Gaia/SMS

Design Specs

Interaction

• Dropbox
• HTML5_SMS-MMSUserStorySpecifications_20130429_V7.0

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 (Steve, Corey) bug 845173, LANDED on trunk, not uplifted yet
  • bug 840085 - media content when no SMIL, LANDED on trunk not uplifted yet
• Multi-recipient (Rick) bug 837994 - EOD Thursday, May 2
  • Live contact search panel (Borja) bug 861227 - PR ready for review by Julien, EOD Friday, May 3
• New layout (Borja) bug 860680 - LANDED on trunk, waiting for someone to fix patch for uplift
• Activities for attaching media (Dominic)
  • Pick music bug 849766 - waiting for review from DJF
  • Pick video bug 849768 - landed+uplifted

Milestone 2 (5/10/13)

• Composer
  • bug 840035 (no owner) - operator defined limit prompt
    • Need to verify this still works from SMS implementation
  • bug 840047 (Greg) - attachment removal, maybe EOD 5/2
    • Partly handled by patch for message preview (bug 840069)
    • Needs UX implemented for switching out/deleting attachment on tap
    • UX wireframes mention tapping the attachment and options appearing; verifying this currently
  • bug 840069 (Greg) - message preview, in review, landing EOD 5/3
  • bug 840044 (Greg) - attachment format support,
• Device Timestamp -
  • bug 840051 waiting for Product feedback
• New Thread Layout
  • bug 840055 (Mike) - needs patch. estimated landing EOD Thurs 5/1
• Thread List
  • bug 862311 (Mike) - paperclip icon (has WIP, needs asset and bug 863241 and bug 865287)
• Attach from activity
  • Requires song picker (bug 849766, Dominic) & video picker (bug 849768) to be done first
• Media Preview (Steve/Corey) - estimated landing EOD Tues 4/30
  • • Corey (gnarf) has code for this written and is implementing that with Steve's SMIL code/message-display stuff (Bug #?)
  • bug 840056 - audio playback
  • bug 840057 - video playback
  • bug 840059 - photo display, LANDED but not uplifted
• Media Saving
  • bug 840065 meta-bug
  • bug 867448 (no owner) support saving previewed media in Music app
  • bug 867231 (no owner) support saving previewed media in Gallery app
  • (no bug) (no owner) support saving previewed media in Video app
• Settings UI - estimated landing EOD Thurs 5/2
  • bug 840076 (Steve) - MMS download options
  • bug 842487 (Steve) - Download option settings page layout
• Message Expiry (NOT SURE IS BLOCKING YET)
  • bug 862262 (no owner) - Gaia front-end
  • bug 867227 (Chia-hung) - Add expiry date into nsIDOMMozMmsMessage

Milestone 3 (5/17/13)

• New layout (thread list) - (Steve and Borja) NOTE: through extensive analysis, we think this is about the paperclip icon in thread view.

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