780720 - Promote the marketplace app when user tries to open a marketplace URL in the browser

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, defect, P2)

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

If and when a user tries to open a marketplace URL in their browser, we should either 

a) Ask them if they want to launch the marketplace app instead (and let them)
b) If they have deleted the marketplace app for whatever reason, prompt them to install it.

Also, we need to give them a setting to not be prompted again.

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Is there something here for the marketplace team to do?

Comment 2

[Potch [:potch]]

so long as we don't do this: 

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/app.png

Comment 3

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

We can reuse existing banner to code to do this. This will be very nice to have for Fireplace.

Comment 4

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

Is this bug now to use WebActivities to fire up the 'place when we detect that you're on FXOS and not in a chromeless environment?

Comment 5

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Matt Basta [:basta] from comment #4)
> Is this bug now to use WebActivities to fire up the 'place when we detect
> that you're on FXOS and not in a chromeless environment?

Yep.

Comment 6

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Michael, if you get a chance to take a look at this, that'd be awesome - thanks!

Comment 7

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

If we can get UX for this, we can display a banner like this:

{% if not capabilities.chromeless %}
...
{% endif %}

Comment 8

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

I can knock these out.

Do we have specific copy for each banner?

Comment 9

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Michael Maslaney from comment #8)
> Do we have specific copy for each banner?

Hey there, Matej - if you have a quick minute we could use your copy skillz for comment 0. We need a short sentence pitching users to launch (or install) use the Marketplace app for those users visiting the Marketplace from a web browser.

Comment 10

[Matej Novak [:matej]]

Totally happy to help. Would something as simple as this work?

"Would you like to use the Firefox Marketplace app instead?"

Comment 11

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

Attachment: Marketplace App Prompt

Mocks:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lsnt8iimyb5w7t8/Marketplace_Prompts.zip

Prototype (Spinner Interaction):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/caiqekfn8wraqbh/Marketplace_Prompt_Prototype.key

Assets:

Below

Comment 12

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

Attachment: Rocket

Comment 13

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

Attachment: Rocket 2x

Comment 14

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

Attachment: Spinner

Comment 15

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

Attachment: Spinner 2x

Comment 16

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

Let me know if you need these in SVG format.

Comment 17

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Michael Maslaney from comment #16)
> Let me know if you need these in SVG format.

Can we get these in SVG format?

Comment 18

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

Attachment: Rocket SVG

Comment 19

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

Working on the spinner, not sure if this will scale because of the transparency.

Comment 20

[Michael Maslaney [:mmaslaney] ([e-mail])]

Attachment: Marketplace App Prompt

Mocks:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2nwue48qg985mxf/Marketplace_Prompts_v3.zip

Comment 21

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

Looks like we have what we need for this. Marking as New and unassigning Michael so someone can jump on it.

Comment 22

[Kevin Ngo [:ngoke]]

Should this affect Desktop or be limited only to mobile browsers?

Comment 23

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

It should be limited to platforms that support packaged app installation. cvan added a line to capabilities.js to detect that.

Comment 24

[Kevin Ngo [:ngoke]]

Currently, this is blocked on having troubles firing WebActivities to the packaged Marketplace on FxOS.

Comment 25

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

(In reply to Kevin Ngo [:ngoke] from comment #24)
> Currently, this is blocked on having troubles firing WebActivities to the
> packaged Marketplace on FxOS.

Working on a timeline for that in email.

Comment 26

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

We can do this now - webactivities have landed.

Comment 27

[Andy McKay]

Showing messages about "you should open this in our app" is the most annoying thing ever. We could this through web activities, but as yet there isn't any functionality in the app that the site doesn't. We feel it would make more sense to redirect people to the app when there is something they can't do through the web.

Comment 28

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

+1 the only reason I can see we might want users to use the app is if there's an active user session there and rumour has it that apps have better perf than the browser does on FxOS.