1191367 - Support waking up Gecko for service worker push notifications

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[(no longer active)]

When we receive a push notification on Android, we cannot assume that Fennec is running.  According to Brad, we're planning to use GCM on Android.  Presumably we're going to have some kind of Android background service for receiving the messages from GCM.

Once we have the message, we will need to start up Gecko and deliver the information about the push to Gecko so that it can wake up the right service worker.  We don't necessarily need a Fennec window at that stage, but the SW may want to open a window, so we need to be able to open one very quickly.

Snorp, can you please find the right people on the mobile team for this?  Thanks!

Comment 1

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

I started working on this a while back in bug 834033 and mostly had it working. Should be reasonably easy to get it going again. I'll just take this myself.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Bug 1179015 covers the GCM bridge.

Morphing the subject to be more specific, given that we'll be using push notifications for several things that don't involve running Gecko.

Comment 3

[SUN Haitao]

Such mechanism is also required while handling persistent notification: while a item in notification center is clicked, there is no guarantee that Fennec is running too.

Comment 4

[SUN Haitao]

The proper way to wake up a service worker seems to change a lot.

Comment 5

[SUN Haitao]

As long as ServiceWorkerManager works the same, e10s redesign won't affect this.

Comment 6

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