Mobile/Notes/28-Oct-2015

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Easy-to-read wiki
• Hard-to-read release calendar

Topics for This Week

• Big Android BBQ recap?

Friends of the Mobile Team

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• Christian Schmitz (:tynn) fixed bug 1172083 - Link to "customize search providers" when user presses search label in quick search bar
• Jonathan Almeida (:jonalmeida) fixed bug 1175555 - Add a build flag to exclude hyphenation dictionaries from Android builds
• Jonathan Almeida (:jonalmeida) fixed bug 1217232 - Hide placeholder svg path in context menu when unblocking image
• Manav Batra fixed bug 1214626 - Gradle build: Update mediarouter dependency
• Prabhjyot Sodhi [:psd] fixed bug 1206628 - Newly added search engine is not displayed in the quick search bar only after going to the search submenu from Settings
• Sergej Kravcenko fixed bug 1216114 - Context menu should be attached to url input instead of to the whole BrowserToolbar
• Vivek Balakrishnan[:vivek] fixed bug 1201547 - Error pop-up does not appear when add-on install is blocked from direct link to XPI
• Vivek Balakrishnan[:vivek] fixed bug 1215586 - Remove redundant icon property from MenuItemInfo
• Vivek Balakrishnan[:vivek] fixed bug 1217016 - [JavaScript Error: "TypeError: aSubject is null" {file: "chrome://browser/content/browser.js" line: 5856}]
• Vivek Balakrishnan[:vivek] fixed bug 1218129 - XPInstallObserver.observe() generates JavaScript Error: "NS_NOINTERFACE: " @ browser.js - line: 5858

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

• Platform Notes

Android front-end

margaret, ally, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, (nalexander/rnewman)

• Notes
• Landed Android Design Support Library
• Wrapped up the last of the tabs tray bugs
• Follow-ups to Theme.AppCompat and shareplane changes
• Last-minute desktop parity changes to signal to users when they are on an insecure page with a password field
• Continued work on settings reorganization (patches will land in 45)
• Continued work on Google Cloud Messaging-backed DOM push notifications: GCM integration and notifications UX changes
  • Patches started landing: build integration (bug 1207708), smoothing corners off the dom PUSH implementation (bug 1214366)
• Starting work to distinguish between local and remote visits
• Making plan for unified telemetry on mobile

FYSA: Sebastian @ Droidcon London Thur/Fri

iOS

st3fan, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux, (nalexander / rnewman)

• Promoted Build 1.1 #1113 to the App Store, currently in review, we expect to be reviewed next week tuesday
• Work is happing for both 1.2 and 2.0
  • 1.2: Bugfix release, address crashes, bugs, regressions - 1.2 Bugs
  • 2.0: Upcoming release for February - 2.0 Bugs (Not fully triaged)

The iOS goals and deliverables are now shared via Mobile Team - 2015 Q4 Goals / Deliverables

UX

darrin, tecgirl, antlam, gemma

• Android
  • Settings re-org
  • FFB follow up
  • Notifications (Push and web)
  • Top Sites panel explorations
  • 'Magnify small areas' follow up
• iOS
  • Logins management
  • TouchID & Passcode for PB and Logins
  • Lightweight themes exploration
  • Toolbar exploration
• UR

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Android Roadmap in Aha!
• Android Roadmap in Aha! (public)
• Suggest new features for the Android Roadmap Here

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• iOS Roadmap in Aha! (public)
• Suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap Here

Round Table

• [mcomella via cpeterson on yammer] Americans' attitude on privacy: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/05/20/americans-attitudes-about-privacy-security-and-surveillance/
  • Disclaimer: It's long and I did not read it
• [mcomella] Can I get some help compiling a list of our dashboards & tests to put on wiki.mozilla.org? I'd like to know what automated metrics we test & check for on mobile. For example, eideticker, areweslimyet, etc.
  • I feel I'm losing track of what areas we focus on and try to prevent regressions. e.g. in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1217415 the user mentioned we're slower than chrome to show content, making it feel like we're slower in general, but then I found out we don't run eideticker anymore and only seem to test first-run perf on autophone. Seems lacking – am I missing something?