Mobile/Notes/11-Dec-2013

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Topics for This Week

Disable proguard locally

You can now use the MOZ_DISABLE_PROGUARD envvar to disable ProGuard on your local builds

Third party service integration a.k.a. Lists/Hub

Started holding weekly status meetings Wed 9am PST (30 mins before this meeting). See notes here: https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-hub

You can now add UI telemetry probes. See bug 932092 for details. [dev-doc-needed]

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. New contributors are highlighted in bold.

• retornam fixed bug 790898 - Match desktop in restrictions for Add Search Engine option
• Isura Edirisinghe fixed bug 944162 - Add ispixel assertions to AssertionHelper
• Tetsuharu OHZEKI fixed bug 944925 - Add an option to switch dynamic toolbar mode
• Stefan Sobering fixed bug 947610 - Fix spelling error in "remember password" string
• capella fixed bug 946030 - HTMLTextAreaElement should be considered an input element for text selection

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!

James W. (snorp)

• Bug 948003 (flash busted in Nightly)
• Single GLContext for SkiaGL
• Skia rebase

Kats

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• Mostly working on B2G/Gaia APZC bugs now
• Wrote patches for bug 944479 and bug 940889 (tracking-27+) but they are failing some mochitests so I need to look at that. Working on it as I find time

JChen

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GCP

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• Last week:
  • Fixes for off-main-thread preferences (bleh)
  • Study Load Adaption code, simulate network stress, find bugs
  • Study upstream changes for CPU monitoring
• Next week:
  • Start modifying the rate/resolution adaption code to take CPU load into account

Randall Barker

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• Last week: Landed bug 932295 Android video capture should autofocus, closed bug 942069, grappled with hg(mq).
• This week: More bugs, evaluate MediaEncoder bug 879688 for use in Fennec.

Brian Nicholson

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• Bug 878597 - Selecting another tab during restore startup switches back to previously selected tab
• In progress: Bug 946022 - Implement requestAutocomplete for Firefox for Android

Sriram

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• Talk about optimizing performance at DroidCon India
  • https://hasgeek.tv/droidconin/2013-2/788-optimize-performance-in-android-apps (<-- video link with autoplay)
• Read 500+ mails.
• Starting with Quick Share changes.

WesJ

• Cleanup the action mode stuff - dependencies in bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• Working on a cleanup service: bug 942611 - Stop Firefox Mobile from leaking Storage space by leaking file uploads and bug 942612 - Stop Firefox Mobile from leaking Storage space by forgetting about pending clash reports
• Trying to make quickshare a bit easier to implement: bug 943568 - Replace Prompt.PromptListItem with GeckoMenuItems

LucasR

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• Blog post: http://lucasr.org/?p=3867
• bug 942231 - Allow for reordering and removing home page tabs
• bug 946517 - Provide an environment variable or mozconfig switch to disable ProGuard
• bug 946233 - Revert FF28 to single quickshare behaviour
• bug 945375 - When choosing share from the three-dot-menu, Firefox crashes.
• PTO from Dec 13 to Jan 3

liuche

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• PTO
• Telemetry:
  • bug 942280 - UI Telemetry section in about:telemetry
  • bug 942279 - Probes for UI Telemetry
  • thanks for mfinkle and rnewman for picking up while I was gone!
• bug 939778 - Spinning favicon

Margaret

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• Done
  • Consolidated some copy/pasted logic in content providers - bug 941357
  • Sorted out some search icon issues - bug 939172, bug 946802

