837135 - [wifi] show a spinner or another animation or change the text when we start connecting to a wifi network

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::First Time Experience, defect)

Description

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

On the WiFi page in FTU, there is no immediate feedback that we started connecting to a wifi network. Sometimes the first feedback can come 1 or 2 seconds after the action.

This is bad and we should take one of the 3 following solutions:

* change the status text immediately; probably the easiest but needs l10n
* display a "wifi connecting" icon where the wifi icon is
* display a spinner somewhere

My preference would go to both 1st and 2nd solution together, but I'd be happy with at least one of them for v1.

Marking blocking as I'd really want this in v1, remember this is our first impression and I think it's not risky.

Comment 1

[Fernando Campo (:fcampo)]

This could be a block for #811149, as it includes some more feedback changes (including this one)

Comment 2

[Fernando Campo (:fcampo)]

Bringing UX for feedback on the matter
Sergi, what do you think of the possibilities Julien is providing?

Comment 3

[Sergi]

I think we should change the status text immediately, as you say in point 1, and reinforce the connection process by using an animation on the wifi icon (Blue lines are animated over the gray icon to reflect something's happening there). When the connection is stablished the wifi icon will remain blue indicating the current signal quality.

I'd recommend to take a look to the screenshots in this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811149

Comment 4

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

While this is annoying and less than ideal it wouldn't block shipping, we'll track and look at an approval nomination for risk evaluation when one is ready.

Comment 5

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Batch edit: Bugs marked status-b2g18: affected after 2/13 branching of v1.0.1 are now also status-b2g18-v1.0.1: affected

Comment 6

[Fernando Campo (:fcampo)]

Fixed together with bug 811149 on commit https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/7d6c46344f6f89bc4b7232450bf5cdce8ba30982

Comment 7

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

from bug 811149#c33:

Uplifted commit 7d6c46344f6f89bc4b7232450bf5cdce8ba30982 as:
v1-train: 4846f80b313b241431c4842114287e1edc036051