1538011 - Glean: Implement activation ping

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Data Platform and Tools :: Glean: SDK, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Per the Github issue:

Fennec telemetry shows 25% more installs than the Google Play Store does (bug 1483927). @fbertsch has specified a new Mobile Activation Ping (in bug 1501822) that includes a hash of the user's Google Ad ID in install/uninstall telemetry to count unique users and avoid double-counting reinstalls.

We want this new Mobile Activation Ping for Fennec (bug 1534451), Fenix (mozilla-mobile/fenix#1028), and other Mozilla apps. Thus, we should probably implement it in an A-C component that Fenix can call and Fennec can copy/paste (assuming Fennec doesn't use A-C components).

fbertsch recommends that We use A-C's Glean component. We can then use the "Ping Format" section of the Mobile Activation Ping spec as a guideline for which metrics to implement.

Fenix Mobile Activation Ping spec:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYklPkL1LYnAnjfeyaiqXJ4uuui8r08GCgN30Iod53k/edit

Google Ad ID can be reset by users. Google's policy requirement is that all apps use this ID in lieu of any others for advertising. We are not using this for advertising so that policy should not apply to us.

Comment 1

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Scheduling for this is still unclear.
Supporting this somewhere 2nd half of April might be realistic?

Comment 2

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

Attachment: GitHub Pull Request