1192933 - Fennec never given "Use the App" button if user has Google Docs installed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

1) Install Google Docs app from playstore.
2) Navigate to: https://goo.gl/XDWKfX
3) Click on edit button on top right cornor.

Expected Behavior:  a popup should appear which will ask to use the app instead of browser.

Actual Behavior: On Fennec, its still showing get the app button instead of Use the app button

Comment 1

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

https://webcompat.com/issues/1528

Comment 2

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

So it does look like this is a tech evangelism issue -- if you spoof as Chrome it works as expected.

Basically it boils down to the following: https://gist.github.com/miketaylr/3835cb5ba53315fcb502

If you don't have the substring "Chrome" or "CriOS", you'll never get the OPEN IN APP link.

There's a function Lb which contains:

> b = a.wa ? b + "USE THE APP" : b + "GET THE APP";

And a.wa will eventually only evaluate to true if you're on Chrome.

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Karl, I'm not sure if Google will fix this, but can we let them know? Also, feel free to close this bug and reopen the webcompat one--I thought this might be a Gecko issue.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Sent an explanation to Google. Let's cross fingers.
Thanks mike and swarnava

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

> Thanks for the report. I've forwarded your message along to 
> the Google Docs team and will let you know what I hear back.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

> This is now being tracked by internal issue 23211607, for future reference.

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Swarnava, does it still reproduce?

Comment 8

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

Attachment: tmp_18555-Screenshot_2016-06-06-16-16-41-856021526.png

I can still reproduce this issue on latest Firefox Beta + Samsung Galaxy S4 i9500 running Android 5.1.1

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Thanks Swarnava. 
I  sent a reminder to Google.

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Google's response: 

> The Docs team is tracking this issue, 
> but unfortunately usage from Firefox Android 
> is low so it might take a while for this bug to be prioritized.

Comment 11

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

And then today someone from the Google Docs team!

> I checked in a fix. It should hit production in a couple weeks.

Excellent thanks to him.

Comment 12

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Hey Swarnava, does this still reproduce?

Comment 13

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

Looks like it's working now on. tested on latest Firefox Beta for Android.

Comment 14

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Thanks Swarnava!