Mobile/Notes/28-Jan-2015

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2015-02-23
  • This is an important merge for any Fx38 "Spring Moment" features, especially UI related

Tracking Review

Beta

• Next Build:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Aurora

• Next Build:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

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.

• James Dearing fixed bug 1124006 - Remove shrink comments in browser_toolbar.xml
• Giovanny Gongora [:gioyik] fixed bug 1124479 - Remove unused plus-button styles from aboutReader.css and bug 1126426 - Rename reader-plus-icon-xhdpi.png on config.css
• Dominique landed bug 663803 - Provide magnifying glass in areas of clustered links \o/
• (iOS) Dusek landed bug 1123086 - Move VoiceOver cursor after loading webpage
• (iOS) codestergit working on bug 1109666 - Customize behavior when long-pressing a link

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)

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• Patches up for some video issues (bug 1100126, bug 1116469)
• Ordered hardware to debug video crashes on Rockchip devices
• Looking into what crash reports are still leaking to Google Play (filed and patch up for bug 1126454)

JChen

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GCP

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• Last week:
  • More SafeBrowsing discussion about alternate providers
  • Bugfixing on Video sandboxing (basically: it works)
  • Some investigation of NDK/ARM/AArch64 performance issues (summary: good thing we ditched ARMv6)
• Next week:
  • More testing with video sandboxing
  • Think about sandboxing more stuffs

Randall Barker

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Last Week

• Having (new) battles with try to get patches ready to land.
• Have 5 of the 6 r+ needed to land (hope to get final one soon).
  • bug 1093934 Create a XPCOM library that can be used to support standalone WebRTC
  • bug 1097804 Create a library containing nsISocketTransportService and nsIDNS that can be used to support standalone WebRTC
  • bug 1101651 Enable WebRTC unit tests to be built using standalone WebRTC library

Next Week

• Investigate bug 1121679 Enable receiving audio in standalone WebRTC

Eugen Sawin

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Finished

• bug 1122623 - Implement update service as bound service

Working on

• (landing) bug 792992 - Can't override query URL for update service
• bug 1093815 - Use AndroidPlatformDecoder for standalone MP3 on Android

Back from Berlin (office).

Brian Nicholson

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• Getting the browser into a usable state
  • bug 1123501 - Dialog and window.open() support
  • bug 1126071 - Add stop/reload button to location bar
  • bug 1125996 - Location bar is too hard to tap
  • bug 1124310 - Crash when tapping the location view on on iPhone 6 Plus
• bug 1126542 - Use mock server for SearchTests search suggestions

liuche

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Highlights:

• Passwords hack day - telemetry, process, goals
• More onboarding with antlam: animations, fine-tuning
• Reviews, mentoring

Present:

Past:

Margaret

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Highlights:

• Desktop reader mode styles, toolbar and tests
  • You can make the reader mode toolbar button appear on desktop Nightly by setting "reader.parse-on-load.enabled" to true
• Background fetching and caching content for Android reading list - bug 1113454
• Gave a talk about open source at Mozilla - http://leibovic.github.io/open-source-at-mozilla/
• Talking this weekend at FOSDEM - https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/privacy_features_firefox_android/

Past:

• 1120874 - Telemetry: Record the proportion of saved signons without usernames

Present:

mcomella

Tablet almost landed!

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Past

• New tablet
  • Fix regression: bug 1117130 - URL bar border slightly covered by fading edge of title
  • bug 1110555 - LWT bitmap is incorrectly clamped to the right after starting the device in portrait mode and rotating to landscape
  • bug 1107386 - New tablet UI - Browser menu is clipped and unusable on the Kindle Fire
• bug 1096958 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.TopSitesPanel.access$N(TopSitesPanel.java)
• Mentor bug 663803 - Provide magnifying glass in areas of clustered links

Present

• New tablet
  • bug 1125050 - Big space between thumbnail rows on Kindle Fire
• bug 939350 - Create a python linter wrapper

