Mobile/Notes/08-Oct-2014

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-10-13

Topics for This Week

Q4 Goals

Metrics for Suggested Sites in Fx34, Ship new Search Activity for Android in Fx35, Establish a GTM plan for Project 105, and Land a set of client-side password improvements in Fx36.

Q4 Platform goals

https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Blassey/2014Q4Goals#Mobile_Platform

Tracking Review

Beta

• Next Build:
• Cut-off:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Aurora

• Next Build:
• Cut-off:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

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.

• Projjol Banerji fixed bug 1060056 - Rename MainActivity to SearchActivity
• vivek fixed (finally!) bug 1007436 - "Revamp visual design of about:feedback"
• Christian Vielma fixed bug 1064068 - Filtering non input text fields from text selection to prevent errors in log
• Manu Jain fixed bug 1064859 - Telemetry probe to measure whether Fennec is default ASSIST intent handler
• Capella fixed bug 1068489 - Robocop: Provide error message where device screen may be sleeping and bug 1078231 - Enhance Favicon display in RecentTabs list for closed ReaderMode pages
• Dominique Vincent is working on bug 663803 - Provide magnifying glass in areas of clustered links

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)

• (done) CloudSync uplifted to Aurora
• Preparation for Mozilla Festival (mesh networking)
• Media/WebRTC standalone refactoring work

JChen

Past week

• Fixing test failures with bug 1075644 (Follow-up to initializing Gecko thread sooner)
• Started working on non-Gecko-dependent crash reporter
• Made an add-on that monitors logcat for silent exceptions and show them as toasts

GCP

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• SafeBrowsing crasher seems to be fixed
• Finished WebRTC sandboxing analysis, looking at our IPC code
• Trying to get WebRTC tests on Android to work again
• Will look at standalone WebRTC stuff

Fixed

• 1074196 - Nightly/Aurora startup crash spike in nsUrlClassifierPrefixSet::Contains(unsigned int, bool*)
• 1076841 - getUserMedia Video broken due to delayed init of MediaPlayers

Randall Barker

Last Week:

• Started work on bug 1048335 chromecast support for Fennec tab mirroring. Tab mirroring to chromecast is currently broken in nightly. Should have a patch up today.
• Continued investigation of new method for implementing standalone WebRTC.

Next Week(s):

• Wrap up bug 1048335 chromecast support for Fennec tab mirroring
• Continue investigating new method for implementing standalone WebRTC.

Eugen Sawin

Last week

• bug 1022669 - Display does not turn off while playing audio
• bug 1061372 - Crash with any value passed to mozLockOrientation() but portrait-primary and portrait-secondary
• bug 1061373 - When "portrait-secondary" is given to mozLockOrientation(), it acts as if the string was "landscape-primary"
• Looked into bug 942736 - Page-position when going back a page is not always remembered when conducting a scroll on prior page and then hitting back
• Janus Proxy (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Janus)
  • Working on image compression issue (gh janus-image-worker/2)
• Uplifted (Aurora) bug 1051654 - APKs for previous versions of Nightly and Aurora stick around in Downloads
• Uplifted (Aurora) bug 896735 - App update fails if Download folder doesn't exist

Next week

• Investigate/fix bug 942736 - Page-position when going back a page is not always remembered when conducting a scroll on prior page and then hitting back
• Janus Proxy: rewrite image worker interface and handling

Brian Nicholson

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Continuing to work on suggested sites metrics (bug 1068425). Clocks and stuff.

WesJ

• Trying to get the guest widget/downloads in final shape for 35.
• Mostly refactoring for bug 1077590 - Make all per-profile db access go through a profile
• Looking at bug 1078796 - Matchstick code no longer works

LucasR

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Last week

• bug 1065494 - Put the new tablet UI behind a build flag
• bug 1073474 - Fix resource dependency issues in new tablet UI (affects SDK9-only builds)
• bug 1070029 - Fade last character on labels rather than use "..."
• bug 1073066 - Reader mode menu background color is inconsistent with new toolbar grey
• (In progress) bug 1079629 - Android builds are going to burn when Gecko 35 merges to Beta
• (In progress) bug 1076692 - Tapping on URL bar does not dismiss the tabs tray
• (In progress) bug 1074924 - Tinted status bar visible during full-screen video

Next week

• More build system fixes
• More new tablet stuff

liuche

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• SF MERT safety training!
• Reviews
• Wrapping up Onboarding follow-ups:
  • bug 1059792 - External intent, hunted down robocop failures
  • bug 1072831 - Don't keep activities
• Next:
  • Finish up some contextual hints
  • Reading list or addons

Margaret

Highlights:

• about:addons fixes (check out the updated theme!)
• "Privacy Coach" add-on
• Wrapping up search activity v1
• Next: revisiting reader mode/reading list

Past:

• 1063193 - Performing searches with Wikipedia search engine immediately launches Fennec
• 1073775 - Yahoo is default search engine, but search preferences say Google is my default
• 1041604 - Update search bar when user taps a suggestion in the web view results
• 1074933 - Autophone - webappstartup Throbber stop regression 2014-09-29
• 1075232 - Record which suggestion of the search screen was tapped in telemetry
• 1068739 - Record position of search suggestion that was tapped in telemetry
• 1064867 - Light-weight theme for 'Firefox Privacy Coach'
• 1064951 - Default FHR pref to 'off' in 'Firefox Privacy Coach' add-on
• 1064954 - Default MozStumbler pref to 'off' in 'Firefox Privacy Coach' add-on
• 1076351 - Initialize the search activity default engine pref with the user's default search engine
• 1077407 - Redundant, confusing link in about:apps to Marketplace
• 1058195 - Additional installed themes do not appear in Add-On manager listing after an initial theme or add-on installed
• 895745 - Polish: Add-on version moves slightly when it is selectd
• 1075219 - Update the colors of about pages styled from aboutBase.css
• 1079450 - JS error when uninstalling an add-on

