1825994 - APK direct download link must be available on FF/Android download page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1663735

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, defect)

Description

[Goooog le Morons]

Steps to reproduce:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/android/

Actual results:

Two(one actually) options are available: Get it on guuuuugelPray & Send a download link to your phone(which leads to guuuuugelPray as well).

Expected results:

Third option must be available as well: Download APK(for manual installing)

There are Android devices with no guuuugelPray at all and manual APK management. So, to install FF now to such device, user have to register in guuuuuugelPray, install FF to some guuuuuugelPray-enabled device, extract APK and put it onto device of desire.
That's too hucking much extra user actions. Just direct APK download link - and no problems.
Thanks, guys!

Comment 1

[Benjamin De Kosnik [:bdekoz]]

Agreed. The merged monorepo broke the download links on the main "firefox android" page as well aka
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android

Trying to get the APK by clicking on the "TC" icon under the Title "Firefox for Android" leads to

https://firefox-ci-tc.services.mozilla.com/api/github/v1/repository/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/main/latest

Which shows a "ResourceNotFound" error page on taskcluster.

Comment 2

[Benjamin De Kosnik [:bdekoz]]

Here is the correct URL for firefox-android nightly apk binaries:
https://firefox-ci-tc.services.mozilla.com/api/index/v1/task/mobile.v3.firefox-android.apks.fenix-nightly.latest.arm64-v8a/artifacts/public/build/fenix/arm64-v8a/target.apk

Comment 3

[Benjamin De Kosnik [:bdekoz]]

Hey Pascal, can you help me understand your severity/priority rankings? Is firefox-android not doing nightly releases?

Comment 4

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

(In reply to Benjamin De Kosnik [:bdekoz] from comment #3)

Hey Pascal, can you help me understand your severity/priority rankings? Is firefox-android not doing nightly releases?

You set this bug as S1/P1 which is the signal for an urgent dot release situation (and is the reason why Bugzilla automatically requested tracking for upcoming Firefox releases).
Severity and Priority fields meaning are documented here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO/UserGuide/BugFields#priority

Comment 5

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

You can also download Firefox Android APKs from the https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/fenix/releases/ file server, but they won’t auto-update. Another option for users without Google Play is to install the unofficial “Fennec” builds from F-Droid.

Comment 6

[Jan Brasna [:janbrasna]]

This is probably duplicate of bug 1663735 that lists current blockers and has some options suggested.