Mobile/Notes/16-Oct-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-10-28

Topics for This Week

Favicon Work Landed

Chris Kitching's major overhaul of the favicon system landed (see bug 914296). We found a few regressions, but keeping looking. This is a Fx27 feature. Any bugs that were fixed by the overhaul, but are also needed on Fx26 need other less risky patches.

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.

• Lauren Ko fixed bug 919301 - When in private browsing stop showing "switch to tab" from normal browsing (her first patch!)
• kar fixed bug 903084 - Add Bing as a general search provider for specified locales for Fennec (also her first patch!)
• fedepaol fixed bug 921776 - Notifications aren't properly dismissed when multiple downloads are started from private tabs
• capella fixed bug 923086 - "Add to reading list" button does not save it's state and bug 923764 - An intermittent failure in testBookmark (maybe we should make a new badge for fixing robocop bugs!)
• ckitching (finally) landed bug 914296 - The favicon cache re-write! And also some other favicon-related bugs bug 923218 and bug 926497

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!

LucasR

Last week

• Organizing 'Mozilla on Android' tech talks in London
  • http://mozillaonandroid.eventbrite.co.uk/
  • Retweet! https://twitter.com/lucasratmundo/status/389743885645533185
• Drafting blog post for the upcoming Fx26 Beta release
• bug 910859 - New UI testing API, passing the ball to mcomella
  • https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/20
• Bug fixing in Smoothie for bug 919777
• bug 917350 - First letter typed into the awesomescreen does not find any bookmarks or history
• bug 918044 - TopSitesGridView calls layout infinite times
• bug 927371 - Remove performEmptySearch from SearchLoader if possible
• (In progress) bug 918007 - Disable toolbar elements (menu, back, forward) while in editing mode on tablets
• General house-keeping for Fx26
• Tons of patch reviews

Next week

• Prepare talks:
  • Tech talk at the London MozSpace
  • Droidcon: http://uk.droidcon.com/2013/sessions/bringing-firefox-to-android/
• More Fx26 bug fixing

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 917273 - Fix PinSiteDialog to handle pinning user-entered terms
  • bug 924928 - Update general Yahoo! search engine icon
  • bug 925427 - Fix order of search engines in settings page
  • Helped create some distribution files
  • Played around with remote dev tools: http://blog.margaretleibovic.com/post/64091037975/remote-developer-tools-and-firefox-for-android

• In Progress/Next
  • bug 880281 - Make Marketplace more discoverable in about:apps
  • Experimenting with more JS APIs to customize about:home
  • In London next week for Droidcon/MozFest: http://sessions.mozillafestival.org/proposals/building-your-first-mobile-web-app/

mcomella

• Past
  • bug 888086 - sync/Utils.java claims `StringBuffer should be used instead`
  • bug 902560 - All FakeProfileTestCase tests fail in setUp() if fake profile dir is not removed
• Present
  • bug 870925: (r-) Add submissions info to FHR documents
  • bug 915918: (r-) If a different tab is selected in the background while in editing mode, URL being entered will open in that new tab
  • bug 924480: (r?) With talkback, Swiping right from toolbar brings you to content, event when about:home is visible.
  • bug 925546: (r?) Rename TopSitesGridView.OnPinSiteListener to OnEditSiteListener
  • bug 919234: Regression: Unpinning a site flashes thumbnail into neighbour thumbnail spot
• 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)

Ian Barlow

Currently:

Recovering from Post Summit Reorg Workweek UX-workshop Travel Mozflu Syndrome. It's a thing.

This week:

• Looking through Summit feedback, and what we can start to act on. Could include:
  • bug 755123 Adding useful gestures to the browser
  • bug 868998 Fine tuning title bar scrolling behaviour
  • Finishing the original Guest Browsing designs:
    • bug 897711 Adding a visual indication that you are browsing as a guest
    • Add the custom "share" and "email me my browsing history" options, see designs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Guest_browsing
• Finalized UI flows for selecting your preferred language for web content (Accept-language header customization) -- this is ready for implementation now.
  • Flows: https://bug881510.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=817865
• bug 927006 Adding a split action bar to our phone UI
• Thinking about a preliminary Kinderfox feature set
• Working with Madhava on a desktop/mobile UX strategy for the next year, with a focus on looking for how we can continue to converge the Firefox experience across all of our platforms.

Arun

• PDF.js experiments with Ian

Feature Focus

Fx25 (Ships 10/29)

• [PLANNED] API: Web Audio
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Settings UI clean-up excluding search provider management
• [ON TRACK] Guest browsing <==Top issues bug 897711, bug 897711
• [ON TRACK] Page Actions
• [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
• [ON TRACK] Mixed content
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Romanian (ro-RO)
• [ON TRACK] Setting wallpaper bug 886996
• [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging

Fx26 (Ships 12/10)

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for selected locales
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign thanks for bug 917350, top issues, bug 897162, bug 919234, bug 917947, bug 924968, bug 918044
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued

Fx27 (Ships 01/21)

• [PROPOSED] 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
• [PROPOSED] Directional game console navigation That's awesome that bug 698437 landed!
• [PROPOSED] Set Top Box optimization
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Hindi (hi-IN)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued

Fx28 (Ships 03/04)

• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Greek (el)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Punjabi (pa-IN)
• [PROPOSED] Shumway
• [PROPOSED] First-run UX (tied to PiCL MVP)
• [PROPOSED] New Sync (PiCL MVP)

Fx29 (Ships 04/15)

• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Serbian (sr)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Vietnamese(vi)