Mobile/Notes/26-Mar-2014

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-04-28

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.

• Ashwin Swaroop fixed bug 983860 - AndroidFxAccount.enableSyncing() log message says "Disabling"
• Vlad Tanase fixed bug 983475 - Remove shouldShowProgress from browser.js
• Chris Kitching fixed bug 987340 - NPE at org.mozilla.gecko.favicons.decoders.LoadFaviconResult.getBytesForDatabaseStorage(LoadFaviconResult.java)

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

• bug 984458 - NativeJSObject (JNI-wrapped Javascript object) to replace JSON for Gecko-to-Java messaging
  • 100-200% performance improvement compared to JSON
  • Direct conversion from Uint32Array to byte[] for binary data instead of base64

GCP

<Read Only>

• Last week:
  • Reviews: VP8 HW, SafeBrowsing, WebRTC
  • Profiling WebRTC

Working on

• Next week:
  • Get B2G building again
  • WebRTC H264 accel

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Worked on bug 759448 - Prevent listeners from being registered until needed. Got Roku box white listed for NDK work.
• This Week: Wrap up bug 759448 and move forward on WebRTC on Roku.

Brian Nicholson

<Read Only>

Past/present/future: bug 946022 - Implement requestAutocomplete for Firefox for Android

WesJ

<Read Only>

• Helping at GDC last week.
• One last try run, and hopefully quickshare will land. Had to do some compat work for Gingerbread.
• bug 985875 Regression in select elements
• bug 956716 Lockup with context menus on base64 images
• bug 933979 Cleanup after webapps
• Reviews
• Digging back into second screen stuff. There was actually a lot of interest in this (and mobile in general) at gdc.

jdover

<Read Only>

• Download manager and web activity support
• MapReduce jobs for processing telemetry data: https://github.com/gerfuls/fennec-telemetry

current

LucasR

<Read Only>

Last week

• bug 972098 - Cursors returned from the SQLiteBridge don't update when data updates
• bug 969043 - Log warning if HomeProvider consumer tries saving data outside of sync window
• bug 974454 - Allow showing only description in panel image items
• bug 987962 - Reset isLoaded state in HomeFragment on configuration change
• bug 974434 - Add support for items with variable height in PanelGridView
• bug 974601 - Avoid saving new configuration on refresh if still using default HomeConfig
• (In progress) bug 976064 - Create a loader per panel view instead of per dataset id
• (In progress) bug 988355 - Only force reload on configuration changes in DynamicPanel
• (In progress) bug 940575 - Implement per-profile SharedPreferences, eliminating uses of PreferenceManager
• Tons and tons of reviews

Next week

• Prepare talk for event next week
• Tiles v1 work
• More hub stuff

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

liuche

<Read Only>

• bug 959917 - Wrapping up Home Panels reordering
• bug 942279 - UI Telemetry: v1 documentation in the tree, iron out event/session guidelines, trying to land first probes
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/UITelemetry#Technical_details
  • Look for an email update on how to get started [mobile-firefox-dev]
• reviews
• misc other bugs (bug 981694, bug 985174)

Margaret

<Read Only>

Highlights

• Wrapping up the last of the banner bugs
• Making progress on RSS Hub add-ons for Fx30
  • https://github.com/leibovic/world-cup-feed
  • https://github.com/leibovic/fennec_rss
• Re-thinking how our panel picker works - bug 987175, bug 987869

Fixed

• 984873 - After tapping a home banner, delay showing another one
• 982181 - Tapping on History panel buttons interact with banner (Android 2.3)
• 943262 - Don't use charsetTitles.properties on Android, only allow Character Encoding menu items that desktop allows

mcomella

<Read Only>

Past

• investigate bug 979623 - NullPointerException when starting geckoview_example
• bug 985610 - Remove duplicate menu_item_textsize definition.
• Investigate bug 977945 - Intermittent PROCESS-CRASH | java-exception | java.lang.StackOverflowError at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method) | followed by testSessionHistory | GeckoEventExpecter - blockForEvent timeout: Gecko:Ready

