Mobile/Notes/15-May-2013
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Schedule
- Released Fx21 (Fx22 Beta is soon)
- Next merge: 2013-06-24
- Next release: 2013-06-25
Major Topics for This Week
- Released Fx21
- Congrats everyone! New web content fonts, Holo-ish theme changes, distribution file support (themes, bookmarks, pinned sites), Long-tap session history and HTML5 improvements. Overall feedback seems positive.
Friends of the Mobile Team
Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.
- Bruce Wu landed his first patch in bug 726015 - "Firefox is in offline mode" is misleading when there is no network connection
- Tetsuharu OHZEKI fixed bug 868845 - Convert the way to store preference of show url to pref.js.
- Brian Ecker fixed long-standing clipboard crash bug 870333.
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!
James W. (snorp)
- Bug 871390 - Leaking Shmem with NoSwap canvas update
- Bug 848482 - [SkiaGL] SourceSurface doesn't currently work with SkiaGL
Kats
GBrown
- Last week:
- bug 867626 Expose Shumway in navigator.plugins
- bug 842899 Intermittent java-exception | android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDiskIOException: disk I/O error
- bug 872050 remove /data/local/xpcb from tegras in the cleanup step
- bug 870768 Intermittent testHistoryTab | Awesomebar URL stayed the same
- bug 872244 Collect /data/anr/traces.txt after Android test runs
- bug 870056 Enable testClearPrivateData
- Enabled more xpcshell tests
- Investigation: bug 869030 Robocop testDoorHanger and testSystemPages cause future reboots on pandas
- Next:
- PTO Friday, Monday, Tuesday
- bug 870553 A blocklist/whitelist for Shumway
- bug 869030 Robocop testDoorHanger and testSystemPages cause future reboots on pandas
- bug 867360 Watcher dies sometimes on Pandas
- bug 797615 Intermittent testHistoryTab, testBookmark, testHistory, testSystemPages, testVkbOverlap | PaintExpecter - blockUtilClear timeout
Chris Lord (cwiiis)
- Done
- bug 866461 - Bing.com constantly resizing with the dynamic toolbar
- Doing
- bug 869696 - Gralloc is really slow on the Geeksphone Peak (and other Adreno 205 devices?)
- bug 870311 - Touch events are wonky on high dpi devices
- bug 803299 - Use 24-bit colour on 24-bit screens (patches r+'d but backed out due to reftest failures)
Chris Peterson
- Done
- Blocked waiting for desktop Push API to land; implementing Java background service in the meantime.
- bug 863103 - Add BackgroundService runIntentInService() and WakeLock
- bug 863154 - OutOfMemoryError at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeStream()
- bug 828563 - m.here.com GPS not finding correct location on Galaxy Nexus
- bug 868604 - JavaScript Warning "test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)?" in "chrome://browser/content/downloads.js"
- bug 869517 - Fix JSFlatString RootKind compilation error when building with --enable-root-analysis
- bug 871022 - Remove unused GeckoApp.StartupMode code
- Next
- Push API
- Web Activities API
- topcrash bug 849589 - RuntimeException: Only ByteBufferInputStream is supported at org.mozilla.gecko.mozglue.NativeZip
JChen
On PTO starting today until end of May
- Past week
- Fixed bug 860879 - ANR @ org.mozilla.gecko.PromptService.finishDialog
- Follow-up: bug 870060 - [meta] Make PromptService usages asynchronous
- Privacy review for bug 863777 - Teach ANR reporter to use the profiler to get a native stack
- Fixed bug 846660 - java.lang.InstantiationException: cant instantiate class char
- Spent more time on chronic bug 847983 - IME in designmode doesn't seem to work very well
- Fixed bug 860879 - ANR @ org.mozilla.gecko.PromptService.finishDialog
GCP
- Last week:
- Investigate a mochitest-4 failure on tbpl.
- bug 863290 crash in webrtc::videocapturemodule::DeviceInfoAndroid::NumberOfDevices
- Next week:
- bug 871575 Investigate and fix the nss shutdown crash that we see on Android
- bug 862808 Local Video is upside down on Android when in portrait mode
- bug 867185 Camera names should percolate upwards to the UI
Brian N
- Done
- bug 868553 - Make about:home use a ViewPager
- Tab/session restore bugs (bug 869413, bug 865005, bug 872328)
- Investigated startup crash on LG Optimus Black (LG P970), bug 856445
- Next
- Few more session restore bugs, hopefully some test cases
- Ouya
Sriram
- Quick share menu - cl.ly/image/1r1S0H2C0Q25
- HTC crashes due to styling - bug 866501
- Screen artifacts in awesomebar search acceptance - bug 850217
- Playing with Ouya
- Review of big lucasr patch for editing mode.
WesJ
- Bug 826325 - Decide where window.open should open content - have a working solution. Cleaning up
- Bug 871464 - Master password menu isn't updated after enable/disable the password
- Bug 863367 - Unable to parse url -- java.net.MalformedURLException: Unknown protocol: app
- Bug 862377 - Android WebRTC permissions UI will only respect first doorhanger - Adds the ability to add a variety of input elements to doorhanger prompts
- Bug 872388 - Allow creating a homescreen shortcut when an bookmark is made - Looking for feedback. Adds the ability to add buttons to toast popups.
- Bug 853844 - Investigate removing the pageload throbber - Build with a progress bar in there for playing with.
