Mobile/Notes/14-May-2014

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Topics for This Week

Firefox Hub

Currently focusing on bug fixes and polish issues, and continuing to build a collection of add-ons to share. Shout out to Sören Hentzschel, Teodora Vermesan, CristinaM, Aaron Train, Jim Chen, and Eugen Sawin for participating in the hub hackathon last week by testing, filing bugs, building add-ons, and contributing to the boilerplate add-on/MDN docs.

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.

• vikek fixed bug 944144 - Implement NavigationHelper.reload
• Alexandru Chiriac is working on bug 997049 - "Switch to tab" does not work for Reading List entries
• Robin Ricard is working on bug 994724 - Clean up ZoomHelper logic

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!

GCP

• Last week
  • WebRTC 3.50 update: audio + video gum works
  • Testing rotation/suspend support
• Next week
  • Clean up code, land, push upstream
  • bug 936041 Enable new malware download protection on Android

Brian Nicholson

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Margaret

Highlights

• Hub add-on hacking
• Hub bug fixing
• Mini UX hacking meet-up in London this week

Fixed

• 1003897 - Character Encoding selection broken in Fennec 29
• 1008838 - Unable to log out from the Instagram panel account
• 1008844 - Disable/re-enable "instagram panel" displays the home panel empty with no possibility to log-in again
• 1009473 - Polish image list view
• 999756 - Empty view flashes while view is refreshing
• 965452 - Limit HomeProvider addon data storage

mcomella

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Past

• 1005924 - URL outline is not resized correctly after changing device orientation
• 1001243 - Hitting the right edge of the toolbar in editing mode may fall through to the tabs button on devices without animations
• 1009279 - Increase browser toolbar editing mode hit targets by changing margin to padding

esawin

Summary

• Zoom tests landing soon
• Basic SPDY proxy prototype

Fixed

• (reopened) bug 1002426 - Zoom level mangled after restoring session

Working on

• bug 1000251 - Add robocop tests for zooming and zoom session history
• SPDY proxy (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Gonzales)

nalexander

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Highlights

• Second screen work week in San Francisco! \o/
• Got interested in backing up/exporting bookmarks and reading list in response to intermittent support requests.

Fixed

• 1004556 - Expose list of shipped locales to Fennec Java code
• 1002575 - Show "Last synced" time in Remote Tabs panel
• 1003359 - Removing a resource file causes build failures in geckoview_library (Bug 958889 required a clobber)
• 1009732 - Reduce number of Proguard passes for developer builds

WebRT

<Read Only> due to conflict with Town Hall event

• bug 1004825 - prioritized, tagged Android logging from JavaScript - landed
  • Read mobile/android/modules/AndroidLog.jsm for docs!
• bug 995803 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException - patch in review
• bug 957067 - Pass back error when incorrect data passed through in install APK - patch in review
• bug 978143 - Cancelling APK installation does not trigger error callback - patch in review
• bug 986085 - User-hand-holding to check the Unknown Sources checkbox - patch needs updating
• bug 1009954 - implement unit tests for WebappManager - work-in-progress patch for feedback
• bug 1003962 - Line Runner hangs on launch with white screen - under investigation
• bug 991394 - previously-installed apps stop running - stuck

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

Firefox 30 (Beta)- Release: Jun 10, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Quickshare on the context menu
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v1 (RSS feed support + 2 add-ons)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR), bug 979250
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX), 979251 bug 979251
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Malay (ms), bug 979257
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv), bug 958021
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 960060
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be), bug 521981

Firefox 31 (Aurora) - Release: Jul 22, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home, not via drag and drop (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 959917
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete)
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [PROPOSED] Screencasting (Roku)
• [PROPOSED] Tab sharing (WebRTC)
• [PROPOSED] UX Telemetry
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn) except for [AT RISK] Maithili (mai)

Firefox 32 (Nightly) - Release: Sep 2, 2014

• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v3 (promo panel, bugfixes & polish + 4-5 add-ons)
• [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v1
• [PROPOSED] Create "Add-ons" page in settings (bug 892125)
• [PROPOSED] Contextual tips for users
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
• [PROPOSED] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language, UI lang switching
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync (bug 958889)
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Kitkat download integration
• [PROPOSED] Add a Clear History control to the history panel bug 998009
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend bug 852935
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner