falsey".

Comment 5

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

Looks like we're going to set this aside for now

Comment 6

[Andy McKay]

We can re-open this if we file its worthwhile doing.