Mobile/Notes/07-Aug-2013

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Fx23 was released yesterday
• Next merge: 2013-09-16

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.

• Adrian May (:adrianmay) landed a patch for bug 899167 - Code Cleanup new SelectionHandler messages for Find-In-Page processing FIRST PATCH! WOO!
• Michael Boon (:michaeltpb) is working on a patch for bug 888982 - fennec should use channel-specific build defines rather than MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL
• Nicolas Carlo (:nickecarlo) is working on a patch for bug 892942 - Remove www. and m. etc from URLs in Reader Mode
• Federico Paolinelli (:fedepaol) is working on patches for bug 815202 - Add Pause and Cancel actions to download notifications and bug 566225 - Linkify phone numbers in web pages
• Capella is fixing so many things I can't keep track anymore!

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

• Last week
  • Landed bug 892267 - gray space at the top of the page
  • Fixed bug 899810, bug 900742 - regressions from my multi-apzc patches
  • Bug 901187 - make printf_stderr dump to debugger console on metro
  • Bug 901339 (pending review) - fix focal point wrongness when pinch-zooming (also a regression of mine)
  • Bug 890280 (currently WIP) - ensure all that the input events going through APZC are transformed correctly
  • New blog post: Unraveling coordinate systems, part 2
  • Reviews, interviews, etc.

• Next week
  • Finish off bug 890280
  • More testing and polishing for multi-APZC
  • Look at Fennec misbehaving on the Nexus 10 with Android 4.3

Shane Tully

• Still tracking down cause of two intermittent test failures with the contacts API on Android 2.2 Fighting with the try server

• bug 880118 - Package GeckoView into an Android library project
  • Last week:
    • Tracking down linker problems
    • Working around content provider permissions
  • This week:
    • Trying to get a page to load

• Two small bugs when blocked on other stuff
  • bug 901059 - Clean up old unused package-manifest.in references
  • bug 901163 - Rename "Wallpaper:Set" message to match the function of "Set Image As"

JChen

• Past week
  • Fixed and uplifted bug 881018 - crash in mozilla::layers::floor_div
  • Worked on bug 897221 - dynamically updatable UA override mechanism
  • Worked on bug 901085 - Test for UserAgentOverrides.jsm (bug 782453)
  • Code review for Mozilla Science Lab
• Next
  • Fix JimDB on 4.3
  • Finish user agent stuff
  • Back to profiler
  • bug 899233 - Text input is screwy in textarea

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 782691 Text selection shouldn't happen on text not currently visible.
  • bug 772280 Text selection will select nearby text when just pressing whitespace
  • bug 902000 Add a service that monitors the system load
• Next week:
  • bug 902000 Add a service that monitors the system load
  • WebRTC Android UI test?

Botond

• Done
  • Revised bug 895905 - "Content needs to inform APZC about scroll events on B2G" for multi-APZC. Patch is posted and reviewed, waiting with checkin until some multi-APZC-related regressions are fixed and it can be tested properly.
  • In the process of writing a patch for bug 898580 - "Contents needs to inform APZC about scroll events on Metro".
• Next
  • Finish patch for bug 898580.
  • Test patches for bug 895905 and bug 898580 once the multi-APZC-related regressions on B2G and Metro are fixed.
  • bug 860812 - "[Browser] Make hiding address bar work more like Fennec Nightly"

Sriram

• bug 888905 - Tablet bookmarks -- Oooo...hhhH! http://cl.ly/image/3K470D3r1B1n
• bug 901066 - Bookmarks grid animation (ya! ani..ma..tion!! :D)
• bug 889562 - Clipboard action-bar missing in 4.3
• bug 902038 - MultiTypeCursorAdapter instead of CursorAdapter.
• bug 901064 - TopBookmarks shouldn't show a divider on startup.
• bug 902064 - Folders on BookmarksListView is crashing.
• bug 900128 - Change the aspect ratio of thumbnails.
• Experimenting with new profiling tools from 4.3

