Mobile/Notes/18-Feb-2015

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2015-02-23

Topics for This Week

Firefox for iOS

Team meeting this week in SF. In addition to some stable UX direction on remaining functional areas, we are also starting some bug triage and doing some face-to-face dev work. This week should also see the start of the internal dogfooding program.

Tab Mirroring

We disabled Tab Mirroring on Beta and Release in bug 1133012. For more information see bug 1131084.

Tracking Review

Beta

• Next Build:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Aurora

• Next Build:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

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.

• Michael Holloway fixed bug 924009 - Add check for whether preferences are defined before checking for lightweight theme preference
• AndyP fixed bug 1099500 - Potential memory leak in browser.js due to faulty toast notification handling, bug 1134015 - The button toasts are broken, and bug 982797 - Robocop: Switch tests from using waitForTest to waitForCondition.
• mbrubeck fixed bug 1097337 - Set the Android 5 statusbar color
• vivek fixed bug 1129181 - Make Remote Tabs split pane swipe to refresh apply to both clients and tabs in landscape mode
• dominique fixed bug 1130630 - Move zoomed_view_stub from shared_ui_components to gecko_app
• rricard fixed bug 1130872 - Add Robocop JavascriptTest verifying that AppConstants module can be imported and is sensible, and has been wokrking on bug 1128287 - Intermittent testFindInPage,
• imjalpreet is working on bug 938845 - Merge StringHelper and org.mozilla.gecko.* Strings.
• psd is working on bug 1122331 - Move statically initialized String values from StringHelper constructor to declaration
• lyle-luan finished bug 1134050 - Search history in the awesomescreen

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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JChen

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Randall Barker

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Last Week:

• PTO
• Investigated bug 1131084 - Can not mirror tab to Chromecast device. Appears WebRTC is no longer works as expected on Chromecast. No work around found
• Investigated using Android Presentation API and MediaRouter API to enable tab mirroring to Chromecast.

Next Week:

• Hack fennec to enable screen sharing to chrome cast from within the application using the media router.
• Investigate using the Presentation SurfaceView to render just the tabs content to the chromecast.

Eugen Sawin

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Working on

• IME (in general, but also specifically the following bugs)
  • bug 1134205 - Debug assertion on text input in input forms
  • bug 1134209 - Text deletion copies text in contentEditable elements
  • bug 1051556 - crash in java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid selection notification...
• bug 1093815 - Use AndroidPlatformDecoder for standalone MP3 on Android
  • Blocked on new source reader interface

Brian Nicholson

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• WIP: bug 1132795 - Use Carthage for dependency management
• WIP: bug 1134262 - Figure out a way to encapsulate Browser's WKWebView
• WIP: bug 1131284 - Create pager UI for home panels
• bug 1132181 - Remove SettingsPanel XIB

WesJ

• bug 1133918 - Use SDWebImage for list image loading. Smooth list scrolling
• bug 1129631 - Theme for tabs tray. Initial visual pass here. Some new changes from UX.
• bug 1130609 and bug 1134010 - Scroll urlbar (and toolbar) with the page. Still lots of improvements needed.

liuche

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Highlights:

• Passwords work day, hacking on Doorhangers, discussing recipe design/syntax
• Onboarding discussion
• Reviews, mentoring

Present:

Margaret

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Highlights:

• Still chugging away at reader mode/reading list bugs
• Gave a talk about task.js: http://leibovic.github.io/async-js/

Past:

• 1131106 - Add-on options header is visible even if there are no valid options
• 1131458 - ReaderMode button in the URLbar isn't accessible
• 1120735 - Implement desktop reader mode controls
• 1128724 - "Print" reader mode theme name is confusing
• 1129989 - ReaderParent.jsm doesn't need to be pre-processed

Present:

mcomella

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Past

• 1132165 - Refine padding of Voice input icon

rnewman

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• Reading list.
• Meetings et al.

nalexander

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Projects for this cycle:

• Migrating legacy Sync 1.1 devices testing started last week, no issues immediately
• Pushing FxA support for Reading List
  • Landed sign up and settings UI changes (behind flag) bug 1123107, bug 1123116
  • About to land OAuth implicit grants for Fennec, tracked by bug 1117829
• Implement Firefox Accounts for iOS
  • Tracked by bug iosfxa
  • Screwed up review request for persisting bug 1129158
  • Working with UX on exposing Firefox Account status bug 1129161
• |mach bootstrap| for mobile/android should be good for OS X and Linux now
• Building with Gradle
  • Uploading geckolibs AAR file to TBPL is under review bug 1093242

Past

• 1123116 - Generalize FxAccountStatusFragment to support reading list
• 1123107 - Amend Firefox Account setup flow to allow users to configure only reading list
• 1131635 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.RemoteTabsSplitPlaneFragment.updateUiFromClients(RemoteTabsSplitPlaneFragment.java)

Present

• 1134351 - IOS-143 - Settings - Legal Requirements

Martyn Haigh

Away next week.

Past:

Present:

Stefan

• Finished first iteration of reading list data store, home panel, open from reading list
  • Temporary: You can add to your reading list by long pressing on the bookmark star

Upcoming:

• Finishing dogfood setup (today)
• Fixes for Carthage
• Unbreak app extensions (they don't show anymore)
• Start working on a new UI piece (or: Reading List protocol?)

Ally

• beware sing-a-long updates might be coming!
• Passwords
  • FHR passwords bug is now mine
  • dispute has been resolved with data collection
  • autocomplete=off through review & try
  • digging into keypress bug with MattN
• Mobile only
  • shout out to AndyP who picked up a bug from my list
  • Bug 1124711 - Site identity popup overlaps the URL Bar on phone landed
    • caused a regression where the triangle is detached from the popup box

MFinkle

• Feeling a little like the [chicken] to geo-ip search's creepy monkey:

Fixed

• 1117186 - fix geo-specific search defaults interaction with the defaultEngine getter
• 1130694 - Opening the TabsTray causes all tab thumbnails to refresh and save to the DB
• 825483 - Reduce bfcache size on low memory devices
• 1133012 - Disable tab mirroring on RELEASE

Antlam

• Past
  • Reader View & Reading List (cross platforms co-ordination)
  • Passwords co-ordination
  • bug 1127517: Consolidating color palette for Android
  • iOS mocks
• Upcoming
  • iOS week
  • bug 1112185: Open-in-background with mhaigh
  • bug 1103232: Improve "Add to Reading List" UX
  • Share overlay with mcomella
  • Doorhangers with Chenxia

Robin

Last week:

• UR in Las Vegas for Task Continuity analysis. Met with 4 households (2-3 participants each). Highlights include sharing laptops, mixing OS (Android smartphone/OS Desktop, PC Desktop/iOS devices), handwritten password keeping, emailing themselves links, taking screenshots on Instagram to share.
  
• Reader View - more iterations (prototypes).
  

This week

• iOS workweek
• Further Reader View prototyping, finalizing (design spec).
• FxA flow.

Darrin

• In SF for iOS work week
• Current state of iOS UX Work: http://invis.io/HA254M642
• met with Michael Maslaney to discuss visual language and iconography for iOS v1
• working through UX items on this list: https://firefox-ux.etherpad.mozilla.org/ios-sprint-feb15

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Mobile Roadmap Trello Board

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• New iOS Trello Board
  • Please add yourself to cards :-D