896005 - [story] Discovery of Marketplace Apps on Android

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tracking :: User Story, defect)

Description

[Caitlin Galimidi [:c8o]]

Android users can browse the FFx Marketplace for "native" apps and download to their devices

Comment 1

[Caitlin Galimidi [:c8o]]

- Signing Keys for APKs
- Reference app for APKs
- Developer experience for submitting APKs

Comment 2

[Caitlin Galimidi [:c8o]]

- Validation
- Install() functions
- ADU stats
- payments
- maintaining the "My Apps" list
- search / optimization
- buchet's buckets (feature /device detection)

Comment 3

[Caitlin Galimidi [:c8o]]

Summary:
- Developer uploads a webapp and Marketplace / Services makes the apk

Open Questions:
- Do Android packages ping daily looking for updates? How do Android apps update?
- How do we make the APK for hosted / packaged apps? ("magical service")
- - - marketplace manages storage
- Is this a service within Marketplace? Or a service open to other marketplaces?
- Can Marketplace detect all the usual device capabilities / functions on Android? ( 
- Security : How to manage signing keys for APKs (per developer) ( James, Vishy, Travis )
- What are the policies around having Android apps in our Marketplace? ( Vishy )
- - - in app payments in APKs?
- - - paid apps in APKs?

Comment 4

[David Almström]

The User Story is divided in two parts:

1. Marketplace able to detect an Android device and its capability
2. The Fennec browser has a menu item that points to FFx Marketplace

#1 The way Marketplace is designed, it should only display apps that can be used on the devices and if the user search for an app that is not available as APK, it can not be downloaded and installed. 

User Stories suggestion:
* As a user, I would like to visit Marketplace to find applications that can be installed on my device
* As a developer, I would like to be able to opt-out from being made available and my application blocked out from a search
* As a user, I would like to easily find applications in the marketplace from the Fennec browsers

Out-of-Scope
* As a user, I would like to have a Marketplace app on Android
* As an OEM, I would like to preinstall the Marketplace app on Android
* As a user, I would like to get E.me search displayed in Marketplace on Android.

Comment 5

[David Almström]

Removed User Story:
API that allows us to promote Android apps in Fennec
menu > about:apps > go to the marketplace


Out of Scope:
Marketplace itself as an app on Android
- App for hardware partners to pre-install

E.Me search results integration

Comment 6

[David Bialer [:dbialer]]

API should be is supported to find featured apps.
http://firefox-marketplace-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/search.html#featured-app-listing

Comment 7

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

> * As a developer, I would like to be able to opt-out from being made available
> and my application blocked out from a search

That's out of scope for v1 so removing.

Comment 8

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

* As a user, I would like to visit Marketplace to find applications that can be installed on my Android device
* As a user, I would like to easily find applications in the marketplace from the Fennec browsers

I think this is already done so I will tentatively close this bug and hope someone verifies it. :)