Mobile/Notes/21-Aug-2013

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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.

• nickecarlo fixed bug 892942 - Remove www., m. and mobile. from URLs in Reader Mode
• capella has been working on lots of text selection bugs - bug 903316, bug 906499, bug 895463, bug 864589, bug 907271, bug 864582

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!

Shane Tully

• bug 897924 - Disabled contacts tests on Android 2.2 due to intermittent test failures
  • Enabled on Android 4.0+ to avoid regressions

• bug 880118 - Package GeckoView into an Android library project
  • Patches being reviewed
  • Landing soon?

This week:

• GeckoView documentation
• Intern presentation
• Going back to school :(

Shilpan

r+/landed

• Bug 900234: Force reader to always be the left most icon in page actions
• Bug 882322: Find in page bar does not change selection color when set to private mode

In progress

• Bug 907592: Lazy load View Pager when it's not shown on startup
• Bug 894887: Investigate using a symlinked profile folder instead of using profiles.ini
• Bug 886925: initial INIParser.parse to find default profile name at startup takes 75ms on a galaxy nexus
• Bug 899376: PageAction for helper apps

This week

• Figuring out what to present next week
• Bug 906952: [meta] Investigate using ViewStubs to speed startup.
• Wrapping up bugs

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 906718 - Pressing BACK should move the user up in the bookmark folder hierarchy
  • bug 885084 - Only return top bookmarks for bookmarks page thumbnails
  • bug 897772 - Get a favicon when creating a homescreen shortcut from the about:home context menu
  • bug 907172 - Desktop bookmarks aren't displayed after syncing until app restarts
  • Prototyping about:home add-on customization APIs - bug 848242 and bug 905262

• Next
  • More fig follow-ups and about:home customization work
  • FYI: Reading group discussion on Friday, everyone welcome - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Reading_Group#Current_Reading

Feature Focus

Can we pick 1-2 features we think will go into Fx26? Fx26

• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Romanian (ro-RO)
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign
• [AT RISK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [AT RISK] search provider management in settings menu
• [AT RISK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for selected locales
• [AT RISK] API: Third-party Cloud storage
• [AT RISK] API: Gamepad
• [AT RISK] API: Bluetooth
• [AT RISK] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] AMO discoverability
• [PROPOSED] Marketplace discoverability
• [PROPOSED] Second screen support (initial experimental work)
• [PROPOSED] Accelerated 2D canvas (platform) <== need meta bug
• [PROPOSED] Async subframe scrolling (platform) <=== need meta bug

Fx25

• [PLANNED] API: Web Audio
• [ON TRACK] Settings UI clean-up excluding search provider management
• [ON TRACK] Guest browsing
• [ON TRACK] Page Actions
• [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
• [ON TRACK] Mixed content
• [ON TRACK] API: Contacts
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Setting wallpaper bug 886996
• [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging

Fx24

• [AT RISK] WebRTC platform support, preffed ON
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Swedish, sv-SE
• [ON TRACK] Reader improvements
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] Gecko Webview phase 1
• [ON TRACK] Packaged apps foundations, but not exposed until the WebApp Experience has landed
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Icon rebrand
• [ON TRACK] Change default search engine for zh-CN
• [ON TRACK] Add-on definition in distribution files
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: British English, en-GB
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Catalan, ca-ES
• [PROPOSED] Firefox for readers