Mobile/Notes/23-Oct-2013

Details

• Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 99998
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 99998
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 99998
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-10-28 (Brace for impact!)

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.

• fedepaol fixed bug 921776 - Notification completed not showing when download was started from a private tab
• capella has been fixing a lot of things, as usual
  • bug 906323 - It should be possible to update a menuitem's label
  • bug 920507 - Uncaught exception / crash when Clear private data -> Browsing & download history
  • bug 928163 - Allow or disallow proper text selection caret display based on HTML <input> type
  • bug 912983 - Text selection "cursor" persists on blur

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!

JChen

• Past week
  • Fixed bug 927429 - Set dynamic UA override URL on B2G
  • Worked on bug 909974 - Compositor thread hang monitoring/telemetry
  • Worked on bug 717878 - Content in input fields can not be scrolled when value exceeds visible width
  • Helping :mchang with bug 927633 - Make child processes access UA overrides through IPC
  • Investigated bug 925012 - Search engine choices pane is completely blank
  • Looked at bug 913942 - Get the first touchmove event after a touchstart earlier
  • PTO
• Next week
  • bug 717878
  • bug 909974

GCP

• Last week
  • bug 898767 crash in mozilla::DecoderTraits::CanHandleMediaType
  • bug 927462 String matching logic in OmxPlugin.cpp is brittle
  • bug 927474 "probably" can play "audio/webm"
  • bug 927480 No symbols/(deleted) for libraries initialized after the crash reporter is initialized
  • bug 928870 Basic tests for Android WebRTC UI
  • bug 921041 Replace the thread local storage impl of GetJNIForThread with JVM::GetEnv()
• Next week
  • bug 689178 Use DT_DEBUG information to enumerate library mappings
  • bug 902000 Add a service that monitors the system load
  • WebRTC uplifting from upstream
• Blockers
  • Weekly complaint about no debug tests + no ARMv6 debug builds

Brian N

• Bug 853045 - Add a mach command creating Eclipse projects for mobile/android
• Bug 929865 - Isolate sources in generated package into a separate directory
• Bug 905703 - Don't pre-process build/mobile/robocop/*java.in and mobile/android/base/tests/*java.in
• Bug 925012 - Search engine choices pane is completely blank
• Bug 928100 - Remove unused grid_icon_bg_activated.png resource

Sriram

• Uplifting patches to Aurora
• bug 926139 - Experimenting with integrating smoothie
• bug 927006 - Use a split action bar - http://cl.ly/image/351t0e3h2o09
  • Added basic support for split action bar
  • Moved the share icon + default app to the action bar
  • Added conditional forward to split action bar

LucasR

Last week

• Firefox for Android Tech talk
• Wrote post about new about:home with ibarlow for our "Future Releases" blog
• bug 918007 - Disable toolbar elements (menu, back, forward) while in editing mode on tablets
• (Investigating) bug 925722 - Search suggestions require an extra tap to hit
• Smoothie bug fixing:
  • https://github.com/lucasr/smoothie/issues/12
  • https://github.com/lucasr/smoothie/issues/16
• Tons of patch reviews

Next week

• Finish slides for Droidcon talk
• More bug fixing on Fx26 (bug 918007 and bug 925722)
• More patch reviews

liuche

• interviews
• uplifts
• Robotium is now at 4.3 (bug 914773)
• bug 852608 - Opensearch - cleanup and debugging, almost done

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 880281 - Make Marketplace more discoverable in about:apps
  • Add-ons tech talk: http://leibovic.github.io/mobile-addons/
  • More distribution files for partners

• In Progress/Next
  • Preparing session for MozFest: http://sessions.mozillafestival.org/proposals/building-your-first-mobile-web-app/
  • Working with snippets team to make actual dynamic snippets add-on
  • Investigating bug 921468 - Layout glitch in about:home display

mcomella

• Past
  • bug 919234: (dup) Regression: Unpinning a site flashes thumbnail into neighbour thumbnail spot
• Present
  • bug 870925: (r-) Add submissions info to FHR documents
  • bug 915918: (f+) If a different tab is selected in the background while in editing mode, URL being entered will open in that new tab
  • Tracking 26
    • bug 924480: (r?) With talkback, Swiping right from toolbar brings you to content, event when about:home is visible.
• Future
  • bug 910859: Bootstrap new UI testing framework
  • FHR
    • Architecture docs
    • Minor bugs and regressions
  • bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

nalexander

Mostly working on FxAccounts + Sync 1.1:

