Port circuit display to Android

Design estimate

• Complexity: medium (3 days)
• Uncertainty: moderate (1.5)
• Total: 4.5 days (27 hours)
• Actual: 33h 40m

Context

Tor Browser for Android doesn't have a UI to display the circuit being used to load the websites the user is visiting. On the other hand, we're currently working on improving the Circuit Display component on Tor Browser for Desktop so the user will know when a multi-path circuit (aka Conflux) is being used (#152 (closed)). We can use take this opportunity to port the Circuit Display to Android too, improving the experience for its users as well as increasing the Browser consistency between devices.

Scope

• Design UI for the Circuit Display component on Android;
• Make adjustments to other UIs, when needed (desktop);
• Consider single and multi-path circuits.

Out of scope

• Circuits with more than 2 paths.

References

Improved Circuit Display for Desktop (#200):



Circuit Display on Tor VPN:



New Circuit option on Android:


This option will remain available in the main menu.

Useful links

Studies on Circuits

Mockups

Figma file