Mobile/Notes/03-Jul-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-08-05

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) landed his first patch! bug 888641 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.BrowserToolbar.setProgressVisibility(BrowserToolbar.java)

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

• Push API: Implementing review feedback
• bug 889185 - Send OrderedBroadcast.js token to Java and distinguish between null and default permissions
• bug 889036 - Fix test build instructions in Robocop README.rst
• bug 827407 - Uplifted NullPointerException fix for FlashPaintSurface crashes to Beta (reopens Flash video bug 809055)

Sriram

• bug 888034 - No rounded corners on dominant colored backgrounds on BookmarkThumbnailView
• bug 888039 - NSME on visited page due to swapCursor()
• bug 885821 - Crop factor of thumbnails in BookmarksThumbnailView
• bug 885481 - Add the folder name as an item in the BookmarksListView
• bug 887982 - BookmarksListView should use cursor loaders
• bug 887985 - TopBookmarksView should use cursor loaders
• bug 888039 - Use support library's CursorAdapter to use swapCursor()
• bug 888032 - Restrict favicon size to 32dp in TopBookmarksView
• bug 889612 - BookmarksListAdapter should be controlled by the BookmarksPage fragment
• bug 889612 - TopBookmarksAdapter should be controlled by the BookmarksPage fragment
• bug 889646 - BookmarksPage should be the landing page on new about:home
• bug 889649 - VisitedPage should use CursorAdapter
• bug 855888 - Remove "Gecko." namespace from XML files
• bug 887572 - Kill GeckoViewsFactory

Shilpan

• bug 734877 - Add support for 'PageActions' so add-ons can add indicators to the URLBar
  • Done
    • Reader mode now called from browser.js
    • PageAction layout is now dynamic (Number of pageactions visible can be changed based on screen size)
  • In Progress
    • Replacing GeckoPopUpMenu with ArrowPopUp. (Need to look into arrow margins)

• bug 856715 - Map L2/R2 to next/previous tab
  • Done
    • Tabs tray focus navigation now runs through l2/r2
    • Added click listeners to listen to action button presses while in TabsTray (Previously touch listeners were used for selection)

• bug 888905 - Optimize new about:home for tablets
  • Pulled and built fig, looked into about:home code layouts and implementation, meeting with Ian soon to discuss design

• bug 833113 - Fennec UI elements should be navigable by d-pad and show focus state
  • Currently working on making subMenus focus navigable

Margaret

• Done
  • "Reading List" page on new about:home - bug 862798
  • On-site interview, reviews, etc.

• In Progress (almost done)
  • Distribution support for add-ons - bug 872806
  • Polish mixed content UI - bug 885962

• Next
  • More about:home stuff

MFinkle

• Supporting the WebRT team last week. Solid progress.
• Getting involved with some PiCL process mgmt. Lot's of activity. Hoping to see some tangible output soon.
• Bugs/Patches!
  • bug 886496 - When doing lazy tab restoration, set the browsers in question to display:none until restored
  • bug 889564 - ANR: LightweightTheme.handleMessage can block the Gecko thread
  • bug 888335 - Remove support for iGoogle/Reader from feed subscriptions
  • bug 888327 - Add support for adding feed subscriptions to cloud.feedly.com
• TODO:
  • Pull together plan for GeckoView

WebRT

• Moving forward with the Synthetic (wrapper) APK approach to create an awesome native app experience on Android
  • Defining requirements for the wrapper APK
  • Starting exploratory work to figure out what Android approaches we need to use to impl the requirements
  • Meta bug 888391

PiCL

• Intense amount of discussion around groups, roles, technical details and use cases
  • Breaking out into logical groups: Storage/Infrastructure, Authentication/Device Mgmt and Client/Protocol
  • Several candidates for Storage/Protocol. CouchDB seems like the early leader. Queue-Sync is also in the running.
  • Use-Case re-examination with Product to make sure the lower-level details are well understood
  • Start writing some apps so we can test speed, bandwidth, local storage and memory characteristics of any candidate
• UX mockups of the sign-on process/flow are in-progress. Plans are to make web-based mockups and do some user testing.
• Working to create dev-picl mailing list for public discussions

Performance

• Nathan Froyd (froydnj) has been examining various parts of the Fennec "cold start with a URL" process.
  • Eideticker tracks two such runs:
    • Launch Fennec and load NY Times from an Intent: nytimes-load
    • Launch Fennec, wait for stable state and load NY Times: nytimes-load-poststartup

Round Table

QA

• Investigating bug 845867 - crash in mozilla::layers::LayerManagerOGL::WorldTransformRect (Kevin)