Mobile/Notes/04-Nov-2015

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  • Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

Topics for This Week

  • Firefox 42 was released yesterday!

Friends of the Mobile Team

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  • Ahmed Khalil fixed bug 1217581 - Crash when using Telemetry.addToHistogram after using Telemetry.addToKeyedHistogram.
  • Christian Schmitz (:tynn) fixed bug 1215750 - Add telemetry to know when SearchEngineBar label is pressed
  • Christian Schmitz (:tynn) fixed bug 1219416 - Display "Search" title when opening search preferences with the magnifying glass
  • Sergej Kravcenko fixed bug 1210534 - Search suggestions are not refreshed after single character entered into search field
  • Stanislas Daniel Claude Dolcini fixed bug 1147197 - Fix indentation in LoginManagerPrompter.js

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, ally, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, (nalexander/rnewman)

  • Started landing settings reorganization patches
  • Shareplane in top-level menu backed out of 44
  • Continued work on push notifications
  • Starting new family-friendly browsing work
  • Discussing plan for unified telemetry
  • Discussing plan for connected & offline content
  • Summary of work planned for next 6 weeks
  • Robocop test sources moved into mobile/android/tests/browser/robocop/src/org/mozilla/gecko, improving Gradle configuration. No fallout.
  • [nalexander] artifact builds (--disable-compile-environment) no longer require (or use!) an Android NDK. File fallout against Bug 1220476.
  • [nalexander] In Push meeting at this time. Autopush HTTP REST API in flux, partly due to secreview, partly due to first consumer (us!) coming to the table.
  • [rnewman] Web tech in Firefox working group about to start up. Let me know if you're interested.
  • [rnewman] Killing Honeycomb. Start here: bug 1155801. Looking for help testing Play Store behavior.
  • [rnewman] Update info: bug 1220773, telemetry: bug 1221646. This unlocks a bunch of stuff.
  • [rnewman] Kinto file attachment spec in the offing. Will help with downloadable content.
  • [rnewman] Lots of interviews coming up for me. Apologies for having less bandwidth.

iOS

st3fan, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux

  •  1.1 Build approved and ready to go live!
  •  1.2 Build on its way to TestFlight

We have been fixing a good number of bugs for 1.2 and working on 2.0 features.

  • Added caching for Top Sites which prevents lengthy delays when running the frecency calculations
  • Big database configuration change; should help pauses and maybe avoid startup hangs. Scream loudly if you see problems.

FBSnapshotTestCase

Rebooting contributor engagement.

Versioning discussion.

Moving toward more rapid releases.

Hiring

UX

darrin, tecgirl, antlam, gemma

  • Q4 planning
  • Android
    • Shareplane in menu
    • FFB V2
    • "RL" V2
    • Notifications sync up with Phlsa (desktop)
    • Exploring Home Panel improvements
  • iOS
    • Login Manager UI
    • Touch ID proposal
    • Moving on to 3D Touch and toolbar

A-Team

QA

Feature Focus

Round Table

  • [mcomella] try builds don't have build artifacts listed – search for "packageURL" in the log file to find a link to their location
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