Mobile/Notes/02-Apr-2014

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Schedule

  • Next merge: 2014-04-28

Topics for This Week

Firefox Hub
Planning to publish feed add-on for 30 on AMO this week. Starting to write API documentation on MDN.
GeckoSharedPrefs
Support for scoped SharedPreferences landed. Major ts paint regression, investigating. Might have to backout.

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. New contributors are highlighted in bold.

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!

James W. (snorp)

  • bug 987010 - [Skia] ConvertBGRAToBGRX is sitting on a hotpath and we don't want it there
  • bug 985155 - Intermittent Android 2.3 | application crashed [@ 0x0]
  • bug 990174 - SkiaGL runs out of memory when drawing lots of shadowed images
  • Continued work on push notifications

JChen

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Past week

  • Mostly worked on native JS object support
    • Should be landing soon; mailing list post(s) coming.
Fixed
Working on


GCP

Randall Barker

  • Last Week: Posted patch for bug 759448 - Prevent listeners from being registered until needed. Worked on resolving undefined xpcom/xul symbols is WebRTC code for Roku.
  • This Week: Continue resolving symbols and creating drop in replacements for XPCOM components in WebRTC code.

Brian Nicholson

WesJ

jdover

LucasR

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Last week

  • bug 940575 - Implement per-profile SharedPreferences, eliminating uses of PreferenceManager
  • bug 985211 - Disabling hub panels in regular mode affects guest mode
  • bug 974601 - Avoid saving new configuration on refresh if still using default HomeConfig
  • bug 988355 - Only force reload on configuration changes in DynamicPanel
  • bug 933739 - Issues in URL domain autocompletion
  • (Investigation, Round 2) bug 974434 - Add support for items with variable height in PanelGridView
  • (In progress) bug 976064 - Create a loader per panel view instead of per dataset id
  • (In progress) Bootstrapping the framework for Suggested Sites
  • Prepared presentation for London Mobile Summit 2.0

Next week

  • More focus on the Suggested Sites framework
  • Some more Hub stuff

Sola

liuche

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Currently

  • Prototype another settings rewrite for Fragment-only (replace PreferenceActivity, handle prefs, tablet UI preferences)
  • misc telemetry bugs/reviews
  • Beta notification for new telemetry policy

Done


Margaret

Highlights

Fixed

Working on


mcomella

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Past

Present

Future

esawin

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Fixed
Working on


RNewman

nalexander

Highlights

  • None. Did you know we have a new CEO?

Fixed

Working on


BLassey

MFinkle

Ian Barlow

  • Tablets
    • In Vancouver this week, doing some design planning
      • Tabbed browsing - refining design concepts from initial sprints
      • Search improvements - what could we do better on tablets? On all devices?
      • Gestures - what kinds of gestures ould we add that make browsing more comfortable?
      • Multi screen use
    • Also - in case you missed it last week, Yuan and Anthony pulled together some initial design sprint findings on tabbed browsing here: http://f.cl.ly/items/1f0C3b2f3F2d111N3V3k/Tablet%20refresh%20sprint%20findings.pdf
  • Hub support - wrapping up initial RSS-themed release
  • Tiles - initial design exploration underway
  • In Denver next week for UX Mobile Immersion conference http://uxim14.uie.com/

Arun

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  • Last week
    • Android widget idea sketches
  • In Progress
    • PDF.js bugs break up
    • Bug 762298 - Request: Bookmark organization and or sorting
    • Bug 971922 - Lack of History Management in History 'Tab' confuse users

Security/MGoodwin

WebRT

A-Team

Feature Focus

Round Table

Nice work on landing UI Telemetry!

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