Mobile/Notes/07-Sep-2011

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Schedule

Next merge date is 2011-09-27

Application

Front-end

• Work for Fx9
  • Tablet UI
    • Tablet UI is progressing nicely
    • Bugs should be filed for missing parts
• Performance work
  • Front-end code affects performance!
• Locale picker is nearly bug-complete
  • We'll want to start testing the download feature soon

UX design

• tablet tablet tablet
  • listing UI nitpicks here: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/fennecomb-nitpicking - bugs to be created as necessary
  • tab changes coming soon (bug 680077: https://bug680077.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=558489
  • the bugs:
    • bug 679472 - actionbar
    • bug 680077 - tab menu
    • bug 680212 - awesomebar and more!
    • bug 680441 - more menu
    • bug 681643 - dialogs
    • bug 681650 - site identity menu
  • tablet mockups here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/sets/72157627325688069/with/6101561156/
    • prefs/tools: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/6101214910/in/photostream/
    • portrait tab revision: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/6101561156/in/photostream/
  • please try out nightlies!

Performance

• We are discussing whether [/Firefox/Projects/Mobile_Startup_Shrink|Mobile StartupShrink] should become a regular weekly meeting
• We landed a few fixes for startup time
• bug 655337 - (Read hyphenation files from APK) will help a lot for firstrun

Testing

QA

• Concerns
  • bug 684242 - Unresponsive browser on resume from sleep on tablet device

Crash Report Sept 5, 2011

• still working on skiplist: bug 683385
• Going to work with Dougt to triage after workweek: Fennec Crash List

Test Automation

• adb devicemanager seems to work for many.
  • still confusing to get everything working smoothly, but no changes needed to toolchain
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android#Testing
• will need to start resolving the resolution issue for reftests
  • when running via ADB on a local device we use --ignore-window-size and this won't be supported much longer

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

• (shipped) - 6.0.1, 6.0.2
• bug 669415 - 40 new tegras coming online

Other

SUMO

• Articles for master password? and webapps? flash? in planning for 8, add bookmark to home screen
• 25 new threads on SUMO this week, major themes for existing threads are support for new devices and flash player for votes
• Android Market reviews for Release v6 (597 total): 145 1 & 2 star ratings this week, 56=slow/unstable representing 38.7% of below-average ratings; 14 below-average ratings cited need for flash player
• Input feedback this week: 93 issues w/ release v6: 12 are flash-related, 9 are too slow
• Long-tail of flash problem, split out slow issue into start-up/rendering/phone perf, assess market rating change if we fix perf problem
• http://www.meetup.com/Firefox-Android-superheroes/ Join Us!

Work Week

• Sessions
• No meeting next week