752572 - Support for web-downloaded APKs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Changes to https://www.mozilla.org/m/firefox/beta/:
* Add "Systems & Languages >>" directly underneath the download button, similar to https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/beta/. Try to re-use any localizations there if possible.
* Link that to https://www.mozilla.org/m/firefox/all-beta.html

Changes to https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all-beta.html to make it into https://www.mozilla.org/m/firefox/all-beta.html:
* We should limit Languages to those that will be ready to ship for our FN14 betas (cc'ing Axel for that info). Languages can be hardcoded into the HTML if necessary
* We only need 2 platform columns - "Phones" and "Tablets"
* For the download button, we'll try to get a version of the icon in http://nightly.mozilla.org/img/icon-android.png that works on a white background. If we can't, let's just use http://nightly.mozilla.org/img/icon-arrow.png

This is a short-term solution, so we should try to reuse as many localized strings as possible and hardcode download links if necessary (I can do that once this is built out).

Design/implementation bugs for a dynamic and more mobile-friendly download page will be forthcoming.

Comment 1

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

A couple of more changes for all-beta.html:
* The link to https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/beta/ should instead be to https://www.mozilla.org/mobile/beta/
* The link to https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/beta/notes/ should instead be  https://www.mozilla.org/mobile/beta/notes/
* The link to https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/aurora/ should instead be to https://www.mozilla.org/mobile/aurora/
* The link to https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/ should instead be to https://www.mozilla.org/mobile/
* All tablet download buttons will point to https://market.android.com/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox_beta, the English phone download will point to https://market.android.com/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox_beta, and the rest will point to FTP downloads

Changes to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/beta/:
* Add "Systems & Languages" linking to https://www.mozilla.org/m/firefox/all-beta.html

Jaclyn - is there a better string that we can use than "Systems & Languages"? I'm only using this string because it's presumably already localized.
WebDev - would it be possible to have the download buttons on https://www.mozilla.org/m/firefox/beta/ and https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/beta/ reference a lookup table for what link should be offered based upon browser localization? Some will be to the store, and others to FTP downloads.


Please hold on moving forward with this until we've had the opportunity to discuss further. We'll reach out to you all (webdev) once we've come to a consensus.

Comment 2

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

(In reply to Alex Keybl [:akeybl] from comment #0)
> Changes to https://www.mozilla.org/m/firefox/beta/:
> * Add "Systems & Languages >>" directly underneath the download button,
> similar to https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/beta/. Try to re-use any
> localizations there if possible.
> * Link that to https://www.mozilla.org/m/firefox/all-beta.html

(In reply to Alex Keybl [:akeybl] from comment #1)
> Changes to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/beta/:
> * Add "Systems & Languages" linking to
> https://www.mozilla.org/m/firefox/all-beta.html

Sorry, in links above https://www.mozilla.org/m/firefox/all-beta.html should be https://www.mozilla.org/mobile/all-beta.html

Comment 3

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

(In reply to Alex Keybl [:akeybl] from comment #1)
> WebDev - would it be possible to have the download buttons on
> https://www.mozilla.org/m/firefox/beta/ and
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/beta/ reference a lookup table for what
> link should be offered based upon browser localization? Some will be to the
> store, and others to FTP downloads.

Please also let us know if it's already possible to offer up different content to phones/tablets based upon UA, screen size, or some other indicator.

Comment 4

[Jaclyn Fu]

"Supported devices and Languages" might be better

Comment 5

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

(In reply to Jaclyn Fu from comment #4)
> "Supported devices and Languages" might be better

Would we be able to get a quick l10n turnaround for that string?

Comment 6

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

The meeting covering our shipping strategy just wrapped up. We expect to know for sure whether this page will be necessary on Wednesday. If waiting till Wednesday to start on this work would miss a 5/15 push to production, we should start prior.

Comment 7

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Is the product-details lib aware of these locale mobile beta builds? Also, you mentioned "Phone" and "Tablet" columns - are there separate builds for Phone & Tablet?

Comment 8

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/libs/product-details/mobileDetails.class.php?revision=104966&view=markup has code for mobile, referring to Pascal on how that actually works.

Re phone vs tablet, yes, those would be different builds. Depending on what we're shipping in the end, they might be on different locale sets, though.

Comment 9

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

(In reply to Steven Garrity from comment #7)
> Is the product-details lib aware of these locale mobile beta builds? Also,
> you mentioned "Phone" and "Tablet" columns - are there separate builds for
> Phone & Tablet?

I think it makes the most sense to just hardcode the links this time around, and do the full build out with product-details support prior to release (weeks later). 

Here are the localizations that we plan to have in our first beta, as promised: https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/dashboard?av=fennec-aurora&signoff=accepted

Comment 10

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

For now, wontfixing. We won't have any web downloaded APKs up for FN beta, but may revisit later. We'll let you all know. Thanks, and sorry for the churn!