Mobile/Notes/30-Nov-2011

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• vidyo: Warp Core

Schedule

• Next merge is Dec 20th
  • The goal is to move NativeUI into Aurora
  • We should be feature frozen by then
    • approval to land will be required after this date.

Major Topics for This Week

• About:Home landed
• User Agent switcher landed
• birch -> m-c update

Stand ups

Suggested format:

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

GBrown

Last week:

• some PTO
• continued devicemanager / mochitest / xpcshell test bugs

Next week:

• finish this round of devicemanager changes
• review disk cache patches: bug 602611

Note:

• xpcshell-tests are currently broken on Android: see bug 706372 (and 698113)

AlexP

Last week

• Reviewed older IME bugs. Closed some, which are not reproducible anymore:
  • bug 669995 - Virtual keyboard does not automatically appear on etherpad
  • bug 670694 - virtual keyboard is not displayed when editing input boxes
  • bug 688736 - Sometimes Virtual Keyboard is displayed while Hardware Keyboard is already used
• Investigated and fixed:
  • bug 701947 - VKB does not appear when tapping into an iframe text box
  • bug 704156 - Unable to overwrite selection in awesome bar using HKB
  • bug 704721 - [ICS/Honeycomb] - VKB backspace key dismisses keyboard and deletes two characters only on the URL bar
• Investigated:
  • bug 701706 - Virtual Keyboard is not dismissed if a tap is performed outside the focused input field
    • Need a better solution to stop unwanted selection while panning
  • bug 705202 - Samsung Galaxy S II & Swype input issue
    • Turned out to be for XUL-based Fennec only
  • bug 705166 - Entering text in inputs fields has regressed in performance; lagged input
    • Regression after bug 703821 - related to extra drawing
  • bug 705457 - Tab key should move focus to the next field in a form
    • Seems like GLSurfaceView does not receive key-down events

This week

• Continue working on IME bugs: Mobile/IME_Bugs

Sriram

• Last Week:
  • Read about ContentProviders and ContentResolvers
• This Week:
  • Submitted patches for ContentProviders for passwords.
  • Tested the patches with an external app to view them.
  • Working on few non-UI bugs.
  • Playing with Fennec on ICS. :D

Margaret

Done:

• Holiday week
• Finished fixing save as PDF progress notifications (bug 704691)
• Started trying to make native autocomplete popups for form history (bug 695444)

Next:

• Keep working on form history
• Talk to Unfocused about helping with click to play flash (bug 549697, bug 702653)

MFinkle

Done:

• Reviews
• Started patch to make Add-on Manager pretty
• Need to experiment with ways to impl the desired add-on model
• Made a small patch to support console API
• Started a clearinghouse for NativeUI add-ons

Next:

• Blog about the error console -> logcat system and how to use logcat
• Blog about the add-on clearinghouse so people can use add-ons in NativeUI
• Get some form of reviewable patch for add-on manager (won't be final)
• Look over remain "feature" bugs and see about getting plans/resources. (Form validation, Sesison restore, Download Mgr, ...)
• Push on AMO to add support for native Fennec

Ian Barlow

Lost my voice, please read wiki below

Finished start page UI designs https://bug701380.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=577988

Adding specs and assets now

No blockers other than flu

Sync (:rnewman)

Got a rudimentary SyncAdapter implemented -- fetches Sync info/collections, meta/global, your keys, unpacks them, and applies server bookmarks to the local device. Next up is proper two-way syncing, history, and such.

On my plate: feedback on sriram and lucasr's code.

Ping on IRC if you have questions or want me to join the call.