774432 - Investigate auto-download of Nightly/Aurora updates when using WiFi

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Here are some misc ideas about improving the Fennec updater for Nightly and Aurora channels:

* Download updates using Android Service so download can continue after user exits Firefox.

* Possible heuristics for automatically downloading updates over WiFi:

  if update is available {
      if WiFi is connected {
          Automatically download update.
          Notify user a downloaded update is ready to be installed.
      } else {
          WiFi is disconnected (but enabled) or disabled.
          if Firefox has used WiFi recently (less < X days ago) {
              Wait Y hours for WiFi connection and try again.
          } else {
              Notify user an update is ready to be downloaded.
          }
      }
  }

* Add download preference UI?
  (*) "Automatically download updates (Wi-Fi only)" (Default?)
  ( ) "Automatically download updates (Wi-Fi or Mobile network)"
  ( ) "Check for updates, but let me choose whether to download them"

* Delay update notification until Fennec has been running for X minutes? Users typically have a specific goal in mind when they launch the browser. We don't want to annoy them by getting in their way with an immediate update notification.

Comment 1

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

FWIW: ConnectivityManager has some methods that might help us use System prefs here rather than adding our own. Then again, they look mostly related to background data usage and even those are confusingly deprecated in ICS....

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/ConnectivityManager.html

Comment 2

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

More FWIW: The Mozilla Updater already has built-in "Delay update notification until Fennec has been running for X minutes" and I don't think we need to add any UI prefs.

In fact, I don't think we need to add any prefs for this as long as it is not being used for Beta/Release. As long as it's Nightly/Aurora, we can just add the logic to the existing code.

Comment 3

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

FWIW, the UI prefs were blassey's idea. <:)

Comment 4

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Snorp's rewrite of Fennec's updater implemented this feature.