Fennec/Features/Helper Apps
Status
| Android Helper Apps | |
| Stage | Planning |
| Status | ` |
| Release target | ` |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | Concept |
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Team
| Product manager | Thomas Arend |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Thomas Arend |
| Lead engineer | Doug Turner, Brad Lassey |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | Nicolae Christian [e-mail] |
| UX lead | ` |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | ` |
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Open issues/risks
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Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
Allow Firefox for Android to open pages in native apps (e.g. YouTube, Maps) when available. Incorporate the features of the Helper Apps add-on into Firefox for Android.
2. Users & use cases
- If the user is on a YouTube page, they should be able to open that page/video in the YouTube app
- If the user long presses on a link that goes to a YouTube video, the context menu should give them the option to open that in the YouTube app
- Clicking a Youtube link in Wikipedia should bring up the native app (or helper app pref selector)
- Clicking a Youtube link on the Tweetdeck page should play the video in the native Youtube app (or show the helper app pref selector first)
- If the user selects a phone number, the context menu should offer to call
- For other native apps that are installed on the phone, context menu for links should offer to open content in the respective native app (e.g. Wapedia for Wikipedia, BBC iPlayer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer/, TubeMate, etc.)
3. Dependencies
- bug 653833 - Upstream Helper Apps add-on for spawning to Android helper apps from Fennec
bug 599636- (WONTFIX) Fennec should offer to open YouTube videos in YouTube helper app
4. Requirements
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Non-goals
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Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
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Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
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8. Reviews
Security review
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Privacy review
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Localization review
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Accessibility
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Quality Assurance review
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Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
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Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
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- If the user long presses on a link that goes to a YouTube video, the context menu should give them the option to open that in the YouTube app
- Clicking a Youtube link in Wikipedia should bring up the native app (or helper app pref selector)
- Clicking a Youtube link on the Tweetdeck page should play the video in the native Youtube app (or show the helper app pref selector first)
- If the user selects a phone number, the context menu should offer to call
- For other native apps that are installed on the phone, context menu for links should offer to open content in the respective native app (e.g. Wapedia for Wikipedia, BBC iPlayer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer/, TubeMate, etc.)
|Feature dependencies=* bug 653833 - Upstream Helper Apps add-on for spawning to Android helper apps from Fennec
bug 599636- (WONTFIX) Fennec should offer to open YouTube videos in YouTube helper app
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Feature details
| Priority | P2 |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | ` |
| Roadmap | Firefox Mobile |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | Mobile |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | Mobile platform |
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Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
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