Mobile/Notes/09-Apr-2014

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Topics for This Week

Firefox Hub

Gathering feedback for the Home Feeds add-on. Fleshed out API docs on MDN. Pull-to-refresh almost ready to land (bug 970707).

Q2 Goals

We plan to meet today to wrap up our goals/projects for Q2.

New Hires wiki page

https://intranet.mozilla.org/Mobile/New_Hires

Welcome ack

Will be focusing on partner related work for the platform team

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.

• Eduard Neculaesi fixed bug 920930 - "Switch to tab" loads the page in the current tab from Reading List
• anton_11111 fixed bug 948898 - Move inline scripts and styles into separate file for about:healthreport
• Mark Capella fixed bug 951374 - Lazy load ClipboardHelper
• Robin Ricard is working on tracking down a zooming regression in bug 990259

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)

• Continuing on Service Workers and Push Notifications

Alan K. (ack)

• Remaining work on cloudsync service
• A few remaining bugs and some cleanup
• Needs help on UI parts, specifically for third-party account setup through sync UI

JChen

<Read Only>

Past week

• Native JS object landing
• Looking at B2G telemetry

GCP

<Read Only>

• Last week
  • Get H264 decoding on Flame working
  • System updates/install
• Next week
  • bug 989944 [B2G][WebRTC] Serious frame dropping when enabling HW H.264 video in real-time mode.
  • bug 989945 [B2G][WebRTC] long video lag when using H.264 codec.

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Continued work to make WebRTC signaling library not require XPCOM or XUL.
• This Week: Keep going until it links stand alone with out XPCOM or XUL.

Brian Nicholson

<Read Only>

• bug 939351 - Implement requestAutoComplete
  • platform-dev post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/F2mMPBme40I
  • etherpad for tracking: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/requestautocomplete
• bug 993195 - Add support for sending callbacks from NativeJSObject listeners
  • firefox-mobile-dev post: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/mobile-firefox-dev/2014-April/000607.html
• bug 991555 - Native prefs in the prefs screen are not written to shared prefs file

WesJ

• Quickshare polish.
  • bug 990395 - After installing Link Bubble, all web pages get a HelperApp icon
  • bug 990642 - Regression: 'Share Image' shares link and not actual image
• bug 992964 - Miracast video casting support
• bug 992308 - Tab thumbnails in tab-sharing tab picker should be larger and have the right aspect ratio
• Looking into autocomplete with keyboard that use composition events.

jdover

• Working with fabrice on Web Activities interfaces.
• Swipe-to-refresh support for home panels & sync'd tabs - waiting on RelEng to update support library
• You will need to update your android support library using the SDK manager to 19.1.0+

current

LucasR

<Read Only>

Last week

• bug 933739 - Issues in URL domain autocompletion
• bug 992921 - First panel always load in parallel with the default one
• bug 993970 - Implement tests for TopSitesCursorWrapper
• bug 976064 - Create a loader per panel view instead of per dataset id
• Experimentation around view tree flattening, blog post coming soon-ish
• Good progress on suggested sites infra
• Patch reviews

Next week

• More focus on suggested sites
• Hub stuff, if needed
• More patch reviews

sola

This week

• bug 994273 - Home panel sessions not being properly closed
• bug 988909 - Context menus for dynamic panels
• First run/contextual hints

liuche

<Read Only>

• So many UI Telemetry reviews
• Prototyping unified phone/tablet settings without using PreferenceActivity, Preference*
• Misc bugs (geo strings, beta notification)
• And again, new hires wiki: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Mobile/New_Hires
• Next: Contextual first run...?

