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27-April-2016

Mobile: 2016-04-27

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule

Friends of the Mobile Team

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  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1218317 – Size of files not displayed in “about:downloads” after restarting Firefox
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1264717 – Add extended session store debug logging (behind a pref)
  • Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1257843 – Probe to measure when user enters text selection UI
  • Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1265750 – Some word cannot be selected via long pressing
  • Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1267383 – Followup Telemetry from Bug 1257843, Text Selection Probe
  • Mike Kaply [:mkaply] fixed bug 1266086 – Search: Add support for :hidden in list.txt
  • Mike Kaply [:mkaply] fixed bug 1266740 – Resync search plugins for 4.0
  • Rutuja fixed bug 1115006 – Use Downloads.getSystemDownloadsDirectory to get the download directory for about:memory
  • Tristan fixed bug 1178722 – Select with multiple selection – options visibility not respected in popup
  • Tushar Saini (:shatur) fixed bug 1250387 – Kill GeckoConnectivityReceiver.java and improve GeckoNetworkManager.java

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha

iOS

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, fpatel, jhugman, sleroux, st3fan

Builds & Releases

  • Fourth 4.0 TestFlight build is out. Please join the FIrefox Beta at http://bit.ly/1MxpjiC – These are ‘when things change’
    • Includes Telemetry Core Ping – http://cl.ly/1m431o2Q2w0l
    • Bug 1268033 – Firefox becomes unresponsive when updating to 4.0.0b4

Development Updates / Work in Progress

  • [fluffyemily] menu landed (master) – https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/MB5WYXM7F#/screens
  • [fluffyemily] starting work on surfacing sync status in settings and status bar
  • [sleroux] Updated tab tray to include new toolbar along with Emily’s menu work
  • [sleroux] Fixing up lingering issues with passcode and login screens
  • [farhan] Working on third party search
  • [bnicholson] Security fixes
  • [bnicholson] Core ping started

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma, (sevaan)

Click here for individual status updates

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

20-April-2016

Mobile: 2016-04-20

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule

Topics for This Week

Friends of the Mobile Team

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  • Andrew Lawson fixed bug 1153081 – Fix nits from Bug 1152609 (Swift 1.2 changes)
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1218317 – Size of files not displayed in “about:downloads” after restarting Firefox
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1229967 – Hardware menu button no longer closes the menu
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1263647 – Avoid unnecessary Tab:AudioPlayingChange messages
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1264717 – Add extended session store debug logging (behind a pref)
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1265011 – Add a test for the hardware menu key opening/closing the app menu
  • Jorick Caberio fixed bug 1261039 – Remove Honeycomb code guarded by AppConstants.Versions.preHCMR1 / preHCMR2
  • Jorick Caberio fixed bug 1261040 – Remove code guarded by AppConstants.Versions.preICS
  • Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1235508 – Re-implement fast Phone number selection on long-press
  • Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1263460 – Fix UI on Long press of empty Yahoo search field
  • Maurya Talisetti fixed bug 1252982 – Clean up redundant settings code for authentication setting options
  • Mike Kaply [:mkaply] fixed bug 1260758 – Add “distribution” field to core ping
  • Mike Kaply [:mkaply] fixed bug 1264050 – The distribution/default directory should be checked even if there are no mcc or mnc directories
  • Mouaad Aallam fixed bug 1261044 – Simplify/Replace AnimatorProxy class
  • Rutuja fixed bug 1115006 – Use Downloads.getSystemDownloadsDirectory to get the download directory for about:memory
  • Sebastian H. [:aryx][:archaeopteryx] fixed bug 1264576 – Fix typo from bug 682294 which prevents fetching of the error title for file access denied
  • Tristan fixed bug 1178722 – Select with multiple selection – options visibility not respected in popup
  • Tushar Saini (:shatur) fixed bug 1250387 – Kill GeckoConnectivityReceiver.java and improve GeckoNetworkManager.java
  • bzrd_Sdn fixed bug 1256922 – Remove unused HardwareUtils.isLowMemoryPlatform()
  • hennes fixed bug 1147912 – Prompt specially for tel: URIs as phone numbers

