On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Mitchell Reese <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, loving the latest Ubuntu RTM images on my Nexus 4, as well as the > Nexus 7 vivid builds - exciting to see the direction things are taking, and > have been android-free for sometime now. Couple questions re webapp > integration - > > IMO, webapps are one of the best parts of the new Ubuntu Touch images (yep, > shows that I've published twenty or so of them... lol) - I love how the > functionality has been incorporated into the rest of the system. Considering > that many (majority?) of the apps in the Google Play store are glorified > web-apps anyway, this seems like a no-brainer. Couple ideas/questions about > taking this further: > > * Are there any plans to further integrate this with the system? > o i.e., When I choose a Youtube or Vimeo video from the scope, I'm > directed to the Web-browser. What would be better would be to > open that link within a webapp specific to that site. Is this > functionality that could be included with the images? I'm > imagining something like 'Default Applications' in the System > settings, where an application (webapps included) could be > marked as the default to handle certain links. This would be a > much slicker experience.
As Ted pointed out, this is already something that webapps can do, provided they register themselves as able to handle certain links. > * Currently when webapps load they look like an ordinary web-page in > the browser, minus the address bar, etc. This means they have an > orange line at the top of the page to indicate how far the page has > loaded, and nothing else. If there is no internet connection, a > message comes up about 'Network Error'. I.e., it then becomes > abundantly clear we've been looking at a webapp. > o Is there any possibility of coding a different opening for the > webapp, so that there is a slicker default transition when the > page is loading? > o Is there any possibility of having a different landing page for > when there is no network connection, so it doesn't look like a > webpage gone wrong? The defaults are currently not overridable by individual webapps. They could use a face-lift to be made more webapp-friendly though. With the advent of offline capabilities in webapps (and their implementation in chromium, which oxide is based on), it will hopefully become a non-issue in the near future. > * There's still no functionality for webapps to continue their audio > streams when the screen is off, or when switching focus to another > app. I know Justin McPherson on the Gold Coast (here in Oz) was > working on this, and as of a couple months ago seemed to have a > working version of the webapp-container that got around this issue. > No idea what's happened since, or why this hasn't been integrated in > either the RTM or Vivid images. Does anyone know if this is planned > in the future? It still is on the schedule, although it’s been delayed a bit. We hope to land media-hub integration in oxide for audio streams in version 1.4, due in January. > * Until the above issue is sorted, can anyone tell me a command to set > the screen not to sleep? (yep, I know I can do it through settings, > but contemplating coding an app to work around this, temporarily. > I.e., command to keep screen on (never sleeping), and command to set > it back to how it was. Going through settings is 4 tapps too many > /after/ the settings app is opened.) > > All up, loving the webapp experience, and looking forward to its evolution! > Three cheers for all the devs working to make this the best experience > possible on any platform! Cheers! Olivier -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
