Gaia/SMS

Design Specs

Interaction

• Dropbox
• HTML5_SMS-MMSUserStorySpecifications_20130418_V5.0.pdf

Visual

• Dropbox

Use Cases

• Tom wants send a text message and selects the SMS app
• Tom can send a new message by:
  • Selecting an existing contact from the Contacts app list
  • Entering a phone number
• Tom is notified of all incoming messages whether he's in the SMS app, on the Home Screen, or in a 3rd party app
• Tom also has the ability to send an MMS
  • MMS supports photos and short videos
• Tom has the ability to search through his history of SMS sent/received
• Tom has the ability to delete specific SMS threads
• More user stories related to MMS in Bugzilla meta bug

Requirements

Gaia v1

• User has the ability to send/receive text messages
• User has the ability to send a new SMS:
  • Enters a name based on available phone numbers in the Contacts app list
  • Enters a phone number
• All text messages sent/received are threaded and displayed in a conversation-like view
• In the messages list view, timestamps are shown based on date of last received/sent messages
  • 'Today' and 'Yesterday' are used for recent message threads
• User has the ability to search through all messages sent/received
• User has the ability to delete specific message threads

Gaia v2

• User has the ability to forward an individual or group of text messages to another recipient
• User has the ability to send MMS messages
  • MMS messages support photos and short videos

Implementation Plan ( established April 18th, 2013)

• Milestone 1 - Completed by 4/26/2013
  • SMIL, Multi-recipient, New layout and Gaia's pick activity
• Milestone 2 - Completed by 5/10/2013
  • Message composition with attachments, new text-display layout, open/save attachments
• Milestone 3 - Completed by 5/17/2013
  • New thread layout, settings UI for automatic content download options
• Milestone 4/Final - Completed by 5/24/2013
  • MMS Share activity (for other apps to send media to MMS), Notification of MMS,

== Implementation Details:

Milestone 1 (4/26/13)

• SMIL almost done (Steve) bug 845173
• Multi-recipient (Borja) bug 837994
• New layout (Borja) almost done bug 860680
• Activities (pick) (Dominic) almost done bug 849766 bug 849768

Milestone 2 (5/10/13)

• Code to review by 4/26/13
• Composer (Bocoup)
  • bug 840035
  • bug 840040
    • Need to verify this still works from SMS implementation
  • bug 840047
    • Partly handled by https://github.com/danheberden/gaia/commits/840069_message_preview
    • UX wireframes mention tapping the attachment and options appearing; verifying this currently
  • bug 840069
    • https://github.com/danheberden/gaia/commits/840069_message_preview
• New layout (bubble) - (Steve and Borja)
  • bug 840051
  • bug 840053
  • bug 840054
  • bug 840055
• Attach from activity - need this first (Bocoup)
• Viewer (Steve) - display
  • • Corey (gnarf) has code for this written and is implementing that with Steve's SMIL code/message-display stuff
  • bug 840056
  • bug 840057
  • bug 840059
  • bug 840085
• Save from viewer (Steve) - some discussion with Dominic
  • bug 840065

Milestone 3 (5/17/13)

• New layout (thread list) - (Steve and Borja)
• Settings UI (Bocoup)
  • bug 840076

Milestone 4 (5/24/13)

• MMS "share" activity - is this part of the MVP but it's a P1 on the list
  • bug 840075
• Notification of MMS (Steve has a patch)
  • bug 840049
  • bug 840090
  • bug 840087
  • bug 840050

User Stories (Taipei)

• bug 840048
• bug 840061
• bug 840063
• bug 840066

Meeting minutes

• MMS meeting (March 15, 2013)
• Taipei office weekly MMS meeting

Development

Source code on Github