Fennec/Features/Helper Apps

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Status

Android Helper Apps
Stage	Planning
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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

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Privacy	`	`
Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
Quality assurance	`	`
User experience	`	`
Product marketing	`	`
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