Mobile/Notes/18-Jun-2014

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Schedule

  • Next merge: 2014-07-21

Topics for This Week

Firefox Search
See post on mobile-firefox-dev for latest implementation plan. Currently working on getting the foundation in place to land in m-c.
Feature Videos
Launching a bunch of short videos that show off Firefox for Android features.
Basic UI Telemetry
Finkle made a simple dashboard for some UI Telemetry
Second screen developer event

Tuesday in the SF office at 6pm. I'll drop more info in #mobile when I have it

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.

  • vivek fixed bug 999211 - Implement cancel editing mode button test on tablet
  • Shashank wrote a patch for bug 1024120 - Avoid allocating a new Rect on each touch event on the main layout
  • ckitching is working to clean up our combined view logic, including migration code - bug 1024289, bug 947018

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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Alan K. (ack)

  • Last week
    • Refactoring/rewriting cloudsync
    • Finished with bookmarks except for livemarks and queries
      • I'd like to land livemarks/queries as a follow-up patch
  • This week
    • Finish off cloudsync
      • Tabs and follow-up for bookmarks
    • Start on mesh networking project?

JChen

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Past week

Fixed
Working on


GCP

  • Past
    • bug 1015932 Create a way to share the OpenSLES engine between cubeb and WebRTC
    • bug 1008706 Google.com PREF cookie keeps coming back even with network disabled and cookies disabled
    • bug 1026538 Cookie Manager can't delete cookies with appid != 0
    • bug 1024555 blocked gethash requests cause the browser to hang
    • bug 1021419 make update and gethash urls for safebrowsing updates configurable per-table
  • Future
    • Finish OpenSLES sharing
    • bug 1018928 Regression: Selecting "No video" option from the permission prompt still shows the content of the device camera.
    • Android 2.3 tests failing
    • bug 1027100 WebRTC LoadManager resolution reduction under load causing horizontal distortions
    • bug 910893 Allow users to "try again" more than once on new error pages.
  • Interesting
    • bug 1022376 LoadManager assumes that when a thread exits the runnable, the thread exits (thread leak)

Randall Barker

  • Last Week: Implemented standalone WebRTC player and simple desktop add-on that streams the camera to the player. Started cleaning up code to make rebase easier.
  • This Week: Finish rebase. Update add-on to stream tab from fennec.
  • Problems: Mystery crash in MacOS X standalone player. Need to understand why libmozalloc can not be statically linked. Only part of the player not being linked statically.

Eugen Sawin

Last week

Next week

  • Gonzales
    • Landing stuff (async cache, metrics)
    • Set up Graphite for metrics aggregation and visualization
    • Extending metrics logging

Sylvain Cleymans

Last week:

  • Testing in Gonzales (WIP)
  • Bug 1022669 Display does not turn off while playing audio

Next week:

  • Finish to integrate testing in Gonzales

Martin (mmcdonough)

  • Same as last week, working on native codecs in Android.
  • Submitted patch to allow enabling blank fragmented MP4 decoder in Android.
  • Getting AAC decoding working.
  • EDIT: bug 1025327 for patch above.

Brian Nicholson

WesJ

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  • bug 901803 - Integrate chromecast support into Firefox. Going through another (hopefully last) review.
  • bug 974983 - Reorder Home panels in Settings via dragging. Talking to Chenxia about this a bit. Working on a prototype.
  • bug 704229 - Refine touch video controls. Got some nice mockups from UX. Looking into implementation details.

LucasR

<Read Only> Last week

  • bug 964861 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.toolbar.ToolbarDisplayLayout.updateFromTab(ToolbarDisplayLayout.java)
  • bug 1025069 - Both Versions of SUMO (http & https - suggested) can be pinned
  • (In progress) bug 1012462 - Support suggested sites in distribution files
  • Initial conversations about tablet refresh
  • Lots of reviews

Next week

  • In SF next week to attend Google I/O

liuche

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  • Landed "Remove Suggested Sites from Top Sites"
  • Exploring more Contextual Hints architecture (Android layouts...! D:)
  • More telemetry
  • Next: first run, search?

