1168164 - Sync UI management API

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Fernando Jiménez Moreno [:ferjm]]

In order to add an UI similar to about:preferences#sync or Android's Sync settings menu on Gaia we need to expose a system only API that we'll probably be used by the Gaia Settings app. This API needs to do things like:

- Allow consumers to specify which data needs to be synchronized (bookmarks, history, passwords, etc.).
- Expose a way to request a sync on demand.
- Expose information like the Firefox Accounts used, the device name and the last sync time.

Comment 1

[Fernando Jiménez Moreno [:ferjm]]

Instead of directly implementing a Sync client for FxOS, we are going to use a Kinto based service [1] to store FxOS related data and this service will handle the synchronization with the Firefox Sync servers. We will be doing the Syncto client on the content side, so we won't don't need this piece for now.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS/Syncto