Mobile/Notes/23-Oct-2013

Details

• Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC

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• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile Vidyo Room

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.

• fedepaol fixed bug 921776 - Notification completed not showing when download was started from a private tab
• capella has been fixing a lot of things, as usual
  • bug 906323 - It should be possible to update a menuitem's label
  • bug 920507 - Uncaught exception / crash when Clear private data -> Browsing & download history
  • bug 928163 - Allow or disallow proper text selection caret display based on HTML <input> type
  • bug 912983 - Text selection "cursor" persists on blur

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!

LucasR

Last week

• Firefox for Android Tech talk
• Wrote post about new about:home with ibarlow for our "Future Releases" blog
• bug 918007 - Disable toolbar elements (menu, back, forward) while in editing mode on tablets
• (Investigating) bug 925722 - Search suggestions require an extra tap to hit
• Smoothie bug fixing:
  • https://github.com/lucasr/smoothie/issues/12
  • https://github.com/lucasr/smoothie/issues/16
• Tons of patch reviews

Next week

• Finish slides for Droidcon talk
• More bug fixing on Fx26 (bug 918007 and bug 925722)
• More patch reviews

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 880281 - Make Marketplace more discoverable in about:apps
  • Add-ons tech talk: http://leibovic.github.io/mobile-addons/
  • More distribution files for partners

• In Progress/Next
  • Preparing session for MozFest: http://sessions.mozillafestival.org/proposals/building-your-first-mobile-web-app/
  • Working with snippets team to make actual dynamic snippets add-on
  • Investigating bug 921468 - Layout glitch in about:home display

Ian Barlow

• Helping out with product plan grooming
• Defining a first version of Kinderfox (parental controls / kid-friendly browsing)
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Kid_browsing
• TV browsing / Living room UX
  • Looping in UX designers
• Tablet refresh
  • Gathering user feedback
  • Looping in UX designers
• Homepage enhancements
  • working with desktop UX folk on a design plan
  • State of good repair -- refining contextual actions on the homepage: http://cl.ly/image/2z2E1c1X172q
• UX strategy for 2013/14
  • Working with Madhava on a desktop/mobile plan