Mobile/Notes/17-Jul-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-08-05

Topics for This Week

Guest Mode

Brad put together a patch (bug 871863) and Ian created a nice design (see below). The project page for Guest Mode will need a little tweaking.

Search Engines in Settings

Patch (bug 892094) landed on inbound. Look for it in tomorrow's Nightly. Still needs a few follow-ups.

PageActions

Landed in Nightly. Needs some updated MDN docs.

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.

• Michal Kajda (mkajda) fixed bug 889555 - Address bar context menu appear after second long tap
• Mark Capella (capella) worked with Sriram to finish bug 884340 - Allow Addons Make Changes in the Tools Menu
• Nicolas Carlo (nickecarlo) fixed bug 888144 - Add a "Maybe later" option for Feedback prompt
• Saurabh Nair (jsx) fixed (first patch!) bug 891161 - about:apps page on FxAndroid has a marketplace link pointing to https://marketplace.mozilla.org, not https://marketplace.firefox.com
• Mike Kaply (mkaply) filed a bunch of bugs about improving some of our add-on APIs

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!

Kats

• last week
  • bug 877602 - fix deadzone with dynamic toolbar hidden
  • bug 891175 - fallout from widget scaling that i landed last week
  • bug 840916 - fix min-resolution and related CSS media queries
  • bug 866232 (in progress) - multi-APZC work, made a bunch of progress and have some WIPs up
  • tried to debug bug 889535 a little but didn't make much actual progress
  • interviews, helping out botond

• next week
  • more on bug 866232

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • bug 869696 - Gralloc is crappy on the Geeksphone Peak (done, disabled gralloc on peak)
  • bug 886576 - Dynamic toolbar gets stuck hidden on screen-sized pages sometimes
  • bug 892246 - Allow subdocument scrolling to hide/reveal the toolbar

• Now
  • bug 876542 - Rewrite of async fixed-pos layer pan/zoom code - done, pending some small fix-ups/comments, blocks bug 886298 from landing
  • bug 747811 - Make tiled layers process-safe

• Misc
  • Taking 2 months unpaid leave, September->October

Chris Peterson

• Wrapping up Push API review feedback from rnewman and nsm
• Working with nsm to port the System Messages API from desktop to Android (for Push)
• Working with stully to define GeckoView design

Shane Tully

Last week:

• bug 882495 - landed (PermissionPromptHandler does not return the correct window on Android)
• bug 889673 and bug 857730 reviewed
• Finished/blog post for quick demo webpage of the contacts API: http://imgur.com/VxRiZRj
• bug 880107 - Working with cpeterson, bnicholson, and mfinkle to work out the GeckoView design
  • Working to get two GeckoViews to run in the same activity. As a little experiment, here's an app running a GeckoView and Webkit-WebView simultaneously:

This week:

• Fixing the contacts test failure on try (finally figured out what's causing it; just need to fix it)
• Landing the contacts API (woo!)
• Continuing work with GeckoView

Blocking:

• bug 832960 - Android manifest files requried before contacts API can be used
• Waiting on feedback to figure out photo JS blob to Java translation

JChen

• Past week
  • Profiler work
    • Got profiler symbolication to work again in Eideticker (bug 803616)
    • Got profiles for bug 888482 - init gecko sooner
  • Worked on bug 886508 - Swiped words not appearing when using Google Keyboard
• Next
  • More profiler improvements
  • Template:Bug881018 - crash in mozilla::layers::floor_div

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 885768 Cannot make a getUserMedia request within an iframe
  • bug 894938 Content permission prompts broken in iframes
  • bug 885031 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android.hardware.Camera$CameraInfo at org.webrtc.videoengine.VideoCaptureAndroid.GetRotateAmount
  • bug 891158 getUserMedia - Switching between landscape orientations
  • Meetings: Cookie Clearinghouse, WebRTC privacy
  • B2G dev setup
• Next week:
  • bug 885768 Cannot make a getUserMedia request within an iframe
  • bug 887693 One more WebRTC rash
  • Text Selection bugs, B2G WebRTC

Botond

• This week
  • Finished the small refactoring items related to the representation of points in different coordinate systems (bug 890938, bug 891468, bug 891544). These patches have landed in mozilla-central.
  • bug 834613 - Field zoom is not toggleable (formhelper.* prefs need hooking up). Also landed in m-c.
  • bug 859929 (in progress) - AsyncPanZoomController doesn't play well with progressive tile painting. I've been reading the relevant code and trying to understand what is going on.
• Next week
  • Continue tackling bug 859929

Brian N

• Bug 851373 - Eliminate GeckoApp/Tabs lifecycle issues
• GeckoView API discussion
• Bug 890515 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bytes.length 0 must be a positive number at org.mozilla.gecko.gfx.BitmapUtils.decodeByteArray
• Bug 894087 - getScreenDepth() doesn't handle all 24-bit pixel formats
• Bug 887655 - No download complete or "Open with" dialog displayed after using "Save as PDF"
• Looked into Bug 890590 (thumbnail JNI crash), but no luck

Sriram

• bug 893990 - BookmarksPage should use FaviconsLoader.
• bug 891105 - Cancel loading thumbnails when not showing about:home.
• bug 890006 - Blue toolbar while scrolling in android 2.3.
• bug 890671 - Timing issue with setting an addon icon.
• bug 885884 - Add back pinning support to top bookmarks.
• Working on adding back context menu support to top bookmarks.

