Mobile/Notes/19-Mar-2014

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-04-28

Topics for This Week

Snippets

Started testing snippets in Nightly yesterday - please report bugs if you see any!

Beta Hotness

Firefox Accounts + Sync and Webapps merged to Firefox Beta (Fx29). Huge shout out to AaronMT: Aaron's hard work and infinite patience has been absolutely essential to the Firefox Accounts + Sync effort on Android and Desktop.

Tiles

We will start the basic work for Tiles in Fx31. It will be broken into different phases of work, each slated for a different release. For Fx31, we will look at adding default bookmark-like tiles that appear in the empty thumbnails. We'll do some open posts to get the community involved in picking the set of default bookmark/tiles.

UI Telemetry

We plan to push UI Telemetry in Fx31 and will create a Hack Week next week to get the current WIP code landed.

Firefox Hub

Work continues to get Firefox Hub feature complete for Fx31.

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.

• vivek fixed bug 959382 - Create BaseTest.setPreferenceAndWaitForChange helper method (first patch)
• Vlad Tanase fixed bug 976144 - Don't show progress bar on load of about: pages

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)

• Figuring out ServiceWorkers on Android. Lots of progress made, but hornets nest of startup issues remains.

JChen

<Read Only>

Past week

• Working on Java/JS communication in test harness
• Working on automated BHR processing

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Cleaned up Roku NDK Port. Started working with device but had issues with white listing.
• This Week: Work with Roku engineer to get code on device.

Brian Nicholson

<Read Only>

• Done
  • bug 979166 - Refactor dynamic toolbar code
  • bug 983714 - Fix DynamicToolbar VisibilityTransition flags
  • New progress bar style landed (again) bug 962103
  • Regression hunting for bug 983202
• In progress
  • bug 946022 - Implement requestAutocomplete for Firefox for Android

jdover

• Finished up home panel folders / filters
• Further work on tab switcher prototype
• Focusing back on download manager and web activity support

fixed

current

sola

This week

• bug 968308 - UI telemetry for home panels
• bug 857990 - Save/Restore scroll position for an article in Reader Mode
• bug 909618 - Remember about:home tab selection
• bug 959297 - Get description and approx. reading time for reading list items

liuche

<Read Only>

• PTO
• More Home Panels Settings
• UI Telemetry
• bug 903535 (Strings for new geolocation policy)
• Been using Eclipse for dev - pretty nice!
  • http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2014/02/14/getting-started-with-the-android-eclipse-build-backend-for-fennec/

Margaret

<Read Only>

Highlights

• Home banner bugs
• Hub RSS and user testing add-ons
• PTO Thursday/Friday this week

Fixed

• 976232 - Banner shown in Guest Browsing
• 976308 - Remove search engine name from initial search suggestions prompt
• 982461 - Support launching an intent to the current application package
• 983129 - AWSY: ~10 MiB regression in startup resident memory usage on March 13
• 968640 - Lazy init HomeBanner using ViewStub
• 984873 - After tapping a home banner, delay showing another one
• 982181 - Tapping on History panel buttons interact with banner (Android 2.3)

mcomella

<Read Only>

Past

• :(

Present

• Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
• bug 939350 - Create Python linter wrapper
• bug 965548 - Add a way to close edit mode in one tap
• bug 957894 - Update account pickling code for Firefox Account

Future

• bug 983437 - Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
• bug 898613 - [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

esawin

Summary

• finishing and landing helper app patches
• fixing shutdown crash for debug builds

Next week

• house moving

RNewman

<Read Only>

Highlights

• Sync scheduling, reviews, etc.
• Yakking.

nalexander

<Read Only>

Highlights

• Reviewing sync scheduling, coding, etc.
• Next wave for FxAccounts.
• Yakking.

