Schedule
Topics for This Week
- Sebastian will be mentoring GSoC for downloadable content.
- GoogleIO registration begins March 8th: https://events.google.com/io2016/
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)
- Hack week last week
- Landed new and improved top sites query (and dealing with the fallout)
- Landed “What’s New” notification (disabled by default, controlled by Switchboard)
- Working content notifications, combined history panel, migrating reading list to bookmarks, displaying screenshots in home panels
- Landed URL metadata table for storing more data related to pages
- Removing WebApp RT in 47
- EOL Gingerbread in 48
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
- 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
- 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
- Sync on Exit
- On rnewman’s feedback queue for the day.
- Handling of window.print()
- Toolbar / Menu work
- Support deletion of default suggested sites
- Better imports of Android search engines
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
- Android Roadmap in Aha!
- Android Roadmap in Aha! (public)
- Suggest new features for the Android Roadmap Here
- iOS Roadmap in Aha!
- iOS Roadmap in Aha! (public)
- Suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap Here
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