Hopefully I can clarify this. When FFox for Android is installed, a notification pops up asking a user to volunteer to contribute wifi+cell scanning to our geolocation database. This will turn on stumbling, and will essentially run MozStumbler but without all the UI (and in a low-power sparse collection state).
MozStumbler stand-alone app is a UI wrapper on the stumbler service, which is also used in FFox for Android. On Jul 9, 2014, at 12:14 AM, Adrian Custer <[email protected]> wrote: > Garvan, Chris, > > Hmmm, now I am totally confused. My initial guess as to the purpose of > integrating 'stumbling' code with a web browser was that the code would > expose the radio data needed for stumbling through some API to the code > running in web pages, i.e. to web apps. This seems to have been wrong, so > maybe this work has no relevance to me. > > > However, now that I have gotten confused, it makes me wonder what is actually > happening. I am unable to decipher, from your postings to the list or from > the bugzilla report what the purpose of this integration might be. > > Why are you mixing stumbling code with the code of a web browser? Are you > making Fennec a MozGeoLocServ client? Are you making Fennec able to upload > stumbling data to MozGeoLocServ? Ah, maybe you are adding on to Fennec some > sort of API provider for Android Java Apps. Then again that does not seem to > have anything to do with web browsing so I would be surprised to hear that > the Fennec people wanted such code in their code base. So it's probably > something else simple that I am not guessing. I'd be interested to hear. > > ~adrian > > > > > On 7/8/14, 11:52 AM, Garvan Keeley wrote: >> >>> Garvan, you said eariler that 'the next stable release' would split >>> the backend from the frontend to make the backend usable on >>> Firefox/Android. Did that happen? >> >> Still a work in progress, the integration bug is here: >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024708 All the code in >> src/service builds as a pure jar, usable from any app I would think. >> When that lands, it will be possible to turn on stumbling in >> nightly. Unfortunately there are no changes related to FxOS. > > On 7/8/14, 2:20 PM, Chris Peterson wrote: > > Garvan's refactoring of MozStumbler into UI and backend modules to > > share code with Fennec is unrelated to the mozMobileConnection and > > mozWifiManager WebAPIs. Those WebAPIs wouldn't need Garvan's > > stumbling code and could be implemented independently. The Fennec > > team would know better their plans to publish those WebAPIs. > > > > > > chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-geolocation mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
