Mobile/Notes/10-Sep-2014

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-10-13

Topics for This Week

Tablet refresh v0 soon in Nightly (disabled by default)

Tentative merge to m-c happening tomorrow.

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.

• Julien Sanchez fixed bug 680392 - Localize trademark notice string in about:firefox
• manu.jain13' fixed bug 1060423 - Cut function in a readonly textarea
• amoghbl1 fixed bug 1019045 - Unify magnifying glass/search icon
• eedens fixed bug 1042960 - Create UI elements for facet bar
• Tristan Pollitt fixed bug 1057613 - Telemetry for search widget buttons
• vivek fixed bug 799562 - Update about:feedback to use new feedback API

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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JChen

Working on

• More startup perf (bug 888482, etc.)
• Coming up with ideas for bug 1060009.

GCP

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Last week

• 1060796 - Limit screen capture FPS
• 1053264 - Mouse cursor flickers after activating screensharing on Windows

• bug 1059573 Add support to using DSP-based echo canceller and noise suppressor

Next week

• bug 1059573 Add support to using DSP-based echo canceller and noise suppressor
• Standalone WebRTC
• Media sandboxing

Randall Barker

Last week:

• Fixed minor issues with Roku Player (aspect ratio, detect dropped stream, etc.)
• Created SSDP/ECP simulator to debug discovery issues.
• Rebased standalone WebRTC code and it broke. Started fixing.

Next week:

• Finish fixing standalone WebRTC.
• Set up private channel with Roku WebRTC Player to enable testing. Waiting on Roku to do this.
• Investigate bug 1053426 Fennec crashes when tab sharing is active (Looks to be memory leak)
• Continue to try and land standalone code.
• Investigate sending H.264 instead of VP8 video to standalone WebRTC. (Not certain how critical this is as performance of VP8/OpenGL appears adequate)
• Land bug 1048425 Enable support for tab sharing with Roku device. Possible now that there is something to test against.

Sylvain Cleymans

Last week:

• Fixed performance testing

Next week:

• Finish performance testing
• Finish image compression

Brian Nicholson

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LucasR

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Last week

• Top crasher fix
  • bug 1041448 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.PinSiteDialog$3.onFocusChange(PinSiteDialog.java)
• Prep work to merge larch to m-c
  • bug 1053252 - Create different package name for larch so it can be installed beside Nightly
• Tablet refresh (Fixing reftest failures)
  • bug 1014987 - Display tabs horizontally
  • bug 1015447 - Add a new tab from horizontal tab strip
  • bug 1017307 - Close a foreground tab on horizontal tab strip
  • bug 1017313 - Close a background tab from horizontal tab strip
  • bug 1018426 - Switch a tab on horizontal tab strip
• Toolbar refresh
  • bug 1055536 - Too many differing background greys throughout the browser
  • bug 1057438 - Rewrite FadedTextView
  • bug 1060394 - Move FadedTextView to the widget package
  • bug 1061508 - Consider fading edge in toolbar's title instead of ellipsis
  • bug 1063914 - Restore edit mode's [x] icon
• Misc
  • bug 1020505 - Regression: Browser menu has width issues
  • bug 1062231 - Menu share icon is misaligned to the right
  • bug 1065369 - Consolidate 'add tab' behaviour in Tabs

Next week

• Merge larch to m-c
• More tablet and toolbar stuff

liuche

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• Follow-ups for Onboarding (bug 1059792, bug 1063748)
• bug 1062257 - "Remove" behavior in home panels
• reviews, chatting with UX about future onboarding
• Next: search activity, Private browsing contextual hints

Margaret

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Highlights:

• Settings telemetry
• Search activity
• Attending JSConf EU this weekend

Past:

• 1061644 - crash in java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Couldn''t find search engine for identifier: YAHOO at org.mozilla.search.providers.SearchEngineManager.createEngine(SearchEngineManager.java)
• 1062632 - Remove unused history panel view and styles
• 1063128 - UI Telemetry for Settings records empty preference name
• 1058813 - Add telemetry for custom preferences
• 1063177 - "+" button overlaps text in long search suggestions
• 1057631 - Use real locale when pulling search engine out of the jar
• 1059537 - Add support for parsing icons out of search plugin XML
• 1049206 - Design for the "blank state"/"first run" experience when user has no search history

Present:

mcomella

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Past

• 1046017 - Taps are offset on some devices

rnewman

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nalexander

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• Code: Remote Tabs home panel has landed (bug 1014994). Many small tickets still open to hammer out issues (bug 1063742, bug 1063765) and re-instate cut features (bug 1064304). Split pane tablet view should hit review this week.
• Reviews: working with ckitching to make annotation processing a Real Child. ckitching claims significant code size wins (~100s of kb) if we can make Proguard obfuscate our sources safely. Action in bug 1064554.
• Testing: first meetings (jlund, gbrown) and feedback cycle for running instrumentation tests in automation (meta bug is bug 1064004).
• Testing: |mach robocop| has landed (bug 874729).

Past

• 1003877 - [meta] Custom server support for Firefox Accounts on Android
• 1058160 - Specify main activity org.mozilla.fennec.App with a default intent over org.mozilla.search.MainActivity
• 1056707 - Kindle: No way to remove Firefox account
• 1040945 - Make AndroidEclipse backend make target install native libraries more aggressively
• 785199 - Give remote tabs a context menu
• 1014994 - create a synced tabs panel
• 1062566 - Update to Java 1.7 and bump SDK version in AndroidEclipse backend templates
• 1062638 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.RemoteTabsExpandableListAdapter.getChildView(RemoteTabsExpandableListAdapter.java)
• 1063028 - Change tests/browser/junit3 Java package root to be org.mozilla.gecko
• 874729 - Add ability to run robocop tests to mach

Antlam

• Past
• Upcoming

WebRT

• bug 960584 - notify user of download progress indication when fetching APK - landed
• bug 1021395 - Web app machinery dumps lots of semi-sensitive data to logcat - WIP rebased
• bug 1029691 - Manifest not being checked on APK installation - needs rebasing

QA

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