1236843 - DLC: What to do if the user is always on a metered connection

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

To avoid spending precious (and sometimes expensive) mobile traffic we do not download any content on metered networks (bug 1233785). However if the user is always on a metered network then this means we are never downloading the content.

Should we always download small files (for example < 100 KB)? But what if those files in total are a big chunk again.

If we never see a non-metered network then should we just go ahead and download the files anyways?

Do we need to monitor the DLC traffic to throttle the downloads on metered networks?

Comment 1

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Note: ConnectivityManagerCompat.isActiveNetworkMetered() has different implementations based on the Android version.

Comment 2

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