Mobile/Notes/15-Jan-2014

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-02-03

Topics for This Week

Startup Performance

Last week we talked about the ongoing work to improve pageload performance. We also started looking at startup profiles and filed a meta bug for making improvements. Several bugs have been filed and are in-progress. Please take a read this mailing post to learn how you can do your own profiling or at least look over the posted profiles.

Crashes

Wanted to point out some crashes that could use a look. (1) NPE in LayerView.setZoomConstraints (bug 936008) (2) ConcurrentModificationException in NotificationHelper.clearAll (needs a bug).

Welcome Eugen Sawin

Joining the mobile platform team and will be in Mountain View this week and next, afterwards he'll be working from home in Germany.

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. New contributors are highlighted in bold.

• Daniel Holbert filed and fixed bug 958734 - Add extra layer of parens to fix JS warning in JSDOMParser.js
• Christian Legnitto filed and fixed bug 935377 - Firefox should fix common scheme typos (a change that makes all Firefox better on all platforms!)
• Veeti fixed bug 951024 - Provide haptic feedback on text selection
• capella fixed 951943 - SelectionHandler._updateCacheForSelection() Error
• Isura fixed bug 944165 - Implement remaining functions in JUnit API
• Errietta fixed bug 948899 - Move inline scripts and styles into separate file for about:addons
• nbleasdale fixed bug 957052 - Move remaining event handlers in about:feedback to JS
• Peiyong Lin fixed bug 943021 - Safebrowsing service should use fallible arrays for its buffers

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!

James W. (snorp)

Working on

bug 939276 - [SkiaGL] [Feature] Support multiple Skia DrawTargets backed by a single GLContext

Kats

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Worked on

• bug 907179 - Tune APZC displayport heuristics
• bug 909877 - [meta] Turn on APZC for all of gaia
• bug 951113 - Application is not repainted correctly when the keyboard is dismissed once the screen is off
• bug 952170 - FX OS crash in mozilla::dom::TabChild::UpdateTapState(mozilla::WidgetTouchEvent const&, nsEventStatus)
• bug 957188 - [APZC] The click events are lost in some situations
• Interviews

Working on

• bug 957668 - Change the displayport representation in layout to be layerpixel margins rather than csspixel offset/size

JChen

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Worked on

• BHR dashboard
• Interview

GCP

Last week

• Some guiding around new contributors
• bug 877954 Adapt video encode resolution & framerate according to available bandwidth and CPU use

Next week

• More Load Adaption
• FOSDEM presentation

Notes

• bug 951782 Firefox 26 for Android crashes on HTC Desire Z
• Can't be caught by telemetry. Does FHR measure this?

Brian Nicholson

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• Done: Bug 949458 - (Nexus 7 2012) - the tabs button is wrongly displayed after open a link in new tab
• Done (pending review): Bug 917896 - Replace progress throbber with a progress bar
• In progress: Bug 942270 - Add Quickshare buttons to Context menu

WesJ

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• bug 957131 - Synced bookmarks appear in guest mode but not in default profile
• bug 958109 - Overlapping of checkbox and label on prompt
• bug 947073 - Phishing Warning hides "Why is this page blocked" under "ignore warning"
• bug 949613 - Scrolled off title-bar is shown when prior it is hidden after an action or dismissal of use of the text-selection action-bar
• bug 956417 - JavaScript Error: "uncaught exception: Can't find method getMCC" results in a blank screen during app purchase
• bug 955861 - Long-tapping on reader mode toolbar icons triggers text selection mode

jdover

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• bug 953272 - Prompt bug fixed
• bug 955886 - Toolbar margin bug fixed for Fullscreen API

Working on:

• bug 776027 - Web Activities API bridge to Android Intents

LucasR

Last week

• Landed toolbar refactoring: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/mobile-firefox-dev/2014-January/000483.html
• bug 957992 - Document toolbar high-level architecture
• bug 958185 - Rename Page* terminology to Panel* in the home package
• bug 949172 - Implement backend to load and save HomePager configuration
• bug 958171 - HomePager doesn't handle live config changes properly
• Tons of patch reviews

