Mobile/Notes/07-May-2014

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Schedule

• Next Merge: 2014-06-09

Topics for This Week

Firefox Hub

Hub hackathon this week, there are already 5 new add-ons for you to try! https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/hub-hackathon

UI Telemetry

We started creating scripts to analyze the UI Telemetry data. Finkle started emailing some results around.

Second Screen Meetup

A small group will be meeting next week in SF to get Roku app into Nightly, work on Chromecast and FirefoxOS streamers, and focus on promotion.

Contextual Hints

We have a list of actionable tasks and will be making bugs (for those that are not already filed).

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.

• Isura Edirisinghe fixed some robocop bugs
  • bug 946366 - Aggregate timeout for events waited on in WaitHelper.waitForPageLoad
  • bug 943705 - Aggregate countdown timer in waitForPageLoad
• vivek dealt with a backout and re-landed bug 977167 - Open tabs should be filtered to exclude about:, chrome: etc. URLs prior to flushing to DB
• capella also dealt with a backout and re-landed bug 980074 - Tests for text selection

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!

Alan K. (ack)

• Initial cloudsync implementation working
• Working through additional requirements added by partner (planned for 2-3 weeks)
  • Creating additional root folders may be difficult
  • There are still many places where we assume fxsync only
• Cloudsync up for review: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=993584
• No responses to any of my UI/UX requests
• Travel booked for work week in SF
• @rbarker: I want to try swapping in the standalone webrtc lib into node-webrtc

JChen

Past week

• NativeJSObject soon to support Bundles
  • Next will be working on array support

GCP

<Read Only>

• Last week:
  • Disappearing search engines on Firefox desktop (incl happy ending, plugin got fixed on amo)
  • Desktop debug crasher which turned out to be a Ghostery security issue (history repeats)
  • WebRTC 3.50 Android uplift
• Next week:
  • Debug the uplift, it pretty much compiles.

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Got stand-alone WebRTC to compile but not link.
• This Week: Get stand-alone WebRTC To link. Also second screen hack week next week.

Brian Nicholson

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WesJ

• bug 996129 - Personal data exposed in Top Sites thumbnails
• Second screen stuff
• bug 892125 - Create "Add-ons" page in settings. WIP up.
• Lots of reviewing :)

LucasR

<Read Only>

Last week

• (Landed) bug 996657 - Turn TopSitesCursorWrapper into a multi-cursor wrapper
• (Landed) bug 997660 - Update TopSites grid to use row types from TopSitesCursorWrapper
• (In progress) bug 997772 - Bootstrap suggested sites framework
• (In progress) bug 997782 - Use suggested sites in the top sites panels
• Patch reviews
• Side project: explorations around off-main thread layout passes on Android:
  • https://github.com/lucasr/android-layout-samples
  • Blog post coming soon-ish

Next week

• Firefox Hub hackathon
• Suggested sites and Hub stuff

liuche

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• Contextual hints: timing for bug 998036 banners, thinking through a HintsController
• bug 921136 - Handling bookmarks and history together (...mostly learning SQL, Cursors)
• Next: Start on basic contextual hints bugs (basic help menu, etc)

Margaret

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Highlights

• Character encoding menu problems on 29
• Weighted snippets
• Investigating better tab closing/un-closing experience
• Hub hackathon add-ons!
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/instagram-panel/
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimeo-panel/
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cat-facts/
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wikipedia-panel/
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pocket-panel/
• Working in London next week

Fixed

• 1004160 - After banner message with no icon is shown, banner icon is always hidden
• 1002567 - Support weighted snippets
• 988909 - Context menus for dynamic panels
• 1003897 - Character Encoding selection broken in Fennec 29

mcomella

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Past

• bug 1000149 - Simplify edit mode

Present

• bug 997477 - Add a way to close edit mode in one tap on tablet
• bug 998000 - Create BrowserApp.cancelEditingMode for consistency with BrowserApp.enter/commitEditingMode
• bug 958889 - Make Fennec "Synced Tabs" tray display entry point to Firefox Account + Sync when user has no existing accounts
• bug 1005924 - URL outline is not resized correctly after changing device orientation
• bug 932208 - BrowserToolbar and HomeFragment context menu 'Share' option should be disabled for these protocols: about:// chrome:// file://

Future

• Too busy with other things:
  • 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 983437 - Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
• bug 997487 - (blocked) Add UI telemetry to editing mode cancel button
• bug 989441 - Centralized documentation for writing tests

esawin

Summary

• Zoom session bug
• SPDY proxy research

Fixed

• bug 1002426 - Zoom level mangled after restoring session
• bug 1004488 - Page has wrong zoom level after pressing BACK button

Working on

• SPDY proxy (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Gonzales)
• bug 1000251 - Add robocop tests for zooming and zoom session history

Misc

• For fun: hub hackathon Hacker News add-on (https://github.com/eamsen/hn-panel)
• Useful for newbies: improved reviewer recommendation tool (https://github.com/eamsen/superblame)

RNewman

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• Locale switching UI flip-flopping between phone and tablet. Almost there!
• bug 965371 -- reporting device type in FHR.
• Randomization, fixes, flappin' my jaw, the usual.

nalexander

Highlights

• Build-system-as-a-service: locale chooser, suggested sites resources, Android v7 support library and ChromeCast SDK integration :)
• Spent yesterday making local-Robocop not suck as hard; patches by EOW?

Fixed

• 1003359 - Removing a resource file causes build failures in geckoview_library (Bug 958889 required a clobber)
• 1000676 - Add about:devices page to display available second screens
• 976216 - Include -purgecaches command line to Gecko for developer builds of Fennec

BLassey

• second screen
  • got the dongle working in Fennec with an addon

MFinkle

• UI Telemetry
• Second screen (meetup next week)
• Planning

Ian Barlow

• Hub Hack Week! I have Instagram and Wikipedia on my homepage!
• Staring at fresh telemetry numbers, avoiding the temptation to act on them yet :)
• Scoping work on Contextual Hints
• Working on a preliminary "Search" deck with Anthony
• Working on tablets with Yuan
• Looking forward to closing bug 1002628
• Just generally excited about mobile :)
• In London next week!

Security/MGoodwin

<Read Only>

• Back from vacation. Ping if you need me.

WebRT

• continuing focus on significant bugs, valuable enhancements, and comprehensive tests
• digging into prioritized, tagged Android logging from JavaScript
• Notable Issues:
  • bug 889744 - Cannot install packaged apps from reviewer details page on Android - candidate for uplift
  • bug 986085 - User-hand-holding to check the Unknown Sources checkbox - patch in review
  • bug 991394 - previously-installed apps stop running - under investigation, stuck
  • bug 995803 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException - under investigation
  • bug 957067 - Pass back error when incorrect data passed through in install APK - patch in review
  • bug 978143 - Cancelling APK installation does not trigger error callback - depends on bug 957067
  • bug 1003962 - Line Runner hangs on launch with white screen - new