View source for Mobile/Notes/23-Oct-2013

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== Details ==

* Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
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== Schedule  ==
* Next merge is 2013-10-28 (Brace for impact!)

== Topics for This Week ==

== Friends of the Mobile Team ==
''Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Make sure friends also get awarded a [https://badges.mozilla.org/en-US/badges/badge/Friends-of-the-Mobile-Team badge].''

* fedepaol fixed {{bug|921776}} - Notification completed not showing when download was started from a private tab
* capella has been fixing a lot of things, as usual
** {{bug|906323}} - It should be possible to update a menuitem's label
** {{bug|920507}} - Uncaught exception / crash when Clear private data -> Browsing & download history
** {{bug|928163}} - Allow or disallow proper text selection caret display based on HTML <input> type
** {{bug|912983}} - Text selection "cursor" persists on blur

==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)===
===Kats===
===Chris Lord (cwiiis)===
===JChen===
* Past week
** Fixed {{bug|927429}} - Set dynamic UA override URL on B2G
** Worked on {{bug|909974}} - Compositor thread hang monitoring/telemetry
** Worked on {{bug|717878}} - Content in input fields can not be scrolled when value exceeds visible width
** Helping :mchang with {{bug|927633}} - Make child processes access UA overrides through IPC
** Investigated {{bug|925012}} - Search engine choices pane is completely blank
** Looked at {{bug|913942}} - Get the first touchmove event after a touchstart earlier
** PTO
* Next week
** {{bug|717878}}
** {{bug|909974}}

===GCP===
*Last week
**{{Bug|898767}} crash in mozilla::DecoderTraits::CanHandleMediaType
**{{Bug|927462}} String matching logic in OmxPlugin.cpp is brittle
**{{Bug|927474}} "probably" can play "audio/webm"
**{{Bug|927480}} No symbols/(deleted) for libraries initialized after the crash reporter is initialized
**{{Bug|928870}} Basic tests for Android WebRTC UI
**{{Bug|921041}} Replace the thread local storage impl of GetJNIForThread with JVM::GetEnv()
*Next week
**{{Bug|689178}} Use DT_DEBUG information to enumerate library mappings
**{{Bug|902000}} Add a service that monitors the system load
**WebRTC uplifting from upstream
*Blockers
**Weekly complaint about no debug tests + no ARMv6 debug builds

===Botond===
===Brian N===
* Bug 853045 - Add a mach command creating Eclipse projects for mobile/android
* Bug 929865 - Isolate sources in generated package into a separate directory
* Bug 905703 - Don't pre-process build/mobile/robocop/*java.in and mobile/android/base/tests/*java.in
* Bug 925012 - Search engine choices pane is completely blank
* Bug 928100 - Remove unused grid_icon_bg_activated.png resource

===Sriram===
* Uplifting patches to Aurora
* {{Bug|926139}} - Experimenting with integrating smoothie
* {{Bug|927006}} - Use a split action bar - http://cl.ly/image/351t0e3h2o09
** Added basic support for split action bar
** Moved the share icon + default app to the action bar
** Added conditional forward to split action bar

===WesJ===
===LucasR===
'''Last week'''
* Firefox for Android Tech talk
* Wrote post about new about:home with ibarlow for our "Future Releases" blog 
* {{bug|918007}} - Disable toolbar elements (menu, back, forward) while in editing mode on tablets
* (Investigating) {{bug|925722}} - Search suggestions require an extra tap to hit
* Smoothie bug fixing:
** https://github.com/lucasr/smoothie/issues/12
** https://github.com/lucasr/smoothie/issues/16
* Tons of patch reviews
'''Next week'''
* Finish slides for Droidcon talk
* More bug fixing on Fx26 ({{bug|918007}} and {{bug|925722}})
* More patch reviews

===liuche===
* interviews
* uplifts
* Robotium is now at 4.3 ({{bug|914773}})
* {{Bug|852608}} - Opensearch - cleanup and debugging, almost done

===Margaret===
* Done
** {{bug|880281}} - Make Marketplace more discoverable in about:apps
** Add-ons tech talk: http://leibovic.github.io/mobile-addons/
** More distribution files for partners

* In Progress/Next
** Preparing session for MozFest: http://sessions.mozillafestival.org/proposals/building-your-first-mobile-web-app/
** Working with snippets team to make actual dynamic snippets add-on
** Investigating {{bug|921468}} - Layout glitch in about:home display

===mcomella===
*Past
**{{Bug|919234}}: (dup) Regression: Unpinning a site flashes thumbnail into neighbour thumbnail spot
*Present
**{{Bug|870925}}: (r-) Add submissions info to FHR documents
**{{Bug|915918}}: (f+) If a different tab is selected in the background while in editing mode, URL being entered will open in that new tab
**Tracking 26
***{{Bug|924480}}: (r?) With talkback, Swiping right from toolbar brings you to content, event when about:home is visible.
*Future
**{{Bug|910859}}: Bootstrap new UI testing framework
**FHR
***Architecture docs
***Minor bugs and regressions
**{{Bug|898613}}: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to {{Bug|895828}})

===RNewman===
===nalexander===

Mostly working on FxAccounts + Sync 1.1:

* {{bug|892025}} - HTTP client speaking KeyServer Protocol 1.0
* {{bug|929066}} - tiny tweak for local clock skew
* {{bug|922147}} - Abstract out Sync 1.1 password from Android Sync code base

IDE support reviews:

* {{bug|853045}} - Add a mach command creating Eclipse projects for mobile/android
* {{bug|929865}} - Isolate sources in generated package into a separate directory
* {{bug|905703}} - Don't pre-process build/mobile/robocop/*java.in and mobile/android/base/tests/*java.in

