Mobile/Notes/06-Nov-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-12-09

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.

• Noppanit fixed bug 774696 - Default icon for about:apps (first patch!)
• Errietta fixed bug 910768 - Add a link to the marketplace in the "No apps installed for this url" toast
• WG9s fixed bug 931469 - Tapping an .apk file download link results in 2 downloads starting, one of which never completes
• Federico finished bug 909932 - A new Notifications.jsm API for add-ons
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Extensions/Mobile/API/Notifications.jsm
• darkowlzz fixed bug 920935 - Reading list items opened using keywords are not opened in Reading List
  • This bug was later marked a WONTFIX and the patch was backed out, but we still like to recognize good effort! :)
• capella fixed bug 906402 - security exception when checking signature of favicon

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!

Sriram

• bug 932967 - LightweightTheme cleanup
• bug 934001 - ImageView's setImageBitmap is evil
• bug 933459 - Reduce unnecessary drawables created by FaviconView
• bug 934658 - Investigated and fixed non-rectangular clipping in UrlBar
• bug 935169 - Minor cleanup on TabMenuStrip
• Working on example application for DroidCon slides

LucasR

This week

• Tons of patch reviews
• bug 935543 - Remove unused members of BrowserToolbar
• bug 935523 - Remove setShadowVisibility() from toolbar
• bug 935530 - Fix subtle misalignment of stop button
• bug 935534 - Misc tweaks/cleanups in toolbar-related layout
• bug 935527 - Make all BrowserToolbar members private
• bug 935526 - Remove redudant uses of 'this' in PageActionLayout
• bug 935473 - Exiting editing mode while forward button is visible might leave it visible and disabled
• bug 934900 - [TABLET] Back/Forward and Bookmark buttons are enabled in editing mode if tap on URL bar before loading page
• (Investigated) bug 883500 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: the bind value at index <n> is null at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteProgram.bindString(SQLiteProgram.java)
• Playing a bit with new KitKat APIs
• Australis bug filing sprint

Next week

• More toolbar stuff, new batch of patches coming soon
• More Fx26 stuff, tracking bugs

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 932694 - about:apps is empty after closing Firefox
  • bug 932830 - Add home banner API to let add-on know when message is shown to user
  • bug 934678 - Write test for Home.banner API
  • bug 925082 - Open PinSiteDialog with current pinned term
  • bug 930589 - Remove "Edit" context menu item from reading list
  • bug 933428 - Remove "Share" and "Add to Home Screen" from about:home context menus

• In Progress/Next
  • Investigating bug 846569 - Tab list should keep scroll position when closing a tab, currently jumps back to active tab
  • Finishing up Adrian's patch for bug 899187 - Robocop tests for bookmarks page
  • Working on dynamic snippets in bug 922792
  • More about:home context menu work - dependencies in bug 931021

mcomella

• Past
  • bug 928598 - (WFM) Some favicons missing in new-new-about-home for tablet
  • bug 870925 - FHR Provider: submissions
  • bug 933445 - Incorrect paths for android-services.mozbuild with fennec-code-copy.sh on Linux
• Present
  • bug 910859: Bootstrap new UI testing framework
    • First revision is up (Bugzilla); feel free to drive-by, but I'll f? a wider audience for the next revision
    • Second revision is on the way (github diff to first revision)
  • 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 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

nalexander

Spent all week working on |mach projectify|. See the small blog post and video at http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2013/11/05/building-fennec-with-eclipse-ide-demo/.

WebRT

• synthetic APK implementation continues apace
• we've started using meta bug 888391 to track our work
• we develop in branches, primarily this "apks" branch
• compare branches to see our work in progress