• bug 892025 - HTTP client speaking KeyServer Protocol 1.0
• bug 929066 - tiny tweak for local clock skew
• bug 922147 - Abstract out Sync 1.1 password from Android Sync code base

IDE support reviews:

• bug 853045 - Add a mach command creating Eclipse projects for mobile/android
• bug 929865 - Isolate sources in generated package into a separate directory
• bug 905703 - Don't pre-process build/mobile/robocop/*java.in and mobile/android/base/tests/*java.in

JUnit 3 tests: No progress :(

BLassey

• in Paris for rendering work week
• bug 923795 Add condition to MozParam to detect top 2 (or N) position, landed, gavin asked for a test
• bug 890985 crash in nsStandardURL::SetSpec @ nsStandardURL::BuildNormalizedSpec, landed patch, waiting for nspr review
• bug 930072 put example GeckoView embedding app in the tree, up for review
• bug 930059 Overscroll.java doesn't need to use compatibility libraries
• bug 930062 GeckoView library should support building as an ant project
• bug 930068 GeckoView shouldn't require ACCOUNT access permission
• bug 930070 GeckoView should handle not having fennec-specific classes

MFinkle

• Did a tech talk on GeckoView @ Mozilla London office
  • Lucas started a "Why not use WebApps" discussion that got me thinking about different HTML commands for main menus and toolbars. Think HTML5 context menu commands but for the main menu.
• Getting GeckoView patches cleaned up for initial review
  • These will still be experimental
  • Basic javadocs
• Started looking into UI Telemetry
  • Talked to Gregg Lind re: TestPilot
  • Found that Blake Winton was thinking about the same sort of thing for Desktop
• DroidconUK on Friday

Ian Barlow

• Helping out with product plan grooming
• Defining a first version of Kinderfox (parental controls / kid-friendly browsing)
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Kid_browsing
• TV browsing / Living room UX
  • Looping in UX designers
• Tablet refresh
  • Gathering user feedback
  • Looping in UX designers
• Homepage enhancements
  • working with desktop UX folk on a design plan
  • State of good repair -- refining contextual actions on the homepage: http://cl.ly/image/2z2E1c1X172q
• UX strategy for 2013/14
  • Working with Madhava on a desktop/mobile plan

Arun

Continuing with PDF.js – Focusing on developing 3 ideas.

WebRT

• work ongoing, no specific updates this week
• lots of conversations around security, UX, and implementation

A-Team

• rc4 added to Android 4.0 Opt (Panda)
• Reftests coming soon to Android 4.0 Opt (Panda) -- bug 929447
• Android tests in this week's Orange Factor Top 10:
  • bug 914377 Intermittent testShareLink | View is null and can therefore not be clicked!
  • bug 720452 Intermittent Android jsreftest.html?test=<ANY> | load failed: null

Feature Focus

Fx25 (Ships 10/29)

• [ON TRACK] API: Web Audio
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Settings UI clean-up excluding search provider management
• [ON TRACK] Guest browsing
• [ON TRACK] Page Actions
• [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
• [ON TRACK] Mixed content
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Romanian (ro-RO)
• [ON TRACK] Setting wallpaper bug 886996
• [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging

FX26

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for selected locales <= looks like we need tests but this will likely land? bug 923795 - Add condition to MozParam to detect top 2 (or N) position
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign <= looks like it's backed out but still good progress, thank youbug 918007
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [AT RISK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued

Fx27

These will stick

• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Hindi (hi-IN)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

These will be deferred?

• [PROPOSED] Ability for add-ons to customize sound effects to browser actions <- will be bumped off if we can have some reader / reading list improvements and land some 'save for later' hooks
• [PROPOSED] Directional game console navigation
• [PROPOSED] Set Top Box optimization

• Here are some notable landings:
  • bug 922338 - Update phishing-protection page in infoURL pref across Firefox products
  • Usability Fit and Finish: Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296 - (FaviconRevamp) and Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475 - Android updater notification should provide more information like progress
  • Progress on ANR effort: bug 909974, bug 926574
  • Progress on GeckoView: bug 927451
  • Make marketplace more discoverable in about apps:
  • Awesomescreen: bug 921265
  • Geckoview is pretty much usable, right? for Android 2.3 => 4.2
  • Will the IDE stuff be monolithic? Does it help contributors? Do I smell a blog post?

Round Table

QA

• bug 928441 - content view truncated in landscape
• crash rate is slowly creeping up