Mobile/Notes/16-Mar-2016

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• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

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

Friends of the Mobile Team

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• Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu fixed bug 1253555 - [Static Analysis][Resource leak] In function BrowserProvider::getTopSites
• David Anderson [:dvander] fixed bug 1256371 - WebGL is non functional
• David Lam [:dlam] fixed bug 1254606 - Import current Readability.js
• Dinesh Polathula (:dineshp) fixed bug 1255374 - Remove unused class BounceAnimatorBuilder
• Francesco Lodolo [:flod] fixed bug 1226858 - [l10n] Improve mechanism to determine locales shipping in release builds
• Francesco Lodolo [:flod] fixed bug 1255816 - Add Danish localization to Firefox for iOS 3.0 release
• Henry Addo fixed bug 1173652 - Merge DisplayTextLayout and ToolbarEditLayout Layout To Make Text Alignment Happen Automatically
• Jalpreet Singh Nanda [:imjalpreet] fixed bug 1193208 - Replace ColorUtils.getColor() with ContextCompat.getColor()
• Karim Benhmida [:karim] fixed bug 1127578 - Consolidate hide/showUrlEditLayout into BrowserToolbarPhone/Tablet
• Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1224216 - copy/paste doesn't work in type=number text fields, browser ignores focusable during selection
• Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1252802 - Web page scrolls when dragging a single caret up or down on an input field
• Maurya Talisetti fixed bug 1241855 - [Lint: MissingPermission] Missing check for Permissions
• Melchiorre Alastra (:Mailkov) fixed bug 1145821 - Add browser menu "Add to reading list" button test
• Stanislas Daniel Claude Dolcini fixed bug 1147211 - Replace usages of var with let in LoginManagerPrompter.
• Tristan fixed bug 1178722 - Select with multiple selection - options visibility not respected in popup
• Umesh Kumhar fixed bug 1256236 - Remove unused Distribution.getDescriptor()
• Umesh Kumhar fixed bug 1256288 - Remove unused class Divider
• Vivek Balakrishnan[:vivek] fixed bug 1137333 - Clean up UI of "Clear browsing history" button
• cijo fixed bug 1254965 - Remove unused Favicons.getSizedFaviconForPageFromCache()
• farhanpatel.17 fixed bug 1210131 - Wrong favicon shown after tapping back
• k.krish fixed bug 1231655 - Remove GeckoApp.showButtonToast()
• malayaleecoder fixed bug 1254983 - Replace toast notification with snackbar when choosing to copy password from doorhanger
• ronak khandelwal fixed bug 1076966 - Use "immersive" fullscreen mode

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

• We're planning to ship APZ and native text selection handles in 48, so file bugs if you see badness!
  • You can block bug 1230609 for selection handles
  • And bug bug 1206874 for APZ

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha, daleharvey (nalexander/rnewman)

• Dale is joining the team to work on progressive web apps
• Getting ready to roll out content notifications tests with Switchboard
• Continued work on reading list migration, combined history panel
• Patches in development for remote media controls and improved video controls
• Prototype for floating action bar on Android M
• Getting wheels in motion for EOL Gingerbread
• Enabled push notifications on Nightly (try it out!)
• FYI: mcomella/liuche @ Driodcon SF Thursday/Friday

iOS

st3fan, bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux

(The iOS team is in another meeting

Builds & Releases

• Doing more Firefox for iOS 3.0 builds on TestFlight. Next one happening tomorrow.

Development Updates / Work in Progress

• Lots of work on 3.0 Bugs, L10N issues, regressions

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma

• New History panel doc
  • https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/15QW-xUh1F45Z7rZYXGnW-Ek1xUfDUdd2wxQ6X3YWA9w/edit?usp=sharing
• We're hiring!

• Android
  • UX experiments
    • Linking to screenshots, Location awareness
  • Home panel improvements
  • First Run
  • Video controls

• iOS
  • Tabs management
  • Addition of 'Home' navigation option
  • Bookmarks Management
  • Certificate handling
  • "Rate this app!"

• UR
  • Office hour change! once every two weeks
  • Monthly Mobile Planning
  • Workflows Analysis
  • Hiring!

A-Team

• Many recent changes to Android tests on treeherder:
  • Android 2.3 builds/tests no longer run on trunk
  • build/mobile/sutagent deleted
  • More 4.3 crashtest chunks
  • dom/media mochitests running in their own jobs
  • No Talos jobs running on Pandas; Pandas retired

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