Mobile/Notes/15-May-2013

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Schedule

• Released Fx21 (Fx22 Beta is soon)
• Next merge: 2013-06-24
• Next release: 2013-06-25

Major Topics for This Week

Released Fx21

Congrats everyone! New web content fonts, Holo-ish theme changes, distribution file support (themes, bookmarks, pinned sites), Long-tap session history and HTML5 improvements. Overall feedback seems positive.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

• Bruce Wu landed his first patch in bug 726015 - "Firefox is in offline mode" is misleading when there is no network connection
• Tetsuharu OHZEKI fixed bug 868845 - Convert the way to store preference of show url to pref.js.
• Brian Ecker fixed long-standing clipboard crash bug 870333.

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)

• Bug 871390 - Leaking Shmem with NoSwap canvas update
• Bug 848482 - [SkiaGL] SourceSurface doesn't currently work with SkiaGL

GBrown

• Last week:
  • bug 867626 Expose Shumway in navigator.plugins
  • bug 842899 Intermittent java-exception | android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDiskIOException: disk I/O error
  • bug 872050 remove /data/local/xpcb from tegras in the cleanup step
  • bug 870768 Intermittent testHistoryTab | Awesomebar URL stayed the same
  • bug 872244 Collect /data/anr/traces.txt after Android test runs
  • bug 870056 Enable testClearPrivateData
  • Enabled more xpcshell tests
  • Investigation: bug 869030 Robocop testDoorHanger and testSystemPages cause future reboots on pandas
• Next:
  • PTO Friday, Monday, Tuesday
  • bug 870553 A blocklist/whitelist for Shumway
  • bug 869030 Robocop testDoorHanger and testSystemPages cause future reboots on pandas
  • bug 867360 Watcher dies sometimes on Pandas
  • bug 797615 Intermittent testHistoryTab, testBookmark, testHistory, testSystemPages, testVkbOverlap | PaintExpecter - blockUtilClear timeout

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • bug 866461 - Bing.com constantly resizing with the dynamic toolbar

• Doing
  • bug 869696 - Gralloc is really slow on the Geeksphone Peak (and other Adreno 205 devices?)
  • bug 870311 - Touch events are wonky on high dpi devices
  • bug 803299 - Use 24-bit colour on 24-bit screens (patches r+'d but backed out due to reftest failures)

Chris Peterson

• Done
  • Blocked waiting for desktop Push API to land; implementing Java background service in the meantime.
  • bug 863103 - Add BackgroundService runIntentInService() and WakeLock
  • bug 863154 - OutOfMemoryError at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeStream()
  • bug 828563 - m.here.com GPS not finding correct location on Galaxy Nexus
  • bug 868604 - JavaScript Warning "test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)?" in "chrome://browser/content/downloads.js"
  • bug 869517 - Fix JSFlatString RootKind compilation error when building with --enable-root-analysis
  • bug 871022 - Remove unused GeckoApp.StartupMode code

• Next
  • Push API
  • Web Activities API
  • topcrash bug 849589 - RuntimeException: Only ByteBufferInputStream is supported at org.mozilla.gecko.mozglue.NativeZip

JChen

On PTO starting today until end of May

• Past week
  • Fixed bug 860879 - ANR @ org.mozilla.gecko.PromptService.finishDialog
    • Follow-up: bug 870060 - [meta] Make PromptService usages asynchronous
  • Privacy review for bug 863777 - Teach ANR reporter to use the profiler to get a native stack
  • Fixed bug 846660 - java.lang.InstantiationException: cant instantiate class char
  • Spent more time on chronic bug 847983 - IME in designmode doesn't seem to work very well

GCP

• Last week:
  • Investigate a mochitest-4 failure on tbpl.
  • bug 863290 crash in webrtc::videocapturemodule::DeviceInfoAndroid::NumberOfDevices
• Next week:
  • bug 871575 Investigate and fix the nss shutdown crash that we see on Android
  • bug 862808 Local Video is upside down on Android when in portrait mode
  • bug 867185 Camera names should percolate upwards to the UI

Brian N

• Done
  • bug 868553 - Make about:home use a ViewPager
  • Tab/session restore bugs (bug 869413, bug 865005, bug 872328)
  • Investigated startup crash on LG Optimus Black (LG P970), bug 856445
• Next
  • Few more session restore bugs, hopefully some test cases
  • Ouya

Sriram

• Quick share menu - cl.ly/image/1r1S0H2C0Q25
• HTC crashes due to styling - bug 866501
• Screen artifacts in awesomebar search acceptance - bug 850217
• Playing with Ouya
• Review of big lucasr patch for editing mode.

WesJ

• Bug 826325 - Decide where window.open should open content - have a working solution. Cleaning up
• Bug 871464 - Master password menu isn't updated after enable/disable the password
• Bug 863367 - Unable to parse url -- java.net.MalformedURLException: Unknown protocol: app
• Bug 862377 - Android WebRTC permissions UI will only respect first doorhanger - Adds the ability to add a variety of input elements to doorhanger prompts
• Bug 872388 - Allow creating a homescreen shortcut when an bookmark is made - Looking for feedback. Adds the ability to add buttons to toast popups.
• Bug 853844 - Investigate removing the pageload throbber - Build with a progress bar in there for playing with.