• In Progress/Next
  • Content provider to back lists data (including a test!) - bug 941318
  • API to allow add-ons to register lists on about:home - bug 862805
  • Help with any other critical-path lists work

mcomella

• Side note: https://github.com/mcomella/lazylink

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• Past
  • bug 910859 - Bootstrap new UI testing framework
    • bug 938969 - Intermittent in testAboutHomeVisibility: got http://mochi.test:8888/tests/robocop/robocop_blank_01.html, expected Browser Blank Page 01
    • Writing docs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/UITest
  • bug 935807: D-pad arrow keys move focus outside textarea instead of navigating within
  • bug 938827 - Remove reflection from FennecNativeActions/Driver
  • bug 928566 - Use more descriptive parameter names in robocop assertion methods
  • bug 947527 - Correct waitForPageIndex output for device
• Present
  • FHR architecture docs
  • bug 939329: [meta] Enable JavaScript linting in mobile/android/
  • bug 938824 - Remove reflection from testSearchSuggestions
  • bug 946656 - TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | testSessionHistory
  • bug 947550 - Intermittent testAboutHomePageNavigation
  • Better Wiki template
• Future
  • FHR: create bugs/roadmap for potential next steps
  • bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)
  • MyList, RSS provider (bug 942283)?

RNewman

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• Partner work.
• Misc FHR and Sync bugs.
• Discussions around Java-side password manager: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Java-side_replacement_for_nsILoginManager
• UI telemetry landed. Now you can write probes.
• Tweaked URI autocomplete.
• Reviews and such.

BLassey

• Was on vacation last week
• landed bug 944168 (null pointer when adding tab to GeckoView) and bug 944104 (create GeckoViews programmatically) which got review while I was gone
  • just noticed I didn't address mfinkle's nits in bug bug 944104, will do that
• need to land the patches on bug 944043

MFinkle

• Landed patch to do speculative connections from the AwesomeScreen (bug 943475)
• Updating the core second screen code based on feedback, ready for review (bug 938571)
  • Design and implementation for the Roku app is in bug 946471
• Meeting with UX to discuss UI Telemetry probes since the code has landed

Ian Barlow

• Trying to make sure folks have what they need for
  • Third Party Service Integration on Home
  • New Quickshare designs
  • Shumway prefs -- coming soon
  • Geolocation pref -- coming soon
• Coordinating with UX folks on
  • Tablet refresh (Yuan and Anthony)
  • Autofill improvements (Arun)
  • Roku (Zhenshuo and Anthony)

Arun

Previous week

• Wrapped up form auto-fill research findings
  • https://www.dropbox.com/s/tpios9zg6ezuxdi/Form%20Auto-fill%20%28Dec%204%29.pdf

• This week (and the next)
  • Designing interactions for form auto-fill

WebRT

• install/launch/uninstall
  • install/launch patch updated to include uninstall flow, posted to bug 934756 for feedback, and received feedback from mfinkle and fabrice
  • expect to have patch for review this week
  • mfinkle suggests blassey or wesj for reviewers; any takers? anyone already on vacation?
• automatic updates
  • in progress on apk-updates branch
  • expect to have patch for feedback this week
• testing/debugging
  • discussed with product team, came to consensus on sufficient experience
  • work not yet begun but expected to be well-scoped and require few Fennec changes
• APK Factory service
  • product requirements and user stories are in User:Clouserw/APKFactory
  • code is in three GitHub repositories
    • apk-factory-library: the APK library from which the service builds APKs
    • apk-factory-service: the service that uses the library to build APKs
    • apk-factory-service-load: a load tester for the service
  • signing key storage is the long pole; ozten discussing with security/ops principals

Feature Focus

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Fx27 Ships on 02/04

• [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)
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

Fx28 Ships on 03/18

• [AT RISK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+ <== will ID "blockers" with QA on Friday to help contain scope
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] bug 932865 - Hang detection, Background Thread Monitoring (Compositor)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be)

Fx29 Ships on 04/29

• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on
• [ON TRACK] Telemetry probes for Fennec UI elements
• [AT RISK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [AT RISK] PDF.js support (v1 cupcake)
• [AT RISK] WebApp experience - APK Synthesis
• [AT RISK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [AT RISK] Project video to second screen (preffed off)
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] My List: Manage current lists in settings
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Indonesian (id)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Hindi(hi)

Fx30 Ships on 06/10

• [PROPOSED] Third-party service integration MVP
  • [PROPOSED] My List: How My List works (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Save any web-viewable content (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Add new My List from Promotional Panel (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Subscribe to feed or service as a new list (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Add new and improved list management in Settings (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] Service integration: Downloads (MVP reqs only)
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language