1476862 - Allow stopping location service when stopping app

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Dan Jacobson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 8.0.0; Mobile; rv:63.0) Gecko/63.0 Firefox/63.0
Build ID: 20180718100305

Steps to reproduce:

Closed app


Actual results:

 location service kept running


Expected results:

 Some people would like to participate in location service, but do not wish that it would be running all day long. They only want it running when the app is running.

Comment 1

[Andrei Bodea[:andrei]]

Hello Dan Jacobson,

It seems that this is the intended behavior. If you want to stop the Stumbler(location services) please stop it from the device settings(Settings --> Running Services --> Nightly --> Stumbler --> Stop it)

Otherwise if you consider that this should be the design behavior I suggest to change this to an enhancement and we can ask for opinions.

Thanks,
Andrei

Comment 2

[Dan Jacobson]

OK now an enhancement.
Yes please offer to run the location service also when the app is also running.
Else the user cannot fully close the app.
Some users might like it, some not.
Yes, the want to participate, but only when the app is running. Not all day long.
Yes others want all day. So offer the choice.

Comment 3

[Andrei Bodea[:andrei]]

Hello,

Thank you for changing it Dan, I will set this issue as NEW.

Petru can you please discuss this in the team and let us know if the implementation will be changed?

Regards,
Andrei

Comment 4

[Petru-Mugurel Lingurar [:petru]]

I think Product would need to validate this change - only allow Stumbler while the app is active.

Comment 5

[:sdaswani]

Yes, Andreas and Barbara need to chime in here.

Comment 6

[:sdaswani]

Product has said to not work on this enhancement immediately - we'll put it in the backlog.

Comment 7

[Vlad Baicu]

I'm thinking that for this change we should use another checkbox with a default value set to true right below the MLS one. However it is not clear to me exactly as to what the title and summary of the checkbox should be. 

Also, should we consider showing this second checkbox regarding background data collection only if Mozilla Location Service is checked ?

Comment 8

[:sdaswani]

Vlad product has said we can wait on this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476862#c6

Comment 9

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