Mobile/Notes/04-Jun-2014

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Schedule

• Next Merge: 2014-06-09
• Aurora feature review next Tuesday

Topics for This Week

Search Activity

Progress on search activity prototype, looking to start landing things in Nightly. Taking over the mobile front-end meeting this Friday (9:30am PDT) to discuss technical details.

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.

• Alex Deaconu fixed bug 1011714 - Clean up removal of Reading List items
• Capella fixed multiple bugs
  • bug 899644 - Tab switcher UI reset issues
  • bug 1014965 - NativeJSObject.optString does the wrong thing on "key":null
  • bug 1012957 - Save about:config changes immediately as made
• Shashank VRSN Sabniveesu fixed bug 1018089 - SQLiteBridge.getVersion leaks a cursor

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)

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• Gonzales stuff (gzip, gif->webm, architecture)
• Working on making Talos work with GeckoViewExample
• Rework headless patch to pass Finkle test
• New intern(s)

Alan K. (ack)

• Last week
  • Cleanup/refactoring CloudSync for landing based on review feedback (thanks rnewman!)
• This week
  • Continuing with CloudSync refactoring on data providers

JChen

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Working on

• Also working on using the new unwinder for hangs

GCP

On vacation, left the following hanging:

• bug 1015932 - Create a way to share the OpenSLES engine between cubeb and WebRTC
• bug 1018928 - Regression: Selecting "No video" option from the permission prompt still shows the content of the device camera
• bug 1018994 - Favicons in Awesomebar allow HTTPS spoofing

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Wrote code for stand alone STS. Started debugging.
• This Week: Finish debugging standalone WebRTC. Begin work to compile for device.

Eugen Sawin

Last week

• bug 1002426 - Zoom level mangled after restoring session
  • Uplifted to Aurora
• Gonzales (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Gonzales)
  • Caching (https://github.com/eamsen/node-gonzales/tree/caching)
    • Cache-correctness
    • Cache/storage abstraction
    • Redis support
  • Code style checking (JSCS + JSHint)
  • Travis CI integration

Next week

• Gonzales
  • Finalize and land caching on develop branch
  • Performance logging

Sylvain Cleymans

Last week:

• Completed image compression module in Gonzales
• Added a module for ad blocking

Next week:

• Continuing with implementing new modules

Brian Nicholson

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Done:

• rAc work (meetings, updated patch in bug 939351)

Next:

• Create a headless AutofillUIGlue component so bug 939351 can land
• Contextual hint stuff

WesJ

• Bug 1006158 - Build against Android v7 support library and Google Play Services
• Bug 1018468 - Provide fullscreen button for video
• Bug 1018369 - "Add to homescreen" should remember private mode setting for tab
• Bug 1001309 - Provide a way to clear history when Fennec's put into the background

LucasR

Last week

• 1010764 - Make empty tab thumbnails visually consistent
• 1017574 - Force suggested sites refresh on locale changes
• 1009587 - Implement image precedence behaviour around suggested thumbnails
• 1016949 - Fix TestSuggestedSites to account for enable/disable pref

Next week

liuche

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• Contextual hints - Private tabs (bug 1014293), chatting with antlam about first run
• UI Telemetry (bug 1018433, bug 101719)
• Suggested Sites/Top Sites - bug 1010266
• Mentoring

Margaret

Highlights

• Polishing up new things that landed in Fx32 (clear history button, undo close tab toast)
• Investigating (without success :() drawing regression in dynamic panels if Fx31 - bug 1010986
• WIP for bug 817716 - Add ability to close all tabs
• Making sure hub stuff is ready for Fx30 release
• Talking with eedens about search activity work
• Talking about interview candidates

Fixed

• 701725 - Enable the ability to undo a closed tab
• 998009 - Add a Clear History control to the history panel
• 996708 - Set an explicit width/height for images in dynamic panel empty views
• 1017129 - Polish undo close tab button toast appearance
• 1017633 - Refine 'clear history' feature in History panel
• 997055 - The same feed is added in multiple panels in the home page
• 1017554 - Regression: Empty lists view, no data is shown or fetched
• 1017047 - Undo'ing a private tab restores it as a regular tab
• 1017045 - Wrong tabs are restored via the undo ability after closing multiple tabs at once; the last tab closed is used as the undo for all closed tabs

eedens

Continued work on Android search intent. Latest build: http://goo.gl/DVMsPr .

New Items:

• Live searching as you type
• Search results are actionable.
• Added Duck Duck Go results
• Added pictures for some results (Yelp)

Upcoming

• Prepare MVP:
  • Capture and display recent searches
  • Add telemetry
  • Show disambiguation results for DDG results.

mcomella

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Past

• bug 997477 - Add a way to close edit mode in one tap on tablet
• bug 1014999 - Remote tabs panel setup/verification for tablets
• bug 1015450 - Tapping the toolbar during the awesomescreen close animation puts toolbar in inconsistent state
• bug 1017276 - Closing editing mode during open animation puts toolbar into inconsistent state
• bug 1019158 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.Telemetry.sendUIEvent(Telemetry.java)
• bug 1017142 - Setup sync message given to users of sync 1.1 in the synced tabs tray
• bug 1009315 - Replace TelemetryContract interfaces with enums

Present

• bug 1019595 - Lack of contrast on editing mode's 'X' button when using a lightweight theme
• bug 1002303 - Provide a description on private tabs page if there are no private tabs
• bug 998000 - Create BrowserApp.cancelEditingMode for consistency with BrowserApp.enter/commitEditingMode
• bug 932208 - BrowserToolbar and HomeFragment context menu 'Share' option should be disabled for these protocols: about:// chrome:// file://

Future

• Too busy with other things:
  • Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
  • bug 939350 - Create Python linter wrapper
• bug 983437 - Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
• bug 989441 - Centralized documentation for writing tests

RNewman

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Working on

• Distribution distribution.
• Locale switching stuff -- Belarusian, Maithili, Honeycomb bugs.
• Home provider concurrency.
• Sync, as always.

