Mobile/Notes/13-Aug-2014

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• 2.5 weeks until uplift
  • last call for speculative fixes on Beta

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.

• Rahul Parsani fixed bug 1040444 - datetime_picker lint and performance warnings (first patch!)
• Tristan Pollitt fixed bug 1023652 - Update testBookmarksPanel to check for non-existence of Share option (first patch!)
• capella fixed bug 1048626 - Provide a minimal background thread pool for long-running tasks
• vivek is working on bug 1007436 - Revamp visual design of about:feedback

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)

• Unbitrotting headless gecko patch

Alan K. (ack)

<afk::appointment>

• CloudSync superreview
• More mesh stuff
• Spent a bit of time on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912202

JChen

<Read Only>

GCP

<Read Only>

Last week

• 1042525 - Latest Gecko does not build without-X
• 1043350 - screensharing causes a switch to the Windows 7 Basic appearance and a blinking mouse cursor
• 1050141 - Add Telemetry for ApplicationReputation remote responses

• Reviews for standalone WebRTC
• bug 929431 Long delay before starting WebRTC session due to camera reinitialisation

Next week

• Screensharing reviews
• bug 1042735 test_dataChannel_basicAudio.html currently fails with Windows sandbox
• bug 1042768 WebRTC code is leaking an OpenSLES handle

Randall Barker

<Read Only> (First day of TK for kid, may be back in time)

Last week worked on:

• Implemented OpenGL renderer for WebRTC standalone video.
• bug 1045967 Allow WebRTC to be built as a standalone library.
• Addressed comments on bug 1048425 Enable support for tab sharing with Roku device.

This week:

• Address comments on bug 1045967 Allow WebRTC to be built as a standalone library.
• Port WebRTC OpengGL render code to Roku NDK.
• Investigate sending H.264 instead of VP8 video to standalone WebRTC.
• Continue to try and land standalone code.

Eugen Sawin

Past

• Janus Proxy (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Janus)
  • Landed cache improvements
  • Disabled caching (bad hit/miss ratio of 3.75%, high memory requirements)
  • Updated wiki
• Fixed bug 1046631 - Zoom level changes on some mobile sites on pressing the back button

Present & Future

• Janus Proxy
  • Complete wiki update
  • Experiment with more intelligent caching mechanics
  • Track bandwidth/processing delay dynamics

Sylvain Cleymans

Last week:

• Nearly done with testing
• Worked on a better image compression with some predictions and more streams

Next week:

• Finish testing
• Continue working on a better image compression plugin

Martin (mmcdonough)

Last Week

• Worked on creating patch
• Split Java JNI generator and MediaCodec PlatformDecoderModule into two separate patches.

Next Week

• Work on improving patch0
• bug 1014614

Brian Nicholson

<Read Only>

• Landed bug 967325 - Implement Java->Gecko request API
• WIP session fixes (bug 995138, bug 1050578)
• Bringing old rAc patches back to life

WesJ

<Read Only>

• bug 1046941 Disable downloads and extension installs in guest mode
• bug 1052254 Disable loading of file URLs in Guest Mode sessions
• bug 1048000 Download cancel dialog shows undefinedYes and undefinedNo aa button values
• bug 1046493 testVideoDiscovery.js is going to start perma-failing when Aurora 33 is merged to Beta
• bug 1050405 Fix search widget preview
• bug 1042194 Provide a small framework for adding widgets to error pages

WIP:

• bug 1042196 Provide a wifi toggle widget on error pages
• bug 1052276 Move Toast code to a jsm module
• bug 1050403 Search widget visual polish
• bug 1052837 pngcrush and pngquant all the images in our tree. Turns out this needs to be done a bit more carefully.

LucasR

<Read Only>

• bug 1046212 - Rename tabspanel to tabsui
• bug 1048865 - Sync with upstream TwoWayView
• bug 1048903 - Change TabCounter to take layout id as an attribute
• bug 1048907 - Cast tabs button to ThemedImageButton instead of ShapedButton
• bug 1052345 - Regression: tab counter is empty
• bug 1046200 - Create BrowserApp.isNewTablet()
• bug 1010740 - Toolbar refinement - Change entry asset and tweak padding
• bug 1010741 - Toolbar refinement - Show search icon and change text hint in about:home
• bug 1047561 - Create settings UI for enabling the new tablet UI
• bug 1048575 - Disable dynamic toolbar when in new tablet UI
• bug 1053252 - Create different package name for larch so it can be installed beside Nightly
• bug 1010739 - Toolbar refinement - Change curve shape to be consistent with Australis

liuche

<Read Only>

• Long overdue update of my local build tools...you should too!
• bug 1042809 - Lightweight overlay for first run - layouts, localization tweaks
• bug 1021751 - Polish for home contextual hints

Margaret

Highlights

• Search activity hacking (see m-f-d post about github repo and list of P1 bugs if you want to get involved)
• (Fennec) Search engine telemetry and default changing - bug 1007523 and bug 1049108
• Wrapping up some tracking bugs for Fx32/33

