Mobile/Notes/10-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.

• Roberta, a new Bugzilla user, landed her first patch this morning on bug 891187!
• nickecarlo fixed bug 884336 - Remove trailing '/' from URLs in titlebar and bug 856803 - Change About:feedback title to Open Sans Light

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 803207 - Fix widget scale on fennec so that it works like on other platforms
  • bug 866265 - Finished up the transformation equations cleanup and testing in APZC
  • bug 866232 (in progress) - Adding some code to manage the tree of APZC instances and mux/demux messages to and from them
  • spent some time diving around in input event code to try to understand it and/or fix event flow on hidpi B2G devices (put on hold)

• Next week:
  • finish up bug 866232
  • dig into bug 877602 (deadzone caused by dynamic toolbar) which I dropped the ball on

Shane Tully

• bug 882495 - r+ last night (PermissionPromptHandler does not return the correct window on Android)
• Working on a little demo webpage for the contacts API:
• Updated contacts API wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/ContactsAPI
• bug 880107 - Started playing with GeckWebView and having multiple GeckoViews running simultaneously

Blocking:

• bug 889673 - Adapt Contacts Unit Tests for Android, waiting on review
• bug 857730 - Implement contacts API, waiting on review
• 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 891158 getUserMedia - Switching between landscape orientations on a rendered camera video stream in FxAndroid does not switch to the other landscape orientation
  • bug 880437 java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.webrtc.videoengine.VideoCaptureAndroid.DeleteVideoCaptureAndroid(VideoCaptureAndroid.java)
  • bug 880879 Update WebRTC.org code from stable branch 3.30

• Next week:
  • bug 885768 Cannot make a getUserMedia request within an iframe
  • bug 877701 Unable to join (or view other active party members) in an active talky.io room between Desktop and Android

• Notable:
  • bug 885783 Followup to bug 882136 - Camera share icon gets stuck in the notification bar; media lock held on tab close

Sriram

• Merged m-c to fig
• bug 880513 - Sides of awesomescreen suggestion prompt is blue.
• bug 891098 - Make LoadThumbnailsTask a static.
• bug 891105 - Loading thumbnails through an AsyncTaskLoader.
• bug 891636 - NPE in BookmarksListView click event.
• bug 890671 - Timing issue of addon menu icon load.
• bug 884340 - Allow addons to add menu items to tools.

Shilpan

• Done
  • Bug 891048 - [FIG] Build crashes on Tablets

• • In progress
  • Bug 891183: [FIG] Change Title strip to Tabs strip for tablets
  • Bug 734877 - Add support for 'PageActions' so add-ons can add indicators to the URLBar

Margaret

• Landed bug 872806 - Distribution support for add-ons
  • Looking to uplift to 24
• Currently working on bug 880060 - [fig] Fix robocop tests for new about:home
  • Green try results are blocked on bug 891579 - [fig] android.database.StaleDataException: Access closed cursor at android.database.AbstractWindowedCursor.checkPosition(AbstractWindowedCursor.java:217)
• Added some improvements to our Get Involved page
• Reviews, etc.

mcomella

• Past
  • Mentor bug 891187
• Present
  • bug 863347 - awaiting review - [fig] Remove about:home from default bookmarks
  • about:healthreport
    • Reading code to understand the system
    • (Probably) bug 870925 - Add submission data (number of upload successes, failures, etc.) to the recorded data to test above understanding

MFinkle

• Bugs/Patches!
  • bug 886496 - When doing lazy tab restoration, set the browsers in question to display:none until restored [landing]
  • bug 889564 - ANR: LightweightTheme.handleMessage can block the Gecko thread [landing]
  • bug 888335 - Remove support for iGoogle/Reader from feed subscriptions
  • bug 888327 - Add support for adding feed subscriptions to cloud.feedly.com
  • bug 891879 - Amazon search provider should be at www instead of m.amazon.com
• TODO:
  • Pull together plan for GeckoView [missed from last week]

Performance

• bug 887902 - GC dead sections on android targets
  • Reduced APK size by ~1MB
  • Reduced Tp4 RSS by ~2.3%
• Working on making event tracing play nicely with eideticker
• bug 888268 - WIFI Network Latency rounded up to next 100ms by 802.11 PSP
  • Close to landing
  • Should improve networking speeds on wifi

Round Table

QA

FxA 25

• JNIEnv::CallStaticVoidMethod | mozilla::AndroidBridge::SendThumbnail bug 890590 hitting this every other day on Nexus 4

FxA 24

• Hang on Sony Xperia S - bug 886736
  • Fallout from Enable on-demand decompression - bug 848764

• Save as PDF no download notification - bug 887655
  • Fallout from bug 696911

FxA 23

• No localized content on several about: pages - bug 891118
  • Fallout from split java/chrome strings - bug 792077