Mobile/Notes/06-Jan-2016

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Schedule

• Easy-to-read wiki
• Hard-to-read release calendar

Friends of the Mobile Team

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• Alex Johnson (:alex_johnson) fixed bug 1233412 - crash in android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a ColorStateList (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x2/d=0x7f0100e7 a=-1} at android.content.res.Resources.loadColorStateList(Resources.java)
• Dominique Vincent [:domivinc] fixed bug 1190541 - PositionedEventTargeting doesn’t take into account the zoom in/out actions
• Dominique Vincent [:domivinc] fixed bug 1234934 - ZoomedView: (NullPointerException) Attempt to invoke method a null object reference
• Kartikey Agrawal fixed bug 1234131 - Remove unused method getNativeWindow() in HelperAppDialog.js
• SUN Haitao fixed bug 1234544 - The menu_panel_bg drawable is gone
• sagittariusm25 fixed bug 1235406 - Refactor old style swift code

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

• Platform Notes

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt (nalexander/rnewman)

• Honeycooommbbbb. bug 1155801
• Working on "core" telemetry ping for executive dashboard and A/B testing metrics
• Working on support for Android 6.0 runtime permissions
• Almost ready to land apple touch icons for homescreen shortcuts
• Almost ready to enable downloadable fonts (Nightly only)
• Landed experiment to re-enter search UI when tapping URL bar (Nightly only)
• Listening for feedback about loading pages from the cache when offline (Nightly only)
• Investing time in some security and crash bugs

iOS

st3fan, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux

People

• Welcome back Bryan Munar. Intern in 2015, now full-time on the mobile team and working on Firefox for iOS.
• Job position posted for full-time team member online - https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oXnc2fwi
• Still looking for interns too for 2016 - https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oRn61fw5 (Bay Area) and https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/okm61fwx (Toronto)

Releases

• 1.3 is on the store (bugfixes, third-party password manager, request desktop site)
• 1.4 is being tested on TestFlight for china region
• 2.0 is in the works (3D Touch, Spotlight, Password Manager, Better Bookmark Sync, Find in Page, Open in Firefox)
  • Will hopefully hit Testflight end of week / early next week
• 2.0 Can be tested now if you have an LDAP account via the daily L10n Builds at https://people.mozilla.org/iosbuilds/l10n.html

Requests

• Please get on the TestFlight build if you have an iOS device
  • Via signup form https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/1VG9pOntPVhfZWH18ETAZDOahyA6SCbNEpCxBVI-XNJM/viewform
• Help us catch our startup crash

UX

darrin, tecgirl, antlam, gemma

• Android
  • General bugmail catchup
  • Onboarding V2
  • Home panels on Android doc
  • APZ scrolling tweaks
  • Toolbar Security bugs

• iOS
  • Today widget
  • Back history (long-press on back arrow)
  • Menu (continued)

• UR
  • Workflows Research:
    • Overview Presentation.
    • Mobile Workflows Research Questions (please add yours!).

• Other
  • prototyping with the new WebPanelView (thanks sleroux!)
  • Prep for Activity Stream kickoff

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Android Roadmap in Aha!
• Android Roadmap in Aha! (public)
• Suggest new features for the Android Roadmap Here

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• iOS Roadmap in Aha! (public)
• Suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap Here