Mobile/Notes/10-Apr-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-05-13
• Next release: 2013-05-14

Major Topics for This Week

Stability

Fx20 is more stable than previous release. We dropped below 2%. We have also been landing some fixes that might affect the SQL related crashes. We found some explicit problems in the code thanks to the "Dump all threads" feature in our test framework and the ANR work Jim has been adding. Nightly has no SQL DB locking crashes since Apr 6 builds. Let's keep our fingers crossed!

Landing Soon

Keep a lookout for these new features that should landing: Host/Domain name autocompletion (bug 858340), Switch to tab (bug 729463), Set default search engine (bug 730445) and keyboard shortcuts (bug 726716)

WebRTC for Android

Landed on mozilla-central! It's behind a build flag, so it's not enabled on Nightlies yet. We need to do some testing to see how well the device support is going to be.

Friends of the Mobile team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

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!

Kats

• Apr 3 - Apr 10:
  • bug 857217 - prevent focus from jumping to the layerview too often
  • bug 856155 - end IME compositions when processing touch events
  • proposed a new tree landing strategy
  • APZC unification work:
    • discussed PZC stuff with ajones and BenWa
    • spent a lot of time figuring out PZC
    • some incremental patches:
    • bug 859935 - APZC assumes the controller thread has a message loop
    • bug 859939 - APZC has some incorrect types
    • bug 859951 - refactor some widget/android event code
    • bug 859962 - guard against NPE in BrowserApp
    • bug 860162 - fix scrollCompensation calculation in APZC

• Next:
  • get my B2G build environment set up so I can test APZC patches
  • finish gluing together fennec and APZC (preffed off by default)

GBrown

• Attending Research (Shumway) work-week...will likely miss this meeting

Chris Peterson

• Done
  • Mentored bug 852704 - Replace IME constants with Java enums that mirror the C++ enums
  • Fixed bug 859212 - Change AwesomeBar entry mode for stock gesture keyboard and TouchPal
  • Investigating running "headless Gecko" from Push background service

• Next
  • Continue Push API work
  • Try to land bug 855146 again - Add some IME automated tests

Sriram

• First pass of keyboard shortcuts - bug 726716
• URL bar tabs button change - bug 848719
• Fixed TBPL related issues for Layout and styles - bug 823644
  • Pending review to be pushed in
• Reorganized widget namespace
  • Re-reorganizing after discussions
• Cleaning up PromptService
• First addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/lightweight-themes-switcher/

MFinkle

Done:

• More planning for FE work
• Q2 Goals
• bug 852828 - Add basic support for subscribing to feeds (RSS/Atom)
• bug 858561 - Move BrowserDB.expireHistory from GeckoApp.onPause to GeckoApplication.onActivityPause
• bug 843005 - Disable Android SQLite locking in databases for REL 11 and higher
• bug 852787 - StrictMode policy violation from LocalBrowserDB.getUrlForKeyword()
• bug 856739 - AwesomeBar.onDestroy does DB access on the main thread
• bug 859434 - Close thumbnail cursor in TopSitesView
• bug 859425 - Move decoding/storing favicons to background thread
• bug 858872 - Make Favicon service a little smarter about failed favicons
• bug 765155 - Missing associative icons for recommended add-on listing on about:home

Next:

• Tokyo trip next week
• WebRT planning
• bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel="search">