WesJ

• Landing js api support for button toasts
• Bug 885783 - Followup to bug 882136 - Camera share icon gets stuck in the notification bar; media lock held on tab close
• Addons work week

Shilpan

• Done
  • Bug 734877: Add support for 'PageActions' so add-ons can add indicators to the URLBar*Present
  • Bug 889858: Update fake about:home thumbnail drawables with new branding
  • Bug 717821: Disabled buttons get pressed look when tapping on them

• In Progress
  • Bug 894077: [FIG] Tablet layout for visited page
  • Bug 894698: [FIG] Tablet layout for reading list page
  • Bug 886996: Use an intent to set wallpaper
  • Bug 891183: [FIG] Change Title strip to Tabs strip for tablets

LucasR

Last week

• PTO on Monday and Tuesday
• bug 881774 - Restore domain autocomplete on editing mode
• bug 887269 - Restore "Open all previous tabs" feature in new about:home
• (In progress) bug 887270 - Only show the "tabs from last time" button in the "visited" page when appropriate
• (In progress) bug 889621 - Transition for tapping the URL bar

Next week

• More about:home hacking
• Meeting ibarlow for about:home experiments and hackathon planning

Liuche

• mentoring/reviewing bug 892094 - "Search" page in settings + updating settings tests
• first review pass of bug 888533 - Remote debugging v1
• bug 894129 - organize xml resources better (too easy to miss updating different resources)
• bug 894129 - review search settings part 2
• bug 891644 - Change ANRReporter to use new TelemetryRecorder

Margaret

• Done
  • PTO, reviews/feedback
• (Still) In Progress
  • bug 880060 - [fig] Fix robocop tests for new about:home
  • bug 885962 - Polish mixed content blocking UI
• Next
  • Start landing some robocop fixes on fig
  • Finish mixed content follow-ups

Chris Kitching

• 892116/892113 - Manage search providers page - awaiting review
• 768667 - ActionBar for text selection - still bouncing around in review.
• 788114 - Android intent for Adding to reading list - Got review back, needs work.
• 828254 - Search for highlightest text feature - ostensibly finished, but broke when merged. Needs fixing.

Also, the wifi is so astonishingly patchy in here...

mcomella

• Past
  • bug 863347: [fig] Remove about:home from preloaded bookmarks
• Present
  • GH #328 (on review): Add remote debugging of unit tests to services docs
  • bug 893910 - GH #329 (on review): Reset FHR submission failure count after timeout
  • bug 870925: Add submissions info to FHR documents
• Future
  • More FHR via roadmap

RNewman

• Reviews all over the place.
• PBKDF2 benchmarking for PICL password stretching.
• Sync planning and storage protocol design.

BLassey

• bug 880259 - Firefox should use GeckoView, bouncy bouncy
• bug 871863 - Guest mode for browsing, landed
• bug 893968 - LaunchState locking isn't actually locking anything useful, landed
• bug 894313 - GeckoThread should own its own static instance, got review, need to land
• b2g browser work week, planning

MFinkle

• Landed some patches.
• Will look at a few other non-critical bugs
• Worked on GeckView project page and talked a bit with Chris, Shane and Brian about it.

Ian Barlow

In London this week for a FxOS Browser meetup

• *NEW: Proposal for Guest Mode*
  • Mockup: http://cl.ly/image/0h1N3P171L2s
• bug 862793 New About:home
  • Checking builds, giving feedback
  • Working on tablet designs
  • Hackathon next week!
• bug 891115 Moving Search Providers and Add-ons into Settings
  • Checking builds/screenshots, giving feedback
• Thinking about interesting things we could do with 'save for later' partners

Security/MGoodwin

• No update

PiCL

• UX testing (sign-in/forgot-password flows) happening in Portland today and tomorrow
• Experimenting with PouchDB in a Jetpack addon for FX Desktop: https://github.com/vladikoff/syncable-service-poc/tree/pouchdb
• Continuing to build out keyserver API and docs. WIP here: https://github.com/mozilla/picl-idp/blob/api/docs/api.md

Round Table

QA

• Trunk crasher - _JNIEnv::CallStaticVoidMethod | mozilla::AndroidBridge::SendThumbnail bug 890590
• Beta crasher - mozilla::layers::LayerManagerOGL::WorldTransformRect @ libGLES_hgl.so bug 845867