Mobile/Notes/07-Dec-2011

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Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Snorp

• Last week:
  • Hammered on Flash support for Honeycomb

• This week:
  • Worked on improving texture upload performance using native Android APIs. Very close to a working solution.

Kats

• Last week:
  • Fixed assorted zoom/pan bugs:
    • bug 706207 (bad viewport serialization exception)
    • bug 704690 (html anchors pan to the right spot)
    • bug 707132 (meta-viewport size was incorrect)
    • bug 707285 (race condition resulting in 1x1 viewport)
    • bug 696319 (scrolling web content input into view)
    • bug 707483 (scrollTo didn't work)
    • Temp patch for OOM causing random orange (bug 706614)
  • Paint performance API (bug 706251)

• Next week:
  • Fix regressions caused by my patches for bug 704738 (snap to edge/readjust zoom on device rotation) and re-land
  • More zoom/pan whack-a-bug
  • Get back to non-pan/zoom stuff (scrollbars, find-in-page)

• Blockers:
  • Would be nice to get regression testing for pan/zoom features, it's getting to the point where it's very hard to cover all the cases via manual ad-hoc testing

GBrown

Last week:

• finished most of the devicemanager patches (but cannot get xpcshell via sut working yet)
• started looking at robotium
• provided feedback on bug 602611

Next week:

• concentrate on robotium

AlexP

Last week

• bug 705457 - Tab key should move focus to the next field in a form
  • Investigated the bug, implemented and submitted the fix
• bug 705166 - Entering text in inputs fields has regressed in performance; lagged input
  • Investigated the bug, found the cause of the problem
• Investigated the new IME-related bugs:
  • bug 705201 - [meta] Forms are unusable
  • bug 706342 - Input hints are broken in form fields
  • bug 706336 - Cursor navigation and selection buttons in Swype don't work
  • bug 707350 - Hardware Keyboard return gives a space instead of a return when using Swiftkey X Trial
• Researched an option to reuse some functionality from Android BaseInputConnection class to fix input issues

This week

• GeckoInputConnection refactoring
• Continue working on IME bugs: Mobile/IME_Bugs

Chris Peterson

• Landing my first Fennec patch

GCP

• Last week: All UrlClassifier stuff
  • bug 706740, bug 702217, bug 706049, bug 673470 The latter should now be ready to land.
• This week:
  • bug 699199 History/Bookmarks migration from XUL to Native
• Blockers:
  • None

Brian N

(Gone for the morning)

• Last week
  • Added search engines to AwesomeBar results (needs to land)
  • Worked on session restore
• This week
  • More session restore
• Blocked on
  • Nothing

Sriram

• Last Week:
  • Worked on exposing passwords using Content Providers
  • Worked on preliminary implementation of thumbnails in tabs-list
  • Started looking into form assistant
• This Week:
  • Completed the UI for form assistant
  • Fixed few small bugs related to NPE on tabs-list
  • Started working on exposing passwords using Content Providers
• Blockers:
  • None

LucasR

Last week

• Finalized local DB support in Fennec
• Fixed bookmarking in Honeycomb/ICS
• Mostly done with about:home as per design

This week

• Land local DB support
• Follow-up changes needed for sync support
• Land about:home with new design

Blockers

• Crash on thumbnail saving is blocking local DB
• Final design for about:home

MBrubeck

Done:

• bug 698593 - Reorganize and clean up the preference screen (awaiting review).
• Misc cleanup patches (bug 708076, bug 708085, bug 706705).

Next:

• bug 703029 - Expose prefs for text inflation
• Working on a patch for throttling background tabs (to improve power management)
• Start work on re-enabling tablet UI for ICS tablets (follow-up to bug 704693).
• Misc bug fixes.

Margaret

Done

• Worked with sriram to get form history autocomplete mostly working (bug 695444)
• Wrote patch to add platform support for click to play plugins (bug 707886)
• Basic desktop UI for click to play plugins (part of bug 549697)

Next

• More click to play plugins work
  • Add prefs to enable/disable click to play
  • Mobile UI for click to play plugins (bug 702653)
• Help finish form autocomplete (we need to talk to alexp about an potential IME issue we’re seeing)

BLassey

Last week

• Save splash screen in Bundle bug 706383
• get recommended addons from profile bug 705993
• OOM from splash screen bug 704022
• fennec defaults to about:support bug 706658
• eclair crash caused by motion events bug 701791
• generate screenshots off main thread bug 706901
• wrote a youtube player for the fire bug 705572
• merged birch to mozilla-central
• lots of reviews, you guys are killing me

Next week

• writing haikus about DougT

blockers

• only 24 hours in a day

DougT

This Week:

• Reviews
• Worked on the landing w/ Mr. Lassey.
• Working on l10n plan with Pike.
• Working on a Sync plan with Sync people.
• Startup Perf (bug 702829)

Next Week:

• Looking at startup timing.
• Working from Mozilla China office.

Blockers:

• None

MFinkle

Done:

• More work on Add-ons Manager. I need to add support for the History API into Fennec, or at least the part where the back/forward UI is updated correctly
• Reviews! I love em!
• Blogged on Error Console
• Some misc bug fixing
• Talked to Brian about Session Store

Next:

• Post new patch for Add-ons Manager (when I get the History thing figured out)
• Make some more add-ons and blog about the clearing house
• Push on AMO some more to get support for native Fennec
• Check on status of Download Manager support

Madhava

• Last week: readability bugs; first-run flow; misc bug opening and closing; ui reviews
• This week: overall polish review; ui reviews
  • Readability bugs - remember: there's a whiteboard entry "readability" for these bugs; pls add as appropriate

• This page knows all, UX-wise: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/UserExperience
• Visualization of over UX doneness: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6379276093/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Ian Barlow

Last week

• Did some more in-depth start page design explorations

This week

• With the functional UI comfortably in place, time to polish polish polish wherever we can!
  • Providing specs for a more finalized start page
  • Tab menu
  • Updating some icons to get better visual consistency across the app

Patryk Adamczyk

Last Week
+ scrubbed the UI for consistency / polish
+ created an updated Navigation Bar to better reflect the unique Firefox brand

This Week
+ opening bugs and working with dev to get a plan together for landing the polish fixes
+ update the basic widget designs to reflect the new Nav Bar and create a 320px wide width.

Round Table

SUMO

last week:

• finalized tablet documentation
• testing and filing bugs
• enjoyed watching Dancing with the Stars finale on my phone

this week:

• SUMO/SUMOdev workweek
• http://meetup.com/Firefox-Android-Superheroes is tonight in SF!

Since wesj is in Paris, if there is a dev or test eng who can join us for an hour at 6pm tonight in SF that would be welcomed. We have a member (brion in #mobile) who is a webdev testing NativeUI for wikimedia foundation mobile projects, if you want to hear his feedback and help me to answer his questions.

next week: Out on vacation all week for a friend's wedding.