WesJ

• Bug 808636 – Update visual style of mobile error pages
• Bug 901821 - Clicking button in error pages is broken
• Bug 901822 - Expanders in error pages should toggle state
• Bug 896121 – ]guest] Disable 'share' menus in guest mode
• Bug 901151 – Sent mouse event source
• Bug 901117 – Platform touch fluffing needs the ability to weed out body event listeners
• Bug 901129 – Remove MOZ_ONLY_TOUCH_EVENTS
• Working with Federico on Bug 815202 - Add Pause and Cancel actions to download notifications
• Bug 896350 – Unable to open files by tapping the download complete notifica
• Bug 901426 - Web Apps can not be opened from Firefox for Android notification and crashes Firefox

Shilpan

• Bug 894077: [FIG] Tablet layout for visited page
• Bug 865515: Rotating multi-pane fragments in Settings displays margins incorrectly
• Bug 900234: Force reader to always be the left most icon in page actions
• Bug 901824: Use image cache for 'Set Image As'
• Bug 853844: Investigate removing the pageload throbber
• Bug 886996: Use an intent to set wallpaper

LucasR

Last week

• bug 901766 - Fix handling of settings activity in testSettingsMenuItems
• bug 896571 - Update testInputAwesomeBar for new about:home
• bug 901899 - Add testBrowserSearchVisility
• bug 896565 - Update testAwesomebarSwipes for new about:home
• bug 896560 - Update testSearchSuggestions test for new about:home
• (In progress) Update testHistoryTab / testAllPagesTab / testBookmarksTab
• Lots of patch reviews

Next week

• More test stuff on new about:home
• Triage fig bugs, prioritize work for the merge

Liuche

• stuff for 25:
  • bug 896992
  • bug 877791
  • Search settings landing for ckitching: just missed 25 - backout of partial search in aurora
• developer tools
  • finished remote debugging - try it out in 25!
  • follow-up: update docs link bug 901038
  • next: add paint flashing?
• ANRReporter under review
• about:home empty screen hint
  • landed history screen bug 895866
  • last tabs bug 895867 under review
  • reading list bug 891953 WIP
• Next: search links

Margaret

(Missing the meeting because I'll be at TRIBE)

• Done
  • bug 722902 - Make AMO more discoverable in the browser
  • bug 897247 - [fig] Closing a background tab does not update "Switch to tab" UI
  • bug 900744 - [fig] CursorIndexOutOfBoundsException when long tapping on search suggestion row
  • bug 900746 - [fig] Tapping on a visited page item opens the wrong URL (or no URL) if search suggestions are shown
  • bug 900148 - [fig] Tapping on search suggestion doesn't do anything
  • Reviews (yay robocop patches!)
  • Wrote a blog post

• In Progress
  • bug 899393 - [fig] Switch-to-tab is broken (just waiting on review... hint hint)

• Next
  • TRIBE
  • bug 848242 - Add support for widget/tiles to homepage customization

Chris Kitching

• Done
  • Blogged about the joys of getting IntelliJ IDEA working for Fennec development
  • Spent far more of my week than I anticipated getting the search preferences system (bug 895423, bug 898151, bug 892113) to land. Although an earlier version had a green try run, the changes requested later introduced oranges which I omitted to test for. Whoops. Ended up missing the boat for 25, but at least it's now landed so will be going out with 26, provided it doesn't explode in the interim.

• In Progress
  • Continued work in the direction of getting ProGuard to work - will be submitting a patch for bug 794981 in the coming days, taking us a step closer to a ProGuard patch that is actually neat.
  • Started work on the customise addons screen - seems the entire preferences overhaul patch series are landing in 26.

mcomella

• Past
  • Services' build stuff:
    • bug 899807: Update python files to execute via /usr/bin/env python
    • bug 899840: Use sort or equivalent tool to provide consistent file ordering in makefiles created by fennec-copy-code.sh
  • bug 899394: [fig] Tapping a bookmark list item causes the page to scroll to the top
  • Services docs (no bug):
    • GH #340: Add prerequisite launch to integration test docs.
    • GH #346: Add HTML report to the integration testing information.
  • bug 901622: Invalidate ProfileInformationCache after fixing add-on uninstallation
• Present
  • bug 870925: (f+) Add submissions info to FHR documents
  • bug 870171: (f+) Expire old FHR data
  • bug 900289: (r?) Enable foreign key pragma on FHR database
• Future
  • More FHR via roadmap
  • bug 902039: [fig] Correct about:home back-button/swipe UX
  • bug 898613: Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

RNewman

• Assorted reviews
• Designing tree merging algorithms
• Sync structured data GC walkthrough
• Sync.next meetings, discussions
• PiCL signin walkthrough
• Landed and uplifted a couple of FHR things (bug 900694, bug 880109)

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week:

• bug 794693: Font inflation crash in ComputeContainingBlockRectangle() (in review)
• bug 808173: Avoid reflow-on-zoom on specific non-text elements.
• bug 900564: Remove 'Double-tap' to reflow from settings (for release and beta)

This Week:

• Begin implementation for bug 878935 - blur text before reflow-on-zoom.