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

  • Jim and I were in Taipei last week to talk to GFX and Media teams. They might do some stuff for us!
  • More APZ/Media/Stability work
    • bug 1263347 landed, which makes APZ much nicer
    • Made some progress on bug 1164027, but not really any clear solution yet

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha

iOS

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, fpatel, jhugman, sleroux, st3fan

Builds & Releases

Development Updates / Work in Progress

  • [jhugman] Today Widget landed and demoed. There are bugs, please install it in your today|notification shade and use it.
  • [jhugman] Home page started. Fairly straight forward, though “should autocomplete, just like the autoawesome bar” is easier to type than it is to refactor the awesomebar (all the work is in the Settings page!)
  • [fluffyemily] Menu so very close to landing…
  • [farhan] Third Party search development has started
  • [bnicholson] Security fixes
  • [bnicholson] Core ping started

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma, (sevaan)

Click here for individual status updates

  • Android
  • iOS
  • UR

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

13-April-2016

Mobile: 2016-04-13

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule

Topics for This Week

Friends of the Mobile Team

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  • Aaron Raimist [:aaronraimist] fixed bug 1205047 – Save password dialog string changes
  • Francesco Lodolo [:flod] – AWAY APRIL 13-17 fixed bug 1263582 – [l10n] Update searchplugins for v4.0 and master
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1229259 – Tabs get stuck if they’re zombified immediately after creation
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1261225 – Improve session store form data handling
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1262565 – Avoid sleep statements in session store form data test
  • Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM] fixed bug 1261270 – Various Android robocop tests are going to permafail when Gecko 48 merges to Aurora

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha (nalexander/rnewman)

iOS

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, fpatel, jhugman, sleroux, st3fan

Contributions

Builds & Releases

  • First 4.0 TestFlight buid is out. Please join the FIrefox Beta at http://bit.ly/1MxpjiC
  • Strings for 4.0 have been exported
  • First L10N builds and screenshots should appear today or tomorrow
  • Considering a 3.1 bugfix release

Development Updates / Work in Progress

Work for 5.0 has started, which includes Enabling Bidirectional Bookmark Sync, Menu and Toolbar redesign, Better Low Memory Handling, History Panels changes, Telemetry Core Ping, Enabling bookmark sync, ability to set a home page, Search engine management. (All tentative)

  • [fluffyemily/sleroux] Toolbar & Menu Redesign (5.0)
  • [jhugman] Today Widget finishing touches (4.0)
  • [bkmunar] Redesign of home panels (5.0)
  • [st3fan] Bug 1261457 – Rich text editor fails because requests to about:blank are blocked (4.0)
  • [st3fan] Bug 1261854 – Crash in Client: specialized ReaderMode.userContentController() (4.0)
  • [st3fan] Bug 1250153 – Crash in Storage: DiskImageStore.clearExcluding() (4.0)
  • [bnicholson] – Bug 1177078 – custom certificate handling (4.0)
  • [fpatel] – Misc UI regressions and inconsistencies (4.0)

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma, (sevaan)

Click here for individual status updates

  • Hiring! (notes ^above)

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

6-April-2016

Mobile: 2016-04-06

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule

Topics for This Week

  • Firefox 46 released delayed by one week

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. Want to update this section?

  • Dinesh Polathula (:dineshp) fixed bug 1257217 – Remove unused method GeckoPreferences.broadcastPrefAction()
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1044556 – Tabs unloaded from memory occasionally forget their browsing history and current page
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1260113 – Fix remaining issues with zombification of tabs that are playing audio
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 852267 – Interruption during session restore results in loss of session data
  • Mouaad fixed bug 1255394 – Fix package of Restrictions class
  • litunone fixed bug 1227321 – Settings indentation on tablets is funky

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha (nalexander/rnewman)

iOS

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux, st3fan

  • Almost ready to cut a tag for v 4.0
  • Landed:
    • Work towards rekeying our strings to make multiple localisations for the same string easier
    • Including bookmarks in awesomebar search results
    • Opening new tabs from the Today widget
    • Sync on Exit
  • In Development
    • Menu – looking at turning menu functionality into easily repeatable actions that can be called from anywhere
    • Improving security of Logins behind passcode/touch ID when app is backgrounded
    • Updating the URL toolbar to include new button layouts
    • Creating a toolbar for the Tab Tray