UX Pings

• Bug 808636 - Update visual style of mobile error pages
• Bug 704229 - Unify touch video controls
• Bug 710364 - Opening a link in a new tab context menu header is wrong with image links

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 868342 - Crash in BrowserToolbar.setTitle
  • bug 869634 - Update empty favicon style
  • bug 870858 - Correctly scale favicons on about:home
  • bug 857987 - Add a "Night Mode" to reader mode
  • bug 871014 - Polish reader mode text style menu
  • bug 862543 - Update "exit reader" icon
  • Blog post about dominant color favicons

• Next
  • Help land lucasr's patches in bug 869494
  • about:home work on fig

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week:

• bug 847872: Reflow zoom on double tap only (still having some difficulty with tests - specifically testVkbOverlap on Android and I'm kind of blocked on this before I can land).
• bug 862763: Performance of nsLayoutUtils::FontSizeInflationEnabled needs some work (should land this week).
• Landed HResize performance enhancement for reflow-on-zoom.

This Week:

• Land reflow-on-zoom on double-tap only.
• bug 870788 : Reflow-on-zoom differently for subdocuments.
• bug 865654 : caretPositionFromPoint produces wrong offsets when near text input boundary
• bug 766599: Reframe to prevent crash in nsFontInflationData (this will allow us to dynamically change font inflation prefs without a reload).

Other:

• Will be in Taiwan next week for web rendering workweek.

BLassey

• bug 866957 cell tower location reporting, patch up for Hannos's review.
• bug 867517 Gecko-based WebView, patch up for Finkle's review
• bug 833795 Content jitters when hiding url bar

MFinkle

• Metro work week in Vancouver

Ian Barlow

• Work in progress
  • Getting up to speed on Mixed Content blocking, and thinking about the mobile UX for it
  • Getting into some visual design work for about:healthreport soon
  • bug 864958 Some subtle adjustments to the PB chrome
  • bug 808636 Reviewing work in progress on mobile error pages
  • Continuing work with Product on some UX prerequisites for Mozilla Apps on Android
  • Standing by for any and all questions about Multipage About:home
  • Usability testing plan for Multipage about:home
  • TV design concepts (Zhenshuo)
  • New tablet concepts (Yuan)

• Designs ready to go
  • Lots of exciting refinements lined up for Reader Mode
    • bug 862445 Refinements to Serif view
    • bug 871014 Refine Reader Menu
    • bug 872046 Refine "Entering Reading Mode" experience
    • bug 871593 Improved article-to-article Reading List navigation
    • bug 871600 Add end mark to Reader Mode articles
    • bug 862543 Rethink Exit Reader icon
    • bug 871994 Provide better visual feedback for Add to Reading List long press
  • bug 869123 Quick Share -- shortcut to most frequently used sharing service
    • https://bug869123.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=745998
  • bug 867371 Updated Settings UI in progress
    • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/settings-reorg
  • bug 853844 New progress indicator
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=853844#c16
  • bug 867633 Consolidate lock icon and forward button animations in toolbar
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867633#c1
  • bug 847435 Updated look for back session history menu
    • https://bug847435.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=746397
  • bug 868998 Reveal title bar by scrolling a certain distance

Feature Focus

Fx22

• [AT RISK] Added locale: Slovak
• State of good repair:
  • [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter
  • [ON TRACK] New tab UI <==ibarlow and I agreed to rename this line item to "refinements"
  • [ON TRACK] Performance improvements

Fx23

• [AT RISK] Firefox Health Report
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Turkish
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Hungarian
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, confirmed: preffed OFF
• [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
• [ON TRACK] READER: Serif/Sans Serif font toggle, Add to reading list from long tap, add to reading list from context menu
• [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default
• [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling

Fx24

Quickshare? bug 869123 - Quick Share from Android menu
Mixed Content? bug 860581 - Add support for Mixed Content Blocking

• [ON TRACK] READER: night mode
• [PLANNED] Packaged apps support
• [PLANNED] Web Audio API
• [PLANNED] API: Push notifications
• [PLANNED] API: Web activities
• [PLANNED] API: Contacts
• [PLANNED] SkiaGL improvements
• [PLANNED] Addition of search engines
• [PLANNED] Set Top Box optimization
• [PLANNED] Directional game console navigation
• [PROPOSED] API: Payments
• [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
• [PROPOSED] Location-based search engines
• [PROPOSED] Changing default search engines by locale
• [PROPOSED] Shumway: generic video player
  • Will create new project page with Mobile-specific work to be done when known
• [PROPOSED] About:home redesign
• [PROPOSED] Reader improvements
• [PROPOSED] Profile support for alternate browser configurations
• [PROPOSED] Change default search engine for zh-CN

Fx25

• [PROPOSED] Priveleged apps support
• [PROPOSED] L10N multi-locale build - investigation by 24
• [PROPOSED] Shumway - branded players
  • Will create a project page for Mobile-specific work when known
• [PROPOSED] API: Cloud
• [PROPOSED] Flavours/variants: Kinderfox, Silverfox, Corpfox, Devfox (as add-ons?)
• [PROPOSED] Further add-on support
• [PROPOSED] Solid developer environment
• [PLANNED] Dynamic Snippets

Round Table

QA

• a couple nightly crashers that would be good to fix before turning on Aurora updates https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2013-05-13#Mobile
• SK locale was intended to be added in Beta 1. This was missed. We are not respinning.