Mobile/Notes/20-May-2015

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Schedule

• Release calendar

Topics for This Week

• LogView addon updated!
  • You can now copy logs to clipboard or post logs to pastebin directly from about:logs

Tracking Review

Beta

• Next Build:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Aurora

• Next Build:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Nightly

• Next Build:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

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.

iOS

• dusek fixed bug 1161327 - Automatic VoiceOver order of elements is sometimes "wrong"

Android

• Alexander Ploner fixed bug 1148549 - Change menu items divider color to #D7D9DB
• capella landed gecko touch carets: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/mobile-firefox-dev/2015-May/001197.html
• Matt King fixed bug 1150983 - Add "Synced Tabs" to "Clear Private Data"

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)

• Updating NDK to r10e to work around PIE issues on x86
• Looking into flash crash on Nexus 9 and the fullscreen hang on 5.0
• Profiling sites that Partner 11 has identified as slow
• Prefed on Media Source Extensions in 41
  • This means we can play youtube in all of its progressive bitrate goodness

• Hopefully can get back to working on better paint suppression this week (bug 1150172)
• The contractor working on native APZ is done this week, so may need to pick that up soon
  • Panning works
  • Zooming mostly works, but still need one big patch which he's trying to finish this week

JChen

Fixed

Working on

GCP

• • Video sandboxing debugging
  • Made some progress, found 2 race conditions
  • Tiles wants to use SafeBrowsing

Randall Barker

• Worked on bug 659285. Trying to get video to show errors and play button when autoplay has been blocked by pref media.autoplay.enabled=false. Attempting to get code through review.

Next Week:

• Continue on bug 659285
• Examine start up performance.
• Land patch for: bug 1159830.

Eugen Sawin

• MP3 demuxer (bug 1093815, bug 1153731, bug 1166779)
  • Rebasing on new MediaDataDemuxer interface
  • Integrating with the new decoding pipeline (will go into bug 1153731 or a new bug)

Fixed

Working on

Brian Nicholson

<Read Only> (sick)

• Test fixes
  • bug 1164704 - UI test cleanup fails with new about:home tab
  • bug 1165006 - Clear test profile prefs with each test run
  • bug 1162999 - Need to skip first-run in UITests
• bug 1166116 - Domain autocompletion improvements
• bug 1165103 - Use a separate AppDelegate for MOZ_CHANNEL_AURORA

WesJ

• bug 1147071 - Use encrypted database storage for passwords. Switched to a new implementation (sqlcipher).
• bug 1134532 - Pages can lock the urlbar from scrolling on screen. Landed!
• bug 1125835 - Design a good error page. Should be landing soon.
• bug 1137051 - Don't show about-urls in the URL bar

liuche

Highlights:

• Improving Doorhanger button styling + code
• Updating all things new-hire

Present:

Past:

karim

Margaret

Highlights:

• Add-ons in distributions
• Experiments with new home panel layouts
• Experiments with building features as add-ons

Past:

Present:

mcomella

• Continuing the misc. Android ecosystem bugs
• Landed initial search engine bar; working on polish which UX wants before ship

Past:

Present:

rnewman

• History sync and dependencies are through review. Thanks, Nick and Wes.
• Fun activity/task bug with Martyn if you geek out on that sort of thing: bug 1165856.
• Partner stuff, reviews, the usual.

Fixed

Working on

nalexander

• mach package-frontend: no movement
• Pushing Adjust SDK over the 38.0.5 line.
• Partners: working on --with-android-distribution-directory, bug 1163082 has reviews and will need to be

rebased on top of recent work from glandium in bug 991983.

• Partners: working on integration with third-party identity services.
• Android: continued investigating FxA sign-in over the web: bug androidwebfxa.
  • Built a test WebView project to explore that approach.
  • Explored WebChannel integration into Fennec itself -- it's easy!
  • Meeting with stomlinson to discuss integration approach.
• iOS: reviews.

Martyn Haigh

Past:

Present:

Stefan

Current focus:

• 1094262 - (ios) Implement the Send To Extension UI
• 1141598 - Reader mode should open full screen
• 1153285 - Open from the WKWebView Action Sheet should open new tabs in the background
• 1164160 - Run our internal web server on a fixed port
• 1164555 - Do an optimized release build
• 1165745 - Reader View incorrectly not available, probably after loading webpage from cache
• 1166266 - Upgrade the CI Server to Xcode 6.3.2

Steph

Tab Tray Animation/UI Fixes:

• 1163695 - Improve tab tray animations to match UX mocks
• 1164897 - Remove hardcoded status bar height
• 1164296 - Tab Tray collection view extends into status bar
• 1162736 - Bottom toolbar briefly disappears after navigating away from about:home
• 1152858 - Tab tray thumbnails don't fill tiles

Browser UI Fixes/Performance

• 1164631 - Regression: Navigation bar merges with address-bar (tablet style) on phone rotation
• 1163122 - Optimize BrowserViewController.viewDidLoad
• 1163121 - Create ReaderModeBarView lazy
• 1162736 - Bottom toolbar briefly disappears after navigating away from about:home

James Hugman

Ally

• Bug 1065004 - Provide an option to always open tabs in Private Browsing
  • in review
  • Q2 goal of mine
• Bug 1154367 - Investigate whether call to get all logins is the slow part of loading about:passwords
  • reprod problems, but I'm pretty sure it's real
  • blocker to shipping about:passwords
• This week
  • polish off new FHR(Bug 1141769) & Private Browsing Deliverable(Bug 1065004)
  • shift focus to about:passwords for remainder of quarter

BLassey

Fixed

Working on

MFinkle

Fixed

Working on

Antlam

• Past
  • Partner things
  • bug 1128664: about:passwords design work
  • bug 1124232: Doorhangers!
  • bug 1069035: Reorganize Settings menu
  • bug 1153389: Private browsing UI clean up
  • bug 1158277: Mobile tabs tray "V2"

• Upcoming
  • Partner things
  • Prototype out next "First Run" options
  • Think about in-product Add-on promotions UX
  • Bugs follow up

Robin

iOS

• Updated device icons
• Updated CSS for Reader View
• V2 brainstorming

Contributed to:

• bug 1163219 Default search engine not visible if suggestions are enabled
• bug 1094262 (ios) Implement the Send To Extension UI
• bug 1147453 need an indication saying an article has been added to my list when I long-press the Reader View icon in the URL bar
• bug 1160756 Reader View maximum text size insufficient
• bug 1162539 Unable to scroll to top in landscape orientation
• bug 1097620 (ios) formalize 'send to device' terminology

Darrin

A-Team

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

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

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• iOS Trello Board
• Suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap Here

Round Table