Mobile/Notes/05-Mar-2014

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Schedule

• Next merge March 17

Topics for This Week

MWC recap?

mfinkle is out, maybe we need to do this next week.

Hub status

Narrowing the scope for Fx30, focusing on RSS add-ons. Targeting Fx32 for a more full-featured release.

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.

• Marcos Cezar Mendes da Costa Junior wrote a patch for bug 956360 - Use Arrays.asList when possible
• Matt Brubeck started a discussion about our about:feedback flow, and filed and fixed bug 972844 - Provide an easy way to dismiss about:feedback for good

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)

<Read Only>

• STILL trying to land single GLContext Skia patch. One test is hanging.
• Working on a service to run a headless Gecko. Needed for Simple Push notifications
• Interviews and stuff

JChen

Past week

• Landed basic IME tests
• Fixing some new IME bugs
  • Good candidates for moar tests!

GCP

<Read Only>

• Last week
  • Load Adaption v1 finished, waiting review, try fixes
  • Text selection bug hunting
  • Fix 2.3 WebRTC regression
• Next week
  • Hopefully address review comments
  • Replace Google load adaption code by simpler version

Randall Barker

<Read Only>

• Last Week: Shelved shrinking XUL dependencies for now due to spaghetti monster. Started work to compile XUL for Roku devices.
• Next Week: Finish XUL port, get something running on Roku Device.

Brian Nicholson

<Read Only>

• Progress bar fixes
  • bug 962103 - Progress bar visual refinements
  • bug 976426 - Progress bar stuck on neterror page
  • bug 979166 - Refactor dynamic toolbar code
  • bug 979038 - Disable testAboutHomePageNavigation
• Submenu fixes
  • bug 976006 - Bookmark indicator does not update when adding a bookmark
  • bug 978494 - Page cannot be removed from reading list

WesJ

<Read Only> - At a doctor appt this morning

• Mostly trying to finish up context menu quickshare
• Looking into some performance things:
  • bug 979135 - Use custom layouts for toolbar
  • bug 823582 - Cache empty search for awesomescreen
• bug 942611 - Stop Firefox Mobile from leaking Storage space by leaking file uploads

jdover

<Read Only>

WIP:

• bug 921557 - Custom ellipsizing home banner text on smaller screens
• bug 975055 - Filter UI for Hub panels
• bug 816318 - Moving to Android's DownloadManager, looking into options for Froyo

Done:

• bug 978741 - History tab is highlighted incorrectly on tablets
• bug 974723 - Send shown event when banner is displayed

LucasR

<Read Only>

Last week

• PTO on Friday
• bug 971214 - crash in java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: android.view.View.setBackground at org.mozilla.gecko.widget.BasicColorPicker$ColorPickerListAdapter.getView(BasicColorPicker.java)
• bug 975841 - crash in org.mozilla.gecko.sqlite.SQLiteBridgeException: Cant prepare statement: no such column: filter at org.mozilla.gecko.sqlite.SQLiteBridge.sqliteCallWithDb(Native Method)
• bug 969060 - Disabling dynamic panel set as default will put default panel in ambiguous state
• bug 967742 - Consolidate API to edit HomeConfig state
• (In progress) bug 940575 - Implement per-profile SharedPreferences, eliminating uses of PreferenceManager
• Tons of reviews

Next week

• More hub stuff
• Toolbar/layout bugs

sola

<Read Only>

This week

• bug 857990 - Save/Restore scroll position for an article in Reader Mode
• bug 978994 - Telemetry: Allow "extras" field when starting a session
• bug 959297 - Get description and approx. reading time for reading list items
• bug 968308 - UI telemetry for home panels

liuche

<Read Only>

• Various home panels Settings UI work (Add panel, flow)

Currently:

Margaret

<Read Only>

Highlights

• Banner bugs, sync promo banner is enabled on Aurora now
• (Still) working on auth views and empty views for hub panels
• Working on an RSS add-on to add any feed to your about:home: https://github.com/leibovic/fennec_rss/tree/hub
• Led a webmaker workshop for girls: http://blog.margaretleibovic.com/post/78461876620/dare-2b-digital-2014-remix-the-web

Fixed

• 976175 - Banner appears on top of non-about:home page during session restore on 2.3
• 976176 - On Android 2.3 home banner will remain visible even when visibility set to GONE
• 966047 - Hide home banner when there are no panels enabled
• 977844 - Make sure snippets response is valid JSON before caching it (or trying to use it)
• 977155 - Home banner can appear on non-default panel if panels swiped before gecko is running

mcomella

<Read Only>

Past

• Going crazy over intermittents: bug 977952
• Some GeckoView build stuff (e.g. bug 969725)
• bug 942283 - HomeList RSS addon

