Mobile/Notes/18-May-2011

Details

Fennec 5 Beta (May 17)
- Merge happened yesterday
- Builds are available
- Android package ID is org.mozilla.firefox_beta so the beta can be installed side-by-side with other channels
Fennec 6 (May 24)
- Merging mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora
- Branding for Aurora has landed on mozilla-central and will get pushed over to mozilla-aurora when we merge
- Android package ID is org.mozilla.fennec_aurora so aurora can be installed side-by-side with other channels
- We need to re-evaluate the feature list. Most Fx6 features will end up pushed to Fx7.

Work for FF6 -> We have Features, Bugs and Testing
Landed:
- Touch events
- Session Store Enhancements - save the state sooner
- Anti-malware/phishing - defaulted off until the back end uses smaller files
- Better browser feature discoverability
- Visual refresh - backend code landed
- CSS themes for different Android versions - core landed
- Tablet UI - core changes for browser tool panels landed
In-Progress:
- Language selection - patches are close to landing
- Session Store Enhancements - patch started for history and scroll position
- Mobilize text - viewport designs in-progress
Ready to Start
- Better integration for form assistant on Android
At Risk
- Disk cache
- Anti-malware/phishing - backend
- Android text selection handles - stalled
- Tablet UI - actionbar/sidebar design and coding have started
- Visual refresh - css and image changes are in progress
- Others?

Preliminary tests show building with NDK5 gives a nice speedup (10-25% depending on benchmark), but there are conflicting reports as well.

bug 657534 - Fennec 5.0b2 - unsigned builds available
bug 557260 - MobileBuildFactory should inherit MercurialBuildFactory
- Patches pending review.
- We need to land soon, to unblock 6.0 release work.
- Timing would be best either in the 2nd half of this week (before m-c -> m-aurora) or after the m-c -> m-aurora merge calms down.
bug 656371 - remove org.mozilla.fennec hardcodes from Tegra automation
- Ready to land