Mobile/Notes/14-Aug-2013

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-09-16

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.

• Jinsu (heyjinsu) landed a patch for bug 818987 - Links to media files should have an "Open in app" option
• Michael Boon (michaeltpb) landed a patch for bug 888982 - fennec should use channel-specific build defines rather than MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL
• Capella filed and fixed bug 903871 - JS crash in SelectionHandler during longtap text select on target page

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

• Still tracking down cause of two intermittent test failures with the contacts API on Android 2.2 Annoying the A-team
  • Should be getting a physical tegra to test on today though

• bug 880118 - Package GeckoView into an Android library project
  • Last week:
    • Pages loading (actually working pretty well!)
    • Patches starting to be reviewed
  • This week:
    • Integration into build system
    • Landing patches

Next week:

• Last week here! :(
• Working on an intern presentation I guess

GCP

• Last week:
  • SafeBrowsing Download protection reviews
  • bug 902000 Service to monitor the system load
• Next week:
  • Finish 902000
  • bug 877954 Adapt video encode resolution & framerate according to available bandwidth and CPU use

Brian N

• Done
  • Bug 901903 - The guest profile is created at every startup
  • Bug 899141 - URLs are not opened from other apps if the "Don't keep activities" option is set
  • Created etherpad to come up with a plan for multi-engine suggestions: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/wMC375bLW3
  • Trying to get some session restore tests working, but was hitting bug 901811
• Next
  • Get those doggone session tests working already

Sriram

• bug 902064 - Folders on BookmarksListView throws IllegalArgumentException.
• bug 902038 - Use a multi type cursor adapter for our adapters.
• bug 880525 - Search suggestions are misaligned on tablets.
• bug 888905 - Reading list for tablets.
• bug 904840 - Lazily inflate history page.
• bug 862801 - Exploring about:home snippets.
• More and more reviews.
• Blog on grilist view.

Shilpan

• r+/landed
  • bug 894077: [FIG] Tablet layout for visited page
  • bug 891183: [FIG] Change Title strip to Tabs strip for tablets (with custom animation!)

• In progress
  • bug 900234: Force reader to always be the left most icon in page actions
  • bug 899376: PageAction for helper apps

LucasR

Last week

• bug 905162 - Misc empty view tweaks
• bug 871651 - Janky animation to enter editing mode
• bug 904689 - Implement empty screen state for "Most Visited" page
• bug 899550 - Disable editing mode animations on pre-Honeycomb devices
• bug 905139 - Fix alpha setter for pre-HC AnimatorProxy
• bug 905088 - Properly handle default URL on BrowserApp's enterEditingMode
• bug 871652 - Disable toolbar's context menu while in editing mode
• bug 903448 - Update testHistory for new about:home
• bug 903478 - Add testMostRecentPage for new about:home
• bug 897483 - Add testMostVisitedPage for new about:home
• bug 897481 - Update testShareLink for new about:home
• bug 899183 - Update testBookmarklets for new about:home
• Tons of patch reviews
• Prioritizing fig bugs, defining readiness parameters for the merge
• Proposed merge plan:
  • Informal test day this Friday (August 16)
  • Merge next week (August 19-23)
  • Test day after merge (August 30)

Next week

• Gradually land all ported tests in fig
• General prep work for the about:home merge to m-c
• More about:home hacking

Margaret

• Done
  • TRIBE (if you're interested, you can learn more/sign up on the TRIBE wiki page)
  • bug 899393 - [fig] Switch-to-tab is broken
  • Reviews

• In Progress
  • bug 897772 - [fig] "Add to Home Screen" shortcut doesn't have an icon sometimes
  • Started investigating bug 848242 - Add support for widget/tiles to homepage customization

• Next
  • Help do whatever needs to get done to merge fig into m-c

mcomella

• Past
  • bug 900289: Enable foreign key pragma on FHR database
  • bug 902039: [fig] Correct about:home back-button/swipe UX
    • (WORKSFORME) New UX is not viable
• Present
  • bug 904122: (f+) [fig] Scrolling on search suggestions page does not dismiss the keyboard
  • bug 870925: (f+) Add submissions info to FHR documents
  • bug 870171: (f+) Expire old FHR data
• Future
  • FHR
    • Selecting new bugs via roadmap
    • Architecture docs
  • bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)
  • Robocop docs
    • Suggestions on improvements? Add at https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/11

MFinkle

• Setting the Stage
• PiCL planning: Getting to part where we code
• More added to Chromecast support in bug 901803
• Scanning upcoming Android conferences for Mozilla/Firefox opportunities