Last week

• More about:home hacking
• More patch reviews

sola

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Last week

• bug 950610 - Add "Share" and "Add to Home Screen" to pinned sites context menus

This week

• bug 959290 - Make ContentProvider for Reading List
• bug 959297 - Get description and approx. reading time for reading list items
• bug 889351 - Show excerpts in about:home's Reading List panel

liuche

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• reviews
• bug 942875 HomePager Settings UI - Support disabled panels, defaults
• bug 918015 - Rolling throbber

Next:

• finish Settings UI, support reordering in bug 942231

Margaret

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• Home list/panel design discussions and hacking
  • Bugs here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Third-party_service_integration_MVP
  • Meeting notes here: https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-hub
• Working on sync promo banner snippet - bug 958891

mcomella

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Past

• bug 956858 - Menu is incorrectly accessible via hardware menu button in editing mode
• bug 943515 - Fix conflicting naming conventions in favicons.Favicons (part 2)
• bug 946656 - Intermittent investigation on UITest - Browser Blank Page 02 or 03 - got http://mochi.test:8888/tests/robocop/robocop_blank_02.html, expected Browser Blank Page 02 also with 03

Present

• bug 938824 - Remove reflection from testSearchSuggestions
• Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
• bug 942283 - HomeList RSS addon
• bug 939350 - Create Python linter wrapper
• bug 959652 - BrowserHealthReporter startup perf

Future

• bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

RNewman

• Might have fixed the DB locked on upgrade bug, thanks to kbrosnan for finding the stack!
• Working on saving some disk space via image crushing etc.
• Reviewing desktop FxA+Sync stuff.
• Random desktop and mobile Sync spec stuff.
• Dozens of random bugs and emails.

nalexander

bug 923950: got r+ on fix for Beta; asking for uplift of relevant code to Aurora.

bug 951865: new patches up to address this.

bug 927388: looking into just doing this as follow-up.

FxAccounts:

• got feedback on first try build from edwong;
• lots of UI progress with alam; plan is still to land first cut by EOW;
• enlisted rnewman to build more of the things, because the ticket list is growing, not shrinking.

BLassey

• bug 944045 - geckoview example makefile should handle deps better
• wrote standalone WebRTC client

MFinkle

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• Pageload and startup profiling and patching
• Second screen Roku work (so close)
• FxA overhead
• PTO on Friday

Ian Barlow

• Sync / FxAccounts
  • Working with Ryan and Anthony in UX to nail down Android flows - mostly done
  • Offering suggestions on equivalent desktop flows
• Homepage + 3rd party service work
  • Looking forward to our hack week in SF!
• Tablet refresh - starting our first UX sprint!
  • Sprint Goal: Determine the best overall form factor for:
    • switching between multiple pages
    • creating a new tab
  • Some background on our focus areas and working process https://firefox-ux.etherpad.mozilla.org/tablets-2014
  • More updates to come each week!
• Couple of things have come up around optimizing file sizes
  • bug 959203 Experiment: Try using only XHDPI resources
  • bug 959833 Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction
• Project Chameleon
  • Visual design unification project
  • Expect to see visual tweaks starting to pop up in coming months
• Thinking about what we could explore next on TVs / Roku

Arun

• Form Auto-fill designs: (looking for feedback!)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3w4abjlr0sj5zru/Form%20Auto-fill%20%28Jan%2015%29.pdf

• Currently exploring research for Tab Switching UI (mobile).

Security/MGoodwin

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• is still here

WebRT

• install/launch/uninstall
  • bug 934756 landed and stuck (but disabled at build/runtime)
  • team working on followups
  • will enable feature on Tuesday, January 21 (for Wednesday, January 22 nightly builds)
• automatic updates
  • patch attached to bug 934760
  • pending review from WesJ and Fabrice
• developer testing/debugging
  • in progress
• APK Factory service
  • security reviews added requirement for hardware security module (HSM) to secure signing keys
  • will point nightly builds to a development server
  • andym and kumar have joined project to assist ozten

A-Team

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• Reftests running on Android 4.0 Opt beginning today -- bug 929447
• Startup crashes affecting some tests -- bug 959254