Mobile/Notes/27-May-2015
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Schedule
Topics for This Week
- Nightly builds not accessible via http://nightly.mozilla.org
- Zoomed view enabled by default on Nightly (when ^ is fixed): bug 663803
- Trying to collect all of the NIGHTLY_BUILD flags to see if they're still necessary/useful (using Nightly+ flags)
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.
Android:
- Aaron Raimist fixed bug 1163211 - Remove windowSoftInputMode comment in AndroidManifest.xml.in
- Neil Bleasdale fixed bug 1165137 - Remove the 'static' keyword from ChangeVerifier interface
- Dominique fixed bug 1165128 - Enable zoomedview by default.
- Nicolas Croiset provided logs to help debug bug 1138943 - A long running ticket that looks like bad error handling in the face of some token server responses. We shall see!
iOS:
- James Ide fixed bug 1167521 - Use the standard scroll view deceleration rate for faster vertical scrolling
- dusek fixed bug 1166018 - Firefox pauses system audio when launched (while not previously running)
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 to NDK r10e to fix linking bug on x86 (bugs 1141693, 1165460)
- Working around strange open() issue in child processes
- Getting back to perf work
- Spent some time improving jimdb to work with NDK-provided gdb (which is newer) and 64bit devices
- APZ contract is finished, still maybe a couple patches away from being usable on Nightly
JChen
- Not working on Presentation WebAPI
Fixed
Working on
GCP
<Read Only>
- Last week:
- SafeBrowsing & Load Manager reviews
- Mentored SafeBrowsing bugs turning into
- bug 1168345 nsTArray::Sort shouldn't need Equals in the comparator
- Fixed many Video sandboxing try failures
- Next week:
- Fix the remaining ones
Randall Barker
Last Week:
- Broke UI fixes out of bug 659285 Extend media.autoplay.enabled to provide a way to disable untrusted play() invocations. UI portion now in bug 1166961 Re-enable missing video UI when element does not have controls.
- Started looking at bug 1163664 Don't check for plugin blocklist state on Android.
Next Week:
- Land bug 659285
- Continue on bug 1163664
Eugen Sawin
- MP3 demuxer (bug 1093815, bug 1153731, bug 1166779, bug 1166779, bug 1168374, bug 1168435)
- Rebased MP3 demuxer on new MediaDataDemuxer interface (bug 1166779)
- Integrated with the new decoding pipeline (bug 1168374)
- Working on browser.js startup performance optimization
- Note: retrieving profiles with the Gecko profiler add-on fixed in bug 1167230
Fixed
Working on
Brian Nicholson
- bug 1153285 - Custom context menu (with Open In New Tab)
- bug 1164828 - Fix icon alignment in search settings
- bug 1137415 - Better search icons
- Experimented with overriding BackForwardList to restore session history
WesJ
- bug 1147071 - Use encrypted database storage for passwords. Spent some time reading up on ios's db syncing. Now chasing a build error.
- bug 1134532 - Pages can lock the urlbar from scrolling on screen. Backed out! There are some bugs with the webview touch event listener that I need to find a work around for (or a different way of doing this).
- bug 1125835 - Design a good error page. A little confusion with reviews here, but still ready to go I think.
- bug 1163120 - Restore tabs lazy.
- bug 1166860 - Crash in BrowserViewController.webView(, didFinishNavigation:)
liuche
Highlights:
- Finishing up doorhanger styling
Present:
karim
Past:
Present:
Margaret
Highlights:
- Working on "speed dial" home panel layout - https://bug1157539.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8609120
- Ported desktop reader view lazy-parse logic to mobile - bug 1150174
- Google I/O tomorrow and Friday
Past:
- 1166364 - JavaScript Error: "TelemetryStopwatch: key "READER_MODE_SERIALIZE_DOM_MS" was already initialized
- 1166392 - Reader View type options are not localized anymore
Present:
mcomella
- Search engine bar & followups
- Partner stuff
Past:
- 1137483 - Add a "quick search" bar of search engines
- 1158282 - Custom search engine favicons are displayed inconsistently in BrowserSearch screen
Present:
rnewman
- History sync on iOS and assorted miscellany.
- Partner stuff.
Fixed
Working on
nalexander
- Contributors: working with Ahmed and vivek last week on tabs database and split pane history panel tickets, respectively.
- Special thanks to Nicolas Croiset for helping me debug bug 1138943
- Partners: working on bi-directional Java Addons: bug 1168407
- Proof of concept working as of last night; need to re-factor API to support "unloading" DEX files
- Partners: working on integration with third-party identity services.
- Android: continued investigating FxA sign-in over the web: bug androidwebfxa.
- Met with dcoates and rfkelly
- dcoates has built a "sign-in with Open ID" proof of concept for a partner demo
- action is back to me to build an API for creating Firefox Accounts from chrome JS
- mcomella has also been pushing Intent handling, which ties into this story
- Partners: working on --with-android-distribution-directory; still waiting for bug 991983 to land to rebase.