Misc

• Booked June/July travel.
• Discussing phone screen approach with lucasr and margaret.
• Discussed approaches for custom Sync server support on Android.
• Pinged mkelly re hosted distributions, started down the CDN avenue.
• Opining on places GUID maintenance: bug 1012597.
• Helping out with testing Sync deprecation indicators: bug 1017443.
• Figuring out a path forward for awkward (read: three-char) locales on Android.
• Answering some Sync-related support questions.
• Filed bugs for end-of-lifing Android 2.2. Lots of code can die.
• Offering some partner guidance re implementing Sync/FxA in C++.
• Pushing on add-on initialization stuff in Gecko re distributions.

Landed

• bug 1017778 (telemetry probe for database locked errors). Will need uplift ahead of...
• bug 1006947.

Reviewed

• bug 788688 (Sync device name)
• bug 1019158 (NPE in UITelemetry)
• bug 1019218 (Eclipse project deps)
• bug 978158 (desktop: FHR for translation project)
• bug 1017706 (desktop: crash during FHR shutdown)
• Random others (last week)

nalexander

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• Some Sync tickets -- custom servers bug 989756, customizable client name bug 788688
• Some remote tabs tickets in progress -- bug 899643
• Eclipse support is getting better -- bug 1006209, bug 1019218

BLassey

• bug 1013588 - Gecko-base Android launcher
• bug 1016747 - add android protocol handler to proxy input streams to Gecko
• bug 1019836 - Support narrow char strings in android bridge

Ian Barlow

• Doing some scoping for our Search project
• Initial suggested sites are on their way! http://cl.ly/image/2J1c3u0i0S0l
• Interviewing some more designers
• Meetings forever

Yuan Wang

Last week

• Filed major tablet work on bugzilla: [Meta] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1014156
• Tab status design ideas: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018504
• Started looking into various app launchers

This week

• Keep researching app launchers, looking into reviews from play store
• Tab overflow on tablet
• Interview a mobile design candidate
• Learning new prototyping tools

Anthony Lam

• Search UX work
• "Toolbar" refinements with Lucasr
• Contextual hints talk with Chenxia
• about:feedback page visual polish
• icons, video player icons, more icons
  • bug 1007436 - Add help FAQ link to negative feedback form
  • etc...
• (in progress) bug 1019318 - Polish button toast appearance
• (in progress) bug 1014335 - Make "Pull to Refresh" in Synced Tabs and Home Panels feel excellent.

Martin McDonough

• Getting started!
• Getting things compiled in the first place
• Working on getting an app that generates JNI bindings from any jar

Garvan/Stumbling

• Request for more collection: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001211
• Stumbling as a full-time service: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003587
• Cell data upload: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003598
• Privacy: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003609

Security/MGoodwin

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• At HackInTheBox / HAXPO last week - lots of love for Firefox on Android.

WebRT

Notable Bugs

• bug 1007770 - WebApp update prompt looks scary - update icon - uplifted to Aurora & Beta
• bug 1011093 - WebApp update prompt looks scary - wordsmith notification text - fixed
• bug 957067 - Pass back error when incorrect data passed through in install APK - inbound
• bug 995803 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException - needs branch patch for Aurora uplift
• bug 1009954 - implement unit tests for WebappManager - in progress
• bug 1011832 - Loading my app on Android displays a blank white screen - waiting for reporter
• bug 1013428 - mozilla-apk-cli App Updates side-loaded don't appear - in progress
• bug 1013433 - uninstalling, resideloading, and relaunching app causes it to stall at white screen - in progress
• bug 1003962 - Line Runner hangs on launch with white screen - under investigation

QA

• Aaron and Kevin now report to Marc Schifer
• This is now the Firefox QA team
• there will be some traditionally desktop people owning items on the feature roadmap for 33+

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

Firefox 30 (Beta)- Release: Jun 10, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Quickshare on the context menu, Epic/Meta bug 1014021
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v1 (RSS feed support + 2 add-ons), Epic/Meta bug 1014025
• [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
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 960060
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be), bug 521981

Firefox 31 (Aurora) - Release: Jul 22, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home, not via drag and drop (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 959917
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete), Epic/Meta bug 1014030
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts, Epic/Meta bug 1014035
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons, Epic/Meta bug 1014037
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data, Epic/Meta bug 1014038
• [ON TRACK] UX Telemetry, Epic/Meta bug 1014044
• [ON TRACK] 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)
• [PROPOSED] EOL official Android 2.2 Support bug 1017242

Firefox 32 (Nightly) - Release: Sep 2, 2014

• [PROPOSED] Screencasting (Roku), Epic/Meta bug 921924
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v3 (bugfixes & polish + more add-ons), Epic/Meta bug 1014032
• [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v1, Epic/Meta bug 988366
• [PROPOSED] Contextual tips for users
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
• [PROPOSED] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [ON TRACK] UI lang switching
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync (bug 958889)
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Add a Clear History control to the history panel bug 998009
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend bug 852935
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner
• [ON TRACK] Support weighed snippets bug 1002567