Mobile/Notes/02-Apr-2014

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Topics for This Week

Firefox Hub

Planning to publish feed add-on for 30 on AMO this week. Starting to write API documentation on MDN.

Friends of the Mobile Team

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• Raymond fixed bug 988126 - WebViewActivity missing return statement
• Capella fixed bug 976723 - Selection handle scrolls outside boundary of <input> on page scroll and bug 982608 - Geckoeditable data loss using Swift keyboard during Text Selection
• Blake Winton started playing around with the new hub APIs in his whimsy add-on: https://github.com/bwinton/whimsy/blob/master/lib/panelicons.js

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!

LucasR

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Last week

• bug 940575 - Implement per-profile SharedPreferences, eliminating uses of PreferenceManager
• bug 985211 - Disabling hub panels in regular mode affects guest mode
• bug 974601 - Avoid saving new configuration on refresh if still using default HomeConfig
• bug 988355 - Only force reload on configuration changes in DynamicPanel
• bug 933739 - Issues in URL domain autocompletion
• (Investigation, Round 2) bug 974434 - Add support for items with variable height in PanelGridView
• (In progress) bug 976064 - Create a loader per panel view instead of per dataset id
• (In progress) Bootstrapping the framework for Suggested Sites
• Prepared presentation for London Mobile Summit 2.0

Next week

• More focus on the Suggested Sites framework
• Some more Hub stuff

Margaret

Highlights

• Home panels authentication API/UI finally landed!
• Started some MDN docs for hub
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/API/Home.jsm/panels
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/API/HomeProvider.jsm

Fixed

• 942281 - Provide a way for a service add-on to authenticate a user
• 987175 - Hide "Add panel" settings item for fx30
• 976680 - Promo banner on tablets in squished occasionally on rotation
• 832917 - Visiting an UTF-16 page adds an UTF-16 item to the Character Encoding menu that persists even upon navigating to a non-UTF-16 page

mcomella

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Past

• 957894 - Update account pickling code for Firefox Account

esawin

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A-Team

• More Android tests running:
  • http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/android-2-3-opt-tests-on-tbpl/
  • http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/android-4-0-debug-tests-on-tbpl/