Focus-android: Focus as Default Browser is Unset

[Sdaswani]

Steps to reproduce

@jonalmeida is setting Focus as default browser, and without any beta or nightly release, he is seeing it unset.

@jonalmeida any other STRs than that?

Expected behavior

Focus stays as default.

Actual behavior

Focus is unset.

Device information

• Android device: ?
• Focus version: ?

[Sdaswani]

@jonalmeida is there any way some other app on your phone is unsetting Focus? Is something else becuase default app? Did you do any OS upgrades?

[jonalmeida]

I'll try to re-run my regular usage and see if I can find out if another app is causing this.

Did you do any OS upgrades?

None.

I'll update this ticket when I have better STR.

[colintheshots]

We definitely need STR, if we can identify any. My browser default has been steady. Is this a dev build, nightly, beta, or production? I wonder if switching between nightly and beta is causing it somehow.

[jonalmeida]

@colintheshots We were talking about this on Slack. I'm using Nightly, so we believe that might be the problem. It hasn't happened in a while (~1 week) so I haven't be able to see if there was something I did to trigger it.

[boek]

@jonalmeida We're most likely going to be doing another release this week. Lets coordinate you checking before / after the release to see if that is the cause.

[rpappalax]

unable to repro either

[jonalmeida]

I haven't seen this happen any more, so I'm not sure what changed, but I'm happy have this closed.

[Sdaswani]

OK let's close for now, do keep an eye out if it happens again, thanks @jonalmeida

[jonalmeida]

@Sdaswani I found an STR!

Interestingly, this isn't a Focus issue but maybe a custom tabs/regular browser issue that we may not be able to fix?

STR:

1. Set Focus as the default browser.
2. Install another browser app that has custom tabs implemented (example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.alexotron.tabs)
3. Right after installing (you don't even have to open the newly installed browser) observe the default browser.

Expected:

Your default browser should stay set as to what you originally placed it as.

Actual:

The default browser is now unset to no default browser.

Device information

Android version: Android 9 (Pixel 2)
Focus version: (it shouldn't matter) 8.0.1 (Build #323241231 :lizard: 64.0.20181112164519)

[jonalmeida]

With this in mind, I wonder if the nightly or nightly -> beta updates are registering as new browser installs and that's what is unsetting the default browser. 🤔

[Sdaswani]

Thanks @jonalmeida ! Does step 2 include _updates_, or only fresh installs? If only the latter it's a smaller problem than if it's the former!

[jonalmeida]

I'm not sure yet. I can only test this during another update. From an in-channel conversation, this is expected behaviour on Android when installing a new browser app though.

[Sdaswani]

Ah, I _guess_ that makes sense, i.e., when the user installs a new browser, that shows intention to try it out. But it's still sort of crapola. Is there any documentation on this behavior?