Mobile/Notes/22-Jan-2014

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Friends of the Mobile Team

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• Michael Nares landed a patch for bug 884851 - converting a boolean to an enum. Congrats in particular for his persistence in the face of many many botched builds and mercurial woes.
• Capella fixed bug 947284 - End text-selection handle is not visible when opting to select all text
• Chris Kitching landed the ICO decoder! - bug 748100

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

<Read Only> Last week

• bug 959777 - Dynamically build views for third-party panel content from PanelConfig
• bug 960529 - Avoid extra updateDisplayLayout() call in BrowserToolbar.refreshState()
• bug 949216 - Replace BrowserApp.dismissEditingMode() calls with BrowserToolbar.cancelEdit()
• bug 962237 - Fix indentation of toolbar_edit_layout.xml
• bug 959184 - Use enum (EDIT, DISPLAY) instead of boolean to track BrowserToolbar mode
• (In progress) bug 867633 - Consolidate lock icon and forward button animations in toolbar
• (In progress) bug 936470 - Correctly track page action state to set title padding accordingly
• Prepared talk for a local Android meetup: http://www.meetup.com/London-Android-LiveCode/events/159372122/
• Tons of reviews

Next week

• Land bug 959777
• bug 952311 - Update home config when new panels are added/removed
• More about:home and toolbar stuff
• More reviews

Ian Barlow

• In SF next week!
• Progress bar refinements
  • bug 962106 Progress bar animation refinements
  • bug 962103 Progress bar visual refinements
• Sync / FxAccounts
  • Fine tuning a few last Android UX pieces with Ryan and Anthony
• Homepage + 3rd party service work
  • Proposing a few sprint ideas for next week:
    • Get page templates set up for reading lists, galleries, videos, standard lists
    • Get "add new list" flow standing up
    • Get a third party auth flow working
    • Get a third party quick share flow working
    • Get an RSS to display on about:home
• Tablet refresh - mid sprint 1
  • Currently assembling some prototypes for testing, based on this: http://swipe.to/3266l
• Thinking about tab streaming
  • Device to Display (TV)
  • Device to Device (User to user)
• Thinking about some general improvements to our bookmarking experiene

Arun

<Read Only>

Form auto-fill

• Ian presented designs to product last week
• Next: Iterate on form auto-fill designs

Tabbed browsing on mobile

• Preliminary research is done.
• Next: Kick-off designs

General

• Away for TRIBE today & tomorrow (Jan 22 & 23)
• Ian is going to be in SF next week \o/

A-Team

<Read Only>

• First set of Android x86 tests running on tbpl
  • http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/android-x86-tests-s4-on-tbpl/

Feature Focus

Fx27, Ships Feb 4th

• [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
• [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
• [ON TRACK] Memory usage improvements: bug 931843
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN), bug 891616
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th), bug 639845
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt), bug 521999
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl), bug 522008

Fx28, Ships March 18th

• [AT RISK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204

Fx29, Ships April 29th

• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on
• [ON TRACK] Telemetry probes for Fennec UI elements
• [ON TRACK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Hindi(hi)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 521995
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021
• [AT RISK] WebApp experience - APK Synthesis
• [AT RISK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.1 integration
• [AT RISK] My List: Manage current lists in settings
• [AT RISK] Shumway Bundled in Browser (disabled), bug 905668
• [PROPOSED] Promo snippet for Sync
• [PROPOSED] Promo snippet for Marketplace
• [PROPOSED] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889 (nice to have, shift to 30 if needed)

Round Table

QA

• Kick-off on first Firefox Account drops in Nightly; see bug bombs
• Plea to check-in tests alongside your patches when it may break the web (see broken basic forms, bug 953272)