1355513 - Allow access to microphone and camera permissions not displayed in web apps

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1360658

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Web Apps (PWAs), defect, P1)

Description

[Oana Horvath [:ohorvath - out of office]]

Device: Motorola Nexus 6 (Android 7.0) & LG G4 (Android 5.1)
Build: Nightly 55.0a1 (2017-04-11);

Prerequisite: create the "manifest.install.enabled" pref in about:config and switch it to true, to install web apps.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to device settings and turn off the microphone permission.
2. Visit: https://guitar-tuner.appspot.com (or https://voice-memos.appspot.com) and add it to the home screen.
3. Open the web app and verify if the "Allow Nightly to record audio" pop-up is displayed. 
4. Clear browser settings. Turn on the access to the microphone from the device's settings.
6. Open the web app and tap the record button. 
7. Verify if the microphone access permission doorhanger is displayed.


Expected result:
The microphone access pop-up and doorhanger should be displayed.

Actual result:
Allow access to audio pop-up not displayed, when the microphone permission is off.
Allow access to microphone doorhanger not displayed, when the microphone permission is on.

Comment 1

[Nevin Chen(Not active on Bugzilla)]

I guess this only happens when there already a Fennec full browser app or other WebAppActivity  instances(10?) running.
Cause GeckoAppinterface.getInstance().getActivity() may be taken.
P
The side effect or assumption when I work on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1337692  is wrong. Since there'll be multiple activities at the same time now.

Comment 2

[Oana Horvath [:ohorvath - out of office]]

Hi Nevin, they don't appear when the main browser activity or other webapps are closed either.

Comment 3

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

Definitely a P1. 
We don't need tracking flag for now as it is P1 blocking the standalone mode meta bug.

Comment 4

[Oana Horvath [:ohorvath - out of office]]

Need to add here that the Camera access permission doorhanger also isn't displayed on: https://soyguijarro.github.io/magic-web/ web app. It is displayed in the browser. I've modified the summary to reflect this also.

STR: 
1. Turn off camera permissions from the device settings.
2. Visit https://soyguijarro.github.io/magic-web/. A pop-up is displayed to allow access to camera.
3. Allow access. Wait for the camera permission doorhanger.
Actual result: The doorhanger isn't displayed in the web app as it does in the browser.

Comment 5

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

This also looks fixed with the new message handlers, working on both those examples