Mobile/Notes/11-Dec-2013
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Schedule
Topics for This Week
- Disable proguard locally
- You can now use the MOZ_DISABLE_PROGUARD envvar to disable ProGuard on your local builds
- Third party service integration a.k.a. Lists/Hub
- Started holding weekly status meetings Wed 9am PST (30 mins before this meeting). See notes here: https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-hub
- You can now add UI telemetry probes. See bug 932092 for details. [dev-doc-needed]
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.
- retornam fixed bug 790898 - Match desktop in restrictions for Add Search Engine option
- Isura Edirisinghe fixed bug 944162 - Add ispixel assertions to AssertionHelper
- Tetsuharu OHZEKI fixed bug 944925 - Add an option to switch dynamic toolbar mode
- Stefan Sobering fixed bug 947610 - Fix spelling error in "remember password" string
- capella fixed bug 946030 - HTMLTextAreaElement should be considered an input element for text selection
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)
- Bug 948003 (flash busted in Nightly)
- Single GLContext for SkiaGL
- Skia rebase
Kats
<Read Only>
- Mostly working on B2G/Gaia APZC bugs now
- Wrote patches for bug 944479 and bug 940889 (tracking-27+) but they are failing some mochitests so I need to look at that. Working on it as I find time
Chris Lord (cwiiis)
JChen
<Read Only>
Fixed
Working on
Bugzilla query error
error, http-bad-status, Array
GCP
<Read Only>
- Last week:
- Fixes for off-main-thread preferences (bleh)
- Study Load Adaption code, simulate network stress, find bugs
- Study upstream changes for CPU monitoring
- Next week:
- Start modifying the rate/resolution adaption code to take CPU load into account
Randall Barker
<Read Only>
- Last week: Landed bug 932295 Android video capture should autofocus, closed bug 942069, grappled with hg(mq).
- This week: More bugs, evaluate MediaEncoder bug 879688 for use in Fennec.
Brian Nicholson
<Read Only>
- Bug 878597 - Selecting another tab during restore startup switches back to previously selected tab
- In progress: Bug 946022 - Implement requestAutocomplete for Firefox for Android
Sriram
<Read Only>
- Talk about optimizing performance at DroidCon India
- https://hasgeek.tv/droidconin/2013-2/788-optimize-performance-in-android-apps (<-- video link with autoplay)
- Read 500+ mails.
- Starting with Quick Share changes.
WesJ
- Cleanup the action mode stuff - dependencies in bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
- Working on a cleanup service: bug 942611 - Stop Firefox Mobile from leaking Storage space by leaking file uploads and bug 942612 - Stop Firefox Mobile from leaking Storage space by forgetting about pending clash reports
- Trying to make quickshare a bit easier to implement: bug 943568 - Replace Prompt.PromptListItem with GeckoMenuItems
LucasR
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- Blog post: http://lucasr.org/?p=3867
- bug 942231 - Allow for reordering and removing home page tabs
- bug 946517 - Provide an environment variable or mozconfig switch to disable ProGuard
- bug 946233 - Revert FF28 to single quickshare behaviour
- bug 945375 - When choosing share from the three-dot-menu, Firefox crashes.
- PTO from Dec 13 to Jan 3
liuche
<Read Only>
- PTO
- Telemetry:
- bug 942280 - UI Telemetry section in about:telemetry
- bug 942279 - Probes for UI Telemetry
- thanks for mfinkle and rnewman for picking up while I was gone!
- bug 939778 - Spinning favicon
Margaret
<Read Only>
- Done
- Consolidated some copy/pasted logic in content providers - bug 941357
- Sorted out some search icon issues - bug 939172, bug 946802
- In Progress/Next
- Content provider to back lists data (including a test!) - bug 941318
- API to allow add-ons to register lists on about:home - bug 862805
- Help with any other critical-path lists work
mcomella
- Side note: https://github.com/mcomella/lazylink
<Read Only>
- Past
- bug 910859 - Bootstrap new UI testing framework
- bug 938969 - Intermittent in testAboutHomeVisibility: got http://mochi.test:8888/tests/robocop/robocop_blank_01.html, expected Browser Blank Page 01
- Writing docs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/UITest
- bug 935807: D-pad arrow keys move focus outside textarea instead of navigating within
- bug 938827 - Remove reflection from FennecNativeActions/Driver
- bug 928566 - Use more descriptive parameter names in robocop assertion methods
- bug 947527 - Correct waitForPageIndex output for device
- bug 910859 - Bootstrap new UI testing framework
- Present
- FHR architecture docs
- bug 939329: [meta] Enable JavaScript linting in mobile/android/
- bug 938824 - Remove reflection from testSearchSuggestions
- bug 946656 - TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | testSessionHistory
- bug 947550 - Intermittent testAboutHomePageNavigation
- Better Wiki template
- Future
- FHR: create bugs/roadmap for potential next steps
- bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)
- MyList, RSS provider (bug 942283)?