JUnit 3 tests: No progress :(

===Scott (jwir3)===
===BLassey===
* in Paris for rendering work week
* {{bug|923795}} Add condition to MozParam to detect top 2 (or N) position, landed, gavin asked for a test
* {{bug|890985}} crash in nsStandardURL::SetSpec @ nsStandardURL::BuildNormalizedSpec, landed patch, waiting for nspr review
* {{bug|930072}} put example GeckoView embedding app in the tree, up for review
* {{Bug|930059}} Overscroll.java doesn't need to use compatibility libraries
* {{bug|930062}} GeckoView library should support building as an ant project
* {{bug|930068}} GeckoView shouldn't require ACCOUNT access permission
* {{bug|930070}} GeckoView should handle not having fennec-specific classes

===MFinkle===
* Did a tech talk on GeckoView @ Mozilla London office
** Lucas started a "Why not use WebApps" discussion that got me thinking about different HTML commands for main menus and toolbars. Think HTML5 context menu commands but for the main menu.
* Getting GeckoView patches cleaned up for initial review
** These will still be experimental
** Basic [http://people.mozilla.org/~mfinkle/geckoview/docs/ javadocs]
* Started looking into UI Telemetry
** Talked to Gregg Lind re: TestPilot
** Found that Blake Winton was [https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2013-October/001029.html thinking about] the same sort of thing for Desktop
* DroidconUK on Friday

===Ian Barlow===

* Helping out with product plan grooming
* Defining a first version of Kinderfox (parental controls / kid-friendly browsing)
** https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Kid_browsing
* TV browsing / Living room UX
** Looping in UX designers
* Tablet refresh
** Gathering user feedback
** Looping in UX designers
* Homepage enhancements
** working with desktop UX folk on a design plan
** State of good repair -- refining contextual actions on the homepage: http://cl.ly/image/2z2E1c1X172q
* UX strategy for 2013/14
** Working with Madhava on a desktop/mobile plan

===Arun===
Continuing with PDF.js – Focusing on developing 3 ideas.

===Security/MGoodwin===
===WebRT===

* work ongoing, no specific updates this week
* lots of conversations around security, UX, and implementation

===Performance===

===A-Team===
* rc4 added to Android 4.0 Opt (Panda)
* Reftests coming soon to Android 4.0 Opt (Panda) -- {{bug|929447}}
* Android tests in this week's Orange Factor Top 10:
** {{bug|914377}} Intermittent testShareLink | View is null and can therefore not be clicked!
** {{bug|720452}} Intermittent Android jsreftest.html?test=<ANY> | load failed: null

== Feature Focus==
;Fx25 (Ships 10/29)
* {{mok}} [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAudio_API_Rollout_Status API: Web Audio]
* {{mok}}   [[Mobile/Projects/WebRTC platform support | WebRTC platform support, continued]] 
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Settings UI clean up | Settings UI clean-up]] excluding search provider management
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Guest browsing | Guest browsing]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/PageActions | Page Actions]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/SkiaGL | SkiaGL improvement]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Mixed content | Mixed content]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Localization | Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Localization | Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Localization | Added locale: Romanian (ro-RO)]]
* {{mok}} Setting wallpaper {{Bug|886996}}
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/DevTools | Developer Tools: Remote Debugging]]
;FX26
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/AMO and Marketplace discoverability | AMO  discoverability]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Addition of search engines | Addition of search engines]] - Yahoo and Bing for selected locales <= looks like we need tests but this will likely land?  {{Bug|923795}} - Add condition to MozParam to detect top 2 (or N) position
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/About:home redesign | About:home redesign]] <= looks like it's backed out but still good progress, thank you{{Bug|918007}}
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Settings UI clean up | search provider management in settings menu]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/About:home - Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile | Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile]]
* {{mrisk}} [[Mobile/Projects/Localization | Added locale: South African English (za-EN)]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/Localization | Added locale: Thai (th)]]
* {{mok}} [[Mobile/Projects/WebRTC platform support | WebRTC platform support, continued]]

;Fx27 
These will stick
* {{mok}}   [[Mobile/Projects/WebRTC platform support | WebRTC platform support, continued]]
* {{mprop}} [[Mobile/Projects/Localization | Added locale: Hindi (hi-IN)]]
* {{mprop}} [[Mobile/Projects/Localization | Added locale: Slovenian (sl)]]
These will be deferred? 
* {{mprop}} [[Mobile/Projects/Sound effects | Ability for add-ons to customize sound effects]] to browser actions <- will be bumped off if we can have some reader / reading list improvements and land some 'save for later' hooks
* {{mprop}} [[Mobile/Projects/Directional game console navigation | Directional game console navigation]]
* {{mprop}} [[Mobile/Projects/Set top box optimization | Set Top Box optimization]]

*Here are some notable landings:
** {{Bug|922338}} - Update phishing-protection page in infoURL pref across Firefox products
** Usability Fit and Finish: Overhaul of the favicon system {{Bug|914296}} - (FaviconRevamp) and Remove overscroll and show highlight instead {{Bug|705246}} and {{Bug|791475}} - Android updater notification should provide more information like progress
** Progress on ANR effort: {{Bug|909974}}, {{bug|926574}}
** Progress on GeckoView: {{Bug|927451}}
** Make marketplace more discoverable in about apps:  
**Awesomescreen: {{Bug|921265}}
** Geckoview is pretty much usable, right? for Android 2.3 => 4.2
** Will the IDE stuff be monolithic? Does it help contributors? Do I smell a blog post?

== Round Table ==
===QA===
* {{bug|928441}} -  content view truncated in landscape
* crash rate is slowly creeping up