Mobile/Notes/11-Dec-2013

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Topics for This Week

Disable proguard locally

You can now use the MOZ_DISABLE_PROGUARD envvar to disable ProGuard on your local builds

Third party service integration a.k.a. Lists/Hub

Started holding weekly status meetings Wed 9am PST (30 mins before this meeting). See notes here: https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-hub

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. New contributors are highlighted in bold.

• retornam fixed bug 790898 - Match desktop in restrictions for Add Search Engine option
• Isura Edirisinghe fixed bug 944162 - Add ispixel assertions to AssertionHelper
• Tetsuharu OHZEKI fixed bug 944925 - Add an option to switch dynamic toolbar mode
• Stefan Sobering fixed bug 947610 - Fix spelling error in "remember password" string
• capella fixed bug 946030 - HTMLTextAreaElement should be considered an input element for text selection

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!

Kats

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Randall Barker

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• Last week: Landed bug 895358, closed bug 942069, grappled with hg(mq).
• This week: More bugs, evaluate MediaEncoder bug 879688 for use in Fennec.

Brian Nicholson

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Sriram

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• Talk about optimizing performance at DroidCon India
  • https://hasgeek.tv/droidconin/2013-2/788-optimize-performance-in-android-apps
• Read 500+ mails.
• Starting with Quick Share changes.

LucasR

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• Blog post: http://lucasr.org/?p=3867
• bug 942231 - Allow for reordering and removing home page tabs
• bug 946517 - Provide an environment variable or mozconfig switch to disable ProGuard
• PTO from Dec 13 to Jan 3

Margaret

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• Done
  • Consolidated some copy/pasted logic in content providers - bug 941357
  • Sorted out some search icon issues - bug 939172, bug 946802

• In Progress/Next
  • Content provider to back lists data (including a test!) - bug 941318
  • API to allow add-ons to register lists on about:home - bug 862805
  • Help with any other critical-path lists work

mcomella

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Ian Barlow

• Trying to make sure folks have what they need for
  • Third Party Service Integration / Lists
  • New Quickshare designs
  • Shumway prefs -- coming soon
  • Geolocation pref -- coming soon
• Coordinating with UX folks on
  • Tablet refresh (Yuan and Anthony)
  • Autofill improvements (Arun)
  • Roku (Zhenshuo and Anthony)