Mobile/Notes/10-Sep-2014

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-10-13

Topics for This Week

Tablet refresh v0 soon in Nightly (disabled by default)

Tentative merge to m-c happening tomorrow.

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.

• Julien Sanchez fixed bug 680392 - Localize trademark notice string in about:firefox
• manu.jain13 fixed bug 1060423 - Cut function in a readonly textarea
• amoghbl1 fixed bug 1019045 - Unify magnifying glass/search icon
• eedens fixed bug 1042960 - Create UI elements for facet bar
• Tristan Pollitt fixed bug 1057613 - Telemetry for search widget buttons
• vivek fixed bug 799562 - Update about:feedback to use new feedback API

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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Alan K. (ack)

• enable cloudsync in nightly + uplift to aurora
• ad-hoc issues on flame (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065081)
• transitioning from cloudsync -> standalone webrtc w/GCP

JChen

Working on

• More startup perf (bug 888482, etc.)
• Coming up with ideas for bug 1060009.

GCP

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Last week

• 1060796 - Limit screen capture FPS
• 1053264 - Mouse cursor flickers after activating screensharing on Windows

• bug 1059573 Add support to using DSP-based echo canceller and noise suppressor

Next week

• bug 1059573 Add support to using DSP-based echo canceller and noise suppressor
• Standalone WebRTC
• Media sandboxing

Randall Barker

Last week:

• Fixed minor issues with Roku Player (aspect ratio, detect dropped stream, etc.)
• Created SSDP/ECP simulator to debug discovery issues.
• Rebased standalone WebRTC code and it broke. Started fixing.

Next week:

• Finish fixing standalone WebRTC.
• Set up private channel with Roku WebRTC Player to enable testing. Waiting on Roku to do this.
• Investigate bug 1053426 Fennec crashes when tab sharing is active (Looks to be memory leak)
• Continue to try and land standalone code.
• Investigate sending H.264 instead of VP8 video to standalone WebRTC. (Not certain how critical this is as performance of VP8/OpenGL appears adequate)
• Land bug 1048425 Enable support for tab sharing with Roku device. Possible now that there is something to test against.

Eugen Sawin

Past

• Janus Proxy (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Janus)
  • Fixed (disabled) DOM injections for HTTPS resources on HTTP sites (gh node-janus/56)
  • Fixed websockets support (gh node-janus/54 gh node-janus/55)

Present & Future

• Janus Proxy
  • Investigating performance issues (using the new metrics and marionette tests)
  • Looking into <picture> element injection
  • Adding TCP/socket stats
• bug 1034114 - WebApp startup slowed significantly by debug server

Sylvain Cleymans

Last week:

• Fixed performance testing

Next week:

• Finish performance testing
• Finish image compression

Brian Nicholson

• Transitioning to dougt's team to work on privacy and security
• Wrapping up review queue and some bugs

WesJ

<Read Only> Landing these guys (its taking a bit)

• bug 1058150 - Use a restricted profile for guest mode. Landed again this morning.
• bug 966493 - Cannot request fullscreen when inside a touchstart event.
• bug 815682 - Lock screen widget/shortcut for Guest Sessions on Android 4.2 and above Widgets. Chasing down some Android 2.3 nits. There are little changes for this scattered through startup. Hopefully with:
• bug 897711 - [guest] Provide an indicator for guest mode in the UI. it will be clear if we make a mistake. :)
• bug 1042199 - Widget for searching from error pages. This changes how we decide what url to show in the urlbar a bit.

Also looking at:

• bug 901360 - Convert to Downloads.jsm in Firefox for Android and bug 1063217 - Support a PDF DownloadSaver
• bug 1064611 - Allow requesting cached content from nsIWebNavigation. For better offline/error experiences.

LucasR

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Last week

• Top crasher fix
  • bug 1041448 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.PinSiteDialog$3.onFocusChange(PinSiteDialog.java)
• Prep work to merge larch to m-c
  • bug 1053252 - Create different package name for larch so it can be installed beside Nightly
• Tablet refresh (Fixing reftest failures)
  • bug 1014987 - Display tabs horizontally
  • bug 1015447 - Add a new tab from horizontal tab strip
  • bug 1017307 - Close a foreground tab on horizontal tab strip
  • bug 1017313 - Close a background tab from horizontal tab strip
  • bug 1018426 - Switch a tab on horizontal tab strip
• Toolbar refresh
  • bug 1055536 - Too many differing background greys throughout the browser
  • bug 1057438 - Rewrite FadedTextView
  • bug 1060394 - Move FadedTextView to the widget package
  • bug 1061508 - Consider fading edge in toolbar's title instead of ellipsis
  • bug 1063914 - Restore edit mode's [x] icon
• Misc
  • bug 1020505 - Regression: Browser menu has width issues
  • bug 1062231 - Menu share icon is misaligned to the right
  • bug 1065369 - Consolidate 'add tab' behaviour in Tabs

Next week

• Merge larch to m-c
• More tablet and toolbar stuff

liuche

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• Follow-ups for Onboarding (bug 1059792, bug 1063748)
• bug 1062257 - "Remove" behavior in home panels
• reviews, chatting with UX about future onboarding
• Next: search activity, Private browsing contextual hints

Margaret

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Highlights:

• Settings telemetry
• Search activity
• Attending JSConf EU this weekend

Past:

• 1061644 - crash in java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Couldn''t find search engine for identifier: YAHOO at org.mozilla.search.providers.SearchEngineManager.createEngine(SearchEngineManager.java)
• 1062632 - Remove unused history panel view and styles
• 1063128 - UI Telemetry for Settings records empty preference name
• 1058813 - Add telemetry for custom preferences
• 1063177 - "+" button overlaps text in long search suggestions
• 1057631 - Use real locale when pulling search engine out of the jar
• 1059537 - Add support for parsing icons out of search plugin XML
• 1049206 - Design for the "blank state"/"first run" experience when user has no search history

Present:

mcomella

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Past

• bug 1046017 - Taps are offset on some devices

Present

• Browser toolbar refresh
  • bug 1058909 - Implement new tablet toolbar display mode
• bug 1001655 - Replace applicable Strings in test code with StringHelper references
• bug 960746 - Back/forward button state can get out of sync on tablets
• bug 1020534 - Tablet toolbar icons hard to read on dark lightweight themes
• bug 1062338 - Regression: Back button icon missing in menu on some small screen (?) hardware (?) devices

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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• Attempting to kick-start a discussion around services to boost usage. Please chime in. https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/service-brainstorming
• Hacking away at dead code and obsolete libraries.
• Landing stages of splitapk work.
• Got frustrated, decided to fix Sync's scheduling on desktop. We now sync automatically when your machine wakes from sleep.
• Reviews, advice, perf, etc. etc. -- the usual.

Upcoming

• Accept-Language stuff.
• More perf/APK work.

nalexander

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• Code: Remote Tabs home panel has landed (bug 1014994). Many small tickets still open to hammer out issues (bug 1063742, bug 1063765) and re-instate cut features (bug 1064304). Split pane tablet view should hit review this week.
• Reviews: working with ckitching to make annotation processing a Real Child. ckitching claims significant code size wins (~100s of kb) if we can make Proguard obfuscate our sources safely. Action in bug 1064554.
• Testing: first meetings (jlund, gbrown) and feedback cycle for running instrumentation tests in automation (meta bug is bug 1064004).
• Testing: |mach robocop| has landed (bug 874729).

