Mobile/Notes/18-Nov-2015

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Easy-to-read wiki
• Hard-to-read release calendar

Friends of the Mobile Team

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• Andy Chen fixed bug 1225566 - Slow scrolling with keyboard on PRIV by BlackBerry
• Andy Chen fixed bug 1225590 - Horizontal keyboard scrolling moves in wrong direction on PRIV by BlackBerry
• Dominique Vincent [:domivinc] fixed bug 1196146 - Activation of the zoomed view in Aurora
• Jonathan Almeida (:jonalmeida) fixed bug 1225225 - Incorrect pref type and name used ImageBlockingPolicy
• Kalpesh Krishna [:martianwars] fixed bug 1208759 - Stop preprocessing mobile/android/themes
• Prabhjyot Sodhi [:psd] fixed bug 1207340 - Pref/Search Engine Suggestions UI can get out of sync
• Sergej Kravcenko fixed bug 1216212 - Remove hack for tapping between 3-dot menu and edge of screen on tablet
• hennes fixed bug 1178320 - Multiple UITests are failing intermittently
• varunj.1011 fixed bug 1214811 - unbold all instances of mUserSearchTerm in search suggestions

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, ally, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, (nalexander/rnewman)

• Notes
• (Button) toasts are now snackbars
• Revisting requirements for shipping homepage preference
• Looking into removal of all Gecko theme related files
• Decided to put the brakes on shareplane in top-level menu
• Still preparing to EOL Honeycomb
• Ongoing work
  • Family-friendly browsing (including blocklist and theme chooser)
  • Distinguish between local/remote history visits
  • mms:/mmsto: support
  • Downloadable fonts (unblocked on CDN changes)
  • Push notifications UX (including updating our site settings dialog)
  • GCM based Push notifications (soft-blocked on endpoint)

iOS

st3fan, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux

• Hugely successful global launch
• Released 1.2
• Planning for 1.3 (another bug fix release)
• Landing first 2.0 features
  • 3rd Party password manager integration
• fixed issues with context menus on iPad
• Simplifying database upgrades
• Various improvements to allow for better crash reporting for startup crashes

UX

darrin, tecgirl, antlam, gemma

• Android
  • FFB V2
  • "Bookmarks/RL" V2
  • Push notifications follow-up
  • Home panel discoverability
  • Top Sites improvements
  • Blog post: New Mobile Tabs tray -- https://medium.com/@antlam/a-new-mobile-tabs-tray-327ac262eacb

• iOS
  • 3D Touch
  • Toolbar (Find in Page, Request Desktop Site)
  • Celebrating! Yay iOS launch!

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QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Android Roadmap in Aha!
• Android Roadmap in Aha! (public)
• Suggest new features for the Android Roadmap Here

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• iOS Roadmap in Aha! (public)
• Suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap Here