Mobile/Notes/30-Oct-2013

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

WebRT

Pushing to get core APK-based UX landed by Dec 6th. High priority for WebRT and Android teams.

Second Screen

Starting to look at real uses cases. A WebAPI is being proposed for second-screen too. We are looking to support the initiative and WesJ will be on point for that from Mozilla.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Make sure friends also get awarded a badge.

• Tom Schuster [:evilpie] filed and fixed bug 928671 - Respect browser.urlbar.trimURLs on Android
• ckitching fixed two favicon-related crashes - bug 929010 and bug 929025
• Not exactly a fennec contribution, but jdm made a neat mentor dashboard: http://www.joshmatthews.net/mentorwatch/ (you can submit issues/pull requests on github)

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

Randall Barker

• Last week: Graphics and Layout work week, worked on checker boarding detection on B2G
• This week: Finish up and validate checker board detection in B2G so that progressive tile rendering may be enabled.

Sriram

• Moar Split action bar work - trying to align the popup with anchor at the bottom.
• Attended Facebook's Mobile@Scale event
• Working on slides for DroidCon India
  • Created a demo app - http://cl.ly/image/2G2S3d37253n
• Exploring using a single View for TwoLinePageRow

Margaret

• Done
  • Attended Droidcon
  • Session at MozFest: http://blog.margaretleibovic.com/post/65456653157/mozfest-recap-building-your-first-mobile-web-app
  • Post-travel catch-up

• In Progress/Next
  • Some more dynamic snippets collaboration
  • Help ibarlow with about:home context menu cleanup - bug 931021
  • Revisit home page customization APIs

nalexander

• working on |mach projectify| with bnicholson. Some progress (bug 905703, WIP on bug 853045), but some setbacks (bug 929865).

• looking at running background JUnit 3 tests on buildbots. Information updated at bug 919627.

• first demo of Sync 1.1 authenticated via FxAccounts: watch at https://vimeo.com/77667079. (ibarlow: this UI is temporary!)

MFinkle

• More work on GeckoView patches
• Unbitrotting second-screen patches
• Helping with UI Telemetry
• Watching some performance data

Ian Barlow

This week

• Kicking off second screen work (mobile --> tv)
• Home page enhancements
  • Adding other lists / feeds -- expect designs next week!
    • Sneak peak http://cl.ly/image/1g380k3d302D
  • bug 931021 refinements to contextual actions
• Quickshare enhancements
  • Add support for multiple providers
  • Add support for QS in contextual menus
  • Expect designs next week!
• Split action bar
  • putting implementation on hold to explore other UI alternatives

Up next

• Form input UX enhancements
  • Mobile commerce
  • What else could we do?
• Kid browsing v1
• Tablet refresh scoping

Feature Focus

All hands on deck! What is looking achievable for Fx28 (GA 03/04)?

Project Pages that are Engineering WIP

• Geolocation services inc opt-in menu item requiring permissions bump
• Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default
• Gecko Webview phase 1
• API: Push notifications
• API: Contacts <== Disabled, will require permissions bump
• Second screen: Chromecast support
• Shumway
• Added locale: Indonesian (id) (Fx 30?)
• Added locale: Lithuanian (lt) (Fx 30?)
• Added locale: Hebrew (he) (Fx 31?) Dependent on RTL support
• Added locale: Arabic (ar) (Fx 31? Dependent on RTL support)

Project Pages are Ready

• Dynamic snippets add-on
• About:home - Add-ons can add a page
• Added locale: Canadian (en-CA)
• Privileged apps support
• Directional game console navigation
• Set Top Box optimization
• Ability for add-ons to customize sound effects to browser actions

Project Pages Need UX Info

• Multiple profile support
• Preferred web content language
• Firefox flavour: Kinderfox
• Ability for add-ons to customize sound effects
• Mobile wallet
• Gestures

Project Pages Need General Info

• PDF.js support
• Async subframe scrolling (platform)
• Changing default search engines by locale
• Second screen support (needs creative brief)
• API: Web activities
• API: Alarm
• API: Third-party Cloud storage
• API: Gamepad
• API: Bluetooth
• WebRTC implementation guidance
• Firefox flavour: Devfox (needs creative brief)
• Firefox flavour: Firefox for Enterprise (needs creative brief)
• Non-multilang build localizations
• Queue (needs creative brief)
• EOL official Android 2.2 support
• Firefox flavour: Silverfox (needs creative brief)
• Send to device
• Spatial Navigation (SNAV)
• Multi-screen support (needs creative brief)
• Location-based search engines
• Data bandwidth monitoring
• Data bandwidth optimization (Necko)
• Support for hybrid devices
• Settable default search for private browsing mode - not convinced on this one

Round Table

User Advocacy

No audible updates, we are watching the release closely