Mobile/Notes/25-Mar-2015

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2015-03-30 (pencils down)

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%);

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.

• Stéphane fixed bug 935259 - Split DOMLinkAdded switch statement into methods
• Jeff Lu fixed bug 1140044 - Bookmarks button in browser menu does not update title when state changes
• Sebastian fixed bug 1142699 - Intermittent testReaderModeTitle and bug 1143280 - Android build fails with updated support library (22) and/or new API level (22)
• Capella fixed bug 1140979 - Change SelectionHandler/TextSelection to use UUID vs. simple selectionID
  • And he's starting work on bug 988143 - Enable text selection and touch caret in Gecko on Fennec!

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!

ted

• Got Gecko running on an iOS device last week: https://twitter.com/TedMielczarek/status/578379233153531904
• Worked out some kinks this week and got JITs working (thanks to jandem, bug 977805)
• Next up is getting OMTC/APZ working, probably the last work item for me

James W. (snorp)

<Read Only>

JChen

Fixed

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Randall Barker

<Read Only>

Last Week:

• Fixed render cruft in presentation composite pass.
• Created patch for tab mirror encoder so that tabs streamed from mobile device are full size (see bug 1144975).
• Landed bug fix to gamepad on MacOS that would cause a crash if certain buttons were pressed, patch also enabled dpad on MacOS attached controllers (see bug 1107801).
• Un-bitrotted standalone webrtc code. Still broken on Roku due to compiler issues.

Next Week:

• Scale presentation composite so that entire page is mirrored and wrap up project.
• Get latest code running on Roku again.
• Investigate encoding shared tab from composite in place of redrawing page.

Eugen Sawin

<Read Only>

• MP3 demuxer
  • Last week: wrote MP3 frame detection and parsing
  • This week: integrated new MP3 frame detection with new MP3 demuxer (basic functionality, no seeking yet)
  • Next: integrate MP3 demuxer with MP4Reader and iron out issues to finally play sound again

• IME
  • Found the cause for bug 1134209, possible fix unclear yet
  • Found a possible general issue with on-blur and on-focus event handling/firing caused by mutation events
  • Further investigated bug 1144174 and bug 1051556, no definitive results yet
  • Discussing mitigation of IME crash issues on release builds

Brian Nicholson

• Top sites/thumbnails
  • bug 1144350 - Show thumbnails on top sites panel
  • bug 1147132 - Keyboard covers top sites content
  • bug 1144348 - Implement thumbnails storage
  • bug 1144871 - Improve FileAccessor API
  • bug 1146095 - StorageTests are disabled and broken
• bug 1147158 - Site rows should use URL as the default text if there's no title
• bug 1146511 - Search results mangled on device rotation

WesJ

• Had a baby
• bug 1137958 - Prompt for saving passwords. Landed
• bug 1135180 - Favicon storage for bookmarks. Landed.
• bug 1146366 - Bookmark star is not updating when switching tabs
• bug 1147175 - Use SDWebImage for thumbnail
• bug 1137462 - Improve history database performance

liuche

Passwords doorhangers on Android, about:passwords work.

Present:

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Past:

Margaret

Highlights:

• Lots of reader view/readability hacking
  • https://github.com/mozilla/readability
  • Things landing on Nightly, but we'll need to uplift to 38

Past:

• 1139678 - <Regression> Fx-Team-Non-PGO - Tp5 Optimized caused by background readability parsing
• 792366 - Reader Mode loses section headings, makes content less understandable
• 1144355 - "doc.documentElement is undefined" in reader task
• 1125711 - First paragraph missing from parsed article
• 1132674 - Reader mode toolbar button is slow to appear
• 1145259 - Reader view button doesn't appear when page is loaded from bfcache
• 1143844 - Be smarter about whether or not to show the reader toolbar button
• 1131004 - Pre-installed OpenH264 add-on has no pertinent user information about why it's installed
• 1146046 - Update the not-an-article testcase in testReadingListCache to be really not an article

Present:

mcomella

• Add to reading list button (& uplift)
• Sharing improvements: "Send to other devices" & visual improvements (& uplift)
• Next: Android L fixes & search improvements

Past:

• 1145217 - Disable "Add to reading list" button on about: pages (except about:reader)
• 1142196 - Make JS' reader mode and Java's "Add to reading list" buttons' behavior consistent
• 1145897 - ActivityChooserModel.hasOtherSyncClients gives stale data
• 1145892 - Add null check to clientrecords in ShareDialog
• 1130203 - Implement v2 share overlay mock

Present:

rnewman

<Read Only>

nalexander

<Read Only> Head down mopping up the blood for Reading List on Android: bug 1147164.

Martyn Haigh

Past:

Present:

Stefan

Some highlights:

• Reader View content is now served via built-in web server
• (Internal) Reader View URLs are hidden
• Share To Extension works again (for both Bookmarks and Reading List) !
• Reader View content is cached for offline usage (but no images yet)
• Pushed out a new Aurora Build

Upcoming:

• Integrating better Reading List storage (so that mark as read / delete will start working)
• Share Extension UX update
• Random boog fixes (trying to fix at least one or two small bugs in the morning to shrink the queue)

James Hugman

<Read Only>

Struggling with Optionals, Properites, Protocols and Closures in pursuit of the least disgusting way I could think off do saving of open tabs. (restoring is later).

Blocked on UX for QR code reading (this isn't a cry for help!).

Somewhat excited by the React-Native due out at the F8 Conference this week.

Ally

• last week
  • Passwords had a project checkpoint last week
  • FHR passwords provider v2 is back in review for nits (1124895)
  • Aurora Scrollbar missing from some small screen/mdpi devices, awaiting aurora uplift: 1128431 (aka 1135770 1135771)
• this week
  • android doorhanger work (1147064, 1139553, 1139551)
  • any new aurora bugs

BLassey

Catching up on things from 5 weeks of travel

MFinkle

• Working on Program Review material (Program Review for Firefox is on Friday)
• Recruiting
• iOS dogfooding, planning and triage (moving along well)
• Yelling in meetings at appropriate moments

Antlam

• Past
  • Passwords UX work
  • Doorhangers wrangling
  • Tracking Protection co-ordination
  • Reading List UX sync up
  • First Run
• Upcoming
  • First Run next steps (proposal for testing?)
  • bug 1144430: Toolbar "icons" UX (site ID, security, etc)
  • bug 1127901: Clustered links UX
  • Bugs backlog

Robin

iOS
Working on:

• bug 1147018 UX Design specification for the Share To extension
• bug 1144760 UX and assets for empty Synced Tabs panel
• bug 1130495 Home Panels - Synced tabs
• bug 1130512 Reading mode - Landscape layouts

Completed:

• bug 1145240 Make tab tray home panel icon list have light background and update icons
• bug 1134786 New Assets for browsing UI
• bug 1143956 Device type assets for Synced Tabs panel

All UI (not specs) in progress can be viewed here: http://invis.io/XY2HBO14R

Darrin

<Read Only>

• Back from PTO
• working on some patches to bring iOS closer to the specs
  • typography
  • layout/spacing
  • animations
  • transitions

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Mobile Roadmap Trello Board

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• New iOS Trello Board

Round Table

• Meeting improvements summary
  • Rotating meeting master
  • Try removing read-only?
    • Briefly summarize what you've worked on