Mobile/Notes/13-Nov-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-12-09

Topics for This Week

• Heads-up that there is some discussion in bug 924692 about how to implement touch-based text selection on Metro/B2G. Once that's working we'll probably want to use it in Fennec also. CC yourself on the bug if you're interested in following along.

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.

• Dominic Kuang fixed bug 930566 - Change sans-serif title to bold (first patch!)
• Stefan Sobering fixed bug 893774 - Doorhanger API should allow null for buttons (first patch!)
• fedepaol fixed bug 934345 - Downloading an APK crashes fennec
• capella fixed bug 840144 - Make about:config better
• swarooprao fixed bug 936727 - UpgradeReceiver logging

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

<Read Only>

• More APZC/metro work
• Still keeping an eye on incoming Fennec graphics/panning/zooming bugs

JChen

• Past week
  • Background hang monitoring work
    • Landed bug 935089 - Array util methods should support mozilla::Array
    • New patch reviewed for bug 935092 - Make a way to get another thread's pseudo-stack
    • Patch under review for bug 909974 - Background thread hang monitoring
    • Patches under review for bug 932865 - Background thread hang reporting
  • Learning new Telemetry backend
    • ANR reports are being discarded ATM
  • Interviews
• Next
  • Getting background hang monitoring landed
  • Keep learning Telemetry backend
  • Going through backlogged bugs

GCP

• Last week:
  • WebRTC 3.43 Landing.
  • Regression hunting after the landing bug 937119
• Next week:
  • EBU DevCon preparation / presentation
  • bug 932295 Make sure autofocus is on
  • bug 932692 WebRTC crasher
  • Load monitoring/adaption

Randall Barker

<Read Only>

• Last Week: Fixed crash related to cross process mutex and shared memory.
• This Week: Resolve visual glitches in rendering.

Brian N

• Looking at and testing bug 913985 (JNI generation for ProGuard)
  • All green on try
• Basic WIP for bug 935190 - Try to show cached pages when Fennec is offline
• Re-trying bug 874985 (session restore tests)
  • Also all green on try
• bug 937945 - Don't store activity Context in GeckoProfile
• Looking at renaming prefs-per-profile

Sriram

• Working on QuickShare
  • http://cl.ly/image/3Q0c1d2z1d2m
  • http://cl.ly/image/0h0I0J27390i
• More Reviews

WesJ

• Bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• Bug 936593 - Allow overriding button's active color
• Bug 924693 - payment callbacks do not appear on Android

LucasR

Last week

• Toolbar code revamp
  • bug 871522 - Factor out EditText bits from BrowserToolbar into a CustomView
  • bug 938205 - Factor out editing UI into a separate View
  • bug 936470 - Correctly track page action state to set title padding accordingly
  • bug 937641 - Move toolbar-related classes to the toolbar package
  • (Bounced) bug 935628 - Remove BrowserToolbarBackground from toolbar
  • Lots of reviews
• Misc
  • bug 936519 - Move general-purpose views to the widget package
  • bug 936522 - Move preference-related to the preferences package
  • bug 933739 - Issues in URL domain autocompletion

Next week

• Fx26 bug fixing
• More toolbar stuff

liuche

• bug 852608 - OpenSearch landed! (long-tap in urlbar on OpenSearch pages)
• bug 937769 - Missing onError method in adding search engine (follow-up to OpenSearch)
• bug 937870 - nsSearchService error prompt ignores confirmation argument
• bug 932092 - UI Telemetry probe jsm
• bug 934596 - Support OpenSearch engines in search shortcuts

Margaret

(I'm at TRIBE, so I'm missing the meeting)

• Done
  • bug 846569 - Tab list should keep scroll position when closing a tab
  • bug 935414 - Crash when lots of words are pasted into the urlbar
  • Landed Adrian's patch for bug 899187 - Robocop tests for bookmarks page

• In Progress/Next
  • TRIBE/PTO the rest of this week
  • API for adding custom lists to about:home - bug 862805
  • Dynamic snippets, now as a feature built into the browser - bug 937820
  • More about:home context menu work - dependencies in bug 931021

mcomella

• Past
  • D:
• Present
  • bug 910859: Bootstrap new UI testing framework
    • Third revision is up
  • bug 935604: (r?) Regression: Graphical corruption shown on screen during page load
  • FHR architecture docs
• Future
  • FHR
    • Minor bugs and regressions
    • Create bugs/roadmap for potential next steps
  • Researching the use of a linter (JSHint?) in browser.js
  • bug 935807: D-pad arrow keys move focus outside textarea instead of navigating within
  • bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

