Connected Devices/Projects/Magnet/Sprint 8

General info

• Sprint 8 from Nov 7th to Nov 18th
• Participants Development Sprint: Francisco, Isabel, Sam, Wilson, Guillom and Maria to review the technical tasks done and pending to do for Sprint 7.

• Links of interest:
  • Magnet Code Repository
  • Waffle board for Sprint 8
  • UX specs folder
    • Magnet spec

Sprint objectives

This is our last Development Sprint before Gate 0 so we have prioritized the pending high level tasks adn we will try to finish as many as possible:

• Refining the way to notify/based on the location. Nail down thing we need to do very well, as the location, beacons detection.
• Implement the POI view
• Implement Call to actions
• Implement FTE
• Provide feedback about the UX, and work
• Navigation in the app
• Metrics, tracking when the app is in background and the current library does not allow us to gather more metrics (As notifications become more advanced more of our code has to run on the native side. We need to be able to call Google Analytics from native code so that we can learn from user interactions with notifications when the app is close). It will be broken in
  • Expose user preferences to native code through the Api mechanism.
  • Expose the native GA libraries from the react-native-google-analytics-bridge
  • Add calls to analytics from notifications and background tasks.
• Distance for GPS beacons
• Move AWS, and take advantage of that to modify the architecture
• Offline update: mentioned Houman's feedback to refocus on creating an amazing UX to test with real users, but at the same time develop the basic functionality of the app (we could try to run a campaign too and check the downloads but with not so aggressive goals of 500 downloads...). Mail to CD and PIB to communicate this
• Could we work on this too? as an extra...:
  • Look for POIs in Hawaii?
  • Allow people to create their own stories? simple way, something like youtube, channels... the ability to add more channels, without modifying the client/API

Magnet Client Flow for Virtual Beacons

User Stories committed for this sprint

Task	Assigned	Status	Status Notes
As a user when I pass into a GPS point of interest that I am not subscribed to via any channel, I should receive a silent notification		Ongoing	Scanner method has changed. Now the scanner starts when a significant change in the position is detected. Then if there are beacons around, the notification will be received. It will appear in the utility tray as an ‘m’. If user does not change the position although there is new content around, he will not be notified. Only opening the app will discover the new content. Important: There is a difference between physical beacons notifications and virtual beacons notifications. For iOS it still applies that if there is a new physical beacon, a notification will be received immediately. It has to be a new beacon not detected before, otherwise there will not be a notification within the next hour.
As a Product Manager I will be able to check that the statistics already implemented for Physical Web beacons are available for GPS beacons		Ongoing	Although it's done it has not been verified until a bug in iOS can be fixed
When I pass by a point of interest that’s relevant to me, I want to be notified about the POI, even if the application is in the background, so I don’t miss finding out information		Ongoing	Move to Sprint 8 as the iOS part was not ready yet.

Tasks or Bugs committed for this sprint

Task	Assigned	Status	Status Notes
Look for content for London virtual beacons	David, Maria, Isabel	Ongoing task	Moved to the following sprint
Product validation based on Storytellers demand	David	Ongoing
No warning message to enable bluetooth if it was off while the app was in background	Francisco	Not started
Bug: Event action 'app-launch-from-notification' is not recorded for iOS	Francisco	Ongoing
Contact Recruiter and fill out the description for the users for the pre-Gate1 experiment	Francis	Done
No silent notifications in iOS when new GPS/virtual beacons is around		Not started
First iteration of the POI view	Guillom	Done
Subscribed notifications (ios)	Francisco	Done
Record Demo for Sprint 7 (Android)	Maria	Done
Downgrade google-play-services to 9.6.1	Wilson	Done
Downgrade google-location-services to 9.6.1	Wilson	Done
Migrate unit tests to Jest	Guillom	Done
Set the objectives for the Hawaii working week	Maria	Done
Adding channel to the response object	Francisco	Done
App still asks for 'draw over other apps' permission	Sam	Done
Pass the latitude and longitude to JavaScript-land (android)	Guillom	Done
[WIP] Move GA logic out of the bridge	Sam	Done
Prompt to upgrade google-play-services when < version we depend on	Wilson	Done
Pass the latitude and longitude to JavaScript-land (ios)	Guillom	Done
Part 1 of #296: Expose preferences to the native side	Sam	Done
Add ability to call Google Analytics from native code	Sam	Ongoing
Strip console.log and propTypes from production build	Guillom	Ongoing
No warning message to enable bluetooth if it was off while the app was in background		Not started
We need to reimport London History Group source		Not started
Look for content for Hawaii ww		Ongoing
Prepare offline update to the PIB /CD_all (deadline Nov 11st)	Maria	Done
Improving the experience we already have so users can understand what really happen when "nothing is found" or how to refresh the app		Not started
Add remote logging		Not started
Create a simple FTU/Onboarding experience		Not started
Site name to support manifest short_name		Not started
Bug - Notification is not dismissed after expanding it and tapping on the visit button		Not started
Bug - Notifications persist after opening the app		Not started
Settings - Show distance is not working for virtual beacons		Not started
Bug - Magnet app for iOS freezes when subscribing/unsubscribing channels		Not started
Display the distance to the beacon		Not started
Prompt when data is disabled and there are virtual beacons		Not started
Prompt when location services are disabled		Not started
Migrate to AWS		Not started
Notifications - Opening app from a notification should open it in list view		Not started
Deep linking to POI View (android)	Wilson	Ongoing	It closes the bug "When a notification is tapped the app should open directly into the corresponding POI" view #331)"
Remove authentication on the search/urls endpoint	Sam	Done
requestLocationUpdates() throws if location services haven't been granted yet	Wilson	Done
POI expanded view not shown completely	Guillom	Done
Exception when 'preferences' are `null`	Sam	Done
Move prompts out of JS code	Wilson	Done
Read the latitude and longitude from the scanner	Guillom	Ongoing
Add a parser to extract 'next' and 'prev' hrefs	Sam	Ongoing
The scanner type is not populated in iOS		Not started
Prompt to upgrade google-play-services when out of date		Not started
Add remote logging (android)		Not started
Make settings: Show distance and Remove old items only available for debug builds		Not started
Geofencing	Francisco	Done
[ios] Stop magnet scanner after some time when we do a scanning based on region change	Francisco	Done
Refactoring the scanner service to offer a class for performin one single check on location	Francisco	Done
Implementing external logging system for debug builds in ios	Francisco	Done
Fix failing upgrade	Sam	Done
Use the fork of the react bridge for Google analytics	Sam	Done
Add a map for virtual beacons	Guillom	Ongoing
Notifications service extension	Francisco	Ongoing
Notifications service extension	Francisco	Ongoing
Move analytics tracking into an API [android]	Sam	Done

Demos

• POI view video demo