RNewman
<Read Only>
- Partner work.
- Misc FHR and Sync bugs.
- Discussions around Java-side password manager: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Java-side_replacement_for_nsILoginManager
- UI telemetry landed. Now you can write probes.
- Tweaked URI autocomplete.
- Reviews and such.
nalexander
BLassey
- Was on vacation last week
- landed bug 944168 (null pointer when adding tab to GeckoView) and bug 944104 (create GeckoViews programmatically) which got review while I was gone
- just noticed I didn't address mfinkle's nits in bug bug 944104, will do that
- need to land the patches on bug 944043
MFinkle
- Landed patch to do speculative connections from the AwesomeScreen (bug 943475)
- Updating the core second screen code based on feedback, ready for review (bug 938571)
- Design and implementation for the Roku app is in bug 946471
- Meeting with UX to discuss UI Telemetry probes since the code has landed
Ian Barlow
- Trying to make sure folks have what they need for
- Third Party Service Integration on Home
- New Quickshare designs
- Shumway prefs -- coming soon
- Geolocation pref -- coming soon
- Coordinating with UX folks on
- Tablet refresh (Yuan and Anthony)
- Autofill improvements (Arun)
- Roku (Zhenshuo and Anthony)
Arun
Previous week
- Wrapped up form auto-fill research findings
- This week (and the next)
- Designing interactions for form auto-fill
Security/MGoodwin
WebRT
- install/launch/uninstall
- install/launch patch updated to include uninstall flow, posted to bug 934756 for feedback, and received feedback from mfinkle and fabrice
- expect to have patch for review this week
- mfinkle suggests blassey or wesj for reviewers; any takers? anyone already on vacation?
- automatic updates
- in progress on apk-updates branch
- expect to have patch for feedback this week
- testing/debugging
- discussed with product team, came to consensus on sufficient experience
- work not yet begun but expected to be well-scoped and require few Fennec changes
- APK Factory service
- product requirements and user stories are in User:Clouserw/APKFactory
- code is in three GitHub repositories
- apk-factory-library: the APK library from which the service builds APKs
- apk-factory-service: the service that uses the library to build APKs
- apk-factory-service-load: a load tester for the service
- signing key storage is the long pole; ozten discussing with security/ops principals
Performance
A-Team
Feature Focus
<Read Only>
- Fx27 Ships on 02/04
- [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
- [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
- [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
- [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
- [ON TRACK] Developer improvements: IDE support bug 924961
- [ON TRACK] Memory usage improvements: bug 931843
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
- [AT RISK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt)
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)
- Fx28 Ships on 03/18
- [AT RISK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+ <== will ID "blockers" with QA on Friday to help contain scope
- [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
- [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
- [ON TRACK] bug 932865 - Hang detection, Background Thread Monitoring (Compositor)
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et)
- [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be)
- Fx29 Ships on 04/29
- [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on
- [ON TRACK] Telemetry probes for Fennec UI elements
- [AT RISK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
- [AT RISK] PDF.js support (v1 cupcake)
- [AT RISK] WebApp experience - APK Synthesis
- [AT RISK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
- [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
- [AT RISK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
- [AT RISK] Project video to second screen (preffed off)
- [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
- [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
- [PROPOSED] My List: Manage current lists in settings
- [PROPOSED] Added locale: Indonesian (id)
- [PROPOSED] Added locale: Hindi(hi)
- Fx30 Ships on 06/10
- [PROPOSED] Third-party service integration MVP
- [PROPOSED] My List: How My List works (MVP reqs only)
- [PROPOSED] My List: Save any web-viewable content (MVP reqs only)
- [PROPOSED] My List: Add new My List from Promotional Panel (MVP reqs only)
- [PROPOSED] My List: Subscribe to feed or service as a new list (MVP reqs only)
- [PROPOSED] My List: Add new and improved list management in Settings (MVP reqs only)
- [PROPOSED] Service integration: Downloads (MVP reqs only)
- [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language