Enable/Implement remote settings on Android
Categories
(GeckoView :: General, enhancement, P2)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: agi, Assigned: agi)
References
(Depends on 1 open bug)
Details
(Whiteboard: [geckoview:m104?])
This is likely going to turn into a meta.
We currently do not support Remote Settings on Android which prevents us from using a lot of features inside Gecko related to security and privacy and more.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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This is potentially related to intermediate certificates (Bug 1520297), OneCRL (Bug 1667179), ETP updates, and upcoming projects.
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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We should look into understanding why we can't reuse existing Desktop code.
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Updated•2 years ago
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Comment 3•2 years ago
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How did you determine that RemoteSettings is not working? Could you share reproduction steps that shows that the feature is still broken on Nightly?
I am suggesting to test on Nightly (or at least Beta) because of the recent fix for bug 1761953.
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Comment 4•2 years ago
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Agi is investigating.
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Comment 5•2 years ago
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(In reply to Rob Wu [:robwu] from comment #3)
How did you determine that RemoteSettings is not working? Could you share reproduction steps that shows that the feature is still broken on Nightly?
So far it's mostly tribal knowledge. I don't think anybody in mobile knows exactly what the status of Remote Settings is. I see that bug and others seem to suggest it's enabled but we've thought it's not for a long time. I'll update this bug with my findings.
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Comment 6•2 years ago
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OK so I verified that Remote Settings do in fact work on GeckoView/Fenix. At this point I'm not sure where the knowledge that they didn't work come from.
I verified that:
- we do update the settings when they are stale (i.e. older than 24h).
- OneCRL receives updates from remote settings about revoked roots.
- Dumps are loaded correctly from the APK.
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