1185785 - (webext-android) [tracking] Extension API for Android

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(WebExtensions :: Android, defect, P3)

Description

[Bill McCloskey [inactive unless it's an emergency] (:billm)]

Filing this to track progress on making the extension API in bug 1175770 work in Fennec.

Comment 1

[Mindaugas <LA-MJ>]

Is the plan to have day-1 feature parity with desktop Firefox?

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to 4mr.minj from comment #1)
> Is the plan to have day-1 feature parity with desktop Firefox?

No.  There's an early release riding the trains for Firefox 42 on Desktop; there's nothing likely to hit Fennec until at least Fennec 44.  billm or margaret or mfinkle may have color to add here.

Comment 3

[Bill McCloskey [inactive unless it's an emergency] (:billm)]

Yes, we're probably not going to have Android support for a few releases.

Comment 5

[Andy McKay]

Taking off a blocker for 1.0, we'll see if we can get the toolkit APIs and basic support working, but if we can't it won't block.

Comment 6

[Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)]

Added to Fx48 Aurora release notes

Comment 7

[Barbara Bermes [:barbara] - NI please!]

Talking to marketing about this, how much of this work will land in 48 and depending on that, is it worth mentioning?

Comment 8

[Andy McKay]

In Firefox 48 there is support for Android in WebExtensions, enabling developers to write ONE extension for Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Firefox for Android, assuming that they stick to the APIs that Android provides (as documented on MDN).

I think this is a big deal and we should talk about it a lot :)

Amy is doing some co-ordination of the Firefox 48 message, so adding a need info.

Comment 9

[Amy Tsay [:amyt]]

Adding Arcadio, who is working to tie together WebExtensions messaging for 48.

Comment 10

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Why does this ticket block bug 1161828 (parity with Chrome extension API)? Chrome for Android does not support any browser extensions.

Comment 11

[Matthew Wein [:mattw]]

Yeah you're right, it shouldn't block Chrome Parity.

Comment 12

[Andy McKay]

Using this tracking bug for the first pass at high profile extensions on Android and the first wave of Android WebExtensions.

Comment 13

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Looks like we're shipping this to beta 56. Can you suggest a release note? Or maybe it needs developer documentation at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/56.

Comment 14

[Wesley Huang [:wesley_huang] (EPM) (NI me)]

I had transitioned Fennec relevant tasks to 1e Wesly since July. (sorry about the names being confusing)
BTW, I thought the extension changes will be in 57, but looks like some are partially going into 56.

Comment 15

[Wesly Huang (EPM)]

(In reply to Liz Henry (:lizzard) (needinfo? me) from comment #13)
> Looks like we're shipping this to beta 56. Can you suggest a release note?
> Or maybe it needs developer documentation at
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/56.

Hi Andy, seems it was talked about in Firefox 48 and maybe worth mentioning again since it's riding 56? Would you help on Liz's inquiry in comment13? Thanks.

(In reply to Andy McKay [:andym] from comment #8)
> In Firefox 48 there is support for Android in WebExtensions, enabling
> developers to write ONE extension for Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Firefox for
> Android, assuming that they stick to the APIs that Android provides (as
> documented on MDN).
> 
> I think this is a big deal and we should talk about it a lot :)
> 
> Amy is doing some co-ordination of the Firefox 48 message, so adding a need
> info.

Comment 16

[Andy McKay]

A release note was added I believe. At least I typed one into a google doc somewhere.

Comment 17

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

fennec does not depend on geckoview.

moving fennec work out of p2

Comment 18

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

This looks historic to me; In WebExtensions pages we don't tend to record mobile support for Extensions anyway, so I'm not really sure what would be done here.

Comment 19

[Marcel Klehr]

If this is still relevant, I think it's missing the following https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330160

Comment 20

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

We're not actively using this bug to track bugs any more.
Watch WebExtensions::Android and GeckoView::Extensions to see relevant bugs.