RNewman

<Read Only>

• Working on locale selection. bug 936756
• Filing all the Kindle Fire bugs (whiteboard: kindle)
• NSS started causing 2.3 crashes on startup. bug 935831
• VideoPlayer is totally busted; started fixing it. bug 936851
• Working a little on making multilocale APK generation easier. bug 934196
• FxA reviews.
• Still catching up on some reviews for nalexander and margaret. Sorry, folks!

nalexander

<Read Only>

• |mach projectify|
  • instructions http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2013/11/07/building-fennec-with-eclipse-instructions/ following up http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2013/11/05/building-fennec-with-eclipse-ide-demo/
  • landing bug 933000 today
• FxAccount
  • bug 922147 and bug 892025 about to land on elm

BLassey

• more tab streaming
  • bug 936549 tab sharing won't stream
  • looking at creating a raw input stream so we can serve via http
• landed bug 930062, build geckoview library as an ant project
• rev'd color picker UI bug 875750
• looked into a minimal xul/js for GeckoView, saw startup win before I broke it
  • We should look at moving as much js as possible out of the start up path for fennec too
    • related, bug 922342, PermissionPromptHelper.jsm takes ~220ms on startup on a galaxy nexus
  • We shouldn't need "magic js" to be included in an app, need to move viewport stuff (and anything else that's required) into the platform

MFinkle

• First set of GeckoView API improvements landed
  • Will get a simple JavaDoc hosted somewhere
• Next up for GeckoView
  • Permissions in ChromeDelegate
  • Session in ContentDelegate
  • Reduce amount of browser.js code
• Simple "Share video to TV" project is underway
  • Roku-based receiver initially
  • Prototype is ready (tested by myself, Brad and Wes so far)
  • Exploring new UX ideas
  • Launching point for more second-screen ideas

Ian Barlow

This week

• Home
  • Heads up on a few bugs that came out of a Home walkthrough in yesterday's product call
    • bug 938165 Home screen favicon display refinements
      • Screens - https://bug938165.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=831551
    • bug 938153 Put the globe favicon back into the URL bar
    • bug 938148 Typing in new Home feels slow
    • bug 938142 Hide Home screen footer with keyboard instead of pushing it up
    • bug 938141 Thumbnail flickering when Home is loaded
  • Detailing out the "Add Lists to Home" flows for RSS feeds, Bookmarks Folders, Synced Tabs, and Online Services
    • Flows http://cl.ly/image/3w3F0S1P1j12 (still needs some annotation)
  • Overall 'Hub' document http://cl.ly/0J1z1Y3F3X2m
  • Up next - more detail on what lists of feeds / services look like
• TV Casting
  • Working with Zhenshuo on some UX designs for casting videos and tabs to TV
• Autofill improvements
  • Working with Arun on some research here

Arun

• PDF.js
  • Wrapping up interaction design (Anthony from UX team has begun visual design work)
  • Chenxia has taken logs of errors currently observed in the desktop version of PDF.js running on Android

• Form Auto-fill
  • Research phase (expect research findings around end of next week)

WebRT

• making progress on synthetic APKs
• hope to have patches by the end of the week
• in the meantime, this "apks" branch remains the source of truth
• and you can compare it to the master branch to see our work in progress

Feature Focus

Fx26

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-US, FR, DE and es-ES
• [AT RISK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-GB
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued

Fx27

• [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
• [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
• [ON TRACK] Developer improvements: IDE support bug 924961
• [ON TRACK] Memory usage improvements: bug 931843
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

Fx28

• [ON TRACK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets add-on
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts
• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactoring?
• [PROPOSED] Share video to second screen?
• [PROPOSED] Tab Streaming?
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Greek (el)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Punjabi (pa-IN)
• [PROPOSED] Developer improvements: Geckoview support for 2.3 -> 4.3 <== nightly only

Fx29

• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Serbian (sr)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Vietnamese(vi)
• [PROPOSED] WebApp experience - APK Synthesis
• [PROPOSED] PDF.js support (v1 cupcake)