Mobile/Notes/25-Jul-2012

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Major Topics for This Week

• Feature uplift for Firefox 15 is basically complete; focus is now on regressions, stability, and polish.
  • Q. Does this mean Firefox 15 is string-frozen?
  • A. We will freeze strings after 15.0b3 is built, next week. We know of only one possible string change remaining for 15.0b3 (bug 725286).

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)

• Last week:
  • Finished up Honeycomb support for Flash

• This week:
  • Actually landed the Honeycomb patch on m-c, aurora, beta
  • Fix some crashes/leaks/whatever due to the above

Kats

Last week:

• Testing-related things:
  • bug 775102 - fix FennecTalosAssert to make talos tests fail on assertion errors
  • bug 775071 - make testCheck3 actually disable screenshotting
• Make clicking on things work better:
  • bug 770659 - remove haptic feedback on taps that don't do anything
  • bug 773427 - clicking on small elements sometimes doesn't work properly
  • bug 773431 - make clicking work even if the page stops propagation of touchstart events
• Other large-ish changes:
  • bug 766647 - improve screenshot coalescing (follow-up: bug 775976)
  • bug 775722 - (pending review) make native text selection handles a layer in the java compositor
• NPEs/other assorted fixes:
  • bug 772888 - fix NPE from getExternalFilesDir returning null
  • bug 769893 - (beta fix) don't recycle bitmaps before using them
  • bug 774205 - fix NPE when "don't keep activities" is checked
  • bug 772855 - do better logging of exceptions
  • bug 776702 - remove unnecessary BitmapDrawable instance

This week:

• Refactor the main gfx/ classes and push PanZoomController into C++ so that it can be merged with the B2G fork (bug 776030 is the main bug, has dependencies)

GBrown

• Last week:
  • Bug 775227 OutOfMemory or "out of memory" during mochitest
  • Bug 775614 Investigate painting failure in tcheck, tcheck2, tcheck3
  • Bug 773667 Code clean up in ScreenshotLayer
  • Bug 776541 devicemanagerSUT closes the socket after each "push"
• Next week:
  • Bug 775227 OutOfMemory or "out of memory" during mochitest

Chris Peterson

• Done
  • bug 764193 - Allow form autocomplete popup after user starts typing
  • bug 768106 - TouchPal Keyboard deletes entered text when trying to autocomplete first word
  • bug 772225 - Disable GeckoInputConnection's clampSelection() to test whether SpannableStringBuilder IndexOutOfBoundsExceptions are fixed
  • bug 747629 - java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: getChars (a ... b) ends beyond length c or has end before start at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.checkRange(SpannableStringBuilder.java) at android.text.TextUtils.getChars
  • bug 775442 - java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: at java.lang.String.substring(String.java) at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoInputConnection.notifyTextChange(GeckoInputConnection.java)
  • bug 760396 - java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: getChars (a ... b) ends beyond length c or has end before start at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.checkRange(SpannableStringBuilder.java) at android.view.inputmethod.BaseInputConnection.replaceText
  • bug 767597 - Change AwesomeBar entry mode for Swype
  • bug 767791 - java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: getChars (0 ... <n>) ends beyond length 0 at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.checkRange(SpannableStringBuilder.java) at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoInputConnection.getExtractedText

• Next
  • bug 743998 - Reorganizing Java package namespaces and jars
  • bug 766317 - Sony Ericsson Experia Pro's HKB cannot enter non-English characters in web forms
  • bug 772252 - Numeral keys on physical keyboard don't work in Firefox for Android on Sony-Ericsson Xperia Pro and Mini Pro

Brian N

• Done
  • Bug 775039 - Active logins are not cleared when clearing private data
  • Bug 775042 - Download history is not cleared when clearing private data
  • Bug 775029 - Clear private data does not clear saved passwords
  • Bug 776255 - Rename pref_private_data_cookies in android_strings.dtd
  • Bug 766940 - Unable to remove bookmarks from the menu, bookmark checkmark/filled star icon remain in view
  • Bug 775346 - Some page interactivity lost until reader mode icon has loaded
• Next
  • More Reader Mode
  • Bug 717428 - Reuse favicons in DB

Sriram

• Done:
  • Cleanup about:home to be tablet ready - bug 745225
  • Fix the tabs button in Galaxy Note - bug 774081
  • History tab cut off in ICS tablets - bug 775200
  • Change visual design of about:home - bug 775334
  • Replace menu icons for GB phones - bug 776067
  • Fix blue+orange highlight on about:home - bug 775717
  • Support 7" tablet UI - bug 776309
  • NPE on property animator - bug 765156
  • H/W MENU button crash - bug 761929
  • Menu inflation flickering on JB - bug 775211
• Next:
  • Moar bugs

WesJ

Last week:

• bug 773088 - Webapps show reading list option in menu
• bug 766802 - Clicking target=blank links in a web app should load those links in the browser
• bug 766094 - Disable telemetry prompt on chrome-less application launch
• bug 766275 - Default context menu for webapps
• bug 776950 - Long tap on titlebar can't create homescreen shortcut if page has no title
• Reviewing stuff bug 730330 - input type='date/time' should use the system date/time picker

This week:

• Still trying to reduce our layouts - bug 774969 - One browser_toolbar.xml to rule them all
• More webapps blockers - bug 766259
• Swipe on awesome screen
• bug 773741 - Cannot resize elements in Fennec that have the CSS resize property

MBrubeck

Done:

• bug 776692 - next/prev shortcuts have wrong order when a starred result is selected
• bug 776253 - NullPointerException at AboutHomeContent.onInterceptTouchEvent
• bug 766858 - When tab menu is open, intercept all touch events on about:home or web content
• bug 767809 - BrowserToolbar.show/hide must be called on the UI thread
• Sheriffing, code reviews

