Gaia/Dialer

Restructuring

The dialer team is currently in the process of restructuring. Progress can be tracked at Gaia/Dialer/Restructure. The wiki pages will also be undergoing extensive reworking.

Design Specs

For the latest UX specifications, please visit: https://mozilla.box.com/applications

Use Cases

• Tom wants to make a phone call and launches the Dialer app
• The Dialer app offers him four core pieces of functionality:
  • Dialer with numeric support
  • History of recent incoming/outgoing calls
  • Contacts list
  • Favorites/Speed dial
• Tom has the ability to dial a call manually from the dialer screen
• Tom has the ability to dial a call from his Recents list
• Tom has the ability to dial a call from Contacts directly
• Tom has the ability to dial a call from his Favorites/Speed dial list
• When Tom misses a phone call, it should show up in his Notifications as well as under his Recents list of incoming calls
• When Tom misses a phone call and the person leaves a voicemail, it should show up in his Notifications that he has a voicemail available and has the ability to access his voicemail from the Dialer app
• Tom has the ability to see who he's calling (caller ID)

Requirements

Gaia v1

• Dialer app offers several key areas:
  • Standard numeric dialer
    • "+" support for intl numbers
    • Holding down the delete key should repeat the delete action
  • Recents List should support:
    • Incoming calls
    • Outgoing calls
    • Missed incoming calls
    • User needs to be able to dial the number directly from this list
    • Phone numbers that have been stored in Contacts should appear as contact names - all other phone numbers should appear formatted in their native format (i.e. (XXX) XXX-XXXX)
  • Favorites (aka Speed dial)
    • User has the ability to add any existing contact as a favorite
    • User has the ability to re-arrange the order of this list
    • User has the ability to delete any contact from this list
    • User has the ability to create a new contact and add it as a favorite to this list
  • Contacts (requirements will be detailed here)
  • Voicemail
    • Working with the carrier on accessing a user's voicemail, the user has the ability to access/manage their voicemail via a phone number in their Contacts list titled "Voicemail".
  • When receiving calls, users should be able to see who is calling them (caller ID)
    • Phone number for non-Contact specific numbers
    • Contact Name for numbers that are stored in Contacts
• Phone calling functionality:
  • During a call, the user has the ability to:
    • Mute
    • Enable/disable speakerphone
    • Show a keypad for input purposes
    • End call
  • While on call A and a user receives call B, they have the option to:
    • End their call A and answer call B
    • Ignore call B and continue with call A
    • Put call A on Hold and answer call B with the option to return to call A after call B is complete

Gaia v2

• Visual Voicemail
• During a phone call, the user has the ability to place a call on Hold and make a call with another contact
  • The user can have two separate calls at the same time - contact A on hold while user talks to contact B and vice versa
  • The user has the ability to conference in both contact A with contact B and carry a 3-way conversaion

Development

• Source code on Github

Security Review

The security review of this app can be found here.