Margaret

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  • Button toast follow-ups - bug 1019318, bug 1019735
  • Allow users to remove dynamic panels from settings - bug 1023544
  • Close all tabs *almost done* - bug 817716
  • Recent tabs panel *almost done* - bug 1004850
  • Search activity discussions
  • Google I/O next week Wed/Thur
  • PTO June 30-July 11

eedens

Continuing work on search activity.

mcomella

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Past

  • bug 918494 - Intermittent testLinkContextMenu | Checking if the link has been added as a bookmark - The link has been bookmarked
  • bug 1002303 - Provide a description on private tabs page if there are no private tabs
  • bug 1007442 - Tune visual for not-signed-in remote tabs tray
  • bug 1025938 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.tabspanel.RemoteTabsVerificationPanel.onFinishInflate(RemoteTabsVerificationPanel.java)

Present

  • bug 998000 - Create BrowserApp.cancelEditingMode for consistency with BrowserApp.enter/commitEditingMode
  • [meta] bug 979921 - Android 2.3 test failures
    • bug 948591 - Intermittent testClearPrivateData | Exception caught - junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: Text string: '^Settings$' is not found!
    • bug 979600 - Android 2.3 testSessionOOMRestore | Page title is correct - got page3, expected page4
    • bug 979552 - Frequent Android 2.3 testAddSearchEngine, testBookmarkFolders, testImportFromAndroid, testSettingsMenuItems, testTitleBar | Automation Error: Missing end of test marker (process crashed?)

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
  • bug 1021751 - Homepage contextual hint

RNewman

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Digging out from under the pile. Focused on reviews and distrodistros.

  • All the reviews: desktop updater hotfix, custom Sync accounts, db optimization stuff, misc.
  • Shaving all the yaks: fixing Robocop and GeckoProfile bugs to try to land bug 1016611 prior to distrodistros.
  • A pile of minor fixes and uplifts.
  • Phone screens.

nalexander

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  • About to land custom Sync server support
  • Remote Tabs in a panel work started
  • Investigated building Fennec in Android Studio/IntelliJ -- it doesn't look very positive, 'cuz Android Studio appears to not support multiple resource folders.

Next:

  • More Remote Tabs
  • Legacy Sync migration

BLassey

  • bug 1014712 - use msapplication-TileImage and msapplication-TileColor to create home page tiles, waiting for discussion/debate to come to conclusion
  • bug 995407 - backed out shipping wifi and cell tower tracking to release and beta, we're not ready
  • bug 1006186 - Casting apps should be able to specify supported types themselves, review to finkle

MFinkle

Ian Barlow

  • Running some user studies about Android launcher apps and lock screens
  • Detailing out Search UX

Anthony Lam

  • Contextual hints bugs!
  • Search for Android spec work
  • Little bit of tablet design work
  • Toolbar refinements with Lucas
  • Glyph work
  • Research
    • Launcher apps
    • First run user experience
    • Contextual hints
  • Interviews

Yuan Wang

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  • Interview Mobile candidates
  • Synced up tablet work with Lucas and Anthony
  • Getting feedback on the onboarding strategy draft. More to share on next Tuesday planning mtg.

Security/MGoodwin

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  • Started work on some checklists for security stuff. There's a start on a Fennec list here. I'd love your feedback.

WebRT

<Read Only> because Myk attending Apps Day

A-Team

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QA

Garvan

  • Stumbler integration into Fennec: stumbler service is now just *.java files (and a Manifest.in)
  • Added some automated testing (stumbler had none), revealed we are collecting up to 10x the data we need
  • This week, fix ^^^^, look at upload scheduling, continue integration, add more tests
  • Or, dougt may be pulling me off to do B2G geolocation bugs (again).
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozStumbler-Firefox-Mobile

Feature Focus

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

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

Updates to 'Proposed' items??

Firefox 33 (Nightly) - Release: Oct 14, 2014

Looking for input on plans here....adds, removes, confirmations?

  • [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
  • [PROPOSED] Tab mirroring (Roku)
  • [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner
  • [PROPOSED] Search activity v1
  • [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
  • [PROPOSED] Create "Add-ons" page in settings
  • [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
  • [PROPOSED] OEM distro service
  • [PROPOSED] Create a "Want to make me your default browser?" prompt for users somewhere
  • [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v2
  • [PROPOSED] Reorder Home Panels in Settings Via Drag and Drop
  • [PROPOSED] First-run tips
  • [PROPOSED] Gestures

Round Table

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