Fixed

• 980478 - Sync fails to get token - invalid timestamp issues (TokenServerInvalidCredentialsException)
• 917527 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException: get field slot from row 0 col 0 failed at android.database.CursorWindow.getString_native(Native Method)
• 974627 - Decorative images in Firefox accounts page don't need assistive text
• 979537 - mobile/android/base/geckoview_resources.zip deps are wrong
• 979388 - mobile/android/base/AndroidManifest.xml.in make deps are incorrect
• 982138 - Set ANDROID_AAPT_IGNORE (or include --ignore-assets) to aapt invocations
• 974015 - Change: "Firefox online services" to "Firefox cloud services"
• 974942 - Don't share strings/reuse "Terms of service" and "Privacy notice" (subject vs. object)
• 974133 - Wording change: "Firefox account" => "Firefox Account"
• 974129 - Change: replace cloud and Firefox icons in Getting Started
• 974124 - Change: borders, padding, and colors
• 983350 - Send explicit user agent for FxA and token server requests
• 967022 - Firefox Accounts (Sign In) - Weird spinning animation in the Sign in button (Gingerbread)
• 978944 - Use Android native code pbkdf2sha256 (from NativeCrypto library) in FxAccountClient

BLassey

• bug 928096 - UI for tab streaming
  • selection dialog landed
  • recording indicator patch up for review
  • next up is putting thumbnails in the selection dialog
• bug 980197 - on long press of a phone number, select the whole phone number, landed
• bug 979470 - When a phone number is highlighted, offer to call it from the context menu or action bar
• bug 983439 - AAPT should ignore mercurial merge conflict files

MFinkle

• In MoTo next week
• Picking up Roku casting support again

Ian Barlow

• Meetings
• Telemetry Dashboards

Arun

• Form Autofill designs are complete. Bugs are being filed as I speak. Here's the metabug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=985516

• PDF.js bugs to follow soon.

• Next in line: Bug 663803, Bug 762298

WebRT

• team remains focused on release blockers, bug fixes, and minor enhancements
• we're GO for Fx29 and will solicit testing during beta cycle
• bouncing off zarro blookers
• Noteworthy Bugs:
  • bug 985184 - WebappsUpdateTimer.js not packaged with Fennec (fixed, uplift requested)
  • bug 985195 - WebappsUpdateTimer shares timer ID with nsUpdateService (fixed, uplift requested)
  • bug 984028 - some apps have default Android icon at some resolutions (fixed)

Feature Focus

• Congrats on Fx28! Roadmap has been updated: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap

Fx29, Ships on 04/29

• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactor
• [ON TRACK] Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668
• [ON TRACK] Promo snippet for Sync
• [ON TRACK] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [ON TRACK] Ability to "Hide" existing panels in about:home (see the full project page for more details)
• [AT RISK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on, bug 862801
• [AT RISK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [AT RISK] Replace throbber with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776. UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] APK Synthesis on by default
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Marketplace UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.5 integration
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889 (nice to have, shift to 30 if needed)

Fx30, Ships on 06/10

• [AT RISK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 942231
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [AT RISK] Firefox Hub v1 (RSS feed support + 2 add-ons)
• [PROPOSED] Progress Bar Improvements for Fx30 bug 981059
• [PROPOSED] Placeholder for FxA/Sync Backlog
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR), bug 979250
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX), 979251 bug 979251
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Malay (ms), bug 979257
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021

Fx31, Ships 7/22

• [PROPOSED] UX Telemetry
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete)
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Marketplace discovery feed add-on (project page TBD)
• [PROPOSED] Promotional banner enhancements
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Quickshare on the context menu
• [PROPOSED] First-run feature tour
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
• [PROPOSED] API: Web activities
• [PROPOSED] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)

Fx32, Ships on 09/02

• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v3 (promo panel, bugfixes & polish + 4-5 add-ons)
• [PROPOSED] Password handling improvements
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
• [PROPOSED] Gestures
• [PROPOSED] My List: Auto-play video and audio lists
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Kitkat download integration

Round Table

• crash rate for Firefox 28 is 1.5 per/100 adu, Population is still quite small so the number may move around a bit. Though this is the lowest crash rate for quite some time.
• Have some video regressions in 28
  • might result in a 28.0.1
  • bug 983211
  • bug 963621