Mobile/Notes/04-Jun-2014

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  • Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

  • Next Merge: 2014-06-09
  • Aurora feature review next Tuesday

Topics for This Week

Search Activity
Progress on search activity prototype, looking to start landing things in Nightly. Taking over the mobile front-end meeting this Friday (9:30am PDT) to discuss technical details.

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.

  • Alex Deaconu fixed bug 1011714 - Clean up removal of Reading List items
  • Capella fixed multiple bugs
    • bug 899644 - Tab switcher UI reset issues
    • bug 1014965 - NativeJSObject.optString does the wrong thing on "key":null
    • bug 1012957 - Save about:config changes immediately as made
  • Shashank VRSN Sabniveesu fixed bug 1018089 - SQLiteBridge.getVersion leaks a cursor

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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  • Gonzales stuff (gzip, gif->webm, architecture)
  • Working on making Talos work with GeckoViewExample
  • Rework headless patch to pass Finkle test
  • New intern(s)

Alan K. (ack)

  • Last week
    • Cleanup/refactoring CloudSync for landing based on review feedback (thanks rnewman!)
  • This week
    • Continuing with CloudSync refactoring on data providers

JChen

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Fixed
Working on
  • Also working on using the new unwinder for hangs

GCP

On vacation, left the following hanging:

  • bug 1015932 - Create a way to share the OpenSLES engine between cubeb and WebRTC
  • bug 1018928 - Regression: Selecting "No video" option from the permission prompt still shows the content of the device camera
  • bug 1018994 - Favicons in Awesomebar allow HTTPS spoofing

Randall Barker

  • Last Week: Wrote code for stand alone STS. Started debugging.
  • This Week: Finish debugging standalone WebRTC. Begin work to compile for device.

Eugen Sawin

Last week

Next week

  • Gonzales
    • Finalize and land caching on develop branch
    • Performance logging

Sylvain Cleymans

Last week:

  • Completed image compression module in Gonzales
  • Added a module for ad blocking

Next week:

  • Continuing with implementing new modules

Brian Nicholson

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Done:

Next:

  • Create a headless AutofillUIGlue component so bug 939351 can land
  • Contextual hint stuff

WesJ

  • Bug 1006158 - Build against Android v7 support library and Google Play Services
  • Bug 1018468 - Provide fullscreen button for video
  • Bug 1018369 - "Add to homescreen" should remember private mode setting for tab
  • Bug 1001309 - Provide a way to clear history when Fennec's put into the background

LucasR

Last week

Next week


liuche

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Margaret

Highlights

  • Polishing up new things that landed in Fx32 (clear history button, undo close tab toast)
  • Investigating (without success :() drawing regression in dynamic panels if Fx31 - bug 1010986
  • WIP for bug 817716 - Add ability to close all tabs
  • Making sure hub stuff is ready for Fx30 release
  • Talking with eedens about search activity work
  • Talking about interview candidates

Fixed

Working on


eedens

Continued work on Android search intent. Latest build: http://goo.gl/DVMsPr .

New Items:

  • Live searching as you type
  • Search results are actionable.
  • Added Duck Duck Go results
  • Added pictures for some results (Yelp)

Upcoming

  • Prepare MVP:
    • Capture and display recent searches
    • Add telemetry
    • Show disambiguation results for DDG results.

mcomella

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Past

  • bug 997477 - Add a way to close edit mode in one tap on tablet
  • bug 1014999 - Remote tabs panel setup/verification for tablets
  • bug 1015450 - Tapping the toolbar during the awesomescreen close animation puts toolbar in inconsistent state
  • bug 1017276 - Closing editing mode during open animation puts toolbar into inconsistent state
  • bug 1019158 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.Telemetry.sendUIEvent(Telemetry.java)
  • bug 1017142 - Setup sync message given to users of sync 1.1 in the synced tabs tray
  • bug 1009315 - Replace TelemetryContract interfaces with enums

