Mobile: 2013-04-10 « Meeting Notes

10-April-2013

Mobile: 2013-04-10

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

Schedule

Next merge: 2013-05-13
Next release: 2013-05-14

Major Topics for This Week

Stability: Fx20 is more stable than previous release. We dropped below 2%. We have also been landing some fixes that might affect the SQL related crashes. We found some explicit problems in the code thanks to the “Dump all threads” feature in our test framework and the ANR work Jim has been adding. Nightly has no SQL DB locking crashes since Apr 6 builds. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!
Landing Soon: Keep a lookout for these new features that should landing: Host/Domain name autocompletion (bug 858340), Switch to tab (bug 729463), Set default search engine (bug 730445) and keyboard shortcuts (bug 726716)
WebRTC for Android: Landed on mozilla-central! It’s behind a build flag, so it’s not enabled on Nightlies yet. We need to do some testing to see how well the device support is going to be.

Friends of the Mobile team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

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!

Kats

Apr 3 – Apr 10:
- bug 857217 – prevent focus from jumping to the layerview too often
- bug 856155 – end IME compositions when processing touch events
- proposed a new tree landing strategy
- APZC unification work:
  - discussed PZC stuff with ajones and BenWa
  - spent a lot of time figuring out PZC
  - some incremental patches:
  - bug 859935 – APZC assumes the controller thread has a message loop
  - bug 859939 – APZC has some incorrect types
  - bug 859951 – refactor some widget/android event code
  - bug 859962 – guard against NPE in BrowserApp
  - bug 860162 – fix scrollCompensation calculation in APZC

Next:
- get my B2G build environment set up so I can test APZC patches
- finish gluing together fennec and APZC (preffed off by default)

GBrown

Attending Research (Shumway) work-week…will likely miss this meeting

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

Done
- Birthday
- bug 854289 – Fix offsetting of viewport with dynamic toolbar
- bug 822810 – Enable low precision rendering in more scenarios
- bug 854099 – Make nsPresShell::ScrollToShowRect take fixed position margins into account
- bug 856497 – Fix dynamic viewport sizing for margin changes
- bug 858550 – Don’t transform fixed layer descendents multiple times
- bug 859749 – Fix building with –enable-dump-painting and –disable-debug

Doing
- bug 859100 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.BrowserToolbar.canToolbarHide(BrowserToolbar.java)
- bug 859031 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.BrowserApp$8$1.run(BrowserApp.java)
- bug 856932 – Incorrect layer position when panning down to make the urlbar visible
- bug 855240 – Regression: Video trailer playback on imdb.com is broken in landscape orientation
- bug 852955 – [AccessFu] Trying to activate items at top of pages brings up awesome bar or menu instead

Chris Peterson

Done
- Mentored bug 852704 – Replace IME constants with Java enums that mirror the C++ enums
- Fixed bug 859212 – Change AwesomeBar entry mode for stock gesture keyboard and TouchPal
- Investigating running “headless Gecko” from Push background service

Next
- Continue Push API work
- Try to land bug 855146 again – Add some IME automated tests

JChen

Past week
- After 2 backouts, still wrestling with bug 847983 – IME in designmode doesn’t seem to work very well
- Fixed bug 844573 – newlines are displayed as spaces in landscape “full screen” textarea editor
- Fixed bug 856657 – Go/Search icons in URL bar and keyboard can get out of sync
- Fixed bug 857413 – ANR: deadlock in IME code when switching to background thread
- Fixed bug 858960 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at java.util.regex.Matcher.reset(Matcher.java)
- Fixed bug 858808 – java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.String.getBytes
- Got access to Metrics server and pulled second week of ANR data
Next
- Keep working on bug 847983
- Working on a simple ANR dashboard

GCP

Last week:
- Landed WebRTC: 839831, 839836, 830935, 830942, 830941, 835973, 839907, 840244
- Some testing on N4, S3, S2, Tab, …
Next week:
- Fix issues in Android 2.3 and ARMv6
- Try to test on Android 2.2
- Land patch to default-enable, but pref off
Blockers:
- Acquire 2.2 device
- WebRTC bug that I already nudged WebRTC people about

Brian N

Done
- Bug 859584 – Fix about:home thumbnail issues
- Bug 838793 – Convert AboutHomeContent to a Fragment
- Tested and pushed Bug 856163 – Reduce the number of preprocessed files
Next
- Session restore fixes
- Reader mode?

Sriram

First pass of keyboard shortcuts – bug 726716
URL bar tabs button change – bug 848719
Fixed TBPL related issues for Layout and styles – bug 823644
- Pending review to be pushed in
Reorganized widget namespace
- Re-reorganizing after discussions
Refreshed Big Back Button – bug 768083
Cleaning up PromptService
First addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/lightweight-themes-switcher/

WesJ

Bug 729463 – Implement switch-to-tab
Bug 858340 – Domain autocompletion
Bug 778216 – create a pref that will show the full URL in the awesomebar instead of the title
Bug 857165 – Highlight domain name when we show urls
Bug 858111 – Regression: Lost transparency on installed application launcher icons; background filled
Bug 858829 – Ship popular domains by default

Margaret

Done
- Add UI to specify a default search engine – bug 730445
- Remember search terms and show them again when returning to the awesomescreen – bug 823230
- Blogged about Building the Firefox for Android Community
- Created an IFTTT recipe to get emailed about commits in /mobile (thanks to Mossop for the feed)

In Progress
- Don’t wait until shutdown to save search engine order – bug 858809
- about:home allows creation of non-URI bookmarks – bug 858994
- Kill fake mouse event hacks in SelectionHandler – bug 667243 (found performance problems with shared code, temporarily setting that aside to wait for some metro improvements)

Next
- Continue stuff in progress and continue to look at Fx23 priorities

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week:

Landed bug 520992.
Found solution for bug 824965, currently in review.

This Week:

Land bug 803719, bug 800805, and bug 836568. (These are all blocked on the review for bug 803719. Once this lands, reflow-on-zoom will be much more usable.)
bug 847872: Reflow-zoom on double-tap only

BLassey

done

bug 858689 – sending an SMS fails on Android, waiting for inbound to open to land
bug 860067 – Enable WebSMS on Android using a helper service installed on demand to request required permissions, WIP patch posted
Q2 Goals

next

continue work on bug 860067
B2G work week

MFinkle

Done:

More planning for FE work
Q2 Goals
bug 852828 – Add basic support for subscribing to feeds (RSS/Atom)
bug 858561 – Move BrowserDB.expireHistory from GeckoApp.onPause to GeckoApplication.onActivityPause
bug 843005 – Disable Android SQLite locking in databases for REL 11 and higher
bug 852787 – StrictMode policy violation from LocalBrowserDB.getUrlForKeyword()
bug 856739 – AwesomeBar.onDestroy does DB access on the main thread
bug 859434 – Close thumbnail cursor in TopSitesView
bug 859425 – Move decoding/storing favicons to background thread
bug 858872 – Make Favicon service a little smarter about failed favicons
bug 765155 – Missing associative icons for recommended add-on listing on about:home

Next:

Tokyo trip next week
WebRT planning
bug 852608 – Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel=”search”>

Security/MGoodwin