Margaret

<Read Only>

Highlights

• Home Feeds add-on
• MDN docs
• Working on improvements to panel picker dialog - bug 987869

Fixed

• 977200 - Create Firefox Hub add-on for subscribing to arbitrary RSS feeds
• 991190 - Rename Home.panels.authHandler API to Home.panels.auth
• 978991 - Hook for add-ons when panel is added/removed
• 991705 - Missing default add-on icon in about:addons for no bundled icons

mcomella

<Read Only>

Past

• bug 981872 - Replace use of MessageDigest with NativeCrypto where applicable
• bug 991256 - Rename preprocessed Gecko* to Themed*

Present

• Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
• bug 939350 - Create Python linter wrapper
• bug 965548 - Add a way to close edit mode in one tap

Future

• bug 983437 - Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
• bug 989441 - Centralized documentation for writing tests

esawin

Summary

• Zoom history sessions

nalexander

Highlights

• None. Did you know we no longer have a CEO?
• Shepherding FxAccounts Sync to the 29 finishing line.

Fixed

• 990116 - Make UITest inherit from BaseRobocopTest
• 988437 - Make Firefox Account Android account type unique per package
• 990680 - Remove extras from GlobalSession constructor
• 983350 - Send explicit user agent for FxA and token server requests
• 966104 - Add statusChangeListener to FxA status screen

BLassey

• bug 988471 - Action bar icons flicker while typing and scrolling with an active text selection, landed
• bug 928096 - UI for Tab streaming, landed
• looking at e10s for desktop
• in MV/SF next week

MFinkle

• Landed client-side Roku casting support. Pref'd off.
• Need to start filing bugs for new Q2 work.
• Reviewing IMO (input.mozilla.org) feedback and looking for common pain points.
  • Feeling lost in the UI (How do I clear history?, Where are my bookmarks?)
  • Video hangs or crashes
  • Slow loading of pages

Ian Barlow

<Read Only> In Denver this week at http://uxim14.uie.com/

Arun

<Read Only> Working on Tabbed browsing stuff, and misc bugs (bookmarking/history)

WebRT

• we're GO for Fx29 Release
• Fx29 will be developer-focused
• Marketplace/Content work is currently lower priority for those teams, which are focused on Tarako
• Noteworthy Bugs:
  • bug 989109 - WebAppRT expects return values from sendMessageToJava - uplifted
  • bug 968129 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.gfx.GeckoLayerClient.setFirstPaintViewport(GeckoLayerClient.java) - uplifted
  • bug 989294 - Synthetic APK never launches if downloaded outside Fx Marketplace - fixed, will request uplift
  • bug 889744 - Cannot install packaged apps from reviewer details page on Android - under investigation
  • bug 991394 - previously-installed apps stop running - under investigation
  • bug 990125 - Duplicate reminders to update apps - under investigation
  • bug 993164 - APK Factory stage release/review has 502 - under investigation

Feature Focus

Fx29

• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactor
• [ON TRACK] Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668
• [ON TRACK] Promo snippet for Sync
• [ON TRACK] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [ON TRACK] Ability to "Hide" existing panels in about:home (see the full project page for more details)
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on, bug 862801. UX Signoff: 03/04
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.5 integration
• [ON TRACK] Replace throbber with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776
• [AT RISK] APK Synthesis on by default
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Marketplace

Fx30

• [ON TRACK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 942231
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v1 (RSS feed support + 2 add-ons)
• [ON TRACK] Progress Bar Improvements for Fx30 bug 981059
• [ON TRACK] FxA/Sync Backlog
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR), bug 979250
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX), 979251 bug 979251
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Malay (ms), bug 979257
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021

Fx31

• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete)
• [PROPOSED] UX Telemetry
• [PROPOSED] Tiles v1
• [PROPOSED] Contextual tips for users
• [PROPOSED] Project video to second screen
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Marketplace discovery feed add-on (project page TBD)
• [PROPOSED] Promotional banner enhancements
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Quickshare on the context menu
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language, UI lang switching
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] API: Web activities
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)

Fx32

• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v3 (promo panel, bugfixes & polish + 4-5 add-ons)
• [PROPOSED] Tiles v2
• [PROPOSED] Password handling improvements
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
• [PROPOSED] Gestures
• [PROPOSED] My List: Auto-play video and audio lists
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Kitkat download integration