Present

  • bug 1019595 - Lack of contrast on editing mode's 'X' button when using a lightweight theme
  • bug 1002303 - Provide a description on private tabs page if there are no private tabs
  • bug 998000 - Create BrowserApp.cancelEditingMode for consistency with BrowserApp.enter/commitEditingMode
  • bug 932208 - BrowserToolbar and HomeFragment context menu 'Share' option should be disabled for these protocols: about:// chrome:// file://

Future

  • Too busy with other things:
    • Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
    • bug 939350 - Create Python linter wrapper
  • bug 983437 - Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
  • bug 989441 - Centralized documentation for writing tests

RNewman

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Working on

  • Distribution distribution.
  • Locale switching stuff -- Belarusian, Maithili, Honeycomb bugs.
  • Home provider concurrency.
  • Sync, as always.

Misc

  • Booked June/July travel.
  • Discussing phone screen approach with lucasr and margaret.
  • Discussed approaches for custom Sync server support on Android.
  • Pinged mkelly re hosted distributions, started down the CDN avenue.
  • Opining on places GUID maintenance: bug 1012597.
  • Helping out with testing Sync deprecation indicators: bug 1017443.
  • Figuring out a path forward for awkward (read: three-char) locales on Android.
  • Answering some Sync-related support questions.
  • Filed bugs for end-of-lifing Android 2.2. Lots of code can die.
  • Offering some partner guidance re implementing Sync/FxA in C++.
  • Pushing on add-on initialization stuff in Gecko re distributions.

Landed

Reviewed

nalexander

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BLassey

  • bug 1013588 - Gecko-base Android launcher
  • bug 1016747 - add android protocol handler to proxy input streams to Gecko
  • bug 1019836 - Support narrow char strings in android bridge

MFinkle

Ian Barlow

  • Doing some scoping for our Search project
  • Initial suggested sites are on their way! http://cl.ly/image/2J1c3u0i0S0l
  • Interviewing some more designers
  • Meetings forever

Yuan Wang

Last week

This week

  • Keep researching app launchers, looking into reviews from play store
  • Tab overflow on tablet
  • Interview a mobile design candidate
  • Learning new prototyping tools


Anthony Lam

  • Search UX work
  • "Toolbar" refinements with Lucasr
  • Contextual hints talk with Chenxia
  • about:feedback page visual polish
  • icons, video player icons, more icons
    • bug 1007436 - Add help FAQ link to negative feedback form
    • etc...
  • (in progress) bug 1019318 - Polish button toast appearance
  • (in progress) bug 1014335 - Make "Pull to Refresh" in Synced Tabs and Home Panels feel excellent.

Martin McDonough

  • Getting started!
  • Getting things compiled in the first place
  • Working on getting an app that generates JNI bindings from any jar

Garvan/Stumbling

Security/MGoodwin

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  • At HackInTheBox / HAXPO last week - lots of love for Firefox on Android.

WebRT

Notable Bugs

  • bug 1007770 - WebApp update prompt looks scary - update icon - uplifted to Aurora & Beta
  • bug 1011093 - WebApp update prompt looks scary - wordsmith notification text - fixed
  • bug 957067 - Pass back error when incorrect data passed through in install APK - inbound
  • bug 995803 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException - needs branch patch for Aurora uplift
  • bug 1009954 - implement unit tests for WebappManager - in progress
  • bug 1011832 - Loading my app on Android displays a blank white screen - waiting for reporter
  • bug 1013428 - mozilla-apk-cli App Updates side-loaded don't appear - in progress
  • bug 1013433 - uninstalling, resideloading, and relaunching app causes it to stall at white screen - in progress
  • bug 1003962 - Line Runner hangs on launch with white screen - under investigation

A-Team

QA

  • Aaron and Kevin now report to Marc Schifer
  • This is now the Firefox QA team
  • there will be some traditionally desktop people owning items on the feature roadmap for 33+

Feature Focus

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

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

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

Round Table

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