Mobile/Notes/01-Jun-2016

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  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

Topics for This Week

Friends of the Mobile Team

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  • Bhavin Dave (:bdave) fixed bug 893836 - Change Android menu contents to sentence case
  • Cesar Valiente fixed bug 1272506 - Change GeckoApp.ONE_DAY_MS to be initialized with the TimeUnit class
  • Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - use need info] fixed bug 1274866 - Add "es-CL" to Fennec all-locales for single-locale builds
  • Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - use need info] fixed bug 1276674 - Restore xh locale in maemo-locale for multi-locale builds
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1274390 - Restoring all tabs from previous session fails because of "org.json.JSONException: No value for isPrivate"
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 810981 - Restore scroll position when restoring tabs from previous session
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 905223 - move java-side session restore reading/processing to a background thread
  • Mike Hommey [:glandium] fixed bug 1276069 - Full build of Android fails on fedora 23
  • Mike Kaply [:mkaply] fixed bug 1272439 - distribution.searchplugins.defaultLocale not working properly on Fennec
  • gui.bgd fixed bug 1264599 - GeckoPreferences: Remove CheckBoxPrefSetter and TwoStatePrefSetter
  • k.krish fixed bug 1276586 - Package hyphenation dictionaries separately for reftests

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha

iOS

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, fpatel, jhugman, sleroux, st3fan, tlacroix

Builds & Releases

  • Tagged v5.0
    • First TestFlight Beta will follow soon
    • String Export today or tomorrow
    • Because of the mobile reorganization we are not following the regular train schedule. Our plan is to have the app in review before the end of the month.

Development Updates / Work in Progress

As result of the mobile reorganization the iOS team is currently not looking much beyond v5.0. Our focus is to make 5.0 as stable as possible.

  • Telemetry Core Ping now also sends session stats and search engine selection
  • Enabled bi-directional bookmark sync
  • Sync status UI (in status bar and settings)
  • Ability to recover closed tabs
  • Long press on back/forward shows list of pages from BackForwardList
  • Combine history related home panels (remote tabs now under history, layout changes, recently closed tabs)
  • Fixes for keyboard issues
  • Toolbar and Menu redesign
  • Ability to set a homepage, together with china-specific changes
  • Ability to add custom search engines
  • Keyboard shortcuts for iPad (or any device with external keyboard)

Burning down the v5.0 bug list: http://mzl.la/1TQ2VKp

(Full 5.0 bug list at http://mzl.la/1TQ2cZK)

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma, (sevaan)

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A-Team

QA

Feature Focus

Round Table