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma, sevaan

  • iOS
    • Bookmarks management
    • Control center
    • Search engine customization
  • UR
    • Hiring
    • Germany research analysis
    • Monthly tablet study

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

30-March-2016

Mobile: 2016-03-30

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule

Friends of the Mobile Team

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  • Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu fixed bug 1258703 – [Static Analysis][Dereference null return value] In function Reporter::receivedGpsMessage
  • Dinesh Polathula (:dineshp) fixed bug 1255206 – Change and unify mentions of “tap” to “touch”
  • Francesco Lodolo [:flod] fixed bug 1257818 – [l10n] Build tools: add optional parameter with list of locales to update to update-xliff.py
  • Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1243542 – Ensure consistent text selection handles everywhere
  • Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1255819 – SelectionHandler needs to use correct type=number <input> field to support copy/paste
  • hennes fixed bug 1162843 – Allow searching for multiple non-consecutive words in a title.

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha (nalexander/rnewman)

iOS

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux, st3fan

  • Released 3.0! (60+ bugs fixed – features, bugs, improvements)
  • Discussion about landing Bidirectional Bookmark Sync on iOS
  • Converted to Xcode 7.3 / Swift 2.2 – Now a requirement for building
  • Starting our 4.0 cycle in the coming week already
    • Menu / Toolbar (although will most likely spill into 5.0)
    • Sync on Exit
    • Today Widget
    • History UI improvements
    • Combining history related home panels
    • Ability to accept (temp or permanent) invalid SSL certificates
    • Including bookmarks in awesomebar results
    • Telemetry core ping

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma, sevaan

  • We’re hiring!
  • Android
    • antlam back from PTO
    • Bugmail
  • iOS
    • Bookmarks management
    • Site certs
    • Rate This App
  • UR
    • Germany research analysis in TO

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

24-March-2016

Mobile: 2016-03-23

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

Schedule

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. Want to update this section?

  • Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu fixed bug 1256701 – [Static Analysis][Dereference after null check] In function BrowserApp::enterEditingMode
  • Dinesh Polathula (:dineshp) fixed bug 1255204 – Use sentence casing in Settings prefs
  • Francesco Lodolo [:flod] fixed bug 1257818 – [l10n] Build tools: add optional parameter with list of locales to update to update-xliff.py
  • Francesco Lodolo [:flod] fixed bug 1257837 – Remove RTL locales from shipped-locales.txt
  • Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1252465 – Link taps don’t work at the bottom of reader view page
  • Maurya Talisetti fixed bug 1241857 – [Lint: MissingSuperCall] Missing super call.
  • Petr Marek fixed bug 1111663 – [JavaScript Error: “TypeError: button.onClicked is not a function” {file: “resource://gre/modules/Notifications.jsm” line: 236}]
  • Tushar Saini (:shatur) fixed bug 1192788 – Can’t install add-on panel at position 0
  • Tushar Saini (:shatur) fixed bug 1213147 – Use Roboto Light for title in Share Overlay dialog on API 16+
  • Umesh Kumhar fixed bug 1256236 – Remove unused Distribution.getDescriptor()
  • Umesh Kumhar fixed bug 1256288 – Remove unused class Divider
  • farhanpatel.17 fixed bug 1255098 – Pressing the close button on a tab too quickly causes the Browser to enter a frozen/broken state
  • k.krish fixed bug 1242624 – Use our color palette for toolbar and URL bar text
  • narek_babajanyan fixed bug 1257901 – Remove “Old Sync” references from empty Synced Tabs panel

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha (nalexander/rnewman)

iOS

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux, st3fan

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma

  • Android
       UX experiments
       Linking to screenshots, Location awareness
       Home panel improvements
       First Run
       Video controls
  • iOS
       Tabs management
       Addition of 'Home' navigation option
       Bookmarks Management
       Certificate handling
       "Rate this app!"
  • UR
       Office hour change! once every two weeks
       Monthly Mobile Planning
       Workflows Analysis
       Hiring!

