Mobile/Notes/19-Mar-2014

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-04-28
• Awesomeness: FxAccounts + Sync 1.5 just merged to Beta! Huge shout out to AaronMT: Aaron's hard work and infinite patience has been absolutely essential to this effort on Android and Desktop.

Topics for This Week

• Started testing snippets in Nightly yesterday - please report bugs if you see any!

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.

• vivek fixed bug 959382 - Create BaseTest.setPreferenceAndWaitForChange helper method (first patch)
• Vlad Tanase fixed bug 976144 - Don't show progress bar on load of about: pages

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)

• Figuring out ServiceWorkers on Android. Lots of progress made, but hornets nest of startup issues remains.

jdover

• Finished up home panel folders
• Further work on tab switcher prototype
• Focusing back on download manager and web activity support

fixed

current

Margaret

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Highlights

• Home banner bugs
• Hub RSS and user testing add-ons
• PTO Thursday/Friday this week

Fixed

• 976232 - Banner shown in Guest Browsing
• 976308 - Remove search engine name from initial search suggestions prompt
• 982461 - Support launching an intent to the current application package
• 983129 - AWSY: ~10 MiB regression in startup resident memory usage on March 13
• 968640 - Lazy init HomeBanner using ViewStub
• 984873 - After tapping a home banner, delay showing another one
• 982181 - Tapping on History panel buttons interact with banner (Android 2.3)

mcomella

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Past

• 976833 - Override JUnit API methods in UITest
• 959652 - BrowserHealthRecorder.ensureEnvironment can be expensive during startup

esawin

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Feature Focus

Fx29, Ships on 04/29

• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactor
• [ON TRACK] Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668
• [ON TRACK] Promo snippet for Sync
• [ON TRACK] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [ON TRACK] Ability to "Hide" existing panels in about:home (see the full project page for more details)
• [AT RISK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on, bug 862801
• [AT RISK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [AT RISK] Replace throbber with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776. UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] APK Synthesis on by default
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Marketplace UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.5 integration
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889 (nice to have, shift to 30 if needed)

Fx30, Ships on 06/10

• [AT RISK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 942231
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [AT RISK] Firefox Hub v1 (RSS feed support + 2 add-ons)
• [PROPOSED] Progress Bar Improvements for Fx30 bug 981059
• [PROPOSED] Placeholder for FxA/Sync Backlog
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR), bug 979250
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX), 979251 bug 979251
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Malay (ms), bug 979257
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021

Fx31, Ships 7/22

• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete)
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Marketplace discovery feed add-on (project page TBD)
• [PROPOSED] Promotional banner enhancements
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Quickshare on the context menu
• [PROPOSED] First-run feature tour
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
• [PROPOSED] API: Web activities
• [PROPOSED] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)

Fx32, Ships on 09/02

• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v3 (promo panel, bugfixes & polish + 4-5 add-ons)
• [PROPOSED] Password handling improvements
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
• [PROPOSED] Gestures
• [PROPOSED] My List: Auto-play video and audio lists
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Kitkat download integration