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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

mcomella

• Past
  • bug 863347: [fig] Remove about:home from preloaded bookmarks
• Present
  • GH #328 (on review): Add remote debugging 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

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

PiCL

• UX testing (sign-in/forgot-password flows) happening in Portland today and tomorrow