Mobile/Notes/14-Dec-2011

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Schedule

• 12/20 is the next merge

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!

Kats

• Last week
  • did a bunch of reviews for pan/zoom stuff
  • implemented scrollbars fade-away (bug 704784)
  • fixed regression causing viewport corruption (bug 708683)
  • fixed viewport adjustment on rotation (bug 704738)
  • fixed background tabs messing with foreground viewport (bug 709805)
  • did some work on find-in-page (bug 695172)
  • looked through unassigned p1/p2s and closed a couple that have been fixed

• Next week
  • see if find-in-page can be done and polished by dec 20
  • other p3 bugs in my list, or any unassigned p1/p2 bugs that need work
  • see if i can get robotium working locally using patches from bug 701076 and get some regression testing for pan/zoom

GBrown

Last week:

• supporting Robotium efforts

Next week:

• more Robotium!

AlexP

Last week

• bug 595008 - Make Android IME more efficient by reducing communication between Java and Gecko
  • Researched the possibility to reuse BaseInputConnection class functionality
  • Implemented the change & submitted for review
  • Tested on several devices with different IMEs
• The change simplifies the input handling, makes it less error-prone, and fixes some existing bugs (at least bug 706342, bug 708918)

This week

• Finish bug bug 595008
• Continue working on IME bugs: Mobile/IME_Bugs

Chris Lord

• Last Week:
  • Fixed bug 705092 - Kinetic scrolling on web content is a bit too slow now
  • Worked on bug 709120 - There is often a perceptible delay when the screen is updated during panning
  • Worked on bug 708307 - Decouple tile size from texture size
  • Try to help snorp with gralloc stuff
  • Reviews
• This Week:
  • Fixed bug 708307 - Decouple tile size from texture size (also fixes bug 705387)
  • Working on bug 709152 - There is excessive checkerboarding when panning, especially on single-core devices
  • Looked at using GLES2.0 (not trivial like I thought :()
  • Look at using NPOT textures
  • Continue looking at optimising panning perf
  • Reviews

Chris Peterson

• Last Week:
  • bug 708114 - Getting my first Fennec patches reviewed and landed.
• This Week:
  • bug 709230 - Investigate ProGuard tool to shrink/optimize Java .class files
  • bug 710078 - Land patches to disable auto-updater for Beta and Official builds (which will rely on the Google App Market's updater)

GCP

• Last week
  • bug 706740 Firefox locks up and won't shut down when visiting a phishing test page (and similar bugs)
  • bug 699199 Upgrade path from XUL to native fennec
• This week
  • Review comments on 699199?
  • bug 696141 Add-ons manager has Ts costs
• Blockers
  • None

Brian N

• Done
  • Session restore (tabs/history/undo tab close)
• Next
  • Minor session restore fixes
  • Character encoding

Sriram

• Last Week:
  • Completed UI for form assistant
  • Worked on URL bar and found so many problems with action bar height
• This Week:
  • Completed new Tabs menu
  • Working on URL bar after fixing the number of "drawable/" folders to use
  • Will be working on passwords content providers
• Blockers:
  • None

MBrubeck

Done:

• bug 710302 - going to about: pages does a 'feeling lucky' search
• bug 701804 - PageActions must be initialized before registering actions
• bug 709485 - Fix browser sizing after toggling the sidebar in tablet mode
• bug 708937 - Don't run Android-specific functions on non-Android platforms
• bug 708772 - Use tablet mode on Android 4 (ICS) tablets (awaiting review)

Next:

• bug 695178 - download manager (starting on investigation)
• bug 699052 - back button should close the selected tab and return to the previous tab when possible (almost done; see bug for work-in-progress patch)
• bug 703029 - expose pref for text inflation font size

Margaret

Done:

• Landed mobile UI for click to play flash (bug 702653, bug 702653)
• Need to wait for the tree to open to land platform bits (bug 707886)
• Disable save as PDF for about:home and XUL pages (bug 707665)

Next:

• Site options UI (bug 706876)
• Land form autocomplete (bug 695444) and file follow-ups

BLassey

Last week:

• bug 708171 fixed XUL fennec hang (which broke tests) resulting from merge
• bug 708283 Follow up crash on launch bug for youtube player
• bug 709267 l10n STRINGSPATH needs to be absolute
• bug 706574 show native about:home in onCreate
• bug 704520 stop loading useless honeycomb plugins
• bug 710194 got rid of strict mode dialog
• bug 708961 use GeckoAppShell.allocateDirectBuffer instead of ByteBuffer.allocateDirect
• bug 707929 null pointer exception thrown while reading recommended addons from apk
• bug 710328 start up crash from null pointer when attaching idle handler

Next week

• bookmarks & history import (maybe?) bug 710330
  • need UX in bug 710331
• more bugs

Madhava

• Last week: overall polish review; ui reviews
• This week: design freeze; keeping track of where final round of polish is here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/AndroidPhoneUI-finishline
  • lots of polish happening right now -- see above link for the latest
  • designs in for
    • character encoding
    • clear site prefs
    • itemization of starting-up-the-app cases

• Two questions!
  • what's the plan on thumbnail quality
  • who can move readability bugs along?

• This page knows all, UX-wise: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/UserExperience

Ian Barlow

Last week

• More polish!

This week

• Even more polish!
• bug 708700 Header cleanup
• bug 706667 About:home cleanup
• bug 708414 Firstrun start page (Sync setup CTA)
• bug 704588 About:firefox cleanup
• bug 704864 Reworking tab menu with thumbnails
• bug 708616 Awesomescreen background tweak
• bug 695204 Larry menu
• bug 710260 Pre-release (Aurora, Nightly) variants of in-content UI

No blockers

Patryk Adamczyk

Last Week
+ Updated widget design to reflect the newer aesthetic
+ Created a padding / sizing spec for the widget and attached the assets in bug 708707
+ Updated Add-Ons manager design to reflect the newer aesthetic seen in the header bar and awesome screen, mock ups attached to bug 704415

This Week
+ Will scrub the newly implemented add-ons screens, will file bugs against polish if any abnormalities are seen.
+ Will create an updated spec, to modify colours and graphics to align with the newer style, should only be graphic swap and CSS text colour changes.