Mobile/Notes/27-May-2015

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Schedule

• Release calendar

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

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Aurora

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Nightly

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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.

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

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GCP

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• 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

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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

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karim

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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

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mcomella

• Search engine bar & followups
• Partner stuff

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rnewman

• History sync on iOS and assorted miscellany.
• Partner stuff.

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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

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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

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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

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BLassey

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MFinkle

• Trying to discuss more of the outcome of the Product Line Review
• Getting ready for a mid-year review around projects and headcount

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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

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

• QA Release Test-Plans
• List of nightly only features

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