UX Pings
- Bug 808636 - Update visual style of mobile error pages
- Bug 704229 - Unify touch video controls
- Bug 710364 - Opening a link in a new tab context menu header is wrong with image links
LucasR
Margaret
- Done
- bug 868342 - Crash in BrowserToolbar.setTitle
- bug 869634 - Update empty favicon style
- bug 870858 - Correctly scale favicons on about:home
- bug 857987 - Add a "Night Mode" to reader mode
- bug 871014 - Polish reader mode text style menu
- bug 862543 - Update "exit reader" icon
- Blog post about dominant color favicons
- Next
- Help land lucasr's patches in bug 869494
- about:home work on fig
Scott (jwir3)
Last Week:
- bug 847872: Reflow zoom on double tap only (still having some difficulty with tests - specifically testVkbOverlap on Android and I'm kind of blocked on this before I can land).
- bug 862763: Performance of nsLayoutUtils::FontSizeInflationEnabled needs some work (should land this week).
- Landed HResize performance enhancement for reflow-on-zoom.
This Week:
- Land reflow-on-zoom on double-tap only.
- bug 870788 : Reflow-on-zoom differently for subdocuments.
- bug 865654 : caretPositionFromPoint produces wrong offsets when near text input boundary
- bug 766599: Reframe to prevent crash in nsFontInflationData (this will allow us to dynamically change font inflation prefs without a reload).
Other:
- Will be in Taiwan next week for web rendering workweek.
BLassey
- bug 866957 cell tower location reporting, patch up for Hannos's review.
- bug 867517 Gecko-based WebView, patch up for Finkle's review
- bug 833795 Content jitters when hiding url bar
MFinkle
- Metro work week in Vancouver
Ian Barlow
- Work in progress
- Getting up to speed on Mixed Content blocking, and thinking about the mobile UX for it
- Getting into some visual design work for about:healthreport soon
- bug 864958 Some subtle adjustments to the PB chrome
- bug 808636 Reviewing work in progress on mobile error pages
- Continuing work with Product on some UX prerequisites for Mozilla Apps on Android
- Standing by for any and all questions about Multipage About:home
- Usability testing plan for Multipage about:home
- TV design concepts (Zhenshuo)
- New tablet concepts (Yuan)
- Designs ready to go
- Lots of exciting refinements lined up for Reader Mode
- bug 862445 Refinements to Serif view
- bug 871014 Refine Reader Menu
- bug 872046 Refine "Entering Reading Mode" experience
- bug 871593 Improved article-to-article Reading List navigation
- bug 871600 Add end mark to Reader Mode articles
- bug 862543 Rethink Exit Reader icon
- bug 871994 Provide better visual feedback for Add to Reading List long press
- bug 869123 Quick Share -- shortcut to most frequently used sharing service
- bug 867371 Updated Settings UI in progress
- bug 853844 New progress indicator
- bug 867633 Consolidate lock icon and forward button animations in toolbar
- bug 847435 Updated look for back session history menu
- bug 868998 Reveal title bar by scrolling a certain distance
- Lots of exciting refinements lined up for Reader Mode
Security/MGoodwin
WebRT
PiCL
Feature Focus
- Fx22
- [AT RISK] Added locale: Slovak
- State of good repair:
- [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter
- [ON TRACK] New tab UI <==ibarlow and I agreed to rename this line item to "refinements"
- [ON TRACK] Performance improvements
- Fx23
- [AT RISK] Firefox Health Report
- [AT RISK] Added locale: Turkish
- [AT RISK] Added locale: Hungarian
- [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
- [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
- [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, confirmed: preffed OFF
- [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
- [ON TRACK] READER: Serif/Sans Serif font toggle, Add to reading list from long tap, add to reading list from context menu
- [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default
- [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling
- Fx24
Quickshare? bug 869123 - Quick Share from Android menu
Mixed Content? bug 860581 - Add support for Mixed Content Blocking
- [ON TRACK] READER: night mode
- [PLANNED] Packaged apps support
- [PLANNED] Web Audio API
- [PLANNED] API: Push notifications
- [PLANNED] API: Web activities
- [PLANNED] API: Contacts
- [PLANNED] SkiaGL improvements
- [PLANNED] Addition of search engines
- [PLANNED] Set Top Box optimization
- [PLANNED] Directional game console navigation
- [PROPOSED] API: Payments
- [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
- [PROPOSED] Location-based search engines
- [PROPOSED] Changing default search engines by locale
- [PROPOSED] Shumway: generic video player
- Will create new project page with Mobile-specific work to be done when known
- [PROPOSED] About:home redesign
- [PROPOSED] Reader improvements
- [PROPOSED] Profile support for alternate browser configurations
- [PROPOSED] Change default search engine for zh-CN
- Fx25
- [PROPOSED] Priveleged apps support
- [PROPOSED] L10N multi-locale build - investigation by 24
- [PROPOSED] Shumway - branded players
- Will create a project page for Mobile-specific work when known
- [PROPOSED] API: Cloud
- [PROPOSED] Flavours/variants: Kinderfox, Silverfox, Corpfox, Devfox (as add-ons?)
- [PROPOSED] Further add-on support
- [PROPOSED] Solid developer environment
- [PLANNED] Dynamic Snippets
Round Table
QA
- a couple nightly crashers that would be good to fix before turning on Aurora updates https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2013-05-13#Mobile
- SK locale was intended to be added in Beta 1. This was missed. We are not respinning.