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)
• bug 963446 - Extend SyncAccountDeletedService to handle deleting client record for Firefox Accounts + Sync 1.5

esawin

<Read Only>

nalexander

• Eclipse

I blogged 10 mini-video tutorials about developing Fennec with Eclipse at http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2014/03/24/eclipse-mini-tutorials/

• Firefox Accounts

Diving deep into the weeds that need trimming in order for us to rev our on-disk Account storage formats, a pre-requisite for bug 975625. Plan is to re-work the Android Account types for all Fennec packages in order to prevent cross-package shenanigans. This will allow both the Beta and Release packages to sync at the same time (which hasn't been supported up to now) at the cost of requiring both packages to set up Sync. (For perspective: we believe we have a handful of users with multiple packages installed and in active use. The vast majority of our userbase won't notice a difference.)

BLassey

• Getting reviews on the UI for Tab Streaming bug 928096
• stole bug 979623, NPE in GNM from GVE, from mcomella
• bug 979438 Unify target SDK version
• trying to carve out time to look at Chromecast support

Ian Barlow

• Hub support - wrapping up initial RSS-themed release
• Tiles - initial design exploration underway
• UI Telemetry
  • Prepared some initial questions for us to investigate
  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/android-uitelemetry-prioritization
• Roku
  • spinning this back up with Zhenshuo and Anthony again
  • getting very close to a testable v1 version. Keep an eye on Nightlies!
• Tablets
  • Yuan and Anthony pulled together some initial design sprint findings here: http://f.cl.ly/items/1f0C3b2f3F2d111N3V3k/Tablet%20refresh%20sprint%20findings.pdf
• FxA
  • Trying to get a little Android promo into the desktop FxA flow
  • Have some bugs to look at for nalexander, appreciate your patience :)
• Q2 planning
• multi-year planning
• In Vancouver next week
• In Denver the week after
• Omg the meetings

Arun

• Updated with designs
  • Bug 663803 - Provide magnifying glass in areas of clustered links
  • Bug 985516 - [meta] Form Autofill

• Working on ideas & sketches for Android Search Widget

WebRT

• Fx29 Beta testing underway with focus on developers
• great discussions in Hacks blog post, some further discussion in dev-webapps forum and Yammer thread
• priorities are developer-facing issues in Fx29 Beta and user-facing issues in Fx30 Aurora
• still bouncing off zarro blookers for Fx29 release
• Noteworthy Bugs:
  • bug 985184 - WebappsUpdateTimer.js not packaged with Fennec (fixed and uplifted)
  • bug 985195 - WebappsUpdateTimer shares timer ID with nsUpdateService (fixed and uplifted)
  • bug 984028 - some apps have default Android icon at some resolutions (fixed server-side)
  • bug 982557 - updating Fennec to a version with Synthetic APKs triggers app updates that hang on launch (fixed; will request uplift)
  • bug 982559 - updating to Synthetic APKs and tapping Home screen icon for previously-installed webapp crashes Fennec (awaiting review)
  • bug 986085 - User-hand-holding to check the Unknown Sources checkbox (under investigation)

Feature Focus

<Read Only> <== I have to jet to a 10AM but will put progress bar improvements to 'on track' for Fx31. Also, what about Fx30 permissions bump? Yes or no?

Fx29, Ships 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. UX Signoff: 03/04
• [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 UX Signoff: 03/04

Fx30, Ships 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 on 07/22

• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete)
• [PROPOSED] UX Telemetry
• [PROPOSED] Tiles v1
• [PROPOSED] Contextual tips for users
• [PROPOSED] Project video to second screen
• [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] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language, UI lang switching
• [PROPOSED] API: Web activities
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889
• [ON TRACK] 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)

Round Table

Good read

http://www.otsukare.info/2014/03/24/webcompat-china

QA

• Crash rate is up in 29b1 around .3 crashes per 100/adu
  • bug 952721
  • bug 976375
  • A number of crashes around stagefright
  • updated topcrash keyword
• Testing the progress bar