Mobile/Notes/09-Jul-2014

Details

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-07-21

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)

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Brian Nicholson

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LucasR

Last week

• 1029046 - Disable recent tabs panel in migration if all panels are disabled
• 1028710 - Flickering of views during transition on opening a New Private Tab when tab drawer open and on tab drawer open/close animation
• 1030141 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException: Default panel in HomeConfig state is undefined at org.mozilla.gecko.home.HomeConfig$Editor.initFromState(HomeConfig.java)
• 1031363 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.TabMenuStripLayout.onPageSelected(TabMenuStripLayout.java)
• 1010986 - Dynamic panel list view drawn only after scrolling
• 1035131 - Fix issues around user entered pinned sites and suggested sites
• 1025062 - Verify that a site is not yet pinned before adding a dupe
• 1025812 - Last added pin to Top Sites Grid has the name grayed out
• 1025069 - Both Versions of SUMO (http & https - suggested) can be pinned

Next week

mcomella

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Past

• 1024778 - Do not use onFinishInflate in RemoteTabs*Panel

RNewman

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• SF visit. (See notes from last week -- same again.)
• Misc Kindle bugs, both fixing and triaging.
  • One interesting one: all activity/fragment transitions flicker through black; investigation yields no leads. bug 1031872
• Finishing up and landing distrodistros. It lives!
• Landed ckitching's DB improvements. Ready for Eric and Wes to race to landing.
• Reviews and jaw-flapping.

BLassey

• chromecast tab casting
  • can cast camera to the chromecast
  • next step is to add annotations to the constraints pasted to gUM to select a camera stream

Ian Barlow

• In SF next week for:
  • Search awesomeness
  • General in-person hacking
• Launcher / Lock screen synthesis
• Manager stuff

Yuan Wang

• Generate insights from lock screen and launcher study
• Turn onboarding strategy into design ideas. Mini workshop in SF next week.

A-Team

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• New info on running Android 2.3 emulator tests locally: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android#Running_the_Android_2.3_ARM_emulator

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

Firefox 31 (Beta) - 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
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete), Epic/Meta bug 1014030
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts, Epic/Meta bug 1014035
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons, Epic/Meta bug 1014037
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data, Epic/Meta bug 1014038
• [ON TRACK] UX Telemetry, Epic/Meta bug 1014044
• [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)
• [ON TRACK] EOL official Android 2.2 Support bug 1017242

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

• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v3 (bugfixes & polish + more add-ons), Epic/Meta bug 1014032
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v1, Epic/Meta bug 988366 Note - Linked wiki page doesn't exist. Is there another?
• [ON TRACK] Contextual tips for users
• [ON TRACK] UI lang switching
• [ON TRACK] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync (bug 958889)
• [ON TRACK] Add a Clear History control to the history panel bug 998009
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend bug 852935
• [ON TRACK] Support weighed snippets bug 1002567

Firefox 33 (Nightly) - Release: Oct 14, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Videocasting (Roku, Firefly, Chromecast), Epic/Meta bug 921924
• [ON TRACK] Search activity v1
• [ON TRACK] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements - Backend
• [ON TRACK] OEM distro service
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v2(Distribution support & non-Mozilla suggested sites)
• [ON TRACK] Tabs updates and improvements
• [ON TRACK] Moz Stumbler