Unfortunately this request hasn't got the amount of attention it needs even though many people are requesting it more and more, and probably this is why I'm trying to explain... I know.. Everyone's super busy landing the planned features for next versions of B2G. Though, I'll give an example for what's in my mind. Let's say App A is Facebook and App B is some quotes app.
User navigates through App B, likes a quote, then decides to share it on Facebook Social network, Steps are: In Firefox OS: User clicks on sharing button, then clicks on facebook icon, this will transports him to the browser App and loads sharing url of facebook. (supposing that the App B developer made a "share" button in the first place). In Android: User clicks on sharing button, gets transported to "App A" and a window in it for sharing content (the nice quote in this example). Firefox OS has a twitter and a facebook App, Our user is logged in to facebook app but not to m.facebook.com that everyone usually loads it through the browser, so with the user story of Firefox OS, he must login again to facebook on the browser to be able to share that quote. This is way too heavy for many people. With my very limited visibility (and limited understand.. too..) on what system features are planned for the coming versions of Firefox OS I suggest one two solutions to provide apps developers with an easy way to let users share their apps' content. 1) Custom mozActivities that gets used in Facebook and Twitter apps, then App B developer just calls those mozActivities. 2) A setting for social networks' apps to registers their presence on the phone and other developers just use this setting, it will show whatever apps ready to let you share content on them. Then all what App B developer has to do is put that piece of code in his app, so if there is a facebook app installed, facebook will be shown as a sharing option etc.. I know what I'm saying is very general but I think could be possible because lately I've seen a lot of people asking for the possibility to share their apps' content on facebook and twitter apps directly not on m.twitter.com and m.facebook.com through the browser. Best Regards, Nefzaoui > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: A new mozActivity and widgets support for Firefox OS > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:51:02 +0000 > > But I'm talking about having the possibility to navigate straight to the > app's page inside the marketplace app, not the marketplace url. > > > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:33:44 +0200 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: A new mozActivity and widgets support for Firefox OS > > > > > > On 20/07/2013 17:15, Ahmed Nefzaoui wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I have a question, any future plans for starting the development on > > > supporting homescreen widgets? > > > As they aren't counted as apps I think their icons should not appear with > > > the rest of apps. Maybe a section in Settings for listing all the widgets > > > with their status (active or not) and managing them > > > (activate/deactivate/uninstall/go to dev website) straight from there. > > > > There is no plan to implement widget in the short term as far as I know. > > You may want to ask on dev-b2g instead. > > > > > And I do have a suggestion (concerning mozActivity), > > > As I see a lot on Android apps, some (oh god they're so many) developers > > > put a link (or a button, big buttons everywhere are awesome!) inside > > > their android apps that take you directly to the app's page in the play > > > store app. > > > I'm wondering should it be there on Firefox OS too, maybe something like > > > app://marketplace/app-name > > > Or maybe a mozActivity for that. > > > Maybe something like: > > > var goToApp = new MozActivity({ > > > name: "marketplace", > > > data: { > > > id: "app-name" > > > } > > > });The reason for this is developer may want the user to go put his > > > review on that app straight from it to the marketplace. One of the > > > greatest results will be: This will absolutely strengthen the position of > > > high quality content in the marketplace. > > > > Can't you simply window.open('url_to_the_page.html') ? > > > > Regards, > > Vivien. > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Nefzaoui > > > Mozilla Rep, Mozilla Tunisia > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dev-gaia mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-gaia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia > > _______________________________________________ > dev-gaia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