Present

• bug 976775 - Rename AssertionHelper assertions to fAssert*
• bug 959652 - BrowserHealthRecorder.ensureEnvironment can be expensive during startup
  • bug 915312 - r? - Ship minimal PBKDF2-SHA256 native library for Android
• 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 965548 - Add a way to close edit mode in one tap
• bug 957894 - Update account pickling code for Firefox Account

Future

• bug 898613 - [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

esawin

<Read Only>

Also working on

• Research: SPDY proxy (Gonzales)

nalexander

Highlights

• Starting to understand GeckoView packaging -- see message to mobile-firefox-dev
  • Strong interest in making Fennec a build-time consumer of GeckoView
  • Mild interest in auto-generating GeckoView documentation for our embedding community
• Landed follow ups to Eclipse IDE work, working with folks (hi lucasr!) to address issues
• Landed follow ups to JUnit 3 browser tests, working with folks (hi lucasr, hi rnewman!) to address issues
• Working on FxAccounts UI improvements
  • Seem to have hit a blocker with interaction between StatusActivity and GeckoPreferences accessible elements? bug 979899 Digging in later today.

Fixed

• 903528 - Adapt services' JUnit unit testing framework to Fennec
• 975622 - Add a post clean build step for the AndroidEclipse backend
• 976353 - Install Eclipse formatting and code clean up defaults for AndroidEclipse backend generated projects
• 975152 - Eclipse complains about missing @drawable/crash_reporter icon
• 976844 - Instrumentation test runner is wrong in mobile/android/tests/browser/junit3/AndroidManifest.xml.in
• 975504 - Allow filtering resources in Android Eclipse projects
• 977358 - Replace status activity header with "Signed in as"
• 972051 - Dismiss "Tap to sign in" notification when a sync succeeds
• 977336 - Support action bar "up" for FxAccountStatusActivity
• 974134 - Improved layout for Status activity
• 979064 - JUnit 3 instrumentation tests should declare their applications debuggable

BLassey

• getting GeckoViewExample into working order and testable
  • bug 971101 - build and publish geckoview example by default, landing blocked on RelEng installing ant
  • bug 977677 - GeckoView can't access some resources it needs
  • bug 969725 - geckoview_example uses incorrect main.xml layout and AndroidManifest
  • discussions, reviews with nalexander on bug 978587
• bug 979470 - When a phone number is highlighted, offer to call it from the context menu or action bar, f+ from finkle, waiting for review from wesj
• bug 928096 - UI for Tab streaming, Brian are you going to get that in for 30?

Ian Barlow

• Hub!
• Tablets!
• Search!
• Sync!
• First run!
• Busy!

Arun

PTO

Feature Focus

<Read Only> <= due to plague. Note that the Firefox Hub line items shall be changing in the next couple days

Fx28

• [ON TRACK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] bug 943475 - Predictive lookup for awesomebar entries
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204

Fx29

• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactor
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Hindi(hi), bug 960059
• [ON TRACK] Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668
• [ON TRACK] Promo snippet for Sync
• [ON TRACK] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [ON TRACK] Ability to "Hide" existing panels in about:home (see the full project page for more details)
• [AT RISK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on, bug 862801. UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] Replace throbber with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776. UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 521995
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021
• [AT RISK] APK Synthesis on by default
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Marketplace UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.5 integration UX Signoff: 03/04
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889 (nice to have, shift to 30 if needed)

Fx30

• [AT RISK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 942231
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [AT RISK] Third-party service integration MVP
  • [AT RISK] My List: How My List works (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Save any web-viewable content (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Add new My List from Promotional Panel (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Subscribe to feed or service as a new list (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Add new and improved list management in Settings (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] Service integration: Downloads (MVP reqs only) <== Need to reduce scope
• [AT RISK] Preferred web content language
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Quickshare on the context menu
• [PROPOSED] Placeholder for FxA/Sync Backlog
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Malay (ms)

Fx31

• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [PROPOSED] Promotional banner enhancements
• [PROPOSED] My_List: Add new My List from Promotional Banner
• [PROPOSED] API: Web activities
• [PROPOSED] First-run feature tour
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Marketplace discovery feed add-on (project page TBD)

Round Table

• bug 977704 - Back button reloads page without images <== this is blocking about 15 bugs for our marketplace friends... can someone take a look?
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