Mobile/Notes/21-Aug-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-09-16

Topics for This Week

New Home Page

The new Home page redesign landed on Nightly this morning. We repsun the Nightly, so people will start getting it today. Lucas blogged about the work.

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.

• nickecarlo fixed bug 892942 - Remove www., m. and mobile. from URLs in Reader Mode
• capella has been working on lots of text selection bugs - bug 903316, bug 906499, bug 895463, bug 864589, bug 907271, bug 864582

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

• bug 897924 - Disabled contacts tests on Android 2.2 due to intermittent test failures
  • Enabled on Android 4.0+ to avoid regressions

• bug 880118 - Package GeckoView into an Android library project
  • Patches being reviewed
  • Landing soon?

This week:

• GeckoView documentation
• Intern presentation
• Going back to school :( Thanks everyone!

Sriram

• bug 862801 - About:home snippets.
• bug 905328 - Remove url bar shadows.
• bug 906822 - History page on tablets should show dividers.
• Discussions with Romain Guy and experimenting with FadedTextView.

Shilpan

r+/landed

• Bug 900234: Force reader to always be the left most icon in page actions
• Bug 882322: Find in page bar does not change selection color when set to private mode

In progress

• Bug 907592: Lazy load View Pager when it's not shown on startup
• Bug 894887: Investigate using a symlinked profile folder instead of using profiles.ini
• Bug 886925: initial INIParser.parse to find default profile name at startup takes 75ms on a galaxy nexus
• Bug 899376: PageAction for helper apps

This week

• Figuring out what to present next week
• Bug 906952: [meta] Investigate using ViewStubs to speed startup.
• Wrapping up bugs

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 906718 - Pressing BACK should move the user up in the bookmark folder hierarchy
  • bug 885084 - Only return top bookmarks for bookmarks page thumbnails
  • bug 897772 - Get a favicon when creating a homescreen shortcut from the about:home context menu
  • bug 907172 - Desktop bookmarks aren't displayed after syncing until app restarts
  • Prototyping about:home add-on customization APIs - bug 848242 and bug 905262

• Next
  • More fig follow-ups and about:home customization work
  • FYI: Reading group discussion on Friday, everyone welcome - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Reading_Group#Current_Reading

MFinkle

• Got a simple tab mirroring patch working
• Prepping FxMetro for preview release
• Manager stuff

Feature Focus

• Are we good with a 'WIP' section to indicate work happening but not committed to a release (this is different from 'On Deck')
• On Deck, should I migrate anything to Fx26? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap#On_deck

Fx26

• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Romanian (ro-RO)
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign
• [AT RISK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [AT RISK] search provider management in settings menu
• [AT RISK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for selected locales
• [AT RISK] API: Third-party Cloud storage
• [AT RISK] API: Gamepad
• [AT RISK] API: Bluetooth
• [AT RISK] API: Push notifications
• [AT RISK] AMO discoverability
• [AT RISK] Marketplace discoverability
• [AT RISK] Second screen support (initial experimental work)
• [PROPOSED] Accelerated 2D canvas (platform) <== need meta bug
• [PROPOSED] Async subframe scrolling (platform) <=== need meta bug

Fx25

• [PLANNED] API: Web Audio
• [ON TRACK] Settings UI clean-up excluding search provider management
• [ON TRACK] Guest browsing
• [ON TRACK] Page Actions
• [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
• [ON TRACK] Mixed content
• [ON TRACK] API: Contacts
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Setting wallpaper bug 886996
• [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging

Fx24

• [AT RISK] WebRTC platform support, preffed ON
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Swedish, sv-SE
• [ON TRACK] Reader improvements
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] Gecko Webview phase 1
• [ON TRACK] Packaged apps foundations, but not exposed until the WebApp Experience has landed
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Icon rebrand
• [ON TRACK] Change default search engine for zh-CN
• [ON TRACK] Add-on definition in distribution files
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: British English, en-GB
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Catalan, ca-ES
• [PROPOSED] Firefox for readers

Round Table

QA

• bug 906030 - Guest Mode broken since the 14th - Brian?
• We're planning an about:home on Nightly test-day for the 30th
• about:home prioritization, triage and nominating - Thanks Lucas (see mobile-firefox-dev email)
• Moz China deployed firefox 23 to Tstore. working with their team so they have proper deployment process.