BLassey

• bug 894313 - GeckoThread should own its own static instance. reviewed, need to land
• bug 880259 - Firefox should use GeckoView, waiting for review
• looking at making our restarts more sane, would up looking at shut down crash

MFinkle

• Toying around with Chromecast support in bug 901803
• Wrapping up Work Week approval
• Helping out with some new feature planning
• Got robocop tests working on my Nexus S, so I might try pitching in with the tests

Ian Barlow

This week:

• Introducing Arun!
  • Arun will be helping out on all things Android UX related \o/
  • abc on IRC
• Ongoing about:home polish
• Misc ui-reviews
• New UX exploration underway
  • Kinderfox
  • Silverfox
  • Firstrun UX
  • Stay tuned!

Security/MGoodwin

• Currently reviewing the current state of WebRT bits (helping rforbes, who does marketplace security). If you get any weird out-of-context questions, that'll probably be why.

PiCL

• Continuing to work with Nick and Richard
• Tracking Android Auth protocol and UI work at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=808813

Feature Focus

Highlights

working on product announcement testing in prep for Fx24 Beta announcement to be sent next week. Digging into features that have 'planned'& 'proposed' status in order to better understand progress. As Finkle mentioned, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap#On_deck

Fx23 \o/ Shipped

• [ON TRACK] Firefox Health Report
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
• [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Turkish
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Hungarian
• [ON TRACK] Awesomebar and Awesomescreen improvements
• [ON TRACK] Reader improvements <==PR to take place in Fx24
• [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default in add-on manager
• [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling
• [ON TRACK] API: Payments <== Not user facing but will be tested soon

Fx24

• [AT RISK] WebRTC platform support, preffed ON
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Swedish, sv-SE
• [ON TRACK] Reader improvements
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] Gecko Webview phase 1
• [ON TRACK] Geolocation services inc opt-in menu item
• [ON TRACK] Packaged apps foundations, but not exposed until the WebApp Experience has landed
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Icon rebrand
• [ON TRACK] Change default search engine for zh-CN
• [ON TRACK] Add-on definition in distribution files
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: British English, en-GB
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Catalan, ca-ES
• [PROPOSED] Firefox for readers

Fx25

• [ON TRACK] Settings UI clean-up excluding search provider management
• [PLANNED] Privileged apps support
• [PLANNED] Guest browsing
• [PLANNED] API: Web Audio
• [AT RISK] Set Top Box optimization
• [AT RISK] Directional game console navigation
• [AT RISK] API: Web activities
• [ON TRACK] Page Actions
• [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
• [ON TRACK] Mixed content
• [ON TRACK] API: Contacts
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Setting wallpaper Bug 886996
• [PROPOSED] Settings menu to include search provider management

Fx26

• [PROPOSED] About:home redesign
• [PROPOSED] AMO and Marketplace discoverability
• [PROPOSED] Spatial Navigation (SNAV)
• [PROPOSED] API: Third-party Cloud storage
• [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
• [PROPOSED] API: Gamepad
• [PROPOSED] API: Bluetooth
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Second screen support (initial experimental work)
• [PROPOSED] Accelerated 2D canvas (platform)
• [PROPOSED] Async subframe scrolling (platform)

Fx27

• [PROPOSED] Firefox flavour: Silverfox

Round Table

User Advocacy

Tracking issues on Nexus Devices with Android 4.3. Currently we have roughly 3.8% of our user base on Android 4.3 (Compared to 35.8% on 4.1), meaning that 4.3 issues will continue to grow. Currently the only Nexus 10 rating on GP is a 1-star, but we will continue to track these reports.

Roland wrote a SUMO KB article for these issues: Firefox issues with Nexus 10 and Android 4.3