On 6/05/2014 1:15 PM, Richard Newman wrote: >>> As far as Marketplace goes, logging into Marketplace via Desktop Firefox >>> will happen on the Web, which will be independent from your logged in state >>> for Sync >> >> Tangent: we should do a better job of clarifying this story and of >> telling it outside of the FxA/Marketplace group. > > Yeah, I can't imagine that experience being satisfactory on Android. Even > signing in once with a phone keyboard is a pain in the ass, let alone 2+ > times, particularly when the user expects us to be able to do what *every > other account-based app* on Android does and just do it for you.
Sounds like a rabbit-hole. What even is "marketplace" on android? Is it web content that we need to expose the identity to via a DOM API? Is it a privileged app that can talk to the FxA account doohickey on your phone? Both, or neither? And how similar is "Marketplace on android" to "Marketplace on FirefoxOS" from this perspective? (ugh, this thread has made it clear to me that I'm too out of the loop on too many of these things, I've got some remedial wiki/bug reading to do...) > As a rule, we should be operating under the assumption that everything we > ship to GA on Android is native. That's the (very polished) experience with > which we have to compete, and in this case it's also part of the native > apps/synthetic APKs Marketplace story -- what identity will the background > app updater use? This, at least in one sense, is easy. If it's pulling updates from marketplace.firefox.com, it needs to use the identity from accounts.firefox.com. Somehow. Nothing else will do. How it knows to install and/or update from marketplace.firefox.com in the first place is, of course, another question. With FF29 out the door, do we have a little bit of headroom to consider the oft-proposed "service discovery service" and how it might untangle some of this? Ryan _______________________________________________ Dev-fxacct mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct
