Mobile/Notes/26-Oct-2011

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Application

Native Front-end

• Native UI Update
  • Summit last week
    • Fennec Native component in bugzilla
    • we have a task list. Working on P1s and P2s
    • If you want to get involved, look at the P3s and P4s.
    • http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-birch-android/
  • Why are we doing all of this?!
    • from 75mb RSS and 35mb RSS child (some shared) --> 65mb RSS
    • startup from 6s to 200ms (awesome bar)

Android Platform

• We now have desktop parity random orange
  • All unstarred mobile oranges should should be treated the same as desktop
  • To get here we had to disable two test suite subsets (J1 and R2)
  • see [1]
• bug 694499 landed on mozilla-central which allows for android builds on OSX

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Kats

• Last week: implemented the save-as-pdf and visited-link-coloring features
• This week: window behavior on keyboard appearing, fixing about:crashes
• Blocking: nothing so far (the blocked bookmarks bug was stolen from me)

GBrown

Last week: startup cache (bugs 696095, 695145)

Next week: continue startup cache work; discuss enabling disk cache on mobile with Necko team

Issues: looking for a way to delete/update/install a file in the profile, how to copy a file from the APK, and how to detect recent installation? (first run)

AlexP

Last week:

• Implemented a first version of download notifications, helped Margaret to take that task over
• Reviewed IME bugs to select those applicable to the native UI: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/IME_Bugs

This week:

• Work on IME bugs

BLassey

Last week: reimplement quit to shut down nicely (backed out), API for addons to add menu items, planning, clear history This week: who knows

Fabrice

• last week : started on add-on support
• this week : finishing add-on support, open web apps API, JS menu and doohanger API

Round Table

• handful of p1 and p2 bugs without owners (QA)
• What are the plans around l10n and Fennec Native bug 695565 bug 697384 (QA)
• Tracking flags were not created for the Fennec Native product do we want them? Create a bug for this and set to block bug 695027? (QA)