Mobile/Notes/18-Jun-2014

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-07-21

Topics for This Week

Firefox Search

See post on mobile-firefox-dev for latest implementation plan. Currently working on getting the foundation in place to land in m-c.

Feature Videos

Launching a bunch of short videos that show off Firefox for Android features.

Basic UI Telemetry

Finkle made a simple dashboard for some UI Telemetry

Second screen developer event

Tuesday in the SF office at 6pm. I'll drop more info in #mobile when I have it

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.

• vivek fixed bug 999211 - Implement cancel editing mode button test on tablet
• Shashank wrote a patch for bug 1024120 - Avoid allocating a new Rect on each touch event on the main layout
• ckitching is working to clean up our combined view logic, including migration code - bug 1024289, bug 947018

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)

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Alan K. (ack)

• Last week
  • Refactoring/rewriting cloudsync
  • Finished with bookmarks except for livemarks and queries
    • I'd like to land livemarks/queries as a follow-up patch

• This week
  • Finish off cloudsync
    • Tabs and follow-up for bookmarks
  • Start on mesh networking project?

JChen

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GCP

• Past
  • bug 1015932 Create a way to share the OpenSLES engine between cubeb and WebRTC
  • bug 1008706 Google.com PREF cookie keeps coming back even with network disabled and cookies disabled
  • bug 1026538 Cookie Manager can't delete cookies with appid != 0
  • bug 1024555 blocked gethash requests cause the browser to hang
  • bug 1021419 make update and gethash urls for safebrowsing updates configurable per-table
• Future
  • Finish OpenSLES sharing
  • bug 1018928 Regression: Selecting "No video" option from the permission prompt still shows the content of the device camera.
  • Android 2.3 tests failing
  • bug 1027100 WebRTC LoadManager resolution reduction under load causing horizontal distortions
  • bug 910893 Allow users to "try again" more than once on new error pages.
• Interesting
  • bug 1022376 LoadManager assumes that when a thread exits the runnable, the thread exits (thread leak)

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Implemented standalone WebRTC player and simple desktop add-on that streams the camera to the player. Started cleaning up code to make rebase easier.
• This Week: Finish rebase. Update add-on to stream tab from fennec.
• Problems: Mystery crash in MacOS X standalone player. Need to understand why libmozalloc can not be statically linked. Only part of the player not being linked statically.

Eugen Sawin

Last week

• Gonzales SPDY proxy (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Gonzales)
  • Metrics support via StatsD
  • Basic clustering support
  • More work on async request handling (promise promise not fulfilled)

Next week

• Gonzales
  • Landing stuff (async cache, metrics)
  • Set up Graphite for metrics aggregation and visualization
  • Extending metrics logging

Sylvain Cleymans

Last week:

• Testing in Gonzales (WIP)
• Bug 1022669 Display does not turn off while playing audio

Next week:

• Finish to integrate testing in Gonzales

Martin (mmcdonough)

• Same as last week, working on native codecs in Android.
• Submitted patch to allow enabling blank fragmented MP4 decoder in Android.
• Getting AAC decoding working.
• EDIT: bug 1025327 for patch above.

Brian Nicholson

• WIP hint/doorhanger bugs
  • bug 1011712 - Reader mode contextual hint
  • bug 1027139 - Fix ArrowPopup arrow positioning
  • bug 1027135 - Fix PageActionLayout concurrency issues
  • bug 1027137 - PageActionLayout cleanup
  • bug 1024127 - Popup cleanup
• PTO from 6/26-7/3

WesJ

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• bug 901803 - Integrate chromecast support into Firefox. Going through another (hopefully last) review.
• bug 974983 - Reorder Home panels in Settings via dragging. Talking to Chenxia about this a bit. Working on a prototype.
• bug 704229 - Refine touch video controls. Got some nice mockups from UX. Looking into implementation details.

LucasR

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• bug 964861 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.toolbar.ToolbarDisplayLayout.updateFromTab(ToolbarDisplayLayout.java)
• bug 1025069 - Both Versions of SUMO (http & https - suggested) can be pinned
• (In progress) bug 1012462 - Support suggested sites in distribution files
• Initial conversations about tablet refresh
• Lots of reviews

Next week

• In SF next week to attend Google I/O

liuche

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• Landed "Remove Suggested Sites from Top Sites"
• Exploring more Contextual Hints architecture (Android layouts...! D:)
• More telemetry
• Next: first run, search?

Margaret

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• Button toast follow-ups - bug 1019318, bug 1019735
• Allow users to remove dynamic panels from settings - bug 1023544
• Close all tabs *almost done* - bug 817716
• Recent tabs panel *almost done* - bug 1004850
• Search activity discussions
• Google I/O next week Wed/Thur
• PTO June 30-July 11

eedens

Continuing work on search activity.

• Re-working architecture from prototype.
  • Architecture docs and diagrams https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/search-activity-architecture
  • Architecture meeting 11am Pacific Jun 19.
  • Source code repo: https://github.com/ericedens/FirefoxSearch/

mcomella

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Past

• bug 918494 - Intermittent testLinkContextMenu | Checking if the link has been added as a bookmark - The link has been bookmarked
• bug 1002303 - Provide a description on private tabs page if there are no private tabs
• bug 1007442 - Tune visual for not-signed-in remote tabs tray
• bug 1025938 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.tabspanel.RemoteTabsVerificationPanel.onFinishInflate(RemoteTabsVerificationPanel.java)

Present

• bug 998000 - Create BrowserApp.cancelEditingMode for consistency with BrowserApp.enter/commitEditingMode
• [meta] bug 979921 - Android 2.3 test failures
  • bug 948591 - Intermittent testClearPrivateData | Exception caught - junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: Text string: '^Settings$' is not found!
  • bug 979600 - Android 2.3 testSessionOOMRestore | Page title is correct - got page3, expected page4
  • bug 979552 - Frequent Android 2.3 testAddSearchEngine, testBookmarkFolders, testImportFromAndroid, testSettingsMenuItems, testTitleBar | Automation Error: Missing end of test marker (process crashed?)

