Mobile/Notes/24-Sep-2014
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- Mobile Vidyo Room
Schedule
- Next merge: 2014-10-13
Topics for This Week
- Quality/Stability Check-in
- We are past the half way point for Fx35. Make sure you have regressions well in hand for features landing in Fx35.
- Remote Debugging
- We changed the listening port for remote debugging.
- Mobile Platform & Media Goals
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Blassey/2014Q4Goals
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.
- Vikneshwar fixed bug 1066514 - Renamed home_history_list layout to home_list and HistoryListView to HomeList
- Vivek fixed bug 1066062 - Add additional fields to about:feedback submission and is (still) working on bug 1007436 - Revamp visual design of about:feedback
- Manu Jain fixed bug 1061944 - Clicking link loses text selection on Android before content script click listener runs
- zucchini helped update MDN pages about mobile add-on APIs
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)
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- Still working on using SurfaceTexture with MediaCodec
- Having another go at bug 1059797
Alan K. (ack)
- Blogged: http://blog.modeswitch.org/2014/09/22/No-signal/
- CloudSync ready for uplift today
- QA done
- Last-minute patch landed (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1069410)
- Impossible to get Flames, does anyone have some I can use? Should I order + expense them?
- My time is now split between standalone-webrtc (60%) and mesh networking (40%)
JChen
<Read Only>
Past week
Fixed
Working on
GCP
Highlights:
- WebRTC hardware AEC/NS bug landing
- Reverse engineering Chrome source for WebRTC sandboxing
- Intel VP8 Hardware acceleration for WebRTC
- Reviews
- Standalone WebRTC
Past:
Present:
Randall Barker
Last Week:
- Landed bug 1066879 The SSDP implementation can sometimes take too long to discover a device.
- Landed bug 1048425 Enable support for tab sharing with Roku device.
- Landed bug 1053426 Fennec crashes when tab sharing is active.
- Set up private channel with Roku WebRTC Player to enable testing. Contact me privately if you would like access to the channel.
Next Week:
- Investigate new method for implementing standalone WebRTC.
- Investigate sending H.264 instead of VP8 video to standalone WebRTC.
Eugen Sawin
Last week
- Fixed bug 1034114 - WebApp startup slowed significantly by debug server
- Fixed webapp notification context
- Janus Proxy (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Janus)
- Merged image compression changes (new default: libjpeg-turbo) (gh node-janus/59)
Next week
- bug 1051654 - APKs for previous versions of Nightly and Aurora stick around in Downloads
- Janus Proxy
- Investigate mozjpeg issue
- Look into <picture> element injection (postponed)
- Add TCP/socket stats (postponed)
Sylvain Cleymans
Brian Nicholson
<Read Only>
- Downgraded tablet with Heimdall \o/, fixed Galaxy Tab crasher (bug 1067429)
- Landed platform touch redirection (bug 788073)
- Looking into double-tap regression (bug 1071758)
- Landed swipe-to-dismiss for ListViews (bug 1030896)
- Starting on suggested site metrics (bug 1071039 and bug 1068425)
WesJ
- Bug 815682 - Lock screen widget/shortcut for Guest Sessions on Android 4.2 and above. Finally landed. Fixing stuff.
- Bug 1069182 - Unable to exit out of Guest Browsing via system notification
- Bug 1064669 - GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable takes ~212ms during startup
- Bug 816318 - Use System download manager on GB+. Landed, but need to add some build flags. Are debating how/when this will ship with people
- Bug 989094 - Webrtc permissions prompt should remember your last choice. backed out.
- Bug 1063896 - Regression: missing thumbnails in top sites; thumbnails replaced with tiny Favicons
- Bug 897711 - [guest] Provide an indicator for guest mode in the UI
- Bug 1042199 - Widget for searching from error pages
- Bug 1058150 - Use a restricted profile for guest mode
LucasR
<Read Only>
Last week
- bug 1066634 - Tablet UI: make new Tablet configuration-related strings localizable
- bug 1068005 - 'New Tablet UI' preference available on phones
- (In progress) bug 1055604 - Avoid showing an empty tab strip on startup
- Required changes in TwoWayView:
- (In progress) bug 1067388 - Scroll newly opened tabs into position
- (In progress) bug 1024819 - Tab overflow on tab panel
- Side project: new features in Picasso
- Patch reviews
Next week
- More tab strip
- Some toolbar
liuche
<Read Only>
- bug 1059792 - First run external intent (test fixing)
- bug 1014293 - Private browsing contextual hint
- bug 1011712 - Reader mode contextual hint
- Continuing work on contextual hints, onboarding
Margaret
Highlights:
- Search activity v1 final stretch
- "Firefox Confidential" add-on
- Some settings refinements
- Met with AMO team to talk about mobile add-on experience
Past:
- 1066033 - Use orange text selection handles in search bar
- 1067026 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error reading list.txt at org.mozilla.search.providers.SearchEngineManager.getAllEngines(SearchEngineManager.java)
- 1049600 - Show search engine branding
- 1064947 - Default specific prefs for 'Firefox Confidential'
- 1070072 - Regression: unable to double-tap to zoom
- 1051973 - Refine appearance of suggestions/search history items
- 965377 - Add android:summary text to settings
- 1060470 - Screen rotation causes web view to reload
Present:
mcomella
<Read Only>
Past
- bug 1066253 - Display favicon in tab strip instead of toolbar in new tablet UI
- bug 1069686 - Move tab_strip_* to layout-large
Present
- Browser toolbar refresh
- bug 1071267 - Revise door hanger behavior in new tablet toolbar
- bug 1071878 - Sites without favicons should show an empty rectangle rather than a globe
- bug 1058909 - Implement new tablet toolbar display mode
- bug 1019127 - Remove updateChildrenEnabledStateForEditing
- bug 960746 - Back/forward button state can get out of sync on tablets
- bug 1020534 - Tablet toolbar icons hard to read on dark lightweight themes
Future
- Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
- bug 939350 - Create Python linter wrapper
- bug 983437 - Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
- bug 989441 - Centralized documentation for writing tests
- bug 1058902 - Implement new tablet browser toolbar editing mode
rnewman
- VANCOUVER
- SplitAPK proposal surfaced with Coop and Nick; next steps: a build config. Coop?
- Reviews.
Fixed
Working on
ckitching
nalexander
Martyn Haigh
Last Week
- Tribe & travel
- Initial tabs grid landed (Bug 1056920 - Create grid base layout for tabs) - possible animation regression - currently investigating
- Bug 1046206 - Change TabsPanel to use alternative layout when isNewTablet()
Next Week
- Bug 1066546 - Move new tab and overflow menu icons in the tabs layout to the top whilst in portrait mode
- Bug 1060413 - Define visuals/UI for default state of tablet browser
- Land Bug 1063586 - Audit tab related XML files to use new terminology
- Land Bug 1066905 - Merge TabRow.java and TabsLayoutItemView.java
BLassey
Fixed
Working on
Looking At
bug 1058363- Show helper app icon before page finishes loading
MFinkle
Antlam
- Past
- bug 1024816: Tablet UI: Tab overflow
- bug 1060413: Tablet UI: Default/normal UI
- bug 1064415: Tablet UI: New tabs tray
- bug 1063058: Panels UI Clean up
- General bugs follow up/ review
- Upcoming
- bug 1052004: Toolbar refinements V1 with Lucas
- Taking a look at how Tablet's redesign affects Mobile too
- bug 1063058: Panels UI Clean up
- Onboarding visuals with Yuan
- Tablet V1 wrap up
- Firefox Search V1 wrap up
- Second screen V1 wrap up
- bug 1052004: Toolbar refinements V1 with Lucas
Yuan
Robin
- Past
- Began filing for overflow menu re-org - bug 1069035
- N2R
- Mobile Add-ons meeting with Margaret
- Upcoming
- continue filing for overflow menu re-org
- N2R
Security/MGoodwin
WebRT
A-Team
QA
- QA Release Test-Plans
- chemspilling 33 for security issue
- beta 34 top crash http://bugzil.la/1028802
- nightly top crash http://bugzil.la/1069369
Garvan
- Stumbler is back on in nightly, hopefully stays on :)
- I am heads-down on the pending MozStumbler play store release ATM, hopefully next week I'll something useful to say about Fennec stumbling.
Feature Focus
- Roadmap updates currently in progress from funnel review...check back in the next couple of hours :-)
- Note:If you are working on a feature targeting anywhere up to 35, and it is not listed below already, please call it out to me.
- See Roadmap for more information, Meta bug details etc...
Firefox 33 (Beta) - Release: Oct 14, 2014
- [ON TRACK] Videocasting (Roku, Firefly, Chromecast)
- [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements - Backend
- [ON TRACK] OEM distro service
- [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v2(Distribution support & non-Mozilla suggested sites)
- [ON TRACK] Tabs updates and improvements
- [ON TRACK] Privacy: option to clear history on exit or after a certain amount of time
- [ON TRACK] Janus - Phase 1 (Client)
- [ON TRACK] Added locale(s):Aragonese (an), Kazakh (kk), Xhasa (xh), Frisian (fy-NL)
Firefox 34 (Aurora) - Release: Nov 25, 2014
- [ON TRACK] Provide a wifi toggle widget on error pages
- [AT RISK] Tab mirroring (Roku)
- [ON TRACK] Tab mirroring (Chromecast)
- [ON TRACK] Toolbar Updates
- [ON TRACK] Add support for Restricted Profiles (Prefer: safe)
- [ON TRACK] Share handler overlay (landed but not turned on, nightly & aurora only)
- [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements, native client-side work
- [ON TRACK] Kindle-related fixes
- [ON TRACK] First-run Splash Screen Overlay
Firefox 35 (Nightly) - Release: Jan 6, 2015
- [PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v2
- [ON TRACK] Sync Tabs panel
- [PROPOSED] Settings Rewrite (includes:bug 975377
- [IN PROGRESS] Fatfennec: Minifying JS
- [ON TRACK] Search activity v1
- [ON TRACK] Moz Stumbler
- [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
- [PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v1
- [PROPOSED] Change default search engine to Bing
- [IN PROGRESS] Fatfennec: Splitting the APK – gingerbread phone release
- [BLOCKED] {{{1}}} Turn on HTTPS for Bing bug 958873