[Meta] Share Intent System

[bbinto]

Why/User Benefit/User Problem

Share tool: Share information on the web

• As a user, I want to share information I find on the web with myself so that I can retrieve it later
• As a user, I want to share information I find on the web with others so they can access it

What / Requirements

• I don’t need to sign up for an account
• Reinforce and support through existing sharing behaviours (e.g. email)
• The share function (e.g., button) must be in a color that has high contrast with its background.
• The share function must have an accessible label.

Acceptance Criteria (how do I know when I’m done?)

Phase 1: Android default intent share integration

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task

[st3fan]

The only sharing that is feasible for MVP is:

• Standard Android Share Sheet to share the current page you are looking at (or the link you long press on)
• "Send Tab" functionality to send a tab to one of your other devices (requires FxA)

The first is done and ready to be integrated - see the Reference Browser for guidance.

The latter is a stretch Q1 OKR for the A-C team and heavily depends on the work the App Services team is doing for this. Initial discussions to understand all the moving pieces and work to break it down has started.

@bbinto Regarding time - after talking to the App Services team today I think it will be safe to assume that Send Tab could be ready for testing early Q2. So that would be during Milestone 3. We will be working on a more comprehensive timeline for this work with the PushBox team.

[bbinto]

I am aware that this might have to be scoped down, and I'm ok with it (i.e. only sharing tab/sessions via standard Android intent system (and send tab))

Maybe we should make this first about integrating with the intent system and next step, in a later milestone, focus on Send Tab integration?

[shorlander]

I would like to discuss how we prioritize this because friction-less sharing of complete workflows is one of the key pillars of sessions.

[jdragojevic]

A-S team send-tab component high-level tracking.

[jonalmeida]

Maybe we should make this first about integrating with the intent system and next step, in a later milestone, focus on Send Tab integration?

We have good integration with sharing tabs via Android intents already and we're currently working on send tab via FxA.

Along with the project board that Janet has linked to above, the A-C project board for send-tab is here: https://github.com/orgs/mozilla-mobile/projects/19

[mheubusch]

Engineering - please review the items on this spreadsheet - this is a punchlist showing fit and finish issues blocking feature completeness.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14VQEpCQ9cbj2sFL0PR0oGdg09KFiqU2kPAl-Opt9m7w/edit?usp=sharing