Margaret

Done:

• Landed native text selection handles on aurora/beta! - bug 774938 and friends
• Doorhanger refactoring - bug 732336

Next:

• Look out for text selection issues
• Help with rating solicitation feature when UX is ready - bug 774479
• Look at content provider for tabs - bug 730039

Scott (jwir3)

• Last Week:
  • Graphics/Layout work week in Toronto
  • Spoke with kats about reflow-on-zoom plugin
  • Spent some time understanding readability.js
  • Non-mobile related stuff (Columns, etc)

• This Week:
  • More non-mobile related stuff (:>)
  • Readability 2.0 discussion

Arkady

• Worked on
  • Fixed Regressions with Bug 769438
  • Did some context menu changes, Bug 775773

• Coming up:
  • Finishing Clipboard Data
  • Looking into changes for the download manager

mcomella

• Past
  • Bug 715179 – A New Font Inflation Dialog
    • Bug 776369 – The Font Inflation Dialog Strikes Back
  • Bug 718437 – [meta] Long press context menu actions
    • Bug 769886 – "Copy Link Location"
    • Bug 775770 – "Copy Phone Number"
    • Bug 775776 – "Copy Email Address"
• Present
  • (Bug 718437, above)
    • Bug 776064 – (waiting on UX string choice decisions) Cleaning "tel:..." link actions
    • Bug 744662 – (same UX decision) Removing the "mailto:" when sharing a "mailto:..." link
  • Bug 775740 – (waiting on review) PromptListAdapter has reimplemented functionality from super class – removed it
  • Bug 776110 – (r+'d) Relative URLs don't function properly in reader mode.
  • Bug 686528 – About:home for tablets
• Future
  • Bug 716403 – Hide the navigation bar while scrolling down content

BLassey

Last week

• In Toronto for Layout and Graphics work week
• prototyped playing h264 with MediaPlayer API
• blogged for the first time in almost a year about Aurora nightly updates

Next week

• on PTO, going camping

Side Note

• Mobile Platform is doing a "bug deep dive" Thursdays at noon eastern, please join us in my vidyo room if you want help with a mobile platform-y bug
  • put bugs you want to talk about with notes here: User:Blassey/bug_deep_dive

Ian Barlow

Done

• Defined some rules for how Firefox differs on phones vs. 7" tablets vs 10" tablets: http://cl.ly/0C2J1P0U0V0S
• Put together some initial findings for the readability v2 project http://cl.ly/0p3X2A3U3F0N
• Sent out lots of resources for 7" tablet UI
• About:home designs are now in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686528 (flickr set here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/sets/72157630730911182/detail/)
• Tablet Sync UI is now in bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767179

Up next this week

• Reader Mode! (Bug 771380, Bug 766942, Bug 766948)
• More work on C2DMA and Feedback Solicitation happening after that

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On my radar but not likely to hit this week

• Cut / copy / paste on JB
• Private Browsing

Round Table

QA

• ARMv6 Compatibility Testing
• 15.0 (Beta 2, build #1) test-plan, going through plenty of verifications this morning, afternoon
  • bug 777267 - 'Save Image' fails with short-linked URL's as the long-tap context-menu does not update the resolved URL
  • bug 777320 - Links are highlighted when performing double tap zoom near them
  • bug 777261 - Visited link color is not changed
  • bug 777324 - Flash content of www.syfy.com/tinman/oz/ is not displayed
  • bug 777310 - crash in arena_dalloc [@ arena_dalloc | __wrap_free | moz_free | AccEvent::~AccEvent]
  • bug 777274 - The content of History and Top Sites sections is not cleared when clearing private data
• Eric (:xwei) has a patch queue of an assortment of Robocop testing going up for review soon
• SV sent out requests for feedback on manual tests

Socorro/Breakpad/Stability

Hightlights:

• Aurora shows an explosive crashiness due to the merge, bnicholson fixed it yesterday... Aurora crashes should die down. Tomorrow we should have the data to prove that.
• Talked with kairo : bug 777372 Exposing Android_CPU_ABI, Android_Manufacturer, Android_Model, Android_Version in crash report UI
  • once we have that exposed, kairo can make a report based on arm 6 versus arm 7 easily as well as based on the Android API Version
• nhirata spending more time on b2g currently this week

Socorro bugs

Skiplist

Breakpad Integration bugs

Please see Platform Meeting Notes for Stability report

SUMO

• Google play reviews summary:
  • last 3676 reviews of v14 averaged 4.25 stars
  • first week of v14.01 reviews average 4.1 stars
• 1,435 five-star reviews already for v14.01, some quotes:

"The best browser for all platforms. I've been using Firefox on my computer for many years, and when I started to use Android, I missed it. Now it is my default browser on Android too, and it now days look gorgeus, and is fast!"

"Flash & FF sync I'm a happy web crawler."

"Works great! Android version is just as good as the desktop version. Love it, its my de facto browser."

"Amazing i have tried many browsers, but firefox has proved that it is the best."

• Top issues in the one and two-star reviews:

1. Complaints about slowness after upgrading to ICS.
2. Crashes (HTC Evo 4G, TC Evo 3D, HTC One X, HTC G2, HTC Thunderbolt, Samsung Galaxy S3)
3. Desktop view / UA switcher

• Input sadface comments (15 total)

http://input.mozilla.org/en-US/?q=&product=firefox&version=14.0.1&date_start=2012-07-18&date_end=&sentiment=sad&platform=android

• SUMO questions this week:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions?tagged=mobile

• SUMO Most requested posts this week:

(facebook, disable top sites, tablet not compatible) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions?sort=requested&tagged=mobile

• Scoping v15 documentation updates next week, I'm also leading Basecamp support strategy so I'm delegating Android docs and feedback work as much as possible