+1 to allowing the user to mark networks as metered. The inability to do this makes me cry regularly when forget to forget networks.
#costlyintertubeproblems On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Toby Kurien <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a comment - treating "wifi" as a special case is perhaps not the best > strategy. It might be better to have "unmeteredConnectionOnly", because the > wifi connection could be to a mobile hotspot. This would of course require > the user to set up wifi/bluetooth PAN/etc. connections as metered or not, > but that can be down the line. Android had to do this recently (see > https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/ConnectivityManager.html#isActiveNetworkMetered%28%29 > ) > > On Monday, 5 January 2015 15:52:55 UTC+2, Andrea Marchesini wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just landed RequestSync API, an API for b2g only that allows apps to > schedule tasks. > > > > Here the webIDL: > > > > > https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/file/f60d4ad64070/dom/webidl/RequestSyncScheduler.webidl > > > > > > A simple example is this: > > > > > > navigator.sync.register('foobar', { minInterval: 2, > > oneShot: true, > > data: 42, > > wifiOnly: false, > > wakeUpPage: location.href > }).then( > > function() { > > ok(true, "navigator.sync.register() oneShot done"); > > ... > > }, genericError); > > > > > > navigator.mozSetMessageHandler('request-sync', function(e) { > > ok(true, "One event has been received!"); > > is (e.task, "foobar"); > > ... > > }); > > > > > > The params are: > > > > 1. minInterval - in seconds. It can happen that this operation will be > scheduled with a bigger interval. > > > > 2. oneShot - true/false, similar to setInterval/setTimeout. > > > > 3. data: whatever you want to pass to the message handler. > > > > 4. wifiOnly: if true, the task will not scheduled if wifi is not active > > > > 5. wakeUpPage: the page that will receive the system message. > > > > > > > > We also have a 'setting' API accessible only if the app has the > 'requestsync-manager' permission. > > > > This is the webIDL: > > > > > https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/file/f60d4ad64070/dom/webidl/RequestSyncManager.webidl > > > > > > With this API the settings app can overwrite the policy and the > minInterval of any task of any app: > > > > > > navigator.syncManager.registrations().then( > > function(results) { > > ... > > results[0].setPolicy("wifiOnly", 123 /* minInterval */); > > }); > > > > > > More documentation (not up-to-date yet): > https://etherpad.mozilla.org/syncAPI > > > > > > b > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >
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