Mobile/Notes/04-Jun-2014

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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.

• Alex Deaconu fixed bug 1011714 - Clean up removal of Reading List items
• Capella fixed multiple bugs
  • bug 899644 - Tab switcher UI reset issues
  • bug 1014965 - NativeJSObject.optString does the wrong thing on "key":null
  • bug 1012957 - Save about:config changes immediately as made

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!

Alan K. (ack)

• Last week
  • Cleanup/refactoring CloudSync for landing based on review feedback (thanks rnewman!)
• This week
  • Continuing with CloudSync refactoring on data providers

JChen

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Working on

• Also working on using the new unwinder for hangs

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Wrote code for stand alone STS. Started debugging.
• This Week: Finish debugging standalone WebRTC. Begin work to compile for device.

Eugen Sawin

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Sylvain Cleymans

Last week:

• Completed image compression module in Gonzales
• Added a module for ad blocking

Next week:

• Continuing with implementing new modules

Brian Nicholson

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LucasR

Last week

• 1010764 - Make empty tab thumbnails visually consistent
• 1017574 - Force suggested sites refresh on locale changes
• 1009587 - Implement image precedence behaviour around suggested thumbnails
• 1016949 - Fix TestSuggestedSites to account for enable/disable pref

Next week

Margaret

Highlights

• Polishing up new things that landed in Fx32 (clear history button, undo close tab toast)
• Investigating (without success :() drawing regression in dynamic panels if Fx31 - bug 1010986
• WIP for bug 817716 - Add ability to close all tabs
• Making sure hub stuff is ready for Fx30 release
• Talking with eedens about search activity work
• Talking about interview candidates

Fixed

• 701725 - Enable the ability to undo a closed tab
• 998009 - Add a Clear History control to the history panel
• 996708 - Set an explicit width/height for images in dynamic panel empty views
• 1017129 - Polish undo close tab button toast appearance
• 1017633 - Refine 'clear history' feature in History panel
• 997055 - The same feed is added in multiple panels in the home page
• 1017554 - Regression: Empty lists view, no data is shown or fetched
• 1017047 - Undo'ing a private tab restores it as a regular tab
• 1017045 - Wrong tabs are restored via the undo ability after closing multiple tabs at once; the last tab closed is used as the undo for all closed tabs

eedens

Continued work on Android search intent. Latest build: http://goo.gl/DVMsPr .

New Items:

• Live searching as you type
• Search results are actionable.
• Added Duck Duck Go results
• Added pictures for some results (Yelp)

Upcoming

• Prepare MVP:
  • Capture and display recent searches
  • Add telemetry
  • UI/UX tweaks

mcomella

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Past

• 1017142 - Setup sync message given to users of sync 1.1 in the synced tabs tray
• 1017276 - Closing editing mode during open animation puts toolbar into inconsistent state
• 1015450 - Tapping the toolbar during the awesomescreen close animation puts toolbar in inconsistent state
• 1014999 - Remote tabs panel setup/verification for tablets
• 997477 - Add a way to close edit mode in one tap on tablet
• 1019158 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.Telemetry.sendUIEvent(Telemetry.java)

WebRT

Notable Bugs

• bug 1007770 - WebApp update prompt looks scary - update icon - uplifted to Aurora & Beta
• bug 1011093 - WebApp update prompt looks scary - wordsmith notification text - fixed
• bug 957067 - Pass back error when incorrect data passed through in install APK - inbound
• bug 995803 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException - needs branch patch for Aurora uplift
• bug 1009954 - implement unit tests for WebappManager - in progress
• bug 1011832 - Loading my app on Android displays a blank white screen - waiting for reporter
• bug 1013428 - mozilla-apk-cli App Updates side-loaded don't appear - in progress
• bug 1013433 - uninstalling, resideloading, and relaunching app causes it to stall at white screen - in progress
• bug 1003962 - Line Runner hangs on launch with white screen - under investigation

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

Firefox 30 (Beta)- Release: Jun 10, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Quickshare on the context menu, Epic/Meta bug 1014021
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v1 (RSS feed support + 2 add-ons), Epic/Meta bug 1014025
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR), bug 979250
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX), 979251 bug 979251
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Malay (ms), bug 979257
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv), bug 958021
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 960060
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be), bug 521981

Firefox 31 (Aurora) - Release: 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), bug 959917
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete), Epic/Meta bug 1014030
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts, Epic/Meta bug 1014035
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons, Epic/Meta bug 1014037
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data, Epic/Meta bug 1014038
• [ON TRACK] UX Telemetry, Epic/Meta bug 1014044
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)
• [PROPOSED] EOL official Android 2.2 Support

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

• [PROPOSED] Screencasting (Roku), Epic/Meta bug 921924
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v3 (bugfixes & polish + more add-ons), Epic/Meta bug 1014032
• [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v1, Epic/Meta bug 988366
• [PROPOSED] Contextual tips for users
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
• [PROPOSED] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [ON TRACK] UI lang switching
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync (bug 958889)
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Add a Clear History control to the history panel bug 998009
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend bug 852935
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner
• [ON TRACK] Support weighed snippets bug 1002567