Mobile/Notes/08-Jul-2015
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Schedule
Topics for This Week
Tracking Review
Beta
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Aurora
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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)
- Fixed DOM fullscreen support
- Back to working on paint throttling
- Actually have pretty disappointing results when running benchmarks, reconsidering some assumptions
- Working on enabling the tiled DrawTarget
- Need to increase fuzz on a handful of reftests
JChen
Fixed
Working on
GCP
Randall Barker
Eugen Sawin
- PTO
- MP3 demuxer
- Fixed initialization issue for (radio-like) streams (1169142)
- Startup performance optimization
- Experimenting with partial delaying/lazy loading in AddonManager.jsm
Fixed
Working on
Dylan Roeh
Past:
- 1145192 - GeckoProfile spamming Android log with: Fetching profile: '', 'null'
- 1153848 - Add pref to disable SurfaceTexture attach/detach
Present:
Brian Nicholson
- Back from PTO. Acquired new jewelry!
- Catching up on emails/IRC discussions
- Lots of reviews
- Fixing tests (again)
- Helping bkmunar with bug 1109684
- Finding blockers
Bryan Munar
Bryan's Corner:
- Still bothering Chenxia on the side
- Also bothering BNicholz (check out his new rap album set to drop right after the iOS release)
- beating BNicholz at Super Smash Brothers (jk, My winning percentage is like 12.6%)
- My job title has gone from Mobile Intern -> Button Intern
Working On:
- Getting that 3rd party iOS app code for other developers to use in their projects on the Mozilla repo! (and eventually take over the world)
- Repo: OpenInFirefoxClient
- Bug 1178787 - Add a Sync Now button
- Bug 1109684 - Let other developers directly open pages in Firefox for iOS
WesJ
<Read Only> - Time shifted today for family stuff
- Vacation last week
- bug 1169379 - Replace top sites thumbnails with favicon-inspired design. Iterating with Darrin on design.
- Wrote some code to fetch favicions for synced sites.
- bug 1134061 - [META] IOS-139 Support Lightweight Themes. Debating whether we'll ship this a bit, but trying to get it in MVP shape.
- bug 1161630 - Don't blindly delete all favicons. Fixing some nits.
- bug 1167334 - Remember Password prompt automatically dismisses on sign-in. Trying to find a good solution for gmails 4 really slow redirects, but have some basic fixes in for most sites.
- bug 1177132 - Wrong page state when aborting page load
liuche
Highlights:
- Styling changes for Tracking protection
- Mixed Content mock discussions
Present:
Past:
karim
Past:
Present:
- 1173789 - Showing Network activity spinner
- 1171463 - Regression: grey area shown where bottom toolbar used to be on about:home
Margaret
Highlights:
Past:
- 1175451 - Change "Added to list" super toast to "Page added to your Reading List"
- 1156917 - Get higher resolution favicons for search engines
- 1175741 - Unsigned add-on warning appears in about:addons for OpenH264 video codec
- 1175197 - Fix about:addons buttons styling
Present:
jonalmeida
Highlights:
- Working on slowly replacing ListView/TwoWayViews
- Running Robocop tests locally on a simulator (wiki to be updated)
- Updating reviews
Past:
Present:
mcomella
- Private browsing color refinements
- Proper URI -> Intent handling
- Misc. triage bugs
Past:
- 1175354 - [Linter: UseCompoundDrawables] Substitute LinearLayout for TextView w/ compound drawable
- 1179407 - Private browsing toolbar text background fades to wrong color
- 1179403 - Private browsing ToolbarProgressView too dark
- 1177781 - Determine severity levels in base lint config
- 1180907 - Call Drawable.mutate before setting tint
Present:
rnewman
Fixed
Working on
nalexander
I will be PTO July 17 through 27 <Read Only>
- Contributors: working with Ahmed, vivek, and aminb this week.
- Partners: fire-fighting Search Activity registration: bug 1180995 needs to get backed out.
- Partners: daily stand-up demoing integration with third-party identity services.
- Partners: movement on --with-android-distribution-directory
- bug 1160563 should be up for review shortly
- Long term evolution: working on improving our android:versionCode calculation
- First cut at bug 1137898 is in my tree
- mach artifact install landed!
- tl;dr: don't build C++, build Fennec in 5 minutes
- http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/drafts/build-fennec-frontend-fast-with-mach-artifact.html
Sebastian
Highlights
- Home Panel Add-ons: Grids now use RecyclerView: 1176207
- Home Panel Add-ons: API for headers (grid only for now): 1172136
- First KidFox patches landed: 1125312 1125313
Noise
- 1180132 - Android 2.3 / API 9 builds failing when RecyclerView is used
- 1177338 - Find bar persists on about:home, overlaps search engine buttons
- 1180605 - Gradle build fails because of missing dependency: spoon-runner:1.1.10-SNAPSHOT
- 1176207 - Replace GridView implementation in Home Panels with RecyclerView implementation
Martyn Haigh
Past:
Present:
Stefan
Past:
- 1179005 - Make sure we can build on Xcode 6.4 / SDK 8.4
- 1163151 - Firefox for iOS: verify usage of \n in strings
- 1171626 - Tapping item in Reading List takes you to article or causes crash
- 1171633 - New toggle appears in settings when disconnecting account
- 1179422 - Expose third-party licenses via the settings
- 1179067 - Add "View later" as a Send extension
Present:
Steph
<Readonly> Last week:
- Talked to Socorro/Breakpad teams about integrating iOS into crash-stats.mozilla.org
- Started looking into scrolling/web-compat issues we're seeing for certain websites
This week:
- Continue investigating web-compact issues
- Added crash detection on previous run to prompt the user if they want to restore their tabs
James Hugman
Ally
- 1148524 Add "edit login" option in about:logins context menu
- in review
- 1155345 Batch loading of list items in about:logins
- possibly band-aiding with throbber during load
- 1101746 Display message when no passwords are present
- Kidfox meetings
- Partner related FHR fun
- holy batman, review queue!
Emily
Lowlights:
- OMG Sent tabs.
Past:
- 1176274 - Lock icon shown in URL bar while editing
- 1178012 - Long-press location bar opens URL bar editing mode, sometimes does not even show the menu
Present:
BLassey
Fixed
Working on
- minimal geckoview.js/geckoview.xul and factoring out common elements with browser.js
Antlam
- Past
- bug 663803: "Zoomed View" feature follow up
- bug 1175967: Tracking Protection on Android
- bug 1177576: Updating Mixed Content blocking states on Android
- Partner UX work
- Upcoming
- bug 1144430: URL bar icon wrangling
- bug 1172017: Hello support (creating links on Android)
- Look at Home Panels UI
- Q3 Android UX
Robin
iOS
- Working with Bryan on bug 1109684 Let other developers directly open pages in Firefox for iOS and bug 1178787 Add a Sync Now button to Settings
- Implement toggle unread for reading list items bug 1177936
- Reflect local vs remote visits in Top Sites bug 1172072
Android
- Kinderfox (Kidfox), will catch up with Barbara and Sam re: last week's meeting
Going over Gemma and Bill's research.
Q3!
Darrin
<Read Only>
- preparing Q3 Mobile UX roadmap and ideas, hope to share soon
- filing and fixing more iOS bugs
- iOS settings saw a UI refresh
- finalized some copy ahead of string freeze for iOS
Next:
- working on favicon inspired Top Sites with Wes
- bookmark animation
A-Team
QA
Feature Focus
- Android Roadmap in Aha!
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- iOS Roadmap in Aha!
- iOS Trello Board
- Suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap Here