This bug tracks the work for ExploreSites which is targeted for M71, we need to keep the experimental one around for the October experiment, but want to land the for-real category tiles based on the mocks.
The existing tiles infra is too complex for what we need, it doesn't make sense to integrate more deeply into that system at this time.
The steps will be as follows:
* Alter the ViewStub in new_tab_page_layout.xml to remove references to experimental version, make its default the real layout.
* Alter NewTabPageLayout.java to update the layout of the ExploreSites ViewStub to the experimental version if the right finch variation is enabled. This will allow the experimental version to continue to exist.
* Add a new ExploreSitesSection that manages image loading and tile inflation for the new section, very similar to ExperimentalExploreSitesSection.
Theresa, I will update here with the design as I flesh out more details, please feel free to comment if you see something here that doesn't match your idea of how we might do this.
Comment 1 by twelling...@chromium.org
, Sep 21