Present:

mcomella

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Past

• Browser toolbar refresh
  • bug 1072469 - Discuss new tablet browser toolbar height
  • bug 1076260 - Fix visual dividers of tabs on top
  • bug 1070087 - Implement new tablet menu bar pressed/focused button size
  • bug 1077730 - Adjust colors of pressed/focused state of new tablet navigation toolbar buttons
• New bike <3

Present

• Browser toolbar refresh
  • bug 1071267 - Revise door hanger behavior in new tablet toolbar
  • bug 1019127 - Remove updateChildrenEnabledStateForEditing
  • bug 960746 - Back/forward button state can get out of sync on tablets
  • bug 1072464 - Discuss new tablet forward button size
  • bug 1075531 - Robocop failures in larch due to changes in toolbar
• bug 1020534 - Tablet toolbar icons hard to read on dark lightweight themes

Future

• 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 1058902 - Implement new tablet browser toolbar editing mode

rnewman

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• Tackled a few 35-tracking bugs (see below). Reviews are in, so landing soon.
• Reviews.
• A little continuing work on Project Vancouver.
• Sent out https://etherpad.mozilla.org/service-principles re services push.
• Writing up theoretical underpinnings of remote-clock pings. Apologies to bnicholson.
• RTL meeting with Pike and Jeff.
• Briefly looked into our current RTL state (via Arabic single-locale build). It… functions. More in the next week or so; maybe a v1 bidi Fennec would be easier than we expected?
• Onboarding design walkthrough with Yuan.

nalexander

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• Code: Remote Tabs home panel UI polish tickets landed; messaging deprecated Synced Tabs in tabs tray landed. Split pane tablet view still outstanding.
• Code: Re-landing bug 1065306 because Python and Unicode is a match made in heaven.
• IDEs: met with mhaigh to discuss IntelliJ integration; worked several days on Gradle and IntelliJ integration. It's tricky.

Past

• 899643 - Refresh Remote Tabs list visual style
• 1038354 - Switch to tab toast doesn't work in editing mode
• 1065306 - Write search engine metadata from region.properties to res/raw at build time
• 1068366 - Update "Hidden devices" footer visual style in Remote Tabs home panel
• 1068365 - Make collapsed Remote Clients look grayed out
• 1068051 - Low res drawables for devices used in the synced tabs panel
• 1077381 - Android Nightlies failing with "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-1: ordinal not in range(128)" in generate_browsersearch.py
• 1063750 - Message to users that the Remote Tabs tray is now a home panel

Martyn Haigh

Done or about to land

• 1058574 - Remove package level access to class variables within the tabs package
• 1063586 - Audit tab related XML files to use new terminology
• Talked with nalexander about IDEs.
• Talked with IDEA about IntelliJ licenses - no AppCode license I'm afraid but I will continue to press them (help us help you etc)
• Got code from Lastpass in relation to integration and need to reply

Current

• 866302 - Handle 100+ tabs in counter
• 1076898 - Initial pass at Gridview visuals

Issues

• Bug 1068209 - Intermittent Linux/Mulet build failures after "collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status" ... since the last fx merge to m-c - help!

MFinkle

• Need to address bug 1055485
• Working with others to plan efforts in: Password Mgmt, Task Continuity and Project 105
• Playing with password generation models

Antlam

• Past
• Upcoming

Yuan

• Last week
  • Discussed search on tablet with mobile team
  • Synced up with FxOS UX Taiwan about copy + paste interactions. Reached out to schedule a design sync-up for Rocketbar and other concepts
  • Gave mobile team a brief presentation of tablet refresh
  • Gathered feedback of "Get Started" wireframes from marketing, engineering, and product

• This week
  • A MozillaUX blog post for the tablet refresh project
  • Hi-fi mockups for "Get Started" and explore a few different visual styles. Start copywriting coordination.

Robin

N2R, Privacy Coach

• Met with Arcadio, filling in content on landing page.
• Met with Margaret, working on flow for HTTPS 'feature'.

Project 105

• Concepts, working on hires wires (current priority)

Elsewhere

• Provided UX feedback on bug 784222, bug 1077574, bug 1074343

WebRT

• bug 1074026 - webapp uninstall broken, Webapps:GetApkVersions throws - prospective fix for review, still needs testing

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Garvan

• bumped permissions for WIFI_STATE for stumbling: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061991
• need to bug legal for change to opt-in wording:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1007264

Feature Focus

• Funnel review this week was focused on Privacy related features for November. Have been tacked to the bottom of 33 for timing purposes.
• Further discussion ongoing on scope of Privacy features for November.
• Items in 34/25 missing meta bugs - if you have one, please pass along, or I'll end up creating a duplicate!
• Please ensure you keep all of your blockers up to date in the associated metas!
• Mobile Roadmap

Round Table

• Introduce Stefan