Gaia/Notifications

Status & Team

• See: B2G - Milestone 4 Plan

Design Specs

Interaction

• Notifications_20120615.pdf
  • June 15, Marco (TF UX)
• Utility Tray.pdf
  • June 4, Marco (TF UX)
• Notifications_20120529.pdf
  • May 29, Marco (TF UX)

Interaction

• Dropbox

Reading

• dev-b2g "Notifications in B2G"
• dev-b2g "Homescreen 'embedding' api

Use Cases

General

• User receives a push notification (eg: new email).
• User receives a phone call.
• User receives a phone call, but misses it.
• User receives a permission request from a website (eg: for location tracking).
• User receives a permission request from an installed app.
• User receives a notification while the device is locked.
• User wants to review recent notifications.

Conflict

• User receives a push notification (eg: SMS) while on a phone call.
• User is in a browser, deciding whether to grant a location tracking permission request for a website, when she receives an incoming call notification.

Requirements

P1

• Notifications include
  • title: text string (eg: name of app, or name of person sending incoming text message)
  • body: text string, (eg:"Did you pick up the wine?")
  • iconURL: url of image asset (eg: photo of contact)
  • callback action: (eg: open SMS app, display relevant thread, and open keyboard)
  • time stamp
• Notifications can be prioritized (eg: incoming call notification takes precedence over all other device activities)
• Notifications can be grouped by:
  • App
  • Time
  • Priority
• Notifications can be displayed in one of several UI formats (listed in order of disruption):
  • Status bar
  • Passive
  • Alert
  • Full screen

P2

• User can configure notification methods on a per-app basis (eg: can toggle between passive or alert SMS notifications).
• Time stamps can be relative (eg: "13 minutes ago" instead of "2:45 PM")
• Notifications can include vibration or audio.