Mobile: 2013-02-13 « Meeting Notes

14-February-2013

Mobile: 2013-02-13

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

Schedule

Next merge is 2013-02-19 (U.S. Holiday on the 18th)

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 839456 – do some in-process crash annotation with plugin versions on Android
Bug 829747 – Do Async Canvas layers update
- 7-10% performance increase in WebGL on top of the increase we get from the streaming buffers patch (bug 716859)
Bug 837734 – IonMonkey: gl-matrix.js: use NEON to optimize vectorized functions.

Kats

Feb 6 – Feb 12:
- bug 794982 – landed autogeneration of bindings in APKOpen.cpp
- bug 837821 – catch calls to libxul functions that happen before libxul is loaded
- bug 839325 – reduce string compares in GeckoViewsFactory
- bug 839622 – remove some unneeded JNI bindings
- bug 833777 – fix null selectedTab dereference
- bug 839641 – (in progress) add a codepath to use APZC in fennec
- reviews, needinfos, getting visa stuff sorted out for workweeks

Next:
- continue working on bug 839641 + blockers
- start looking at multiple profile support

GBrown

Done:
- bug 823452 Android’s checkForCrashes “No crash directory found on remote device” error is misleading (obscures startup java stacks)
- bug 838636 java.lang.NullPointerException at org.mozilla.fennec.tests.BaseTest.setUp
- bug 840725 Access awesome bar tabs consistently across all robocop tests
- bug 840661 Android PGO: failure in expandlibs_exec when building with SYMBOL_ORDER
- bug 770483 Intermittent Robocop testAboutPage | GeckoEventExpecter – blockForEvent timeout: Tab:Added
Working on:
- Helping releng with Android PGO builds
- Shumway performance on Android
- bug 837318 testVkbOverlap – Found 0 green pixels after tapping; expected 2427 — on Pandaboard
- bug 803158 if no crash report is generated by a tegra … use ndk-stack to get a stack

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

Done
- Sat on EdgeConf performance panel
  - Video
  - Blog post

Now
- bug 716403 – Scroll the location bar off the top (will hopefully finish, excluding reviews, this week)
- Attending Facebook London tech talk – CPU Optimisation approaches (today, after meeting)
- bug 822810 – Unexpected painting behaviour with low-res tiling code
- Hack up some patches to get fennec working reasonably on Ouya

Next
- Investigate canvas performance
- Meet a Mentor event on 25th Feb
- More Ouya stuff

Chris Peterson

Done
- Basic Push Notifications working on Android

Next
- Upstream my Android changes to Nikhil’s WebAPI branch
- Implementing Android polling service

JChen

Past week
- Still driving ANR reporter
  - Need to land one final patch in bug 826053 – Detect and report ANRs through our own channel
  - Metrics is working on server scripts bug 834086 – Server backend for Android App Not Responding (ANR) reporting
  - Sec review bug 833991 – Security Review for Android App Not Responding (ANR) Reporting
- Async IME
  - Landed bug 835906 – Run InputConnection on a separate thread
  - But working on regression 🙁 bug 839882 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at android.text.Selection.setSelection
- Fixed bug 836589 – “New Tab” input switches from numbers to letters after one digit
Next week
- In progress items from above
- bug 831144 – Implement editor key bindings on Android
- bug 838177 – Add more debugging output to GeckoEditable and GeckoInputConnection

GCP

Past week:
- W3C/IETF meeting in Boston
- Getting home
Next week:
- Fix oustanding MWC demo issues, test: https://webrtc-apps.etherpad.mozilla.org/4?

Brian N

Done
- bug 833777 – UI fails to load intermittently
- bug 838583 – Favicons are tiny in Awesomebar history tab
- bug 840823 – Race condition when removing tabs at startup
- bug 840601 – Clear saved reader mode page in tab destroy
In progress
- bug 838793 – Don’t keep a reference to AboutHomeContent
- bug 823285 – Private browsing downloads not cleared from Android notification bar

Sriram

Flat icons – bug 838807
- Removed 66% of all icons!! Available in today’s nightly.
Flat UI – bug 840346
- No more textures. Solid colors for better performance.
Overdraw – bug 840871
- From http://cl.ly/image/0n3X3w2y1Q03 to http://cl.ly/image/2J3e150w3Q09

LucasR

Last week

Finalizing new tabs UI
- Fixed all known issues in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=817732#c17
- First test build for UX team today
Organizing a tech talk at the London MozSpace
- http://firefoxandroid.eventbrite.com/
Mentoring 2 contributors on reader mode bugs
Investigating black rectangle bug (issue seems to be on the background curve)

Next week

More tabs UI and TwoWayView hacking
Work on tech talk with Chris Lord

Margaret

Done:

Default bookmark support for distributions – bug 836450
Started writing tests for distribution stuff – bug 840825
Started working a patch for perceived location bar performance – bug 839602

Next:

More test writing

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week:

bug 803719: Reflow-on-zoom should zoom in and snap to a piece of text (was in review, but dbaron and I discussed a slightly different approach)
Sent email to www-style re: adding a GetClientRect() method to CaretPosition API, for above bug (message available here )
Worked on a number of non-mobile related things.

This Week:

More non-mobile related things, hopefully get bug 803719 landed.

Other:

Will be in SF next two weeks.

BLassey

done

bug 839883 – Don’t match zh-* based on just language
bug 829596 – backed out the removal of “Tablet” from the UA
bug 674739 – Implement DOM3 KeyboardEvent types for audio
MWC training

next

press training (I gotta get learned to talk good)
final wrap ups for MWC

MFinkle