Mobile/Notes/23-Jul-2014

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Friends of the Mobile Team

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• Bryan Kok (transfusion) helped localize a generated string deep in Android Sync land: bug 1019719

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)

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Brian Nicholson

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LucasR

Last week

• New tablet UI
  • Exploratory prototype (with some real plumbing) for the new tablet UI
  • New RecyclerView-based API for TwoWayView to enable us to easily implementation animations in tabs tray, the upcoming tab strip, as well as magazine-like layouts for Hub, among other things.
• Toolbar refinements (see screenshot)
  • bug 1010740 - Change entry asset and tweak padding
  • bug 1010741 - Show search icon and change text hint in about:home
  • bug 1010739 - Change curve shape to be consistent with Australis
• bug 1012462 - Support suggested sites in distribution files
• bug 1039471 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException: Fragment RecentTabsPanel{422715c0} not attached to Activity at android.support.v4.app.Fragment.getLoaderManager(Fragment.java)

Next week

• Finalize tablet UI prototype, work on the initial core refactorings
• Land toolbar refinements

Margaret

Fixed

• 1038789 - Add clear button to search bar in search activity.
• 1038227 - Collect search history in Fennec
• 1035341 - Search suggestions: change dictionary to OpenSearch
• 1022102 - Clean up the actionbar layout and styling
• 1029682 - For autocomplete suggestions, show which part is matched and which part is suggested
• 1041641 - Search fragment grabs clicks when activity first launches
• 1041026 - Use a single click listener for activating search mode

mcomella

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Past

• 1021356 - Refine visuals in empty private tabs screen
• 1039738 - Private tabs list is cut off for portait orientation
• 1039062 - Remote tabs tray distorted on phone

RNewman

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• Reworking FatFennec bug tree.
• APK splitting research and work.
• Reviewing cloudsync.
• Share overlay UI meeting kickoff.
• Amazon APK investigation.
• Meetings and bugs.

nalexander

<Read Only> Away July 23 through August 12.

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Note:If you are working on a feature targeting anywhere up to 34, and it is not listed below already, please call it out to me.
• 2nd Funnel review meeting scheduled for next Monday, July 28th
• See Roadmap for more information, Meta bug details etc...

Firefox 31 (SHIPPED!) - Released: Jul 22, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home, not via drag and drop (see My List: Manage current lists in settings)
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete)
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [ON TRACK] UX Telemetry
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)
• [ON TRACK] EOL official Android 2.2 Support

Firefox 32 (Beta) - Release: Sep 2, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v3 (bugfixes & polish + more add-ons)
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v1
• [ON TRACK] Contextual tips for users
• [ON TRACK] UI lang switching
• [ON TRACK] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync
• [ON TRACK] Add a Clear History control to the history panel
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend
• [ON TRACK] Support weighed snippets

Firefox 33 (Aurora) - Release: Oct 14, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Videocasting (Roku, Firefly, Chromecast)
• [ON TRACK] Search activity v1
• [AT RISK] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements - Backend
• [ON TRACK] OEM distro service
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v2(Distribution support & non-Mozilla suggested sites)
• [ON TRACK] Tabs updates and improvements

Firefox 34 (Nightly) - Release: Nov 25, 2014

• [PROPOSED] Search activity v1
• [PROPOSED] Moz Stumbler
• [PROPOSED] Share handler overlay
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements, native client-side work
• [PROPOSED] Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default
• [PROPOSED] Kindle-related fixes
• [PROPOSED] Hub add-on: speed-dial panel
• [PROPOSED] First-run tips
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
• [PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v1
• [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v3