Gaia/System/Activities
Status
- Stage: Development
- Latest:
- Release target:
Team
- UX: Patryk
- UX: Josh
- Dev: Vivien
- Dev: Etienne
- B2G: Fabrice
- API: Mounir
Background
Activities facilitate app to app communications. They have the following characteristics:
Are exclusively user-initiated.
Comprised of four components
Action + Type + [data] + Disposition
- Action
- Pick
- View
- Edit
- Share
- etc...
- Type
- image/png
- etc...
- Data
- URL
- Object
- etc...
- Disposition
Can be one-way, or round trip
One way
- 1. Browser: "Share"
- 2. Select handler app from list of apps that support that Activity (Share), type (URL), and [Data] (string)
- 3. Selected app opens (eg: Email) and presents appropriate interface (eg: Email new message composition)
- 4. User completes composition and sends.
In a one-way trip, the message composition window would then close, and take user to main window of Email app. The user would not be returned to the originating app (Browser).
Round trip
- 1. Email: "Attach"
- 2. Select attachment type from list (eg: Image, Document, Video, etc)
- 3. Select handler app from list of apps that support the Activity (Pick), type (Image), and [Data] (image object)
- 4. Selected app opens (eg: Gallery) and presents appropriate interface (eg: Image picker)
- 5. User completes activity (eg: selects one or more images, and selects "Ok")
- 6. User is returned to Email. Selected images are input into email message.
In this instance, the Activity returns the user to the originating app, along with an object.
Are tracked by OS
The system maintains a record (via a central registry in Activities API?) of which apps support which Actions & Types, and uses this record to populate the list of available handler apps when the user selects an Action.
Requirements
Please fill in the following for each app
Browser
- 1. Select from list of compatible applications that the link can be shared to:
- Email, Compose message
- subject line: "[name] Shared a link with you"
- body text: includes website link
- Messaging/SMS
- Include link into message
- Email, Compose message
- 2. User sends message or completes sharing operation
- 3. Share operation is completed in background and user is returned to browser
In browser content mailto: link
- 1. User clicks on email links
- 2. Email, Compose message
- to: [mailto: email address]
- 3. User sends email
- 4. Email send operation is completed in background while user is returned to browser.
In browser content link pattern
- 1. Pattern match website addresses (ie: www.domain.com)
- 2. User clicks and navigates to link
In browser content phone number pattern
- 1. Pattern matches phone numbers (eg XXX-XXX-XXXX formatted)
- 2. User clicks phone number
- 3. Dialer application is opened with phone # added to number field.
Camera
Image/Video capture
- 1. After Image/Photo is captured, it is automatically inserted into Gallery application.
- Thumbnail of last capture is added to 'filmstrip' of thumbnail images for quick viewing.
Image/Video recall
- 1. User clicks on image thumbnail to reveal full sized image from gallery.
Calendar
Calender events with email participants:
Add Calender Event
- 1. User adds new calender event and email participants
- 2. Email event invite request is sent for each email participant in background
Update, Delete Calender Event
- 1. User updates calender event
- 2. Event update is sent for each email participant in background.
Contacts
Dialer
Gallery
Music
SMS/MMS
Video
Settings
- Background / Lock screen image picker -- opens photo gallery
Design Spec
Interaction Design Spec (Draft): https://www.dropbox.com/s/ohrypdms37tfa69/Activities.pdf