790456 - Offline installation of webapps

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: DOM: Apps, defect)

Description

[cscott]

In order for web apps to be a feature-matched cousin of "traditional" android/iOS apps, there should be a way to install them while the device is offline.

In my deployment scenario, I am deploying educational apps to children in Ethiopia, far from any internet connection.  The webapps use the HTML5 app cache and so run completely off-line, but there's currently no way to install them in the field (except perhaps via filesystem hacking over adb).

There should be a mechanism to install a webapp and preload its application cache without requiring internet access (probably via a file:/// url or an Android intent).

Comment 1

[cscott]

It's been suggested that bug 777404 might be related.

I see that the Product has been switched from Firefox to Android to Core.  I would like to ensure that the eventual mechanism for offline installation is scriptable both from a traditional command line and from (something like) Android intents.  Can bug 790457 stand for the "Android Intent" part of this issue, or should I open separate "scriptable from command-line" and "scriptable from android" sub bugs of this issue?

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to cscott from comment #1)
> It's been suggested that bug 777404 might be related.
> 
> I see that the Product has been switched from Firefox to Android to Core.  I
> would like to ensure that the eventual mechanism for offline installation is
> scriptable both from a traditional command line and from (something like)
> Android intents.  Can bug 790457 stand for the "Android Intent" part of this
> issue, or should I open separate "scriptable from command-line" and
> "scriptable from android" sub bugs of this issue?

For the android intent issues, I'd file them in FF Android --> Web Apps. For general mozapps API bugs (which I thought this one was), I'd file it in Core --> DOM: Apps.

Comment 3

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Core Graveyard / DOM: Apps is inactive. Closing all bugs in this component.