Mobile/Notes/02-Apr-2014

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Topics for This Week

Firefox Hub

Planning to publish feed add-on for 30 on AMO this week. Starting to write API documentation on MDN.

GeckoSharedPrefs

Support for scoped SharedPreferences landed. Major ts paint regression, investigating. Might have to backout.

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. New contributors are highlighted in bold.

• Raymond fixed bug 988126 - WebViewActivity missing return statement
• Capella fixed bug 976723 - Selection handle scrolls outside boundary of <input> on page scroll and bug 982608 - Geckoeditable data loss using Swift keyboard during Text Selection
• Blake Winton started playing around with the new hub APIs in his whimsy add-on: https://github.com/bwinton/whimsy/blob/master/lib/panelicons.js

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!

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Posted patch for bug 759448 - Prevent listeners from being registered until needed. Worked on resolving undefined xpcom/xul symbols is WebRTC code for Roku.
• This Week: Continue resolving symbols and creating drop in replacements for XPCOM components in WebRTC code.

LucasR

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Last week

• bug 940575 - Implement per-profile SharedPreferences, eliminating uses of PreferenceManager
• bug 985211 - Disabling hub panels in regular mode affects guest mode
• bug 974601 - Avoid saving new configuration on refresh if still using default HomeConfig
• bug 988355 - Only force reload on configuration changes in DynamicPanel
• bug 933739 - Issues in URL domain autocompletion
• (Investigation, Round 2) bug 974434 - Add support for items with variable height in PanelGridView
• (In progress) bug 976064 - Create a loader per panel view instead of per dataset id
• (In progress) Bootstrapping the framework for Suggested Sites
• Prepared presentation for London Mobile Summit 2.0

Next week

• More focus on the Suggested Sites framework
• Some more Hub stuff

Margaret

Highlights

• Home panels authentication API/UI finally landed!
• Started some MDN docs for hub
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/API/Home.jsm/panels
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/API/HomeProvider.jsm

Fixed

• 942281 - Provide a way for a service add-on to authenticate a user
• 987175 - Hide "Add panel" settings item for fx30
• 976680 - Promo banner on tablets in squished occasionally on rotation
• 832917 - Visiting an UTF-16 page adds an UTF-16 item to the Character Encoding menu that persists even upon navigating to a non-UTF-16 page

mcomella

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Past

• 957894 - Update account pickling code for Firefox Account

esawin

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Ian Barlow

• Tablets
  • In Vancouver this week, doing some design planning
    • Tabbed browsing - refining design concepts from initial sprints
    • Search improvements - what could we do better on tablets? On all devices?
    • Gestures - what kinds of gestures ould we add that make browsing more comfortable?
    • Multi screen use
  • Also - in case you missed it last week, Yuan and Anthony pulled together some initial design sprint findings on tabbed browsing here: http://f.cl.ly/items/1f0C3b2f3F2d111N3V3k/Tablet%20refresh%20sprint%20findings.pdf
• Hub support - wrapping up initial RSS-themed release
• Tiles - initial design exploration underway
• In Denver next week for UX Mobile Immersion conference http://uxim14.uie.com/

A-Team

• More Android tests running:
  • http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/android-2-3-opt-tests-on-tbpl/
  • http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/android-4-0-debug-tests-on-tbpl/