Fennec/Features/Helper Apps

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Android Helper Apps	Concept	TBD	(Owner Name)

Summary

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.

Team

Who's working on this?

• Doug Turner
• Brad Lassey
• QA: nicolae.cristian [e-mail]

Related Bugs & 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

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
• 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.)

Legend (remove if you like)

	Healthy: feature is progressing as expected.
	Blocked: feature is currently blocked.
	At Risk: feature is at risk of missing its targeted release.
ETA	Estimated date for completion of the current feature task. Overall ETA for the feature is the product release date.

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