Future

• Too busy with other things:
  • Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
  • bug 939350 - Create Python linter wrapper
• bug 983437 - Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
• bug 989441 - Centralized documentation for writing tests
• bug 1021751 - Homepage contextual hint

RNewman

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Digging out from under the pile. Focused on reviews and distrodistros.

• All the reviews: desktop updater hotfix, custom Sync accounts, db optimization stuff, misc.
• Shaving all the yaks: fixing Robocop and GeckoProfile bugs to try to land bug 1016611 prior to distrodistros.
• A pile of minor fixes and uplifts.
• Phone screens.

nalexander

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• About to land custom Sync server support
• Remote Tabs in a panel work started
• Investigated building Fennec in Android Studio/IntelliJ -- it doesn't look very positive, 'cuz Android Studio appears to not support multiple resource folders.

Next:

• More Remote Tabs
• Legacy Sync migration

BLassey

• bug 1014712 - use msapplication-TileImage and msapplication-TileColor to create home page tiles, waiting for discussion/debate to come to conclusion
• bug 995407 - backed out shipping wifi and cell tower tracking to release and beta, we're not ready
• bug 1006186 - Casting apps should be able to specify supported types themselves, review to finkle

Ian Barlow

• Running some user studies about Android launcher apps and lock screens
• Detailing out Search UX

Anthony Lam

• Contextual hints bugs!
  • bug 1021751 - Homepage contextual hint
  • bug 1011712 - Reader mode contextual hint
  • bug 1014293 - Contextually display hint about private browsing
• Search for Android spec work
• Little bit of tablet design work
• Toolbar refinements with Lucas
• Glyph work
• Research
  • Launcher apps
  • First run user experience
  • Contextual hints
• Interviews

Yuan Wang

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• Interview Mobile candidates
• Synced up tablet work with Lucas and Anthony
• Getting feedback on the onboarding strategy draft. More to share on next Tuesday planning mtg.

Security/MGoodwin

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• Started work on some checklists for security stuff. There's a start on a Fennec list here. I'd love your feedback.

WebRT

<Read Only> because Myk attending Apps Day

• bug 960584 needs UX feedback; current plan is to display "downloading download that'll p0wn your phone"
• decided against uplifting bug 1019054 to Aurora, despite the value, because it's large and enhancement-y; complain in bug if you disagree!
• platform regression bug bug 1022607 approved for uplift to Aurora
• folks blogged (Firefox OS Apps run on Android, Testing Your Native Android App) and got press-ed (Engadget, ZDNet, Cnet, *et al.)

A-Team

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• Robocop giving you problems? See bug 1026830

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans
• Crash data for 30 release is in line with 29 (1.2 crash / 100 ADI)
• Crash data for 31 beta is much higher than 30 beta (3.4 vs 1.7)
  • Quite a bit of this is bug 827264
  • bug 1027155

Garvan

• Stumbler integration into Fennec: stumbler service is now just *.java files (and a Manifest.in)
• Added some automated testing (stumbler had none), revealed we are collecting up to 10x the data we need
• This week, fix ^^^^, look at upload scheduling, continue integration, add more tests
• Or, dougt may be pulling me off to do B2G geolocation bugs (again).
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozStumbler-Firefox-Mobile

Feature Focus

Firefox 31 (Beta) - Release: Jul 22, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home, not via drag and drop (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 959917
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete), Epic/Meta bug 1014030
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts, Epic/Meta bug 1014035
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons, Epic/Meta bug 1014037
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data, Epic/Meta bug 1014038
• [ON TRACK] UX Telemetry, Epic/Meta bug 1014044
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)
• [ON TRACK] EOL official Android 2.2 Support bug 1017242

Firefox 32 (Aurora) - Release: Sep 2, 2014

Updates to 'Proposed' items??

• [PROPOSED] Videocasting (Roku), Epic/Meta bug 921924
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v3 (bugfixes & polish + more add-ons), Epic/Meta bug 1014032
• [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v1, Epic/Meta bug 988366 Note - Linked wiki page doesn't exist. Is there another?
• [PROPOSED] Contextual tips for users
• [ON TRACK] UI lang switching
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync (bug 958889)
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Add a Clear History control to the history panel bug 998009
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend bug 852935
• [ON TRACK] Support weighed snippets bug 1002567

Firefox 33 (Nightly) - Release: Oct 14, 2014

Looking for input on plans here....adds, removes, confirmations?

• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
• [PROPOSED] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner
• [PROPOSED] Search activity v1
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Create "Add-ons" page in settings
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
• [PROPOSED] OEM distro service
• [PROPOSED] Create a "Want to make me your default browser?" prompt for users somewhere
• [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v2
• [PROPOSED] Reorder Home Panels in Settings Via Drag and Drop
• [PROPOSED] First-run tips
• [PROPOSED] Gestures