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

17-March-2016

Mobile: 2016-03-16

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

Schedule

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. Want to update this section?

  • Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu fixed bug 1253555 – [Static Analysis][Resource leak] In function BrowserProvider::getTopSites
  • David Anderson [:dvander] fixed bug 1256371 – WebGL is non functional
  • David Lam [:dlam] fixed bug 1254606 – Import current Readability.js
  • Dinesh Polathula (:dineshp) fixed bug 1255374 – Remove unused class BounceAnimatorBuilder
  • Francesco Lodolo [:flod] fixed bug 1226858 – [l10n] Improve mechanism to determine locales shipping in release builds
  • Francesco Lodolo [:flod] fixed bug 1255816 – Add Danish localization to Firefox for iOS 3.0 release
  • Henry Addo fixed bug 1173652 – Merge DisplayTextLayout and ToolbarEditLayout Layout To Make Text Alignment Happen Automatically
  • Jalpreet Singh Nanda [:imjalpreet] fixed bug 1193208 – Replace ColorUtils.getColor() with ContextCompat.getColor()
  • Karim Benhmida [:karim] fixed bug 1127578 – Consolidate hide/showUrlEditLayout into BrowserToolbarPhone/Tablet
  • Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1224216 – copy/paste doesn’t work in type=number text fields, browser ignores focusable during selection
  • Mark Capella [:capella] fixed bug 1252802 – Web page scrolls when dragging a single caret up or down on an input field
  • Maurya Talisetti fixed bug 1241855 – [Lint: MissingPermission] Missing check for Permissions
  • Melchiorre Alastra (:Mailkov) fixed bug 1145821 – Add browser menu “Add to reading list” button test
  • Stanislas Daniel Claude Dolcini fixed bug 1147211 – Replace usages of var with let in LoginManagerPrompter.
  • Tristan fixed bug 1178722 – Select with multiple selection – options visibility not respected in popup
  • Umesh Kumhar fixed bug 1256236 – Remove unused Distribution.getDescriptor()
  • Umesh Kumhar fixed bug 1256288 – Remove unused class Divider
  • Vivek Balakrishnan[:vivek] fixed bug 1137333 – Clean up UI of “Clear browsing history” button
  • cijo fixed bug 1254965 – Remove unused Favicons.getSizedFaviconForPageFromCache()
  • farhanpatel.17 fixed bug 1210131 – Wrong favicon shown after tapping back
  • k.krish fixed bug 1231655 – Remove GeckoApp.showButtonToast()
  • malayaleecoder fixed bug 1254983 – Replace toast notification with snackbar when choosing to copy password from doorhanger
  • ronak khandelwal fixed bug 1076966 – Use “immersive” fullscreen mode

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

  • We’re planning to ship APZ and native text selection handles in 48, so file bugs if you see badness!

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha, daleharvey (nalexander/rnewman)

iOS

st3fan, bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux

(The iOS team is in another meeting

Builds & Releases

  • Doing more Firefox for iOS 3.0 builds on TestFlight. Next one happening tomorrow.

Development Updates / Work in Progress

  • Lots of work on 3.0 Bugs, L10N issues, regressions

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma

  • Android
    • UX experiments
      • Linking to screenshots, Location awareness
    • Home panel improvements
    • First Run
    • Video controls
  • iOS
    • Tabs management
    • Addition of ‘Home’ navigation option
    • Bookmarks Management
    • Certificate handling
    • “Rate this app!”
  • UR
    • Office hour change! once every two weeks
    • Monthly Mobile Planning
    • Workflows Analysis
    • Hiring!

