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15-December-2011

Mobile Meeting Minutes: 2011-12-14

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Mobile/Notes/14-Dec-2011

Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 95312
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 95312
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • vidyo: Warp Core

Schedule

  • 12/20 is the next merge

Major Topics for This Week

Application

Native Front-end

Android Platform

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!

Snorp

Kats

  • Last week
    • did a bunch of reviews for pan/zoom stuff
    • implemented scrollbars fade-away (bug 704784)
    • fixed regression causing viewport corruption (bug 708683)
    • fixed viewport adjustment on rotation (bug 704738)
    • fixed background tabs messing with foreground viewport (bug 709805)
    • did some work on find-in-page (bug 695172)
    • looked through unassigned p1/p2s and closed a couple that have been fixed
  • Next week
    • see if find-in-page can be done and polished by dec 20
    • other p3 bugs in my list, or any unassigned p1/p2 bugs that need work
    • see if i can get robotium working locally using patches from bug 701076 and get some regression testing for pan/zoom

GBrown

Last week:

  • supporting Robotium efforts

Next week:

  • more Robotium!

AlexP

Last week

  • bug 595008 – Make Android IME more efficient by reducing communication between Java and Gecko
    • Researched the possibility to reuse BaseInputConnection class functionality
    • Implemented the change & submitted for review
    • Tested on several devices with different IMEs
  • The change simplifies the input handling, makes it less error-prone, and fixes some existing bugs (at least bug 706342, bug 708918)

This week

Chris Lord

  • Last Week:
    • Fixed bug 705092 – Kinetic scrolling on web content is a bit too slow now
    • Worked on bug 709120 – There is often a perceptible delay when the screen is updated during panning
    • Worked on bug 708307 – Decouple tile size from texture size
    • Try to help snorp with gralloc stuff
    • Reviews
  • This Week:
    • Fixed bug 708307 – Decouple tile size from texture size (also fixes bug 705387)
    • Working on bug 709152 – There is excessive checkerboarding when panning, especially on single-core devices
    • Looked at using GLES2.0 (not trivial like I thought :()
    • Look at using NPOT textures
    • Continue looking at optimising panning perf
    • Reviews

Chris Peterson

  • Last Week:
    • bug 708114 – Getting my first Fennec patches reviewed and landed.
  • This Week:
    • bug 709230 – Investigate ProGuard tool to shrink/optimize Java .class files
    • bug 710078 – Land patches to disable auto-updater for Beta and Official builds (which will rely on the Google App Market’s updater)

GCP

  • Last week
    • bug 706740 Firefox locks up and won’t shut down when visiting a phishing test page (and similar bugs)
    • bug 699199 Upgrade path from XUL to native fennec
  • This week
    • Review comments on 699199?
    • bug 696141 Add-ons manager has Ts costs
  • Blockers
    • None

Brian N

  • Done
    • Session restore (tabs/history/undo tab close)
  • Next
    • Minor session restore fixes
    • Character encoding

Sriram

  • Last Week:
    • Completed UI for form assistant
    • Worked on URL bar and found so many problems with action bar height
  • This Week:
    • Completed new Tabs menu
    • Working on URL bar after fixing the number of “drawable/” folders to use
    • Will be working on passwords content providers
  • Blockers:
    • None

WesJ

LucasR

MBrubeck

Done:

  • bug 710302 – going to about: pages does a ‘feeling lucky’ search
  • bug 701804 – PageActions must be initialized before registering actions
  • bug 709485 – Fix browser sizing after toggling the sidebar in tablet mode
  • bug 708937 – Don’t run Android-specific functions on non-Android platforms
  • bug 708772 – Use tablet mode on Android 4 (ICS) tablets (awaiting review)

Next:

  • bug 695178 – download manager (starting on investigation)
  • bug 699052 – back button should close the selected tab and return to the previous tab when possible (almost done; see bug for work-in-progress patch)
  • bug 703029 – expose pref for text inflation font size

Margaret

Done:

Next:

BLassey

Last week:

  • bug 708171 fixed XUL fennec hang (which broke tests) resulting from merge
  • bug 708283 Follow up crash on launch bug for youtube player
  • bug 709267 l10n STRINGSPATH needs to be absolute
  • bug 706574 show native about:home in onCreate
  • bug 704520 stop loading useless honeycomb plugins
  • bug 710194 got rid of strict mode dialog
  • bug 708961 use GeckoAppShell.allocateDirectBuffer instead of ByteBuffer.allocateDirect
  • bug 707929 null pointer exception thrown while reading recommended addons from apk
  • bug 710328 start up crash from null pointer when attaching idle handler

Next week

DougT

MFinkle

Madhava

  • Last week: overall polish review; ui reviews
  • This week: design freeze; keeping track of where final round of polish is here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/AndroidPhoneUI-finishline
    • lots of polish happening right now — see above link for the latest
    • designs in for
      • character encoding
      • clear site prefs
      • itemization of starting-up-the-app cases
  • Two questions!
    • what’s the plan on thumbnail quality
    • who can move readability bugs along?

Ian Barlow

Last week

  • More polish!

This week

No blockers

Patryk Adamczyk

Last Week
+ Updated widget design to reflect the newer aesthetic
+ Created a padding / sizing spec for the widget and attached the assets in bug 708707
+ Updated Add-Ons manager design to reflect the newer aesthetic seen in the header bar and awesome screen, mock ups attached to bug 704415

This Week
+ Will scrub the newly implemented add-ons screens, will file bugs against polish if any abnormalities are seen.
+ Will create an updated spec, to modify colours and graphics to align with the newer style, should only be graphic swap and CSS text colour changes.

Round Table

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