Mobile/Notes/14-Aug-2013

Details

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• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-09-16

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.

• Jinsu (heyjinsu) landed a patch for bug 818987 - Links to media files should have an "Open in app" option
• Michael Boon (michaeltpb) landed a patch for bug 888982 - fennec should use channel-specific build defines rather than MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL
• Capella filed and fixed bug 903871 - JS crash in SelectionHandler during longtap text select on target page

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!

Shane Tully

• Still tracking down cause of two intermittent test failures with the contacts API on Android 2.2 Annoying the A-team
  • Should be getting a physical tegra to test on today though

• bug 880118 - Package GeckoView into an Android library project
  • Last week:
    • Pages loading (actually working pretty well!)
    • Patches starting to be reviewed
  • This week:
    • Integration into build system
    • Landing patches

Next week:

• Last week here! :(
• Working on an intern presentation I guess

Sriram

• bug 902064 - Folders on BookmarksListView throws IllegalArgumentException.
• bug 902038 - Use a multi type cursor adapter for our adapters.
• bug 880525 - Search suggestions are misaligned on tablets.
• bug 888905 - Reading list for tablets.
• bug 904840 - Lazily inflate history page.
• bug 862801 - Exploring about:home snippets.
• More and more reviews.
• Blog on grilist view.

Shilpan

• r+/landed
  • bug 894077: [FIG] Tablet layout for visited page
  • bug 891183: [FIG] Change Title strip to Tabs strip for tablets (with custom animation!)

• In progress
  • bug 900234: Force reader to always be the left most icon in page actions
  • bug 899376: PageAction for helper apps

LucasR

Last week

• bug 905162 - Misc empty view tweaks
• bug 871651 - Janky animation to enter editing mode
• bug 904689 - Implement empty screen state for "Most Visited" page
• bug 899550 - Disable editing mode animations on pre-Honeycomb devices
• bug 905139 - Fix alpha setter for pre-HC AnimatorProxy
• bug 905088 - Properly handle default URL on BrowserApp's enterEditingMode
• bug 871652 - Disable toolbar's context menu while in editing mode
• bug 903448 - Update testHistory for new about:home
• bug 903478 - Add testMostRecentPage for new about:home
• bug 897483 - Add testMostVisitedPage for new about:home
• bug 897481 - Update testShareLink for new about:home
• bug 899183 - Update testBookmarklets for new about:home
• Tons of patch reviews
• Prioritizing fig bugs, defining readiness parameters for the merge
• Proposed merge plan:
  • Informal test day this Friday (August 16)
  • Merge next week (August 19-23)
  • Test day after merge (August 30)

Next week

• Gradually land all ported tests in fig
• General prep work for the about:home merge to m-c
• More about:home hacking

Margaret

• Done
  • TRIBE (if you're interested, you can learn more/sign up on the TRIBE wiki page)
  • bug 899393 - [fig] Switch-to-tab is broken
  • Reviews

• In Progress
  • bug 897772 - [fig] "Add to Home Screen" shortcut doesn't have an icon sometimes
  • Started investigating bug 848242 - Add support for widget/tiles to homepage customization

• Next
  • Help do whatever needs to get done to merge fig into m-c

MFinkle

• Setting the Stage
• PiCL planning: Getting to part where we code
• More added to Chromecast support in bug 901803
• Scanning upcoming Android conferences for Mozilla/Firefox opportunities