Past

• 1003877 - [meta] Custom server support for Firefox Accounts on Android
• 1058160 - Specify main activity org.mozilla.fennec.App with a default intent over org.mozilla.search.MainActivity
• 1056707 - Kindle: No way to remove Firefox account
• 1040945 - Make AndroidEclipse backend make target install native libraries more aggressively
• 785199 - Give remote tabs a context menu
• 1014994 - create a synced tabs panel
• 1062566 - Update to Java 1.7 and bump SDK version in AndroidEclipse backend templates
• 1062638 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.RemoteTabsExpandableListAdapter.getChildView(RemoteTabsExpandableListAdapter.java)
• 1063028 - Change tests/browser/junit3 Java package root to be org.mozilla.gecko
• 874729 - Add ability to run robocop tests to mach

Antlam

• Past
  • Toronto Work week
  • N2R project moving forward
  • Started co-ordination with Arcadio's team for Firefox for Android's own website
  • bug 946471: Firefox channel on Roku
  • Firefox Search UX work
• Upcoming
  • bug 1065065: Firefox Search visuals for history items
  • bug 1060413: V1 visuals for default state of tablet UI
  • Tablet's overview presentation with Yuan

Yuan

• Last week
  • Synced up with Robin on addons and N2R
  • Presented launcher and lock screen study to mobile team
  • Talked to Arcadio about onboarding "Get Started"
  • Worked with Anthony on Tablet Refresh
  • Gave UX feedback to bug 1062257, bug 1061612, bug 1060678

• This week
  • Continue the work on Tablet Refresh with Anthony
  • Coordinate with mozilla.org and creative team on Android product page and in-product onboarding: bug 1064538
  • Follow up the implementation of Share to Firefox, light-weight onboarding screen
  • Give UX feedback to bug 847435,bug 989094.

Robin

Last week

• Met with Yuan and Anthony re: (N2R)
• Add-on research
• Menu refresh

This week

• N2R \m/
• Continue Add-on research
• Continue Menu refresh
• Syncing up with Anthony and Yuan
• Provided feedback on bug 1044401

WebRT

• bug 960584 - notify user of download progress indication when fetching APK - landed
• bug 1021395 - Web app machinery dumps lots of semi-sensitive data to logcat - WIP rebased
• bug 1029691 - Manifest not being checked on APK installation - needs rebasing

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Garvan

• Stumbler currently off due to start time regression: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064677
• cpeterson following up on to-do item for UX: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027078

Feature Focus

• Note:If you are working on a feature targeting anywhere up to 35, and it is not listed below already, please call it out to me.
• Updated including proposed 35 feature set
• See Roadmap for more information, Meta bug details etc...

Firefox 33 (Beta) - Release: Oct 14, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Videocasting (Roku, Firefly, Chromecast)
• [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements - Backend
• [ON TRACK] OEM distro service
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v2(Distribution support & non-Mozilla suggested sites)
• [ON TRACK] Tabs updates and improvements
• [ON TRACK] Privacy: option to clear history on exit or after a certain amount of time
• [ON TRACK] Janus - Phase 1 (Client)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s):Aragonese (an), Kazakh (kk), Xhasa (xh), Frisian (fy-NL)

Firefox 34 (Aurora) - Release: Nov 25, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Provide a wifi toggle widget on error pages
• [AT RISK] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [ON TRACK] Tab mirroring (Chromecast)
• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Updates
• [ON TRACK] Add support for Restricted Profiles (Prefer: safe)
• [ON TRACK] Share handler overlay (landed but not turned on, nightly & aurora only)
• [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements, native client-side work
• [ON TRACK] Kindle-related fixes
• [ON TRACK] First-run Splash Screen Overlay

Firefox 35 (Nightly) - Release: Jan 6, 2015

• [PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v2
• [ON TRACK] Sync Tabs panel
• [PROPOSED] Settings Rewrite (includes:bug 975377
• [IN PROGRESS] Fatfennec: Minifying JS
• [ON TRACK] Search activity v1
• [ON TRACK] Moz Stumbler
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
• [PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v1
• [PROPOSED] Change default search engine to Bing
• [IN PROGRESS] Fatfennec: Splitting the APK – gingerbread phone release
• [BLOCKED] {{{1}}} Turn on HTTPS for Bing bug 958873
• [PROPOSED] Privacy: DDG as a built in search engine