Bug 1242213 - Part 1: Remove old-style Webapp entry-point. r?mfinkle
This <activity> and <activity-alias> support old-style homescreen
shortcuts to old-style Webapps. Such shortcuts must have been
produced at least 18 months ago, and pre-date the new-style synthetic
APK Webapps entirely. New-style APK Webapps are slated to be removed
from the product entirely, and there's no reason to keep their even
less viable predecessor around.
Telemetry from http://mzl.la/23kXGV5 shows that there were no launches
of webapps (old-style or new-style) for Fennec 43 release. Telemetry
from http://mzl.la/23kXFAs shows that there were 40.7k launches of
webapps (again, old-style or new-style) for Fennec 44 beta (of 39.0M
total -- for 0.1% total). We cannot distinguish old-style from
new-style, but it is safe to assume it's a tiny proportion.
Users with such homescreen shortcuts will see a bogus "App isn't
installed" message and need to delete and re-create their shortcut in
some way.
The org.mozilla.gecko.Webapp class cannot be removed until new-style
APK Webapps are removed.
--- a/mobile/android/base/AndroidManifest.xml.in
+++ b/mobile/android/base/AndroidManifest.xml.in
@@ -289,46 +289,16 @@
</receiver>
<receiver android:name="org.mozilla.gecko.restrictions.RestrictionProvider">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.GET_RESTRICTION_ENTRIES" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
- <!-- Activity used for launching non-privileged WebApps via a URL -->
- <activity android:name="org.mozilla.gecko.Webapp"
- android:label="@string/webapp_generic_name"
- android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|mcc|mnc|orientation|screenSize"
- android:windowSoftInputMode="stateUnspecified|adjustResize"
- android:launchMode="singleTask"
- android:taskAffinity="org.mozilla.gecko.WEBAPP"
- android:process=":@ANDROID_PACKAGE_NAME@.Webapp"
- android:excludeFromRecents="true"
- android:exported="true"
- android:theme="@style/Gecko.App">
- <!-- We export this activity so that it can be launched by explicit
- intents, in particular old-style WebApp launching homescreen
- shortcuts. Such shortcuts were made before the new "synthetic
- APK" WebApps were deployed. See Bug 1032217. -->
- </activity>
-
- <!-- Alias Webapp so we can launch it from the package namespace. Prefer
- to launch with the fully qualified name "org.mozilla.gecko.Webapp". -->
- <activity-alias android:name=".Webapp"
- android:label="@string/webapp_generic_name"
- android:targetActivity="org.mozilla.gecko.Webapp">
- <intent-filter>
- <action android:name="org.mozilla.gecko.WEBAPP" />
- </intent-filter>
- <intent-filter>
- <action android:name="org.mozilla.gecko.ACTION_ALERT_CALLBACK" />
- </intent-filter>
- </activity-alias>
-
<!-- Declare a predefined number of Webapp<num> activities. These are
used so that each web app can launch in its own process. Keep
this number in sync with the total number of web apps handled in
WebappAllocator. -->
#define FRAGMENT WebappManifestFragment.xml.frag.in
#include WebappFragmentRepeater.inc