Fixed

• 1046485 - Move search bar out of SearchFragment
• 1028885 - Reposition three-dot menu from tabs tray on device rotation
• 1046579 - Up scaled and low resolution icons on bookmarks panel, history panel and recent tabs panel
• 1043032 - Refine "jump button" appearance (the arrow in search suggestions)
• 1050356 - Make search widget indentation consistent with FirefoxSearch repo
• 1048022 - Only reset search activity when launched from new intent
• 1048941 - Make all empty view images 90x90dp
• 1047021 - Support landscape mode in search activity

eedens

Fixed

• 1043522 - Subsequent searches will quickly flash the previous search in the WebView
• 1049650 - Searching for something in search activity it will open a new about:blank page in stead of search results

mcomella

<Read Only>

Past

PTO: Friday PM - Tuesday

• bug 1037740 - Private Tabs verbiage is truncated on small tablet

Present

• Browser toolbar refresh
  • bug 1046203 - Change BrowserToolbar to use alternative layout when isNewTablet()
• bug 1001655 - Replace applicable Strings in test code with StringHelper references
• bug 1025546 - Support various image views in Hub panels

Future

• Too busy with other things:
  • Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
  • bug 939350 - Create Python linter wrapper
• bug 983437 - Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
• bug 989441 - Centralized documentation for writing tests

rnewman

• On vacation for the next 10 days.
• Mostly reviewing large incoming projects; see other folks' status updates.

nalexander

<Read Only> due to epic fruit-tasting mission to Colombia.

Working on

• bug 1052889 -- get Android Eclipse working with the new Search code
• bug 1040945 -- make Android Eclipse more robust when installing libraries

Next

• bug 1014994 -- Remote Tabs panel

Antlam

• Last week
  • was in SFO onboarding Robin \o/
  • mentally taking in all of Ian's notes from his brain dump
  • Firefox Search P1 bug list wrangling
• This week
  • Little less Firefox Search stuff
  • More Tablets UX work
  • Mobile "toolbar" work with Lucas
  • More loading animations exploration
  • Begin UI clean up on about:home

Yuan

• Last week
  • Completed bug 1042809, light-weight onboarding for Firefox 34
  • Refined visuals for bug 948509: https://bug948509.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8470342
  • Ian's brain dump, helped Robin onboard

• This week
  • Refined assets and designs for bug 1042809
  • Finish lock screen and launcher report
  • Tablet IxD work

WebRT

<Read Only> because PTO; all status as of Monday evening

• bug 918309 - Import and use public domain JNI.jsm implementation - landed
• bug 1035999 - Multiple prompts (notifications) about available app updates - patch up for review
• bug 1026263 - Error writing default prefs during packaged web app installation - patch up for review

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Garvan

• Final round of rnewman's review changes today. I hope. Then land in nightly.
• Fennec stumbler has been in MozStumbler for a week, good feedback from users

Feature Focus

• Note:If you are working on a feature targeting anywhere up to 34, and it is not listed below already, please call it out to me.
• See Roadmap for more information, Meta bug details etc...

Firefox 32 (Beta) - Release: Sep 2, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v3 (bugfixes & polish + more add-ons)
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v1
• [ON TRACK] Contextual tips for users
• [ON TRACK] UI lang switching
• [ON TRACK] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync
• [ON TRACK] Add a Clear History control to the history panel
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend
• [ON TRACK] Support weighed snippets
• [AT RISK] Change default search engine in Nightly, Aurora & Beta to Bing
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s):Scottish Gaelic(gd), Fulah (ff), Armenian (hy-AM), Welsh (cy), Basque (eu), Icelandic (is)

Firefox 33 (Aurora) - Release: Oct 14, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Videocasting (Roku, Firefly, Chromecast)
• [AT RISK] Tab mirroring (Roku, Chromecast)
• [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements - Backend
• [ON TRACK] OEM distro service
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v2(Distribution support & non-Mozilla suggested sites)
• [ON TRACK] Tabs updates and improvements
• [IN PROGRESS] Janus - Phase 1 (Client)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s):Aragonese (an), Kazakh (kk), Xhasa (xh), Frisian (fy-NL)

Firefox 34 (Nightly) - Release: Nov 25, 2014

• [PROPOSED] Search activity v1
• [IN PROGRESS] Fatfennec: Minifying JS
• [PROPOSED] Moz Stumbler
• [PROPOSED] Share handler overlay
• [PROPOSED] Improved "Send Tab to Device" Experience
• [PROPOSED] User-hand-holding to check the Unknown Sources checkbox
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements, native client-side work
• [PROPOSED] Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default
• [PROPOSED] Kindle-related fixes
• [PROPOSED] Hub add-on: speed-dial panel
• [PROPOSED] First-run tips
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
• [PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v1
• [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v3