Mobile/Notes/23-Jul-2014

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

Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-09-01

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.

• Bryan Kok (transfusion) helped localize a generated string deep in Android Sync land: bug 1019719

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)

• Still doing cleanup work to land proof-of-concept cloudsync patch
• Initial UI for mesh networking is done (nothing big)

JChen

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Randall Barker

• Last Week: Worked to fix issues in tab mirroring to standalone WebRTC caused by rebase. Roku build is currently busted due to changes in WebRTC library. Worked on supporting tab mirroring to Roku. Waiting on casting mirroring to land.
• This Week: PTO on Thursday. Fix Roku build. Continue to try and get standalone WebRTC landed.

Eugen Sawin

Past

• Janus Proxy (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Janus)
  • Simplified metrics handling
  • Added per-process networking metrics

Present & Future

• Janus Proxy
  • Update metrics dashboard to support latest additions
  • Cache improvements

Brian Nicholson

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LucasR

Last week

• New tablet UI
  • Exploratory prototype (with some real plumbing) for the new tablet UI
  • New RecyclerView-based API for TwoWayView to enable us to easily implementation animations in tabs tray, the upcoming tab strip, as well as magazine-like layouts for Hub, among other things.
• Toolbar refinements (see screenshot)
  • bug 1010740 - Change entry asset and tweak padding
  • bug 1010741 - Show search icon and change text hint in about:home
  • bug 1010739 - Change curve shape to be consistent with Australis
• bug 1012462 - Support suggested sites in distribution files
• bug 1039471 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException: Fragment RecentTabsPanel{422715c0} not attached to Activity at android.support.v4.app.Fragment.getLoaderManager(Fragment.java)

Next week

• Finalize tablet UI prototype, work on the initial core refactorings
• Land toolbar refinements

Margaret

Highlights

• Search activity hacking with eedens
• Wrote a post about Firefox Hub for hacks.mozilla.org (will be published tomorrow - tweet about it when it comes out!)

Fixed

• 1038789 - Add clear button to search bar in search activity.
• 1038227 - Collect search history in Fennec
• 1035341 - Search suggestions: change dictionary to OpenSearch
• 1022102 - Clean up the actionbar layout and styling
• 1029682 - For autocomplete suggestions, show which part is matched and which part is suggested
• 1041641 - Search fragment grabs clicks when activity first launches
• 1041026 - Use a single click listener for activating search mode

mcomella

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Past

• 1021356 - Refine visuals in empty private tabs screen
• 1039738 - Private tabs list is cut off for portait orientation
• 1039062 - Remote tabs tray distorted on phone

RNewman

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• Reworking FatFennec bug tree.
• APK splitting research and work.
• Reviewing cloudsync.
• Share overlay UI meeting kickoff.
• Amazon APK investigation.
• Meetings and bugs.

nalexander

<Read Only> Away July 23 through August 12.

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Note:If you are working on a feature targeting anywhere up to 34, and it is not listed below already, please call it out to me.
• 2nd Funnel review meeting scheduled for next Monday, July 28th
• See Roadmap for more information, Meta bug details etc...

Firefox 31 (SHIPPED!) - Released: 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)
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete)
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [ON TRACK] UX Telemetry
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)
• [ON TRACK] EOL official Android 2.2 Support

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

• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v3 (bugfixes & polish + more add-ons)
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v1
• [ON TRACK] Contextual tips for users
• [ON TRACK] UI lang switching
• [ON TRACK] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync
• [ON TRACK] Add a Clear History control to the history panel
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend
• [ON TRACK] Support weighed snippets
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s):Scottish Gaelic(gd), Fulah (ff), Armenian (hy-AM), Welsh (cy), Basque (eu), Icelandic (is)

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

• [ON TRACK] Videocasting (Roku, Firefly, Chromecast)
• [ON TRACK] Search activity v1
• [AT RISK] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements - Backend
• [ON TRACK] OEM distro service
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v2(Distribution support & non-Mozilla suggested sites)
• [ON TRACK] Tabs updates and improvements
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s):Aragonese (an), Kazakh (kk), Xhasa (xh), Frisian (fy-NL)

Firefox 34 (Nightly) - Release: Nov 25, 2014

• [PROPOSED] Search activity v1
• [PROPOSED] Moz Stumbler
• [PROPOSED] Share handler overlay
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements, native client-side work
• [PROPOSED] Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default
• [PROPOSED] Kindle-related fixes
• [PROPOSED] Hub add-on: speed-dial panel
• [PROPOSED] First-run tips
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
• [PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v1
• [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v3