Mobile/Notes/19-Jun-2013

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Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

• nickecarlo finished bug 875852 - Reader Mode: Ambient light level changes are too sensitive
• fedepaol fixed bug 880661 - The download complete notification doesn't appear in the Android notification bar
• capella fixed bug 868222 - Tab increment animation displays an artifact every other count change.

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!

Kats

• Last week:
  • bug 880676 - Add a ScaleFactor class to safely convert between coordinate systems
  • bug 882120 - fix robopan regression from bug 785929 caused by changing rounding behaviour, which was then backed out for reftest failures
  • working on bug 883646, which introduces a new coordinate system for layout device pixels
  • interviews, reviews

• Next week:
  • finish up bug 883646
  • write some tests for the new coordinate system code

GBrown

• Done
  • bug 880359 Default Android cache is 200MB, which is greater then the amount of free space
  • -> http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/firefox-for-androids-disk-cache/
  • Updated https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/Robocop/WritingTests
  • bug 882191 Android 2.2 opt builds take a second to load nested preference screen
  • Investigated bug 877779 Talos Regression tp4m_nochrome 14% on Android 2.2, May 29
• Working on
  • bug 883539 Frequent Android 4.0 rc2 retries: "Remote Device Error: unable to connect to %s after %s attempts" % (self.host, retryLimit)
  • bug 882932 Remote mochitests should invoke the httpd.js from hostutils, not from the changeset

Chris Peterson

• Posting some revised Push patches for review

Shane Tully

• Last week: bug 857730 - Implement contacts API
  • All API functions are complete
  • Add public key field landed (bug 807688)
  • Permissions doorhanger working but...

• Blocking:
  • Still waiting on feedback for patch about fixing bug with permissions doorhanger (bug 882495)
  • bug 832960 - Android manifest files requried before contacts API can be used

• This week:
  • Dealing with case of multiple Google accounts
  • Running unit tests and fixing any failures
  • Adding photo field
  • Maybe have all patches ready for review?

JChen

• Past week
  • Finally landed bug 863777 - Teach ANR reporter to use the profiler to get a native stack
  • Spent lots of time investigating bug 882903 - SPS breadkpad unwinder segfaults with on-demand decompression on
  • Fixed bug 880650 - VKB is not dismissed when switching awesomebar sections after adding a page to reading list
  • Looked at bug 879791 - Unexpected empty event queue in processEventBlock - java.lang.Exception in TouchEventHandler
  • Made JimDB support x86
    • Available separately from the ARM version
    • Wrote blog post about it
• Next
  • Make ANR dashboard include native stacks
  • Look into some profiler work
  • JimDB for B2G work
  • bug 864040 - Enter key isn't displayed correctly with SwiftKey X

GCP

• Last week:
  • Holidays
  • Catching up
  • bug 879335 Remove WebRTC + permissions from Firefox 23
• Next week:
  • bug 877248 Preview Surface for Camera is visible in upper left corner
  • bug 881153 Cannot share the front camera and back camera across different tabs at the same time on FxAndroid
  • bug 882136 Camera share icon gets stuck in the notification bar
  • bug 880879 Update WebRTC.org code from stable branch 3.30
  • bug 877244 Rotating the phone during a WebRTC call doesn't update the image rotation

Sriram

• bug 882365 - Add Top Bookmarks to about:home
  • Pulled in code from TopSitesView, split it into smaller chunks and cleaned up a lot.
  • Wrapper list adapter to change the actual cursor adapter on the fly.
  • Taking account of all header views (as GridView is just another header)
  • Make the ListView scrollable when scrolled from the GridView
  • http://cl.ly/image/0n0Q2E2y0O0x and http://cl.ly/image/2t0f1I03422A and http://cl.ly/image/2O3S3H461q0f
• bug 883300 - Make BookmarksListView a class of its own
• Custom adapter based non-scrollable Grid View - http://cl.ly/image/1g2n1L2R0L0I
• bug 884133 - Kill unwanted sAppContext references.
• bug 884004 - DexLoader should use application context.
  • http://cl.ly/image/3z1A2X1e1b1U - Favicon based url background color.

WesJ

• Bug 880454 - Support a queue for button toasts
• Bug 884075 - JS API for super toasts
• Bug 763671 - New designs for fennec form elements
• Bug 882136 - Camera share icon gets stuck in the notification bar; media lock held on tab close
• Bug 826325 - Decide where window.open should open content
• Played with running Gaia in Fennec -

Liuche

• bug 873072 - crash on launch from notification when Gecko's been killed
• bug 882191 - failed settings tests
• bug 877725 - UI for wifi AP/cell tower
• bug 870169 - second pass over extracting ANRReporter

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 877782 - Reposition form autocomplete popup if dynamic toolbar changes visibility
  • bug 883287 - "Add Search Engine" context menu prompt has "null" message
  • bug 876712 - Kill AwesomeBar/AwesomeBarTabs code on fig

• In Progress
  • bug 751205 - Refactor site identity popup and doorhanger popup to use common arrow panel container
  • bug 884069 - Create a Java-only DoorHanger API that doesn't depend on Gecko
  • bug 860581 - Add support for Mixed Content Blocking

Ian Barlow

This week

• Improving discoverability of Search provider / Add-ons management
  • Exploring moving these items into Settings
  • WIP http://cl.ly/image/1k152b2Y2M2t
• FHR
  • Mockups http://cl.ly/image/1h0g1t0X2G00/o
• Mixed content blocking
  • Mockups http://cl.ly/image/2Z2V26391K0G
• Starting to put together some notes about on Fig
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Feature Focus

Check out the features currently "On Deck"

Firefox 22

• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovak
• State of good repair:
  • [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter - Not user facing
  • [ON TRACK] Refining Tab UI
  • [ON TRACK] Performance improvements - Including WebGL, texture streaming, async canvas updates

Firefox 23

• [ON TRACK] Firefox Health Report
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Turkish
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Hungarian
• [ON TRACK] Awesomebar and Awesomescreen improvements
• [ON TRACK] Reader improvements
• [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
• [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default in add-on manager
• [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling
• [ON TRACK] API: Payments <== not exposed to users
• [AT RISK] Dynamic URL bar

Firefox 24: Embracing the Ecosystem (Nightly)

• [ON TRACK] Reader improvements
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] Gecko Webview phase 1
• [ON TRACK] Geolocation services inc opt-in menu item
• [ON TRACK] Packaged apps foundations, but not exposed until the WebApp Experience has landed
• [ON TRACK] API: Web Audio
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Icon rebrand
• [ON TRACK] Change default search engine for zh-CN
• [AT RISK] Set Top Box optimization
• [AT RISK] Directional game console navigation
• [AT RISK] Dynamic Snippets
• [AT RISK] API: Push notifications (won't be uplifted past beta?)
• [AT RISK] Add-on definition in distribution files
• [AT RISK] WebRTC platform support, preffed ON
• [ON TRACK] Added locales: en-GB, sv-SE and ca-ES

Firefox 25

• [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
• [ON TRACK] Mixed content
• [PLANNED] API: Contacts
• [PLANNED] Privileged apps support
• [PLANNED] About:home redesign
• [PROPOSED] API: Web activities
• [PROPOSED] Settings UI clean-up including search provider management

Firefox 26

• [PROPOSED] Spatial Navigation (SNAV)
• [PROPOSED] API: Third-party Cloud storage
• [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
• [PROPOSED] API: Gamepad
• [PROPOSED] API: Bluetooth