Mobile/Notes/04-Feb-2015

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2015-02-23

Tracking Review

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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.

• Andy Pusch fixed bug 1125529 - Remove unused string in StringHelper class
• Robin Ricard fixed bug 1015395 - Make testFindInPage more robust
• Dominique fixed bug 1127909 - Nits in ZoomedView code
• Federico fixed bug 1114499 - NPE when opening the popup menu when tabs are exposed
• (iOS) codestergit fixed bug 1109666 - Customize behavior when long-pressing a link
• vivek!!!
  • landed "magic year" COPPA changes in native Firefox Accounts sign up flow bug 1058806
  • also landed split plane Remote Tabs home panel bug 1063742
  • these are highly non-trivial functional changes -- bravo!
• psd contributed a fix for |mach bootstrap| on Linux

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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• 1062758 - crash in nsObserverService::RemoveObserver(nsIObserver*, char const*)
• 1108709 - Android crash in libOMX_Core.so@0x1a40 on Mali-400 MP and some PowerVR SGX 540 adapters
• 1123084 - crash in mozilla::layers::SharedSurfaceTextureHost::Lock()
• 1126454 - java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider org.mozilla.gecko.db.PasswordsProvider: java.lang.NullPointerException
• 1116469 - Video trailers are playing upside down on imdb.com on the Sony Xperia Z2
• 1121647 - Screen turns off by timeout while playing flash video

JChen

<Read Only> (on leave)

GCP

• Last week
  • Finished Sandboxing support for Window/Application/Screen sharing
  • bug 1104616 Sandboxing support for Video camera access
  • SafeBrowsing discussions
• Next week
  • bug 659188 - Camera support for Android (Clean up)
  • bug 1129365 - getUserMedia Video/Camera broken on Samsung Galaxy S4
  • bug 1125048 Slow fling speed with thumb flings (high DPI)
  • Sandboxing support for Audio

Randall Barker

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Last Week

• Fixed texture unpack GL bug in desktop and Roku WebRTC Player
• Slayed try demons.
• Need r+ from two people on patch part 2 of bug 1101651. All other patches have been r+ for standalone WebRTC.
  • bug 1093934 Create a XPCOM library that can be used to support standalone WebRTC
  • bug 1097804 Create a library containing nsISocketTransportService and nsIDNS that can be used to support standalone WebRTC
  • bug 1101651 Enable WebRTC unit tests to be built using standalone WebRTC library

Next Week

• Investigate bug 1121679 Enable receiving audio in standalone WebRTC
• Land standalone WebRTC if we decided to go forward with the project.

Eugen Sawin

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Finished

• bug 792992 - Can't override query URL for update service

Working on

• bug 1093815 - Use AndroidPlatformDecoder for standalone MP3 on Android
• Looking into regressions
  • bug 792992 - Can't override query URL for update service
  • bug 1129074 - Content view sometimes blank on load until restart

Brian Nicholson

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• bug 1128774 - Reader Mode fails hard on initial Gmail loading
• bug 1127989 - Fixes to BackForwardListViewController
• bug 1127547 - Follow-up fixes for custom context menu
• Spent some time looking into slow Gmail redirects (bug 1129087). No dice.
• Investigating UI automation frameworks

WesJ

• bug 1123809 - Record history as visits
• bug 1128363 - Table versioning should be per-table
• bug 1128595 - Sqlite db for favicons
• bug 1129306 - Passwords
• Working on theming tabs on iOS

liuche

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Highlights:

• Passwords work day
  • Triaged Mobile password bugs into Q1-metabug
  • Discussed multi-realm logins, recipes (see passwords-dev mailing list for more detail)
  • Telemetry

Present:

Past:

Margaret

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Highlights:

• All things reader mode/reading list
• Gave a talk at FOSDEM: http://leibovic.github.io/privacy-fxandroid/

Past:

• 1089653 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.search.SearchActivity.updateSettingsButtonVisibility(SearchActivity.java)
• 1117258 - Implement CSS styling for desktop about:reader content
• 1123471 - Create basic browser-chrome test for reader mode toolbar button
• 1125364 - TypeError: content is null in AboutReaderListener
• 1125396 - TypeError: message.target.messageManager is undefined in ReaderParent

Present:

mcomella

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Past

• New tablet
  • bug 1127154 - Enabling LWT changes the pressed/focused/etc. color of the navigation buttons
• investigate bug 1127599 - Crash when pressing TabsPanel menu button
• investigate bug 1014603 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.db.TopSitesCursorWrapper.moveToPosition(TopSitesCursorWrapper.java)
• bug 1096958 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.TopSitesPanel.access$N(TopSitesPanel.java)
• bug 1090287 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.toolbar.BrowserToolbar.updateProgressVisibility(BrowserToolbar.java:626)

Present

• bug 939350 - Create a python linter wrapper
• bug 1106935 - Remove old tablet code and resources
  • bug 1072646 - Use resource alias to remove branch in Favicons.initializeWithContext
• Implement share overlay visual design (bug 1059554)

Future

• (Q1 goals) Toolbar cleanup & awesomescreen refresh

rnewman

<Read Only>

(Might be missing the meeting for an urgent errand. Apologies.)

Reading List

• Met with desktop team re Reading List storage and synchronization.
• Multiple RL meetings, legal discussion, protocol discussion.
• Estimated load for pre-release and release Android RL clients.
• Part-way through building Android RL client, filing bugs as I go. Here's my work.