A-Team

  • Many recent changes to Android tests on treeherder:
    • Android 2.3 builds/tests no longer run on trunk
    • build/mobile/sutagent deleted
    • More 4.3 crashtest chunks
    • dom/media mochitests running in their own jobs
    • No Talos jobs running on Pandas; Pandas retired

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

10-March-2016

Mobile: 2016-03-09

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

Schedule

Friends of the Mobile Team

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  • Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu fixed bug 1251213 – [Static Analysis][Resource leak] In DoCommand::UpdateCallBack
  • Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu fixed bug 1252082 – [Static Analysis][Dereference null return value] In function ReadingListHelper::fetchContent
  • Bob fixed bug 730192 – Headset playback controls (media keys) do not work while Firefox is open
  • Giovanny Gongora [:gioyik] fixed bug 1175375 – Replace about:feedback png images with svg
  • Robin Ricard [:rricard] fixed bug 1065969 – Make sending articles to Reading List easier from home panel add-ons
  • Tristan fixed bug 1244197 – Fix two small code optimizations
  • Vivek Balakrishnan[:vivek] fixed bug 1122710 – Advertise Firefox Accounts in empty state of “Reading List” panel
  • Vivek Balakrishnan[:vivek] fixed bug 946857 – Consolidate nsILoginManager implementation on the Android side
  • cijo fixed bug 1187382 – Revise AppConstants.Versions after release of Android M
  • malayaleecoder fixed bug 1219323 – Remove unnecessary table created check from BrowserDatabaseHelper
  • malayaleecoder fixed bug 1241941 – [Lint: ScrollViewSize] Fix ScrollView size validation error
  • malayaleecoder fixed bug 1245044 – Move Restrictions class to restrictions package

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha (nalexander/rnewman)

iOS

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux, st3fan

Builds & Releases

Development Updates / Work in Progress

  • Progress with automated screenshots for L10N – http://people.mozilla.org/~sarentz/fxios/screenshots/latest/
  • work continuing with Menu implementation
  • Lots of uplifts to 3.0.
  • Ad-hoc bookmark telemetry waiting for feedback.
  • Sync server improvements underway.
  • Sync on Exit
  • Today Widget
  • Build system improvements

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma

  • Android
    • UX proposal docs
      • Content update notifications, Linking to screenshots, First Run, and more!
    • Cont’d Home panel improvements
      • Top Sites panel, History panel
    • Location awareness experiment
    • Activity stream meetings
  • iOS
    • Menu is in development!
    • Consolidation of History-related panels
    • Tabs management
    • Addition of ‘Home’ navigation option
    • Bookmarks Management
  • UR
    • Welcome Sharon Bautista! (:sharon)

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

3-March-2016

Mobile: 2016-03-02

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

Schedule

Topics for This Week

Friends of the Mobile Team

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  • Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu fixed bug 1252082 – [Static Analysis][Dereference null return value] In function ReadingListHelper::fetchContent
  • Angel Bouzo fixed bug 1194033 – Change color of pressed state for list items in home panels to about_page_header_grey
  • Pete Chambers fixed bug 1140970 – Move icons in Reader View controls up 2px
  • Sotaro Ikeda [:sotaro] fixed bug 1251155 – Remove GLContext from VideoDataDecoder
  • dlim fixed bug 1231549 – Set default profile endpoint server URI for Firefox Accounts not created via the web flow
  • hennes fixed bug 1223890 – Constraint errors in history panel
  • malayaleecoder fixed bug 1219323 – Remove unnecessary table created check from BrowserDatabaseHelper
  • raunaqabhyankar fixed bug 1188198 – Remove m prefix from ThemedView.java.frag template & generate results
  • varunnaganathan912 fixed bug 1236387 – Limit length of returned search history suggestions

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt (nalexander/rnewman)

iOS

st3fan, bmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux

Builds & Releases

  • Firefox for iOS 2.1 in review – minor bugfix update. Brings back third-party keyboards. Fixes some small regressions.
  • Firefox for iOS 3.0 branched, we are getting a new TestFlight channel ready to send out a new build
    • Bi-directional Bookmark Sync landed. Although we are starting to test this one-way to find out the quality/state of people’s sync data
      • Adding some basic (Adjust based) telemetry to the TF builds to decide if and when we are going to enable full sync
      • For now you should see no change in behavior from 2.0, but everything under the hood has changed.
    • Touch ID & Passcode on Logins Manager
    • Alexa top 5
    • Include top domains in autocomplete results
    • Safari parity for third-party schemes and ‘special’ URLs
    • Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements
  • L10N builds for 3.0 at https://people.mozilla.org/iosbuilds/l10n.html (is master, but pretty much same now)
  • Schedule at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_for_iOS_Train_Schedule

Development Updates / Work in Progress

UX

darrin, tecgirl, antlam, gemma

  • Android
    • SF Workweek
    • SFO week!
      • Notification and engagement-related prototyping
      • Bookmarks management, Combined History Panel, linking to screenshots
    • Bugmail catchup
  • iOS
    • Menu is in development!
    • Consolidation of History-related panels
    • Tabs management
    • Addition of ‘Home’ navigation option
    • Bookmarks Management
  • UR
    • Just returned from Germany Workflows research.
    • New user researcher starting Monday.