Future

• (Q1 goals) Toolbar cleanup & awesomescreen refresh

rnewman

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• Distribution delaying. Waiting for beta approval.
• Reading list stuff. Per-device datatypes for Sync... we hope.
• Reviews and meetings, as usual.

nalexander

Projects for this cycle:

• Push migrate legacy Sync 1.1 devices across the finish line
  • Uplifted Telemetry and query parameter tracking
• Make FxA provide OAuth implicit grants for Fennec consumers, tracked by bug 1117829
  • Rebased, tests still work \o/
• Implement Firefox Accounts for iOS
  • Tracked by bug iosfxa
  • First version of embedded accounts.firefox.com up on github \o/
• Make sure |mach bootstrap| for mobile/android works
  • Linux error has a patch, waiting for review: bug 1123824
• Building with Gradle in automation
  • Green build, green try run with debug APK

Past

• 1093358 - Preprocess less JavaScript in mobile/android
• 1124052 - Preprocess less in Android Background Services
• 1058160 - Specify main activity org.mozilla.fennec.App with a default intent over org.mozilla.search.MainActivity
• 1123980 - Write geo-specific search engine metadata from region.properties to res/raw at build time

Martyn Haigh

Past:

Present:

• Finishing up some tablet related stuff
• Open in background

Stefan

• Made lots of progress on Reader Mode (includes UI now)
• Moving forward to: Localization, Enterprise Deployments for Dogfooding, working on more v1 features from the long list.

Ally

• pto on tuesday(yesterday)

• Bug 1124711 - Site identity popup overlaps the URL Bar on phone
  • in review

• Bug 1025703 - Ignore autocomplete="off" for filling login forms
  • in review

• Bug 1123820 - Change the expiration of master password probes to never expire
  • landed

• Bug 1091461 (Aurora bug) Tapping anywhere under the 'Private Browsing' tip in the History panel will open the Custom menu
  • landed
  • m-a? m-b? flags set

• Bug 1118863 - Add telemetry to know whether password saving is disabled globally
  • landed

• Bug 1101746 - Display message when no passwords are present
  • waiting on UX(antlam)

• Bug 1107591 - Show site identity popup when clicking the favicon on phones
  • landed

• Password Manager Project at Large
  • becoming more concrete
  • passwords hack day. very focused on getting data, triage, & bug filing

• Data Collection Module
  • reviewing Desktop FHR/telemetry v4+AWS plan
  • reviewing Query Modes for FHR+Telemetry v4

• Follow up with e10s addon js exceptions telemetry with addon authors & jimm

• Canary In the Coal Mine
  • Bug 1125330 - Expose |mach| output when internal Gradle mach invocations fail
  • failure to do ./mach package before ./mach gradle-install results in a bevy of cryptic errors about missing symlinks
  • Error:Internal error: (java.io.FileNotFoundException) /obj-dir/mobile/android/gradle/.idea/misc.xml (No such file or directory) means that you need to reimport the objdir/.../gradle

• Where do we keep these 'bylaws' anyway?

MFinkle

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• Planning week for
  • Passwords
  • Firefox for iOS
  • Reading List and Send Tabs

Fixed

• 671993 - Failure to save forms data in session results in data loss

Antlam

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• Past
  • bug 1122302: Expose devices in share menu
  • bug 1101746: about:passwords empty state
  • bug 1088220: Visual clean up of doorhangers (related to Passwords)
  • in SFO for Passwords UX sync up with rfeeley
• Upcoming
  • bug 1126608: Design for better fall back/manual fill experience
  • Wrapping up Tablet V1 last bugs with mcomella
  • Wrapping up "Welcome screen" first run UI improvements with liuche
  • Passwords UX sync up cont'd with rfeeley

Robin

iOS

• Finishing up Reader Mode/view — final touches on transitions/toolbar appearance. Finalizing font-faces.
• Moving on to Profile/FxA flow. Webview vs. Native. Avatars!
• Beginning UI! \o/

Darrin

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• Planning week in SF for Passwords, Firefox for iOS
• Next 2 weeks, hoping to pare down my calendar and get heads down on iOS

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Mobile Roadmap