628144 - Implement OS and manufacturer detection mechanism for Android

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110123 Firefox/4.0b10pre
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Current Fennec doesn't feel native in any GUI environment. We should implement mechanism that detects on which OS version is Fennec running (3 categories: 2.2-, 2.3+ and 3.0*), as well as which manufacturer phone is (because of their custom skins). Requesting blocking Fennec.next when possible.

* Android 3.0 is pure tablet OS and I don't know what plans Mozilla has in this matter.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

We already identify the device information:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/base/nsSystemInfo.cpp#145

We could also add Android OS version too. None of this affects the way Fennec looks.

As a rule, specific bugs are more helpful. This bug is INVALID in my opinion. Open specific bugs to address look and feel issues.

One bug we should have is getting the current Android system colors pulled into the -moz-xxx named colors for use in CSS

Comment 2

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

I'm sorry, I was in believe there isn't such bug:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=10343093#p10343093

I want to fill meta bug for all skins, then to fill separate bugs for each skin. Is that OK?