Focus-android: Show clipboard URL as user starts typing

[antlam]

_Added by @bbinto_

Why

• Provide users with a convenient way to quickly access the URL they just copied to the clipboard earlier

What

• We detect that the string in the clipboard is a URL.
• If true, then show “Link you copied: [url.com]” as soon as you type something into the URL bar.
• Tap on the URL shown to go to the URL.

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

• Basic flow as described above can be performed
• Probes included to show how often users
  
  
  
  • come into the app, having a URL copied to their clipboard
  
  
  • use the feature, i.e. Tap on the URL
  
  

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We have this in iOS right now and it seems to be a great way to provide value given the context of Focus. It's also a quick way to help users move links into Focus. But we're still learning and iterating on this feature.

Filing this to see if we also want to bring this over to Android. @bbinto thoughts?

Latest bug here for iOS: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/issues/269

[bbinto]

@antlam - Could you please past a dirty mock for me to understand the UX around this :) Thanks

[antlam]

EDIT: UPDATED SCREENSHOT

@bbinto here's the UI I'm referring to on iOS. Where "password123" is my password that I'm copy and pasting from my Password Manager.

This bug is about considering if we want to do the same (after we improve it in issue #269), on Android.

[bbinto]

:) thanks @antlam -- seems like a neat convenience-like feature

[ekager]

An iteration of #125 ?

[antlam]

Note: will add strings-approved label once @mheubusch confirms

[codebu5ter]

@antlam Any update on this?
I could work on this when the strings are updated.

[pocmo]

@lime124 -^

[antlam]

Thanks for following up @codebu5ter , I'm going to let @lime124 chime in here since she's been doing a lot more thinking about this than I have lately.

@codebu5ter if you didn't want to wait, achieving parity with the iOS feature would be a great start so that we can see how it feels on Android. You could use placeholder strings for the time being so it doesn't block you.

[antlam]

@codebu5ter I followed up with @lime124 after leaving the message above^

To start, can we follow the iOS implementation here? We could the same strings as well.

Basic user flow:

1. User types any character
2. User see's search suggestion and "Link you copied:" (as the screenshot above)
3. Tapping the second list item (Link) will load the link

Please post a screenshot of it once you're ready!

[lime124]

thanks @antlam ! I know the flow might not be ideal and we want to follow up on that, but I think the first step is to get parity with iOS. Thanks for your help @codebu5ter

[Sdaswani]

@brampitoyo just getting a status check - is the UX for this work done or do you still need time to finalize mocks?

[brampitoyo]

@Sdaswani The UX for this looks fairly straightforward, so it’s finished.

The idea is to follow iOS Focus’ implementation:

1. We detect that the string in the clipboard is a URL.
2. If true, then show “Link you copied: [url.com]” as soon as you type something into the URL bar.
3. Tap on the URL shown to go to the URL.

[Sdaswani]

@brampitoyo if it's finished should it be assigned to you? Does Eng still need something from you to get started? If so that's fine, just trying to understand.

[brampitoyo]

@Sdaswani Thanks for clarifying! I should’ve been more clear. When I’ve finished my work and it’s ready to be handed over to Engineering, I will unassign myself.

(This one is ready for Eng to work on – I will do that).

[Sdaswani]

@bbinto @brampitoyo is this something we still want to do since we are contemplating adding search suggestions in #1930 ?

[bbinto]

@Sdaswani - Good point, putting it on the back burner for now.

[brampitoyo]

@Sdaswani Actually, I think that this is something that we still want to do one day.

The only way it may be related to search suggestions, is if the suggestions occupy so much vertical space (let’s say that there are 5–6 suggestions) that it cuts off “URL you copied”.

[Sdaswani]

@bbinto isn't this the feature we disabled in Focus iOS due to user outcry? Maybe this is different somehow? Is it because we are only showing the clipboard entry if it's a URL