773142 - Android is not detected as a supported platform when submitting new add-ons

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect)

Description

[Diego Casorran [:diegocr]]

Attachment: Sample Add-On which is compatible with Firefox Desktop and Firefox on Android

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120614114901

Steps to reproduce:

Attached you can find an add-on which when submitted Android is not detected as a supported mobile platform (ie. all of the checkboxes are disabled)

The GUIDs used are:

Firefox Desktop: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
Firefox on Android: {aa3c5121-dab2-40e2-81ca-7ea25febc110}

The add-on works fine on both platforms (tested a complex one, not the submitted sample), so it's just the AMO pages which effectively does not detect the add-on compatibility properly (?)

As a workaround, under "Manage Status & Versions" i had to remove the initially submitted file, add Android as compatible platform and then re-submit the add-on from there (this time the add-on package/filename got renamed to <name>-fx+an.xpi which seems to have corrected the issue... hopefully without side effects from known mirror issues..)

Comment 1

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

from the install.rdf:

		<em:targetApplication>
			<Description>
				<!-- Firefox -->
				<em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id>
				<em:minVersion>7.0</em:minVersion>
				<em:maxVersion>16.0a1</em:maxVersion>
			</Description>
		</em:targetApplication>
		<em:targetApplication>
			<Description>
				<!-- Android -->
				<em:id>{aa3c5121-dab2-40e2-81ca-7ea25febc110}</em:id>
				<em:minVersion>10.0</em:minVersion>
				<em:maxVersion>16.0a1</em:maxVersion>
			</Description>
		</em:targetApplication>

At first I thought this would be a dupe of bug 771147, but the maxVersions listed are consistent with those listed on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/pages/appversions/

Comment 2

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

It looks like the minVersion specified for Android is 10.0 but the lowest is 10.a1:

    Versions: 10.0a1, 11.0a1, 11.0a2, 11.0, 11.*, 12.0a1, 12.0a2, 12.0, 12.*, 13.0a1, 13.0a2, 13.0, 13.*, 14.0a1, 14.0a2, 14.0, 14.*, 15.0a1, 15.0a2, 15.0, 15.*, 16.0a1, 16.*

We really ought to be more explicit about this when this happens. It's hard to figure out what the problem is.

Comment 3

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

Ah, you're right, it's the incorrect version range that disallows the Android platform checkboxes. Sigh. That's a much harder problem to fix then I originally thought. We should be catching the form validation error and displaying it somewhere.

Comment 4

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

it's also not as urgent of a problem since hopefully not many people will enter incorrect version ranges.

Comment 5

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/