jhugman
commented
10 years ago This is going to get annoying, quickly.
I'm fairly sure it is necessary, but if it's sufficient.
The use case I'm thinking of:
- user installs Runtime v0.1
- user installs a webapp A, it is "installed into" Runtime v0.1
- user uses webapp A, and personal data is accrued in Runtime v0.1
- user installs Runtime v0.2
- user installs webapp B from Runtime v0.2. Webapp B is installed into Runtime v0.2.
- user runs Webapp B. Android gives user the choice between Runtime v0.1 and v0.2.
- user runs Webapp A. Android gives user the choice between Runtime v0.1 and v0.2.
Android will give the user a choice between Runtimes, and "Always" or "Just Once". It isn't clear what the user is saying Always or Just Once to. (In actual fact, when multiple apps can deal with the same mime type (webapp/json), which app should you use). If the user selects v0.2, it will use v0.2 for both WebApp A and Webapp B, so the user will lose effective access to data stored in Runtime v0.1. This will become increasingly annoying in the case where Webapps A & B are the same webapp, with the same icons.
Prefixing package names will allow multiple versions of the APK factory/template/library to be tested, however, to avoid multiple false bug reports, it would be good for the user to be able to differentiate between versions. I have suggested in the past changing the icons. Another way would be to change the app's name in strings.xml.
On 12/7/13 7:09 PM, Austin King wrote:
We will have dev, stage and production instances of the APK Factory Service.
Each environment will have discrete certificate/package name pairs per app. We must decide to do one of:
- prefix package names with an environment
- Inform users to uninstall apps before they try to install from a different environment
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/mozilla/apk-factory-service/issues/14.
We will have dev, stage and production instances of the APK Factory Service.
Each environment will have discrete certificate/package name pairs per app. We must decide to do one of: