WebAPI/2011-11-22

Agenda

• WebTelephony
• Battery
• WebSMS
• Camera
• IndexedDB
• Files-in-IndexedDB
• Contacts API
• Test

Meeting Notes

• Telephony
  • Working on JS-core to implement telephony
  • work on Workerthread talking to radio
  • Need API for metadata
• Battery
  • Two people external to the project are working on OSX and Windows backends
  • Have to wake up firefox process on every 1% change in order to calculate remainingTime quickly enough (on Android)
• SMS
  • Sending and receiving are going to land in mozilla-central soon (waiting for 2 reviews)
  • Accessing the andoird database for stored messages needs more work (noticed weird bugs)
• Camera
  • Ted started working on getting webrtc build on windows.
  • UI mockups look good but some amount of work.
  • Need someone to work on in-page UI, but have candidates
• IndexedDB
  • Performance work landed
  • Random other features/bugs fixed
  • Arrays as keys big remaining feature
• Files in indexeddb
  • Receiving review
• Filesystem
  • USBsticks/memory cards are an unsolved usecase
  • Need both reading and writing
  • Need API for storing multimedia. Can store that locally in DCF format which is then exposed when plugging phone in.
• Contacts
  • Use case includes a full contacts manager
  • Request based vs. callback based
  • It might be possible to do on top of intents. However for now we need to do this as a plain API and feed those requirements into a intent-based API.
• QA
  • getting ready to try out Marionette: http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1383328
  • made githubs for html testpages: https://github.com/jhammink/WebAPI-test-pages and some Native android apps that might be useful later on when we automate: https://github.com/jhammink/Native-Android-apps
  • still adding Case Conductor (formerly litmus) cases for Vibrator, Camera
  • starting to look into indexeddb/file handling as per philip's notes, also geolocation etc..
  • will look at SMS (ASAP)