Misc

• OTA distributions uplifted to Beta. Should be in partner hands this week?
• Several phone screens. Intern candidates are on their way.
• Met with Winston and Liz re Fennec Android marketing measurement. Follow-up research and discussion.
• Miscellaneous fixes and reviews, as always.

nalexander

Projects for this cycle:

• Pushed migrating legacy Sync 1.1 devices across the finish line
  • Testing starts next week!
• Make FxA provide OAuth implicit grants for Fennec consumers, tracked by bug 1117829
• Implement Firefox Accounts for iOS
  • Tracked by bug iosfxa
  • Landed embedded accounts.firefox.com bug 1126584
  • Working on persisting and exposing Firefox Account status bug 1129158, bug 1129161
• |mach bootstrap| for mobile/android should be good for OS X and Linux now
• Building with Gradle
  • Green build, green try run with debug APK in automation
  • I am building locally without compiling Gecko, but I'm a good ways off landing something like this

Past

• 1125330 - Expose |mach| output when internal Gradle mach invocations fail
• 1123013 - IntelliJ needs Project SDK set due to dynamic code in android.gradle
• 1122829 - Tighten vertical spacing of Android Firefox Accounts sign up/sign flow
• 1112725 - [android] "Next" button on Sync setup has blue line
• 1123824 - |mach bootstrap| suggests a mozconfig with bad --with-android-sdk on Linux
• 1126584 - Support signing in to Firefox Account via embedding accounts.firefox.com

Martyn Haigh

Past:

Present:

Stefan

Current focus:

• 1124489 Get tests going on AppThwack
• 1129483 Setup build configurations for Release, Dogfooding, Development

Also:

• iOS builds from https://xcode.sateh.com seem to not work anymore on iOS 8.1.3. SImply refuses to install. Not sure how to fix, but we will have dogfooding builds Real Soon Now.
• We setup a repository to host our shared Readability.js code - Going to merge iOS changes back in there. Will be a central point, also for contributors to fix Readability specific bugs.

Past reviews:

• 1128774 Reader Mode fails hard on initial Gmail loading
• 1128595 Sqlite db for favicons
• 1127989 Fixes to BackForwardListViewController
• 1127505 Linking against dylib not safe for use in application extensions: Storage.framework
• 1127547 Follow-up fixes for custom context menu
• 1123809 Record history as visits

Past bugs:

• 1124500 Render/readerizing issues (webkit incompatibilty / gecko specific issues)
• 1125849 Reader Mode button is not right aligned after device orientation change
• 1126484 Reader Mode should use the right fonts
• 1127331 Include a local web server to serve local assets
• 1126488 Missing byline
• 1125960 Reader Mode webview width is not correct after device rotation

James Hugman

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Moved to the Firefox for iOS team!

Ramping up on Swift & the codebase.

Voice integration on Fennec: nit reviews

Allison

• Android Bugs
  • Bug 1101746 - Display message when no passwords are present
    • unblocked
  • Bug 1124711 - Site identity popup overlaps the URL Bar on phone
    • on round 2
  • Bug 1127237 - Text from history panel is not entirely displayed
    • in review
    • mfinkle: "layout issues are fixed with experience + trial & error.

in lieu of experience, add more trial & error"

• Passwords
• Bug 1025703 - Ignore autocomplete="off" for filling login forms
  • passwords team had multiple lonoong discussions about this one
  • finally settled on what the way forward looks like
  • new variant looks ok on try (minus the tests)

• Date Safety & Privacy
  • International Privacy Day
  • finished blog series on applying privacy
    • extension/application of my talk last year
  • Data Collection Module
    • (still) reviewing Desktop FHR/telemetry v4+AWS plan
    • (still) reviewing Query Modes for FHR+Telemetry v4
    • module will meet later this month

Antlam

<Read Only>

• Past
  • Passwords work week
  • Tablet UI blog post! https://medium.com/@antlam/firefox-for-android-on-tablets-f67edc83dd46
  • bug 1122302: Show synced devices earlier in share menu
  • bug 1058818: Clean up doorhangers UI (mocks, finally!)
• Upcoming
  • bug 1114708: Reader mode transition mocks
  • bug 1059554: Share overlay UI with Mcomella
  • Open-in-background work with Martyn
  • MCEConf

Robin

iOS

• Reading List Prototype 1 http://people.mozilla.org/~randersen/readinglist-prototype/
• Reading List Prototype 2 http://people.mozilla.org/~randersen/readinglist-prototype-b/ (where we're going)

—use Chrome (Framer + Fx don't play well together), emulate iPhone 6

• Tab Exploration http://cl.ly/Zcpb - about to prototype
• Settings + Profile flows
• Null states for all (including signed-out)

Darrin

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• More iOS progress, v1 UX overview here http://invis.io/HA254M642
• feel free to comment, question, etc. within InVision
• if you are blocked by UX, please let me know and we'll re-juggle to get you what you need!

A-Team

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• Be aware of bug 1127916 -- all Android x86 tests are now hidden.

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Mobile Roadmap Trello Board
  • Funnel review moved to next week to avoid conflicts and holidays
• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• New iOS Trello Board
  • Trello board is linked to Aha! Roadmap Jenn to explain how this works :-)