Hi Bob,
I believe that:
intent.component = ComponentName("org.mozilla.firefox",
"org.mozilla.firefox.App")
Should change to:
intent.component = ComponentName("org.mozilla.firefox",
"org.mozilla.fenix.IntentReceiverActivity")
Though I haven't tested this locally. We changed which activity receives
VIEW intents which I believe is the cause of this change.
There may also be a less fragile way of sending intents to Firefox: rather
than saying, "Have this Activity (which can be renamed) in Firefox open
this VIEW intent", it'd be preferable to remove the Activity: "Have Firefox
open this VIEW intent". Perhaps this can be done with `intent.package`
<https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent#setPackage(java.lang.String)>
instead of `intent.component`. We are considering removing
IntentReceiverActivity for performance reasons so heads up that that may
become a breaking change for you in the future if you leave the code the
same.
As you've probably seen, we did a major rewrite of Firefox that was
recently released so it might be good to check that other functionality is
also working as expected – sorry for any inconvenience it has caused.
- Mike (:mcomella)
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 7:59 PM Bob Achgill <bobachg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I need some advice.
>
> I used to be able to start up FireFox Android from my Android code by
> passing an intent with local URL like in the code below... then could surf
> the local html web within Firefox. But as of sometime in August new
> updates to Firefox in Google Play this capability has broken. Version
> 68.11.0 worked OK but a version soon after that something changed in
> Firefox. With the later releases the startActivity(intent) will start up
> Firefox but not with the passed local url.
>
> Is there something I'm missing that changed?
>
> Here is my code...
>
> val url = resilioPath + "HHRPickALanguage.html"
>
> val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url))
> intent.component = ComponentName("org.mozilla.firefox",
> "org.mozilla.firefox.App")
>
> this.startActivity(intent)
>
>
> What can I do to get it working again? It is a pain to have to ask the
> user to turn off Google Play Auto app Update and install an old version of
> Firefox.
>
> My users are children in developing countries using my app to learn to
> read their mother tongue while they cannot go to school due to the
> Covid-19. The change in Firefox Android could not have come at a worse
> time.
>
> Thanks!
> Bob Achgill
> www.HisHandsReader.org
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