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

18-February-2016

Mobile: 2016-02-17

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

Schedule

Friends of the Mobile Team

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  • Aaron Raimist [:aaronraimist] fixed bug 1246923 – Edit mode should be disabled if the logins list is empty
  • Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu fixed bug 1247878 – [Static Analysis][Resource leak] In function ensureDatabaseIsNotLocked
  • Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu fixed bug 1247903 – [Static Analysis][Resource leak] In function FileLoaderCallbacks::onLoadFinished
  • Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay] fixed bug 1238368 – Can’t click on some items on Android with Talkback enabled
  • Justin Wood (:Callek) fixed bug 1245304 – Add releng build file containing Adjust SDK private app token for Beta builds
  • Pikor fixed bug 1203014 – Make Log Out a button (visually)
  • malayaleecoder fixed bug 1243821 – Remove deprecated Sync Strings.
  • shatur fixed bug 1228170 – Remove legacy menu code from AppMenuComponent
  • varunnaganathan912 fixed bug 1238796 – Say “Closed Private Browsing” in snackbar when closing a private tab

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt (nalexander/rnewman)

  • Downloadable fonts are enabled on Nightly \o/
  • Sebastian is at a Kinto work week this week, working on using Kinto to create a package registry for downloadable content
  • Landed changes to toolbar to remove favicon and only show top-level domain
  • Wrapping up final issues with new onboarding experiments in 46
  • Sorting out issues with Switchboard (almost ready to update update URLs to production server)
  • “Engagement” hack week in SF next week (notifications, save/recall/revisit, progressive apps)
  • Bouncer APK and distribution in process of being uplifted to beta for testing [1]
  • Google Play Services and Adjust app token in process of being split on beta and release [2]
  • Gradle dependency fetcher [3] and Gradle frontend build landed in TaskCluster — not yet enabled [4]
  • Push is moving forward: tests are now Mockito
    • Google has changed structure of GCM Sender ID in GPS 8.4.0 which forces a simpler approach

iOS – Firefox and Focus

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, rnewman, sleroux, stefan

Builds & Releases

  • Firefox for iOS 2.0 has gone through review. Just timing the release now.
    • 1247482 – Startup Crash due to compiler generating bad code
  • Master is now 3.0 – Target FC is Feb 23. May slip. Submission target is March 22nd (6 weeks after the Feb 9th submission of V2.0)
  • First 3.0 L10N build at https://people.mozilla.org/iosbuilds/l10n.html
  • Going to do a 2.1 release with some last minute fixes that did not make it into 2.0
  • First 3.0 TestFlight build will follow soon

Development Updates

  • We are now using Carthage correctly, which means we link against frameworks instead of pulling in sources to compile
  • 1233034 – Alexa Top 5
  • 1243584 – Include top domains for autocomplete results
  • Touch ID & Passcode authentication screens in progress – finishing up creating/removing/changing/validation of passcodes
  • Looking to land project settings/build cleanup this week to make it easier to build and develop for our new release channels
  • Password Manager performance fixes (scrolling responsiveness) and additions (adding favicons)
  • Focus / Klar Branding Merged

UX

darrin, tecgirl, antlam, gemma

  • General
    • Working with Content Strategist
    • Darrin & Gemma: UR field work in Germany
  • Android
    • Prep for SFO week
    • Interview
    • RV/RL & Bookmarks MVP
    • Bugs life: Text-selection handles, first run, engagement ideas
  • iOS
    • Menu design specs
    • Bookmarks management
    • Tab management
  • UR
    • In the field!

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

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