- iOS: reviews.
- mach package-frontend: local improvements only -- now using Tree Herder and the local pushlog database to scrape data.
Martyn Haigh
- Finishing TQ
- Hacking on Settings & Tabs Panel
Past:
Present:
Stefan
Just Closed:
- 1160467 - [ga-IE] [sv-SE] [bn-IN] Firefox for iOS (build 9): Locale code mapping error due to Mozilla locale codes not adhering to BCP 47
- 116266 - Upgrade the CI Server to Xcode 6.3.2
- 1164555 - Do an optimized release build for the Firefox target
- 1166860 - Crash in BrowserViewController.webView(, didFinishNavigation:)
- 1167288 - Startup crash in Browser.historyList
- 1165745 - Reading View Caching Issues
- 1164160 - Local server pages don't restore properly on resume
- 1166491 - Session encoding unsafely unwraps web view's URL
- 1167310 - Do not store tab state at startup
- 1168687 - Screenshots do not restore on resume
Current focus:
- 1094262 - (ios) Implement the Send To Extension UI
- 1141598 - Reader mode should open full screen
- 1168136 - Add an option to prefer single-column or grid layout for tabs on iPhone
Steph
Issues Resolved
- 1135814 - Content should not be under the bottom toolbar
- 1133564 - Google Maps interaction problems
- 1154927 - Google.com interaction problems when scrolling
- 1166740 - Regression: Unable to scroll content once navigation-bar hidden
- 1162736 - Bottom toolbar briefly disappears after navigating away from about:home
- 1164296 - Tab Tray collection view extends into status bar
- 1164897 - Remove hardcoded status bar height
- 1168194 - Web content appears under status bar after scrolling down a page
- 1168163 - Toolbar icons dont fade out completely on ipad after scrolling away toolbars
On the docket for this week:
James Hugman
Ally
- landed Bug 1065004 - Provide an option to always open tabs in Private Browsing landed
- about:passwords, favicons test patch on bug, waiting on feedback
- Bug 1141769 - Implement new style(unified) FHR/Telemetry password manager probes
- bogged down in the talos mud, linux in particular
- bevy of incoming data collection reviews
- will be at google i/o Thursday/Friday
Emily
Highlights:
- First Week
- First PR
Past:
Present:
BLassey
Fixed
Working on
MFinkle
- Trying to discuss more of the outcome of the Product Line Review
- Getting ready for a mid-year review around projects and headcount
Fixed
- 1151786 - Intermittent testOfflinePage | testOfflinePage.js - Services.io.offline is true. - See following stack:
Working on
Antlam
Read-only
- Past
- Partner stuff
- Tab queue w/ mhaigh (copy wrangling)
- Passwords & Doorhangers clean up
- bug 1087644: Voice integration with Karim
- bug 1165127: Zoomed-view animation
- bug 1063058: Clean up Panels UI
- Upcoming
- At IO
- Partner stuff
- bug 1153389: Private browsing UI clean-up
- bug 602818: QR input
- On-boarding for iOS and Android
- Add-ons
- General follow up w/ Chenxia, Mcomella, Margaret
Robin
Darrin
- Partner/Service Integration work week in Toronto last week – will post summary when it's available
- Filing many iOS UX polish bugs :)
- Working on some mockups for UI tweaks based on user research/interviews
- Starting to sketch some ideas for future areas of focus – contextual hints, etc.
A-Team
- "Android 4.3 API11+ debug" mochitests now running
- bug 1160008 Intermittent testOfflinePage,... | GeckoEventExpecter - blockForEvent timeout: Robocop:JS
- #4 in this week's War on Orange report: http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/orangefactor/?display=TopBugs&startday=2015-05-19&endday=2015-05-25&tree=trunk
QA
Feature Focus
Android Summary
Happenings
- 'Mobile browsing history prioritized over synced DT history' de-prioritized, and moved out to 42
- 'quick search bar above keyboard' will not hit 40. Moved to 41.
- There are a handful of over items that 'may' be targeted/re-targeted shortly. Follow-ups in progress. (Voice Integration, QR Code Reader, Magnifying glass on clustered links, click-to-view-images). Watch for updates!
- Update - QR Code Reading and Voice Integration now targeted for 41
Links
- Fennec Roadmap in Aha!
- Click Here to suggest new features for the Fennec Roadmap
iOS Summary
Happenings
- No recent changes to iOS roadmap. See Aha! for the current 'story'.
- V1.0 continues to progress
- Sync continues to chug along - History!
- Ongoing improvements around scrolling and other visuals
- Call for (additional) external beta testers received notable attention
- New release date has not been established yet. Dependent on external feedback trends, as the program ramps up. Downstream teams will be notified with sufficient lead team once we have a better idea of timing.
Links
- iOS Trello Tracking List
- Click Here to suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap
- iOS Roadmap in Aha!
- Main v1 Tree: In Bugzilla