On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:14 PM Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Hello party people (it's Friday!), > > We held a Mobile Tech Leads meeting on Wednesday (NA/EU timezones). We > discussed only one topic: how does Storage and Sync fit into the Android > Components ecosystem. The discussion was somewhat "at arm's length" > because we did not have the AU representatives from the Application > Services team attending. This discussion is still very active; that's > mostly why I didn't circulate these notes the very next day. The broad > strokes are: > > - The Android Components team wants a flexible approach to data > storage for consumers > - The Application Services team is bound by the constraints of the > existing Sync 1.5 data model > > and trying to reconcile these two positions is generating a lot of > (metaphorical, Google Document) ink. I'll follow up with more after next > week's meeting (Oct 3). > Thanks Nick, I just want to add here what I added at the end of this meeting: I think the storage discussion becomes more 'real' when we talk about actual use cases. We have a number of those, like Top Sites, Activity Stream, Awesomebar. That moves the discussion away from 'who owns the storage' to 'how do we implement the things we need' and I think a design will more easily come out of that. I think it will also become clear then how these two teams would work together to implement some of these and future application-level features and how that would technically work. (Firefox for iOS is a great example where the application uses a combination of synced data and generated data to implement application-level features) S.
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